Friday, February 26, 2010 - Posts
Independent movie "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire" swept the Image Awards on Friday, picking up six trophies including best movie and best actress for its star, newcomer Gabourey Sidibe.
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It was a winning night for "Precious" at the 41st NAACP Image Awards.
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The complete list of winners of the 41st NAACP Image Awards:
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The Image Awards recognized diversity in the arts during a ceremony Friday filled with emotion and song.
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A Wisconsin senator is criticizing NBC for its handling of online access to the Vancouver Olympics, calling it restrictive.
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Ashley Rodriguez, one of the first four singers voted off by viewers, chided the panel Friday for being hard on contestants during their first live shows.
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A Wisconsin senator is criticizing NBC for its handling of online access to the Vancouver Olympics, calling it restrictive.
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Playbill - The box office at the Golden Theatre will begin sales on March 1 for Red, the Donmar Warehouse production of John Logan's play about 20th-century abstract-impressionist artist Mark Rothko.
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Playbill - Two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters, who will be seen in several of the upcoming benefit concerts celebrating Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday, will play a musical comedy performer in a new film that begins shooting the week of March
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Their movie isn't out yet — or even made — but three teenage filmmakers already have video promotions from Jude Law and Stephen Fry.
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One sure thing: Jerry Seinfeld is the high-profile draw. Trouble is, Seinfeld will mostly stay out of sight in his primary duties as a co-creator and producer.
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Matt Damon has portrayed many people on film, from a math whiz to a murderer, but whether he plays Robert F. Kennedy in a new movie remains an open question despite his confidence it will happen, he said on Friday.
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At least five funny actors will help hand out Oscars this year.
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Gary Coleman suffered a seizure on the set of "The Insider" and received immediate treatment from Dr. Drew Pinsky, who happened to be on set as well.
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Actor and director Robert Redford and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson have unveiled details of a collaboration that will expand training opportunities for Native American and Hispanic filmmakers.
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Documentary filmmakers are accustomed to preaching to a choir of mostly small-sized audiences who see their issue-driven films.
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The Associated Press talks to a celebrity hairstylist and a Dior makeup artist to find out how to recreate the striking looks of Emily Blunt and January Jones for your special occassions.
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The private ceremony and reception will be featured in a two-hour TV special, “The Bachelor: Jason and Molly’s Wedding,” which will air Monday, March 8 on ABC.
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Among this year's Oscar nominees is a Polish film that tells the history of the Berlin Wall from an unexpected point of view — that of thousands of wild rabbits who inhabited the death strip between East and West Berlin.
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Entertainment Weekly chats with “Idol” contestant Jose Munoz about how he’s feeling and what’s ahead for him after he was voted off during Thursday night’s show.
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Ending nearly 40 years of speculation, Carly Simon revealed in an interview that record company executive David Geffen was the inspiration for her 1972 hit single “You're So Vain.”
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Severin Blanchet, a French documentary filmmaker who was training young Afghans, died Friday during an attack by insurgents in a hotel for foreigners in Kabul where he was staying. He was 66.
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For years, film student Bill Parker had a nagging idea for a short movie: He'd show those letters from the "Star Wars" opening scroll raining down on Earth and exploding.
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Hollywood North is auditioning for the role of Bollywood West.
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While "The Crazies" isn't a zombie movie per se, it derives its horror from the same fear — the enemy lurks both within and without you. There's a chance you might turn into a monster.
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Rather than having working stiffs compete to become the big honcho, the suits at big corporations go incognito to see how difficult their employees' jobs can be.
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Snooki and her "Jersey Shore" cast mates perused the offerings at a recent Golden Globe gift suite. They weren't up for any awards, but they filled their bags with custom-made jewelry, certificates for spa treatments and Lasik surgery, clothing, shoes
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Tim Burton believes author Lewis Carroll's 19th century story, "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland," screamed out for a 3-D film because of its surreal elements, or what the director calls its "trippyness."
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Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and other stars of Tim Burton's fantasy 3D film "Alice in Wonderland" braved pouring rain to attend the movie's London premiere Thursday.
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Mary J. Blige, Morgan Freeman, Jamie Foxx and Sandra Bullock (BUH'-luhk) are among the stars set to celebrate diversity in the arts at the 41st annual NAACP Image Awards.
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Their movie isn't out yet — or even made — but three teenage filmmakers already have video promotions from Jude Law and Stephen Fry.
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China's leading state-owned film studio is gearing up to offer shares on Shanghai's stock market by the end of the year, a senior executive said Friday, in an indication of the local movie industry's rapid expansion.
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Ryan Reynolds and Nicolas Cage are taking the lead voice roles in the DreamWorks Animation feature "The Croods."
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Genre movies do well with audience, but they usually don't get much respect from filmmakers for whom they're just bill payers.
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"Cop Out" is a clumsy postmodern buddy cop flick that stuffs as many genre references as it can into the ceaseless patter between Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis.
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The actor did have one Oscar forecast: Expect wardrobe changes for himself and co-host Steve Martin. "It's a very metrosexualized kind of a show now," Baldwin joked.
