Wednesday, February 03, 2010 - Posts
Comic Jon Stewart told Bill O’Reilly that the “no spin zone” ringleader had become the voice of sanity on Fox News Channel, although “that’s like being the thinnest kid at fat camp.”
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Is "Avatar" truly the underdog?
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Dr. Conrad Murray is set to be arraigned Friday afternoon at a courthouse near Los Angeles International Airport, according to a person familiar with the planning.
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With an extra hour to fill, Wednesday’s clip show focused mainly on singers who did well enough to make it to the Hollywood round.
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Billed as a "coming-of-age comedy," co-writer-director Michael Mohan's first feature strains to make the central, loud-mouthed alcoholic, character relatable.
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The fact that first-time co-directors Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani used a mostly nonprofessional cast and shot "Ajami" on location, sometimes without a script, gives their film a raw, realistic power.
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Years of moviegoing have familiarized us with tales of city folk waylaid in country towns — quirky Southern backwaters and dusty desert holes. It turns out that the convention works especially well in, of all places, rural Denmark.
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The latest wrinkle in Howard Stern’s contractual angling with Sirius: The shock jock says he was approached about a return to TV — not only that, he was offered someone's existing show.
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Australian band Men at Work copied a well-known children’s campfire song for the flute melody in its 1980s hit “Down Under” and owes the owner years of royalties, a court ruled.
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Review the nominees in the major categories and rate their chances of winning on Sunday, March 7.
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Phil Harris, a crab fishing captain on Discovery's “Deadliest Catch,” awoke Tuesday from the medically induced coma he was placed in following surgery for the stroke he suffered last Friday off-loading his boat in Alaska.
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Sotheby's says the sale of Walking Man I set a world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.
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“Lost” fans who have seen the season six premiere can read ahead for some explanation from Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. Warning, spoilers ahead!
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Following her Oscar nomination this week for best actress, “Precious” star Gabourey Sidibe is now facing a tough decision: Who to bring to the March 7 ceremony.
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Former teen idol Leif Garrett was released on bail on Wednesday, after being arrested and booked for heroin possession by police who saw him "shaking and sweating" on a subway platform, a law enforcement spokesman said.
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Chicago newspaper report claims it was Luz, 23, who instigated the break-up with Madonna, 51, because they didn’t have enough common interests.
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A judge has granted approval to a deal that will give two men administering Michael Jackson's estate 10 percent of its profits, minus some sizable assets.
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Lawyers for Michael Jackson's doctor are meeting again to talk about their client's defense strategy in the event he's charged in the death of the singer.
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"Avatar" climbed to $601.1 million domestically on Tuesday, putting it a fraction ahead of the $600.8 million haul for "Titanic."
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"Avatar" has garnered some of the best reviews of director James Cameron's career, and the ambitious epic just might be changing the way movies are made.
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Movie Gallery Inc., owner of the Hollywood Video movie rental chain, has filed for Chapter 11 protection and plans to close 805 stores — about a third of its total.
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The Newsroom - Call it a lie of omission. One month after featuring shirtless, fresh-kill Tiger Woods, Vanity Fair presents their annual "Young Hollywood" issue with a decidedly more alabaster cover. Kristen Stewart, Abbie Cornish, and Carey Mulligan
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AFP - "Avatar" has reached yet another milestone, smashing the North American box office record previously held by the 1997 James Cameron epic "Titanic," Fox studios announced on Wednesday.
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The animation category at this year's Oscars ceremony presents a crowded field of singing frogs, sly foxes and spunky kids, but despite some tough competition, the high-flying adventure movie "Up" is expected to float away with the Oscar.
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Mel Brooks has made audiences laugh for more than a half century, but it was his wife, the late Anne Bancroft, who made him smile.
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James Cameron's "Avatar" has sailed past his blockbuster "Titanic" to become No. 1 on the all-time domestic box-office chart.
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An alternate title for this clear-eyed, gut-wrenching documentary might be "The Tillman Cover-up," since it focuses on the Army's misrepresentation of facts surrounding the 2004 combat death of Corporal Pat Tillman in Afghanistan.
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Fox Searchlight, which released the Hilary Swank drama "Amelia" in October, is reteaming with the actress even after the film crashed at the box office and was ignored during awards season.
