It's a little early for baseball season, but Ricky Gervais didn't care.

Throwing all caution to the wind, the cheeky Brit knocked it out of the park as host of Sunday's 68th Annual Golden Globes, aired on NBC.

Back for a second year — and thank goodness for it — Gervais came loaded for bear and wasted no time setting the tone for an awards show recognized as much for its revelry as its prizes.

"It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking," he began his…

Actor David Nelson, the last surviving member of the wholesome television family portrayed in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," has died at age 74, his spokesman said.

Nelson died in Los Angeles on Tuesday of complications from colon cancer, his representative Dale Olson said.

He played a fictionalized version of himself as the eldest son of the Nelson family in the sitcom "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" during the series' entire ABC run from 1952 to…

Ten weeks after giving birth to 17 puppies, the Rhodesian Ridgeback mother is to be spayed while her cute offspring leave for new homes, the dog's owner said Thursday.

Ramona Wegemann said the 26-hour labor was very tiresome for the mother, Etana, and she does not want to endanger the dog's health with another pregnancy.

Wegemann said she had to personally feed the eight female and nine male puppies with a bottle filled with special milk for several weeks, because Etana's nine…

A tally of serious onstage accidents on Broadway and off:

• Nathan Lane fell through a trap door while starring in "The Frogs" at Lincoln Center in 2004 and missed a show with bruised and gashed legs.

• Idina Menzel fractured a rib falling through a trap door in a 2005 performance of "Wicked" on Broadway.

• Also in 2005, Christina Applegate broke her foot during out-of-town previews for "Sweet Charity."…

What Betty White did in 2010 doesn't usually happen: an 88-year-old actress with more than six decades in Hollywood suddenly became the object of adulation of the Facebook-connected masses, which campaigned for her to host "Saturday Night Live," boosting the show's ratings and helping her set ratings records for her own show.

After a year remarkable for a star of any age, White has been voted the Entertainer of the Year by members of The Associated Press.

"It's ridiculous,"…