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It's a ritual that seems to play out at least once a year in the rap community: A top star faces a criminal charge, and more often than not, is locked up at the height of their wealth and fame.
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Reese Witherspoon and Hollywood agent Jim Toth are not "exclusive," according to a source, but they do seem to be enjoying each other's company.
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After turmoil that included public squabbling, threats of a lineup change and a rehab stint, Aerosmith is back and ready to rock.
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Radiohead front man Thom Yorke on Thursday revealed the name of his new band -- Atoms for Peace -- and announced a series of U.S. tour dates.
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A New York federal judge has denied bail to the son of actor Michael Douglas in a drug dealing case.
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Professional Cheryl Burke tweets Olympic gold-medal figure skater to suggest that he join the cast of the show, and he says he would love to try.
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Mel B competed during Season 5 with professional partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Now she could return to the show as a co-host.
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Seinfeld spokeswoman Elizabeth Clark Zoia on Wednesday said the performer wasn't aware of the police parking placard, which belonged to Seinfeld's longtime driver, a retired police officer.
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Green is the executive producer and co-creator of “Robot Chicken” for which fiance Clare Grant also does voice-overs.
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A character returns to “NCIS” in May to set off a series of events that will force a life-changing decision for one character. Plus spoilers for “Supernatural,” “Lost” and more.
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The show is wrapping up its run at the end of its current season after a cancellation announcement from ABC earlier this year, but not without Betty Suarez getting her famous braces off
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Two decades after "Parenthood" was a box-office hit starring Steve Martin, a series based on the lighthearted movie is debuting on NBC.
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Brittany Murphy's autopsy report details how pneumonia, severe anemia and prescription medications killed the "8 Mile" actress.
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It doesn't take a recession to bring on the boss bashing. It's the national pastime, and leave it to the tube to reflect that. But the current batch on TV might be the biggest concentration in awhile.
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Finally, the Heroes won a game — one-on-one physical confrontations that left the losers in the mud. And when the Villains had to turn on one of their own, they went for the weakest link.
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"Star Trek" star Walter Koenig says his son, Andrew Koenig, age 41, took his own life. Andrew Koenig's body was found Thursday in Vancouver's massive Stanley Park.
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The singer is distancing himself from his repugnant Playboy interview, one sixth-grader at a time, by inviting one on stage with him.
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People of the U.S., I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that the decisions you made this week on “Idol” were motivated because many of you flipped the channel to the Olympics.
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Liliana Tenorio was just a few months old when her father was detained by the Peruvian military, then disappeared. At age 3, she saw soldiers rape her mother and other relatives during a raid on their country home.
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Playbill - Obie Award winner John Douglas Thompson, acclaimed for his recent Off-Broadway turns in Othello and The Emperor Jones, will join Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest in Classic Stage Company's coming production of Alexander Ostrovsky's The Forest
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Playbill - Academy Award nominee Amy Irving, veteran British stage actress Siân Phillips and Ron Raines will star in A Little Night Music for Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
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Disney's Pixar Animation Studios head into the next week's Oscars with the only movie ever nominated for both best film and best animated film, "Up," about an old man and boy on an adventure in a faraway land.
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Two decades after "Parenthood" was a box-office hit starring Steve Martin, a series based on the lighthearted movie is debuting on NBC. That wide gap suits executive producer Jason Katims, who is pursuing a fresh take on the lives of an extended family
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Argentina's Oscar nominee for best foreign film is a thriller set in the country's main federal courthouse, where an investigator discovers co-workers torturing suspects into false confessions and running death squads for the president.
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A top European theater chain said on Thursday it will show Walt Disney Co's "Alice In Wonderland," after threatening to boycott it in some countries to protest Disney's plans to release the DVD early.
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Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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Michael Douglas' troubled son Cameron was denied bail and a chance for outpatient addiction treatment Thursday as he awaits sentencing in a federal drug-dealing case.
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Severe anemia left actress Brittany Murphy weakened and vulnerable to pneumonia and the prescription medications she was using to treat it, according to an autopsy report released Thursday.
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Nicole Kidman will exercise her comedy chops in "Just Go for It," a movie starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston.
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A lesser-known entry in the George A. Romero living-dead oeuvre, 1973's "The Crazies" has been given the remake treatment to surprisingly satisfying effect.
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Woody Harrelson, who's on a roll thanks to his Oscar-nominated turn in "The Messenger" and a crowd-pleasing one in "Zombieland," keeps the personal winning streak going with "Defendor," a dark comedy about a delusional everyman who thinks he's a superhero
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Tim Burton's trademark winsomely outlandish style doesn't prepare you for the thoroughly enjoyable spectacle that is his "Alice in Wonderland." A fantastical romp that proves every bit as transporting as that movie about the blue people of Pandora, his
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Universal is getting into the Broken Lizard business, picking up a college caper and an untitled project from the comedy group.
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We've seen Jackie Chan, the nimble action hero who takes down the bad guys. Enter Jackie Chan, the timid soldier who will do anything to avoid fighting, even using a prop arrow and artificial blood to fake his death during major battles.
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