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BEN STILLER handed them out to cast and crew at the conclusion of a punishing 13-week location shoot as a gesture of thanks, but also contrition: T-shirts that read “I SURVIVED BEN STILLER’S COMEDY DEATH CAMP.” Sitting at a bayside restaurant in Vancouver, where he’s currently filming “Night at the Museum 2,” Stiller – who co-wrote, directed, co-produced and stars in the ensemble action-comedy “Tropic Thunder” – waved it away as a joke, a riff on marquee star Robert Downey Jr.’s acerbic nickn Read more

IN “”PINEAPPLE EXPRESS,” he plays a visibly unwashed hippie pot dealer on the run from mobsters: a THC-addled naif with a crinkly smile, a curtain of lank, dark hair and a heart of gold. Read more

SPRINGTIME HAD come to Venice Beach. Read more

Talk about a peculiar way of celebrating a worldwide smash hit. Read more

Rebounding from what seemed like an endless spiral of personal crises and public meltdowns, tabloid queen Britney Spears is back in the studio and at work on a “brand-new album,” according to a joint statement released by the pop icon’s manager, Larry Rudolph, and her label, Jive Records. Read more

THE TANK-LIKE Mercedes SUV rumbled into Times Square one evening in late spring with all the subtlety of a space shuttle launch. Read more

In the action comedy “Hancock” (which arrived in theaters Tuesday night), Will Smith plays a new kind of superhero: a man of steel whose weakness is bourbon. Read more

For all its booze-soaked bonhomie and head-nodding musical surprises, a “listening party” for “LAX,” the new album from the multi-platinum-selling Compton gangsta rapper the Game, on Monday night proved to be the rarest kind of orchestrated media event. Read more

NOTHING GETS in the way of a lucrative rock reunion quite like a jail stint – even an extremely short one. Read more