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Here's a prescription for curing those midwinter blues: Forget jetting off to Florida or the Caribbean. Instead, spend a long weekend in snowbound, frostbitten northern Michigan.
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Movie Gallery Inc, the operator of the Hollywood Video rental chain, plans to close 805 poorly performing U.S. stores after falling sales and mounting losses led to its second bankruptcy in three years.
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British heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will attend the world premiere of U.S. director Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" on February 25 in London, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
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Nine weeks after undergoing 10 plastic-surgery procedures in one day, an anxious Heidi Montag finally headed to her hometown to face her mother for the first time since the transformation.
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The two teams that were eliminated in week one’s bicycle challenge returned at the start of week five to fight for a place at the ranch and the opportunity to compete for the grand prize of $250,000 and the title of Biggest Loser.
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Michael Jackson’s family believes involuntary manslaughter charges against the pop singer’s physician would be “just a slap on the wrist,” attorney Brian Oxman said Wednesday.
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She may be notorious for throwing herself at every man who came her way on the MTV show, ut when it comes to rumors of a sex tape featuring the starlet, she say sthat’s anything but a reality.
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You Light Up My Life” tunesmith Joseph Brooks is staying free while fighting charges of molesting a string of would-be actresses in his Manhattan apartment.
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Prosecutors plan to charge Michael Jackson’s doctor with manslaughter rather than take the case to a grand jury, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press Tuesday.
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Who’s alive? Who’s dead? Premiere proves nothing is irreversible.
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Sandra Bullock is by all public accounts having a great couple months. Privately, though, she and husband Jesse James are still in the midst of a custody battle over James’ daughter, Sunny.
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There were enough “Idol” hopefuls who brought along cute little kids that it was sometimes hard to tell whether this was a singing competition or the waiting area for “SuperNanny.”
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AFP - Buoyed by a box office hit in "Avatar" and better-than-expected profits, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch has predicted a rosy future for content companies such as his media and entertainment giant.
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If the malevolent Sweeney Todd can sing, why not Patrick Bateman, the twisted title character of Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho"?
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Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock are early favorites to win Oscars in the top acting categories at the Academy Awards, oddsmakers said Tuesday.
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Although "Avatar" has blasted through box office records and scored nine Academy Award nominations Tuesday, its producers are frustrated that the movie's actors were ignored by Oscar voters.
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The Academy Awards category for best director has historically been two things: white and male. This year, the five nominees are a slightly more diverse crowd.
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Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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AFP - Science-fiction epic "Avatar" and gritty Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" will battle for supremacy at the Oscars after topping nominations with nine nods each.
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Movie Gallery Inc, the operator of Hollywood Video stores, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to close a "significant number" of its roughly 2,600 stores in the United States and Canada.
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If some old-time Hollywood hand were scripting this year's Oscar race, he would probably turn it into a sparkling, Tracey/Hepburn-style battle of the sexes.
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There ain't nothing like a dame, and Helen Mirren's best actress Oscar nomination Tuesday for her role in "The Last Station" proved that once again.
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Now that the Oscar nominations are done, what can fans expect from the March 7 awards ceremony? Bill Mechanic, one of the telecast's producers, says they should "expect the unexpected" from what he hopes will be a funnier event.
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With three Oscar nominations under its belt, the British drama "An Education" will expand its theater count tenfold on Friday.
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A lively documentary whose familiar subject matter is countered by a novel spin and its maker's privileged vantage point, "Teenage Paparazzo" questions the world of celebrity obsession without becoming judgmental or facile.
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Warner Bros. said on Tuesday it would release the next "Harry Potter" movie in 3D, and would also delay the launch of action fantasy "Clash of the Titans" by one week to April 2 to facilitate its conversion into 3D.
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Hollywood star George Clooney's latest movie "Up In The Air" garnered five Oscar nominations on Tuesday but there is one film about which he may not be so proud -- "Batman and Robin."
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Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that improving results at its movie studio and cable networks boosted fourth-quarter revenue, and smaller one-time expenses helped it post a profit after reporting a loss a year ago.
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Badshah Khan was so close to Mahatma Gandhi they shared reading glasses, inspiring jokes about their shared vision, but unlike his friend, the Pashtun champion of non-violent struggle has been almost forgotten by his people.
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