Saturday, July 18, 2009 - Posts
Sir Paul McCartney knighted another New York Mets baseball stadium Friday night, playing the first concert ever at Citi Field, 44 years after he played at Shea Stadium with the Beatles.
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Saudi Arabia's only film festival has been canceled, dealing a blow to reformist hopes of an easing of clerical control over culture that had been raised by the low-key return of cinemas in December.
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Barely a generation has passed since Walter Cronkite disappeared from our evenings. But the notion of one man — a single, authoritative, empathetic man, morally reassuring and mild of temper — wrapping up the world after dinner now seems incalculably
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While virtually every publicist in Hollywood desperately wishes he would be quiet, instead, the notorious blogger and controversy magnet is hell-bent on expanding his gossip empire.
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Often divided over policy and practice, America's adoption community has unified in dismay over "Orphan," a horror movie opening next week that its critics say will fuel negative attitudes toward real-life orphans.
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Young viewers will cherish this off-beat tragedy; older ones will experience déjà vu.
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This former star of the sitcom "Third Rock From the Sun," has completely reinvented himself as an indie film leading man.
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Prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation in the collapse of a stage being built for a weekend concert by Madonna that killed two people, an official said Friday.
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Michael Jackson's ex-wife Deborah Rowe is striking back at a woman who claimed in a TV interview that Rowe told her she didn't want custody of the pop star's children.
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Police say they removed Barton from her home on Wednesday afternoon for a medical problem. The department will not say what it was.
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It was the most memorable speech in "Big Brother" history, but fans didn't hear all of it.
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Michael Jackson's mother asked for a judge's ruling Friday on whether she can challenge the authority of two men named in her son's will as executors of his estate without being disinherited.
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Katherine Jackson, in the meantime, will remain the temporary guardian of her son’s three children.
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‘Whew, boy ... There he is,’ he chuckled, watching Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the moon. It was just one of the many events he bore witness to.
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If you had to pick an ally, then Cronkite was a perfect person. Everyone respected him. He was so well known in a way that journalists aren't known now. Cronkite was a national figure when the rest of us were struggling for national notoriety.
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A sampling of reaction to the death of pioneering newsman Walter Cronkite.
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President Barack Obama praised broadcasting icon Walter Cronkite as a newsman who "never let us down," while other lawmakers, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also praised the late anchor.
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Anchor didn’t just preside over history, he was part of it
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The death of Walter Cronkite elicited tributes from colleagues, presidents, world-famous astronauts and those who hoped in vain to fill his empty anchor chair, all honoring the avuncular face of TV journalism who became the "most trusted man in America.
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Harry Potter baddie Jamie Waylett pleaded guilty Thursday in a London court to growing cannabis in his mother's London home, a charge that could whisk him away to jail for a maximum term of 14 years.
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From the opening black-and-white footage of Nazis invading Copenhagen, "Flame & Citron" draws you into its doom-laden atmosphere and keeps ratcheting up the tension.
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Oh, Brad Pitt. Isn't it enough to be ridiculously handsome—must you be a scandalous wit, as well?
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Press material for Aviva Kempner's excellent "Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg" offers Gertrude Berg, the creator, principal writer and star of radio and TV's "The Goldbergs," as a precursor to Oprah, Martha Stewart and Rachael Ray.
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Zooey Deschanel really loves the simple life. And we love this pretty picture of her.
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Writer-director Charlie Matthau is taking a shot at Elmore Leonard.
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The fairytale romance between Twilight's Edward and Bella is getting a comic-book makeover.
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So far, so good.
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Kristin Cavallari is so the new Lauren Conrad of The Hills.
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Half-Blood Prince is the new king of the Harry Potter movies.
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Warren Beatty has made a living in front of the camera, but he doesn't want one at his upcoming deposition in a bankruptcy court fight with the Tribune Co.
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The latest "Harry Potter" movie cast a $104 million spell over worldwide box offices during its first day in theaters, setting a new record for the boy wizard, distributor Warner Bros Pictures said on Thursday.
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A film documenting a group of clandestine reporters secretly filming the 2007 street protests in Myanmar and crackdown by the military junta hit cinemas in Britain this week to warm applause from the critics.
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The "Transformers" sequel has become China's biggest box office hit ever by earning 400 million Chinese yuan ($59 million), a publicist for the country's leading state-run film company said Friday.
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Walking on water. Check. Getting crucified and resurrected. Got that covered. Riding a motorbike? Maybe he might want to leave that to the Hell's Angels.
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Russell Crowe is in the early stages of negotiations to reprise the role of Jack Aubrey as a British sea captain in a new movie version from the Master & Commander series of novels.
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The Canadian government, struggling to stay ahead of fast-moving technological developments, will launch consultations next week to help it craft new copyright legislation.
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A relative says Beverly Roberts, who co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in the 1936 film "Two Around the World," has died. She was 96.
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Jackie Chan says "Kung Fu Kid" co-star Jaden Smith's dedication to martial arts puts his own son to shame.
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The Gaza movie premiere drew an exclusive crowd with local celebrities posing for jostling photographers and that's pretty much where the similarities end between Hollywood and the fledgling film industry of Gaza's Hamas rulers.
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