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Animal prints, flats and a timid cat at Reese
Any model will tell you: It's hard to walk down a catwalk. Especially when you're an actual cat. Designer Tracy Reese's fall-winter show had a guest ...
Winners of the 2013 British Academy Film Awards
Winners of the 2013 British Academy Film Awards, presented Sunday: Film — "Argo" British Film — "Skyfall" Director — Ben Affleck, "Argo" Actor — ...
'Identity Thief' swipes No. 1 spot with $36.6M
"Identity Thief" has turned out to be the real thing at the North American box office. The comedy starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy debuted ...
Beckham weaves some English influences into fall
Of course Victoria Beckham had hot cups of tea at the ready at her New York Fashion Week show on Sunday. It was cold outside, and Beckham knows how ...
Mother superior role for Huppert in Berlin film
A new adaptation of writer Denis Diderot's 18th-century novel "The Nun" is making its debut at the Berlin film festival, featuring French star ...
Eloquent WWI opera in East Coast premiere in Pa.
A melancholy sense of lost opportunity pervades "Silent Night," an opera that tells of a moment in World War I when soldiers from hostile nations ...
Rio's samba dancers stars by night, workers by day
It's a life of stark contrast: By day, Diana Prado is a supervisor at an insurance company's drably lit call center cramped with blue cubicles.
The sound of NY Fashion Week: smartphones snapping
Remember clapping? As in when a fashion designer puts on his runway finale and then takes a bow before an adoring crowd. The fashion hordes these days ...
Shovels, skis or a wedding: tales from a snowstorm
From New Jersey to Maine, millions of people, many with Superstorm Sandy still fresh in their minds, dug out from underneath mounds of snow Saturday.
Hathaway eyes more musicals after 'Les Miserables'
Anne Hathaway says she'd like to do more musicals after the Oscar-nominated "Les Miserables" — but don't expect her to launch into a singing career.
Harry Potter star Grint changes pace in new film
Harry Potter star Rupert Grint says he enjoyed a change of scene from the young wizard's adventures when he starred alongside Shia LaBeouf in "The ...
Uggs? Ugh. NY Fashion Week battles the elements
Mother Nature is clearly not a fashionista. A blizzard forced Michael Kors to arrive at New York Fashion Week's "Project Runway" show on Friday in — ...
Snowstorm hits NYC, Boston; 1 to 3 feet feared
A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books, with a potential for up to 3 feet of snow, clobbered the New York-to-Boston ...
Kids rewarded for good manners at Wash. restaurant
To Laura King, her three children were acting normal while enjoying dinner at an Italian restaurant in their hometown in Washington state.
NBC pulls 'Do No Harm' after 2 low-rated episodes
NBC is pulling the drama series "Do No Harm" after two low-rated episodes. The show is a take on the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and stars ...
Christina Applegate exits NBC's 'Up All Night'
Christina Applegate says she's bowing out of NBC's "Up All Night." In a statement Friday, the actress says the show has taken a "different creative ...
Rare Afghan fashion show seeks to empower women
Afghan models paraded down a candle-lined catwalk Friday as men and women watched from the audience in a restaurant off a muddy street in Kabul.
'Lincoln' screenwriter concedes inaccuracy
The screenwriter for the movie "Lincoln" has conceded taking some liberties in its portrayal of a 19th century vote on slavery, but he said his ...
Timbuktu mausoleums: Rebuilding takes money, mud
Mud, money and more security: The U.N.'s cultural agency said Friday that not much more is needed to help rebuild 11 mausoleums that Islamic ...
Nautical but nice: Gaultier opens Rotterdam show
Paris fashion's enfant terrible, Jean Paul Gaultier, has inaugurated his first international exhibit at Europe's largest port: the Dutch city of ...
Original Iwo Jima monument coming to NYC auction
A long-forgotten piece of America's military history is going up for sale. The original smaller statue of the iconic raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo ...
Katie Holmes takes fashion line crosstown
Katie Holmes and her business partner and stylist Jeanne Yang joined the New York Fashion Week frenzy last season with a show at Lincoln Center, only ...
'Being Mandela:' Granddaughters take to reality TV
The newest reality television show is in some ways like any other: mother and daughters, sibling rivalry, family gossip and talk of Big Grandpa, who ...
Playwright David Ives finds his timing perfectly
There was a moment this past December in Paris when playwright David Ives achieved what he calls "a moment of maximum fabulosity." Film director Roman ...
Cast out of Monopoly, the clothes iron endures
When online voters nixed the clothes iron token from Hasbro's Monopoly game, the appliance was held up as passe, as something your grandmother once ...