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SpongeBob Christmas special goes stop-motion
How does "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" squeeze even more fun out of our porous little hero and the Bikini Bottom gang? By turning the animated ...
Maine TV news co-anchors quit on the air
Two news co-anchors for a Maine television station surprised viewers and colleagues by quitting on the air, later citing frustration with their ...
ESPN to broadcast college football playoffs
The college football playoff system will be televised on ESPN for 12 years once it starts after the 2014 season, the network said Wednesday. The title ...
Book gift guide: 20 picks for the season
Louise Erdrich is more than this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction. She's a bookstore owner and has some ideas for what customers ...
Stores try to make holiday shopping cheap and easy
This holiday season, Burger King won't be the only place where you can have it your way. It used to be enough for stores to promise discounts up to ...
Turkeys: Some people eat them, some feed them
Turkeys: Main course or animal companion? OK, so it isn't even close. According to the industry group National Turkey Federation, more than 46 million ...
'Star Wars' 7 may bring new hope, but also letdown
Darth Vader is dead. The evil Emperor exploded after being thrown down a shaft. And Luke Skywalker and his allies destroyed both Death Stars, ...
AP launches its first Spanish-language stylebook
Spanish-language journalists can now learn that the correct word for channel-surfing is "zapeo," sexting is best written in their language as ...
Tolkien heirs sue moviemakers over merchandizing
The heirs of late author J.R.R. Tolkien are suing the producers of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" movie trilogies over alleged exploitative ...
Ex-'Price is Right' model wins suit against show
Jurors awarded nearly $777,000 Tuesday to a former "The Price is Right" model who claimed she was discriminated against by producers because of her ...
Documentary: Inmate may be involved in OJ case
A documentary says a Florida death-row inmate might have been involved in the murder of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife and her friend, a claim being ...
Review: Dementia and loss, made bearable by humor
In art as well as in life, watching someone lose their mind is an excruciating thing — even more so when that person is still physically vigorous, ...
CBS comedy 'Big Bang Theory' hits ratings high
CBS is getting a bigger bang out of its most popular comedy. "The Big Bang Theory" set a series record with 17.6 million viewers last week, the ...
Review: Cotillard stars in raw 'Rust and Bone'
Merely the premise of "Rust and Bone" sounds uncomfortably maudlin: A wayward single father and part-time fighter falls into an unexpected romance ...
Superstorm wipes out New York's Nielsen ratings
Superstorm Sandy has wiped out New York's Nielsen Co. ratings report for the month of November. The company that measures television viewership said ...
Review: A dizzyingly implausible new 'Red Dawn'
The army invading the United States in "Red Dawn," an ill-advised remake of the campy 1984 original, was changed in post-production from Chinese to ...
Turkey, pie and politics? T-Day family friction
Ah, Thanksgiving. A little turkey, some cranberry mold, maybe apple pie with ice cream, some football on TV. Getting together with the cousins.
Starz cancels 'Boss' after 2 seasons
Starz television network has decided not to give Kelsey Grammer another term as mayor of Chicago. The cable network said Tuesday that it was canceling ...
Known for photos, Vogue's Coddington pens memoir
The last time Vogue creative director Grace Coddington was impressed by fashion, she was at a Balenciaga runway show in Paris. Since then, designer ...
Guide to TV DVD sets as holiday gifts
A TV show DVD set represents more than a holiday gift that's easy to wrap. It also demonstrates respect: you know the recipient is mentally fit and ...
Q&A: Nicki Minaj on new music and 'American Idol'
Nicki Minaj, the rapper who has had much success on the pop charts with songs like "Starships" and "Super Bass," says the rerelease of her sophomore ...
Wahlberg hopes Jennifer Esposito is 'doing good'
Donnie Wahlberg hopes his "Blue Bloods" co-star Jennifer Esposito is OK, but has no idea when, or if, she's returning to the show. CBS suspended the ...
'Good' and 'bad' Salvador Dali finally meet
Was Salvador Dali — who proclaimed himself a genius and "divine" — one of the world's greatest artists or one of the world's biggest showoffs? For ...
Skip 'Liz & Dick' and watch a film they headline
The good news: If you thought "Liz & Dick" would be lame, you aren't wrong. The bad news: It falls short of being laughably, irresistibly bad.
Review: Bair writes bio of artist Saul Steinberg
"Saul Steinberg: A Biography" (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese), by Deirdre Bair When New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg was honored in 1974 by the American ...