Netflix increases prices!

Netflix on Tuesday announced price changes that add about $6 to the monthly bills of subscribers for unlimited streaming video and DVD rentals.

First ladies past and present, others pay bipartisan tribute to Betty Ford at Calif. memorial

PALM DESERT, Calif. — First ladies, past and present, and others who called the White House home remembered Betty Ford on Tuesday, not just for her decades-long work against substance abuse but for her contributions to a political era when friendship among lawmakers helped them govern.

Boehner: ‘I don’t know’ what happens if debt deal isn’t reached

  House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday said he was not certain what might happen if congressional leaders and the White House don’t come up with a debt-limit agreement by an Aug. 2 deadline.

“I don’t know,” Boehner said after a lengthy pause when asked by Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier what might happen if the ongoing debt-limit negotiations with the White House fail to produce a deal.

Debt crisis threatens Italy, one of euro zone’s biggest economies

 A man walks past Milan Stock Exchange July 12, 2011.

 LONDON — Europe’s escalating debt crisis is on the verge of engulfing by far its biggest victim: Italy, the world’s seventh-largest economy, whose sheer size could thwart any international attempt to bail it out.

Italy has been deeply indebted for years, and its woes have generated a burst of investor panic in recent days amid concerns of political infighting in Rome over budget cuts. Italian bank shares have been battered, and the nation’s borrowing costs have skyrocketed to dangerous levels.

Mila Kunis on Sexism in Hollywood, Looking Up to Tina Fey, Lucille Ball

"The bottom line is if you're an attractive female in this industry, people just take you as that: attractive," she says.

Mila Kunis thinks women can be taken seriously as comedians in Hollywood -- but it's hard.

Kristen Wiig to Star in, Executive Produce 'Imogene' for Maven Pictures

Kristen Wiig

 "Cinema Verite's" Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini will direct the film beginning in August.

Maven Pictures and Anonymous Content announced Tuesday that Bridesmaids star Kristen Wiig will star in Imogene as the title character.

'Brady Bunch,' 'Gilligan's Island' Creator Sherwood Schwartz's Posthumous Farewell Letter to Family, Fans

Sherwood Schwartz, creator of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch.

 The famed '70s TV show producer asked THR to publish this letter upon his death.

Following the death of Sherwood Schwartz on Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter has been given a farewell letter titled “A Conversation at the Gates” from the late writer’s family.