http://www.mail.com/subjects/104-arts-entertainment.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.20/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/104-arts-entertainment.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763056-lincoln-leads-golden-globes-with-7-nominations.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Steven Spielberg's Civil War epic "Lincoln" led the Golden Globes on Thursday with seven nominations, among them best drama, best director for Spielberg and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. Tied for second-place with five nominations each, including best drama are Ben Affleck's Iran hostage-... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763056-lincoln-leads-golden-globes-with-7-nominations.html 2012-12-13T13:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763992-apple-e-book-publishers-eu-find-competition-deal.html BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's competition watchdog has accepted proposals by four publishers and Apple to end agreements that set retail prices for e-books — a practice the EU feared violated competition rules. The decision reached Thursday is legally binding on Hachette Livre; Harper Collins; Simon & Schuster; and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrin... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763992-apple-e-book-publishers-eu-find-competition-deal.html 2012-12-13T13:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763974-list-nominees-golden-globe-awards.html Film nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards, announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif.: MOTION PICTURES —Picture, Drama: "Argo," ''Lincoln," ''Life of Pi," ''Django Unchained," ''Zero Dark Thirty." —Picture, Musical or Comedy: "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," ''Les Miserables," ''Moonrise Kingdom," ''Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," ''Silver Lin... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763974-list-nominees-golden-globe-awards.html 2012-12-13T13:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763888-golden-globe-nominations-tv-drama-series.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe nominations for best television drama series have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The nominees announced Thursday morning are: "Boardwalk Empire," ''Breaking Bad," ''Downton Abbey," ''Homeland" and "The Newsroom." The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards will be ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763888-golden-globe-nominations-tv-drama-series.html 2012-12-13T12:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763882-globe-nominations-musical-comedy-film.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe nominations for best musical or comedy film have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The nominees announced Thursday morning are: "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," ''Les Miserables," ''Moonrise Kingdom," ''Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," and "Silver Linings Playbo... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763882-globe-nominations-musical-comedy-film.html 2012-12-13T12:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763894-golden-globe-nominations-dramatic-film.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe nominations for best dramatic film have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The nominees announced Thursday morning are: "Argo," ''Lincoln," ''Life of Pi," ''Django Unchained," ''Zero Dark Thirty." The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards will be presented Jan. 13 at... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763894-golden-globe-nominations-dramatic-film.html 2012-12-13T12:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763884-globe-nominations-actress-dramatic-film.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe nominations for best actress in a dramatic film have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The nominees announced Thursday morning are: Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"; Marion Cotillard, "Rust and Bone"; Helen Mirren, "Hitchcock"; Naomi Watts, "The Impossible... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763884-globe-nominations-actress-dramatic-film.html 2012-12-13T12:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763874-globe-nominations-actor-musical-comedy.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a musical or comedy film have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The nominees announced Thursday morning are: Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables"; Jack Black, "Bernie"; Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"; Bill Murray, "Hyde Park ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763874-globe-nominations-actor-musical-comedy.html 2012-12-13T12:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763896-globe-nominations-tv-drama-series-actor.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a television drama series have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The nominees announced Thursday morning are: Steve Buscemi, "Boardwalk Empire"; Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"; Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom"; Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"; an... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763896-globe-nominations-tv-drama-series-actor.html 2012-12-13T12:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763898-globe-nominations-tv-drama-series-actress.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe nominations for best actress in a television drama series have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The nominees announced Thursday morning are: Connie Britton, "Nashville"; Glenn Close, "Damages"; Claire Danes, "Homeland"; Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey"; an... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763898-globe-nominations-tv-drama-series-actress.html 2012-12-13T12:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763866-globe-nominations-tv-comedy-series-actor.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a television comedy series have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The nominees announced Thursday morning are: Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"; Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"; Louis C.K. "Louie", Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes"; Jim Parsons, "The ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763866-globe-nominations-tv-comedy-series-actor.html 2012-12-13T12:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763824-golden-globe-nominations-tv-comedy-series.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe nominations for best television comedy series have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The nominees announced Thursday morning are: "The Big Bang Theory," ''Episodes," ''Girls," ''Modern Family" and "Smash." The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards will be presented ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763824-golden-globe-nominations-tv-comedy-series.html 2012-12-13T12:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763798-man-jailed-2-years-defacing-rothko-work.html LONDON (AP) — A Polish man who defaced a Mark Rothko painting in London's Tate Modern gallery with black ink was sentenced Thursday to two years in jail. Wlodzimierz Umaniec, also known as Vladimir Umanets, was arrested after visitors discovered a scrawl across the bottom of Rothko's "Black on Maroon" on Oct 7. The 26-year-old later said he had written th... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763798-man-jailed-2-years-defacing-rothko-work.html 2012-12-13T12:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1763348-911-concert-musicians-turn-sandy.html NEW YORK (AP) — Call the "12-12-12" benefit show "The Concert for New York City" 2.0. Eleven years after the benefit concert in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was held at Madison Square Garden, many of the same top musicians came together to raise money for those suffering from Superstorm Sandy, including Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Billy Joel, The Who, E... