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As with fellow legendary families like the Barrymores and Fondas, the Bridges are undeniably acting royalty in Tinseltown, with father Lloyd Bridges trailblazing his way in the entertainment industry and sons Beau and Jeff following in his talented footsteps. The big and small-screen star appeared in over 150 feature films throughout his more than 50 years in the business, starring in a slew of hits like Sahara, High Noon, Airplane!, and Hotshots! (among countless others) and programs including Sea Hunt and The Lloyd Bridges Show during his sensational career. In 1965, Bridges continued his television takeover when he headlined the shamefully underrated Western The Loner.

Created by trailblazing producer and screenwriter Rod Serling, the mastermind behind the groundbreaking sci-fi horror series The Twilight Zone, The Loner focused on former American Civil War soldier William Colton as he sets out on a treacherous quest across the country to start a new life and is...

Singer Leona Lewis recently visited the Humane Society of the United States’ Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch to visit with some of the animals being cared for there.

The Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch is America’s largest and most diverse animal sanctuary. It is a permanent haven to more than 1,200 domestic and exotic animals rescued from research laboratories, “entertainment” operations such as circuses and zoos, captive hunting operations, factory farming, and government round-ups.

While visiting the ranch, Leona filmed a video in which she shares some of her thoughts on responsible pet care and also encourages people to recognize the importance and value of animals. Watch the video here.

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Director James Marsh' UK documentary "Project Nim", follows scientist Professor Herbert S. Terrace, who used baby chimpanzee 'Nim Chimpsky' to be the subject of an extended study of 'animal language' at Columbia University, during the 1970's.

Since 98% of the DNA in humans and chimps is identical (with the remaining 2% having an unknown 'alien' origin), some scientists believed that a chimp raised in a human family, using 'Asl' (American Sign Language), would shed light on the way language is acquired and used by humans. To find out if a chimpanzee could learn to communicate with humans through sign language, the doc shows how the baby monkey was taught first how to dress himself, use the toilet and even by nursed by his first surrogate (human) mother Stephanie Lafarge.

At age five, 'Chimpsky' (given his name as a pun on 'Noam Chomsky', the theorist of human language structure and generative grammar at the time,...