Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks

• Correction: TV-Twitter Comedy Festival story

  In a story April 21 about a comedy festival on Twitter hosted by Comedy Central, The Associated Press misidentified one of the participants. It is ... 

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  Ebert: Not just a critic, but a part of Hollywood

  Roger Ebert could be tough on filmmakers, but unlike many critics, he earned their respect. So much so that they claimed him as one of their own when ... 

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  Fueled by fanboy-ism, an empire swells at Nerdist

  There's no media entity more pleased to be called an empire than Nerdist, the online factory of earnest pop culture enthusiasm. This is largely ... 

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  Durning, king of character actors, dies in NYC

  Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the ...