FILM: In Being Michael Madsen, the titular star "turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles." Crafty! The film also stars David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, and Virginia Madsen. Screens at The Roxie. READING: Michael Layne Heath and William Taylor Jr. read in honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday (and of being our first gay Republican president!) at Dog Eared Books. *......

Fall 2006 may very well go down in TV history as the year capital-A Actors decided doing a television show wasn't slumming it. Campbell Scott, James Woods, Hope Davis, Sally Field, Amanda Peet, and Timothy Hutton are just some of the relatively well-known actors making a first-time or return trip to network TV. Ray Liotta is another. His heist drama "Smith" premieres tonight on CBS at 10 p.m. If you have hopes that this......