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List of nominees for the Golden Globe Awards
Nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards, announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif.: MOTION PICTURES — Picture, Drama: "Argo," ''Lincoln," ...
Keaton honored at Women in Entertainment breakfast
When Diane Keaton learned she would receive the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, the 66-year-old actress immediately began panicking about her speech.
Possible Wintour appointment gets London talking
Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams ... and now Anna Wintour? A report suggesting that the influential editor-in-chief of Vogue is one ...
New search engine connects literary dots
Author Jennifer Gilmore is reading a biography of the late David Foster Wallace. She's curious about his most famous book, the novel "Infinite Jest," ...
Letterman, Hoffman, Zeppelin honored by Obama
David Letterman's "stupid human tricks" and Top 10 lists vaulted into the ranks of cultural acclaim Sunday night as the late-night comedian received ...
After Sandy, lower Manhattan limps back to life
The hum of massive mobile generators, boilers and pumps emerges blocks from Manhattan's Financial District and turns into a steady din south of Wall ...
Mamie Gummer finds stardom as 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
On "Emily Owens, M.D.," Mamie Gummer plays a med school graduate just starting out as an intern. No longer will Emily be the nerdy schoolgirl plagued ...
Playwright Tracy Letts reveals his Midwestern side
Tracy Letts is so polite that he warns you right away that he makes a terrible subject of a story. "Midwestern people don't make for good interviews," ...
CNN starting film unit
CNN says it is starting a new unit to make feature-length documentaries to show both on television and in movies theaters. Its first project, "Girl ...
Publicist to the stars Lois Smith dies at 85
A longtime New York City publicist who worked with celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Robert Redford and Martin Scorsese has died. Lois Smith was ...
Mel Brooks to receive AFI life achievement honor
It'll be springtime for Mel Brooks when the American Film Institute presents him with its highest honor, the Life Achievement Award. The writer and ...
Meryl Streep donates $1M to The Public Theater
Meryl Streep has donated $1 million to The Public Theater in honor of both its late founder, Joseph Papp, and her friend, the author Nora Ephron.
What clothes? Skin is ever in at NY Fashion Week
Bikini season may be over, but this is no time to tone down the workout. Many of the styles on the runway at New York Fashion Week flash a bit of skin ...
'Bourne,' 'Campaign' bump Batman from No. 1 spot
"The Dark Knight Rises" has finally fallen out of first-place at the weekend box office. Jeremy Renner's action tale "The Bourne Legacy" took over as ...
5 great movies about troubled marriages
Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a longtime married couple who've fallen into a rut in the surprisingly honest and effective "Hope Springs." She ...
Marvin Hamlisch's chorus line: key compositions
Was there an award Marvin Hamlisch didn't win? He was showered with many honors throughout his illustrious career, winning Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, ...
Review: Quiet 'Hope Springs' has real punch
Here's how surprisingly effective "Hope Springs" is: It will make you want to go home and have sex with your spouse afterward. Or at least share a ...
PBS slots Burns' Roosevelt documentary for 2014
PBS says a Ken Burns documentary on the Roosevelt family is in the works for 2014. "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" is a seven-part documentary ...
In honoring Ephron, here are 10 of her best lines
Nora Ephron's characters were highly verbal and hyper-analytical. They had a head for the absurd and a heart for romance. But above all, they were ...
Celebrities react to the death of Nora Ephron
Celebrities share their reaction to the death Tuesday of author, essayist and filmmaker Nora Ephron: — "Nora was a person whose gifts of mind, amply ...
Writer-filmmaker Nora Ephron dies at 71
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it. "She was so, so alive," says her friend Carrie ...
Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it. "She was so, so alive," says her friend Carrie ...
Hollywood's Nora Ephron is very ill, rep says
Nora Ephron, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker and director behind such hits as "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle," is very ill, a ...
Spice Girls unite to launch musical 'Viva Forever'
The Spice Girls gave fans what they want — what they really, really want — Tuesday, reuniting onstage to announce the details of a musical based on ...