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NJ Gov. Christie puts weight issue on the table
Gov. Chris Christie, who has acknowledged to Barbara Walters he's "more than a little" overweight and munched on a jelly doughnut on David Letterman's ...
Exhibitions plumb artistic responses to disaster
Coke Wisdom O'Neal looked at the soggy, stained and discolored photographs strewn about his Brooklyn studio by the salty floodwaters of Superstorm ...
Review: 'Playroom' a family drama from kids' view
A rare example of a grown-up story compellingly told from the perspective of children, "The Playroom" is a modest gem. This '70s-set drama depicting ...
A record 3 million stream Super Bowl online
The Super Bowl was streamed online by 3 million people, an increase from the 2.1 million who watched the big game online last year, according to CBS.
Disney working on stand-alone 'Star Wars' films
Disney is mining The Force for even more new films. Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger said Tuesday that screenwriters Larry Kasdan and Simon Kinberg are ...
AP sources: Pentagon extending benefits for gays
The military is poised to extend some benefits to the same-sex partners of service members, U.S. officials said Tuesday, about 16 months after the ...
Review: 'Side Effects' a twisty thriller
If "Side Effects" is indeed Steven Soderbergh's final film, as he's said it will be after toying with the notion of retirement for a couple of years ...
Picasso portrait fetches near $45M at auction
A Picasso painting of his muse has fetched 28.6 million pounds ($44.9 million) at a London auction. The 1932 work, "Femme Assise Pres d'une Fenetre ...
Oscar-nominated set decorator Garrett Lewis dies
The set decorator who earned Oscar nominations for his work on "Beaches," ''Glory," ''Hook" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" has died. A longtime friend ...
Chicago opera faces probe after performer burned
A federal agency said Tuesday it is investigating the injury of a fire-blowing stilt-walker who was burned during a dress rehearsal at the Lyric Opera ...
Super Bowl tops ratings; outage highly viewed, too
As it does nearly every year, the Super Bowl will almost certainly stand as the most-watched television event of 2013. This year, the Blackout Bowl ...
Skater Oksana Baiul sues NBC, producer for $5M
Figure skater Oksana Baiul (by-YOOL') is suing NBC Universal and a television skating program producer. The 1994 Olympic gold medalist says Disson ...
Prime-time coverage of Winter Games to start early
Prime-time television coverage of the Winter Olympics will start a day early next year in Sochi — with Shaun White the likely star. NBC will air ...
Actress Judy Greer planning 2014 essay collection
Judy Greer is the latest celebrity with some funny stories to tell. Doubleday announced Tuesday that it would publish Greer's humorous essay ...
SI shoots on 7 continents for swimsuit issue
Few would think about swimming in Antarctica, but Sports Illustrated took its models there for its annual swimsuit issue — shooting on all seven ...
Oscar green room honors '40s art director Gibbons
When Oscar nominees such as Steven Spielberg, Hugh Jackman and Helen Hunt want to take a break backstage during the Academy Awards show, they'll step ...
Broadway stars to help The Performing Arts Project
Broadway stars Nick Adams, Ashley Brown, Jessica Rush and Michael James Scott will lend their voices to a benefit production of Jason Robert Brown's ...
'Dancing to the Flute' falls short on substance
"Dancing to the Flute" (Atria), by Manisha Jolie Amin A little boy appears in an Indian village, not remembering his name nor where he was from.
Stage musical planned around Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio are hoping the rhythm is going to lead to Broadway. The duo on Tuesday announced that they've teamed up with the ...
British Museum puts art from the Ice Age on show
The art world loves hype. Works are touted as the biggest, the rarest, the most expensive. Even in an age of superlatives, the British Museum has ...
Viewer addiction to new Kevin Spacey drama series
I binged. There was much anticipation for "House of Cards," a new original series from Netflix starring Kevin Spacey that arrived in one big helping ...
Stray cats dying in Belarus basements
The plaintive meows haunt the people of Minsk in the dead of night. They come, activists say, from hundreds of stray cats who find themselves locked ...
Freedom brings new challenges for Myanmar writers
Poet Saw Wai parked himself on the lawn, unfurled a map of Myanmar with a blob of blood-red paint dripping down from a spot up north and invited ...
Super Bowl falls short of ratings record
With a partial power outage, an overly excited quarterback and a game that suddenly turned from snoozer to sizzler, CBS had its hands full at the ...
LB prospect commits to Bama, with Auburn tattoo
Five-star linebacker prospect Reuben Foster says he'll play for Alabama after a recruiting process that left him torn between the state's two rivals ...