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Disney studio chief quits after 'John Carter' bomb
Disney movie studio boss Rich Ross stepped down on Friday, taking the fall for at least a couple of over-budgeted bombs as Hollywood shies away from ...
Louis-Dreyfus is 1 heartbeat away in HBO comedy
One of the ways Julia Louis-Dreyfus prepared for her role as Vice President Selina Meyer in the new HBO comedy "Veep" was to study how to answer ...
Play looks at Welsh roots of Bradley Manning
To some he's a traitor to his country, to others he's a free-speech hero. But before Bradley Manning was a public enemy or a cause celebre, the U.S.
Last book of late Nobel poet hits stores in Poland
A book of poetry by the late Nobel-winning Wislawa Szymborska hit bookstores in Poland on Friday and it sold out in several shops. The slim beige ...
Jonathan Frid, actor in "Dark Shadows", dies at 87
Jonathan Frid, a Canadian actor best known for playing Barnabas Collins in the 1960s original vampire soap opera "Dark Shadows", has died. He was 87.
With 'Chimpanzee' opening, 5 prime primate movies
Ah, chimps. They're so cute and cuddly and furry, so much like us that we want to take them home, assign human characteristics to them and turn them ...
Box Office Preview: 'Man' & 'Lucky' go mano-a-mano
Sony's "Think Like A Man," the screen adaptation of Steve Harvey's best-selling dating book, and Warner Bros.' "The Lucky One," the latest adaptation ...
Usher joins cast of off-Broadway play for 1 day
Usher is heading off-Broadway. The Grammy winner will join the cast of "Fuerza Bruta: Look Up," the fast-paced, acrobatic and unconventional play ...
Martha Stewart's recipe for a new PBS cooking show
Martha Stewart is cooking up a culinary master class for public television. The TV host, author and media mogul announced Thursday that she'll launch ...
American film to take center stage at Cannes
American movies are taking center stage at the Cannes Film Festival, with a fistful of U.S. films and stars including Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain ...
Italian masterpiece returns to Jewish man's heirs
U.S. authorities ended a more than 70-year-old art drama Wednesday by returning a 16th century masterpiece to a Jewish man's heirs who sought for ...
Lawsuit claims 'Bachelor' show discriminates
Two black men are taking "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" to court with a lawsuit that claims the reality shows are blocking contestants of color ...
Author faces civil suit over 'Three Cups of Tea'
Regardless of whether claims are true that author Greg Mortenson fabricated portions of "Three Cups of Tea," neither he nor his publisher can be held ...
Kitty Kelley writes 'heartwarming' text on Kennedy
Kitty Kelley's next book project will be "heartwarming." Promise. The author of gossipy best sellers about Frank Sinatra, Jacqueline Kennedy and ...
'Smash' star Christian Borle plays a loopy pirate
To properly play a pirate, Christian Borle has appropriately been stealing. He's lifted from comic book villains and swiped from Indiana Jones baddies
London's West End optimistic about Olympics
London's theater industry is increasingly confident that culture won't suffer during a summer devoted to celebrating sports. West End producers had ...
$412 check that bought Superman sold for $160,000
The $412 check that DC Comics wrote to acquire Superman and other creative works by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster has sold for $160,000 in an online ...
Tunisia: Annual Jewish pilgrimage an achievement
The annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Tunisian island of Djerba should be maintained as a symbol of the North African nation's openness to the world, ...
Avengers, Spidey, Batman lead huge summer lineup
As superhero summers go, this one is truly super. Amid one of the most-promising box-office seasons Hollywood has ever served up, three movies stand ...
NYC feminist art center marks 5th anniversary
The Brooklyn Museum's feminist art center is marking its fifth anniversary this year by commemorating famous women of the next millennium — placing ...
No fiction Pulitzer given for 1st time in 35 years
Unable to choose a fiction winner, Pulitzer Prize officials made a decision guaranteed to satisfy no one. They passed. For the first time in 35 years, ...
'GMA' poised to snap long 'Today' winning streak
The 16-year ratings dominance of NBC's "Today" show, one of television's most epic streaks, has apparently ended. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that ...
The late Manning Marable wins history Pulitzer
The late Manning Marable won the Pulitzer Prize for history Monday, honored for a Malcolm X book he worked on for decades but did not live to see ...
Hollywood warms to China's new openness
There's a new breach in China's great cultural wall and Hollywood is cautiously moving in. Disney's announcement Monday that it will make "Iron Man ...
'Hunger Games' hangs on at No. 1 with $21.1M
"The Hunger Games" finished as the No. 1 box-office draw for the fourth-straight weekend with $21.1 million. Debuting at No. 2 was "The Three Stooges" ...