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New Fox sports network to debut in August
Fox proved television was ready for a fourth major network, and Fox News took on CNN. The company wants to remind everyone of its record as it ...
Marvel goes dystopian with 'Age of Ultron' title
Marvel Entertainment's renowned heroes find themselves in an unfamiliar and unsettling position in the pages of the just-released "Age of Ultron" ...
Radio's Smerconish jumping to satellite
Michael Smerconish is jumping from traditional talk radio to satellite, saying the media form he has loved essentially left him.
Amanda Peet to make playwriting debut in NYC
Actress Amanda Peet is hoping to make her professional debut as a playwright next season with a drama that may attract Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica ...
China destroys Ikea cake, Nestle chocolate
Chinese authorities say they have destroyed nearly two tons of chocolate cake imported by Sweden's Ikea for violating food quality standards.
Russian police arrest 3 suspects in Bolshoi attack
Russian police said Tuesday they arrested three men in the acid attack that nearly blinded the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet, including a ...
Watts, Pitt bring films to Tribeca Film Festival
The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival will feature everything from Will Forte's dramatic film debut to a tale of arctic cowboys herding reindeer.
Jerome Savary, icon of French theater, dies
Jerome Savary, a director who broadened the appeal of theater to French audiences and helped popularize musicals, has died at age 70. Known for ...
UN agency cancels Gaza marathon over ban on women
The United Nations on Tuesday canceled a planned marathon in Gaza after the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers banned women from participating, in ...
Glaxo donates NC Wyeth painting to Philly museum
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC has donated a painting with a mysterious past to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work by N.C. Wyeth was ...
NYC exhibit showcases Mary Cassatt as printmaker
The New York Public Library's archive is so massive that some of the material has never been seen except on request. Beginning Friday, the library ...
Stuttgart museum returns painting sold under Nazis
A Stuttgart museum has returned a 600-year-old painting to the estate of Jewish art dealer Max Stern, who was forced to sell his collection before ...
787 delays force Thomson Airways to change plans
Thomson Airways passengers expecting to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner on holiday trips in May and June will be put on other aircraft because of ...
20 years on, Valiant's Dr. Mirage reborn, remade
It's no hallucination: Dr. Mirage has returned to Valiant Entertainment though the paranormal detective is decidedly different. Appearing in ...
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TV show jokes about alcoholism among Ariz. tribes
Arizona tribal members say they're shocked by a television sitcom that made fun of one of the most pervasive social ills on American Indian ...
Ind. teen whose long walk for job draws donations
Donations have been pouring in since a story went viral online about an Indianapolis teenager who was walking 10 miles to a job interview during an ...
Nepal's women climbers break highest glass ceiling
It's the world's highest glass ceiling. Of the 3,755 climbers who have scaled Mount Everest, more than half are Nepalese but only 21 of those locals ...
'Giant Slayer' opens weakly with $27.2 million
"Jack the Giant Slayer" climbed to the top of the box office in its first weekend in theaters, but didn't reach any great heights. The big-budget, 3-D ...
Walters back at 'The View' after weeks on the mend
Barbara Walters is back. Sidelined for six weeks by chickenpox and a concussion, Walters returned to ABC's "The View" on Monday. She got a thunderous ...
CNBC tries reality TV after business hours
Buzz-worthy reality shows are often a ticket to riches for cable networks, even when the shows seem to have little to do with the network's reason for ...
'Glee' and 'Archie' bridge comics, TV in crossover
Blaine Anderson and Kevin Keller? Betty Cooper and Noah Puckerman? Things are not as they usually are in the halls of William McKinley and Riverdale ...
Heidi Klum new judge on 'America's Got Talent'
NBC says Heidi Klum has been added to "America's Got Talent" as its fourth judge. The network announced Monday that the supermodel will join fellow ...
Musical of 'The Fortress of Solitude' heads to NYC
A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's celebrated 2003 novel "The Fortress of Solitude" is heading toward New York. The Public Theater said Monday that ...
Purdue U. teacher wins $100,000 poetry prize
Marianne Boruch, a Purdue University creative writing teacher, has won this year's $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a California university ...
Brad Meltzer writing books for kids
Best-selling suspense novelist Brad Meltzer is working on a children's series. Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), ...