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1763348-911-concert-musicians-turn-sandy.html 2012-12-13T12:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763820-short-hosting-snl-mccartney-musical-guest.html NEW YORK (AP) — "Saturday Night Live" is welcoming two prominent up-and-comers to this week's show. Guest hosting the special Christmas edition will be a brilliant Canadian-born comic, Martin Short. The musical guest? Breakout singer-songwriter Paul McCartney. "I think he's from Europe," Short ventured, tongue-in-cheek, at the mention of McCartney's name.... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763820-short-hosting-snl-mccartney-musical-guest.html 2012-12-13T12:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763776-ap-picks-top-10-theater-moments-2012.html NEW YORK (AP) — Al Pacino came back again and Jessica Chastain showed up for the first time. "Annie" returned and so did "Evita" and "Elf." Katie Holmes made a second appearance and that old stalwart "The Lion King" celebrated its 15th anniversary. Yes, 2012 was a year of old and new, theatrically speaking. It also was a year in which the theater communit... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763776-ap-picks-top-10-theater-moments-2012.html 2012-12-13T11:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1763480-danish-historian-finds-unknown-andersen-fairy-tale.html COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish historian says he has discovered what he believes is a previously unknown fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen. Retired historian Esben Brage said Thursday he found the six-page text in early October while searching in the National Archives through boxes that had belonged to wealthy families from Andersen's hom... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1763480-danish-historian-finds-unknown-andersen-fairy-tale.html 2012-12-13T11:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1763450-inquest-nurse-british-royal-hoax-hanging.html LONDON (AP) — A nurse duped by a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was found hanging in her room and left three notes, a coroner's inquest was told Thursday. Coroner's officer Lynda Martindill said nurse Jacintha Saldanha was discovered hanging by a scarf from a wardrobe in her nurses' quarters on Friday by a colleague ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1763450-inquest-nurse-british-royal-hoax-hanging.html 2012-12-13T11:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1763598-pennies-patriotism-stars-move-to-tax-havens.html PARIS (AP) — France's Socialist government is introducing a 75-percent income tax on those earning over €1 million ($1.3 million), leading some of the country's rich and famous to set up residency in less fiscally demanding countries. Here's a look at some big names in France and elsewhere whose changes of address over the years have meant lighter taxes. ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1763598-pennies-patriotism-stars-move-to-tax-havens.html 2012-12-13T11:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763606-review-meyerbeers-rare-robert-staged-london.html LONDON (AP) — Degas painted it. Chopin wrote variations on it. Balzac and Dumas mentioned it in their fiction. The Paris Opera performed it 100 times in just three years. For more than a half-century after its premiere in 1831, Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Robert le Diable" was everywhere. Then, as its composer's reputation plummeted, it all but disappeared. Now ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763606-review-meyerbeers-rare-robert-staged-london.html 2012-12-13T10:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1761310-music-comedy-strike-defiant-tone-sandy-concert.html NEW YORK (AP) — Musicians were so intent upon helping victims of Superstorm Sandy that they didn't seem to want their benefit concert in New York to end. The final notes of Alicia Keys' "Empire State of Mind" closed the star-studded show at 1:19 a.m. Thursday, nearly six hours after Bruce Springsteen set a roaring tone with "Land of Hope and Dreams." In b... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1761310-music-comedy-strike-defiant-tone-sandy-concert.html 2012-12-13T07:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763182-report-jackie-chan-suggests-hong-kong-curb-rights.html HONG KONG (AP) — Jackie Chan suggests in a recent interview that protests should be restricted in the freewheeling Chinese city of Hong Kong. The action star lamented that Hong Kong has become a city of protests, where people "scold China, scold the leaders, scold anything, protest against anything. "There should be regulations on what can and cannot be p... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763182-report-jackie-chan-suggests-hong-kong-curb-rights.html 2012-12-13T06:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1763170-gimmicky-boost-lovelorn-las-vegas.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas, land of the quickie wedding, is in the midst of a serious love recession, and chapels in the city accustomed to playing the numbers were not about to let the latest money-making opportunity — Wednesday's auspicious 12/12/12 date — pass without a marketing push. They worked for months to turn the day into a major payout, luring ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1763170-gimmicky-boost-lovelorn-las-vegas.html 2012-12-13T05:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1760654-autopsy-nurse-hoax-thursday.html LONDON (AP) — The result of an autopsy on the nurse involved in a prank call for information about the former Kate Middleton's hospital stay will be revealed Thursday, London police said. Scotland Yard said on Wednesday the cause of Jacintha Saldanha's death will not be released until a Westminster Coroner's Court hearing. Saldanha answered the phone when... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1760654-autopsy-nurse-hoax-thursday.html 2012-12-13T03:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1762816-prosecutors-appeal-anti-paparazzi-charge-dismissal.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors Wednesday appealed the dismissal of anti-paparazzi driving charges against a photographer accused of recklessly chasing Justin Bieber on a Los Angeles freeway earlier this year. The appeal argues that Superior Court Judge Thomas Rubinson erred last month when he dismissed two counts filed under California's 2010 anti-paparaz... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1762816-prosecutors-appeal-anti-paparazzi-charge-dismissal.html 2012-12-13T01:44:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1762516-joe-allbritton-87-dc-media-banking-giant-dies.html McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Joe L. Allbritton, who became one of Washington's most influential men through a media conglomerate of newspapers and television stations and a financial empire that once included Riggs Bank, died Wednesday. He was 87. He was suffering from heart ailments and died at a hospital in Houston, where he lived, said Frederick J. Ryan Jr., pre... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1762516-joe-allbritton-87-dc-media-banking-giant-dies.html 2012-12-13T01:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/1762536-hockey-fans-fed-up-with-ongoing-nhl-labor-strife.html Sitting in a hockey locker room, Steve Chase became the latest die-hard fan fed up with the NHL lockout. Living in Los Angeles, Chase believed the league had squandered all the goodwill built in the area after the Kings won the Stanley Cup. His weekly pickup games with friends became his only taste of the sport he loved because of the ongoing labor strife... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/1762536-hockey-fans-fed-up-with-ongoing-nhl-labor-strife.html 2012-12-13T00:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1761466-broadway-faces-potential-holiday-labor-headache.html NEW YORK (AP) — The union representing hundreds of Broadway theater cleaners, porters, elevator operators and bathroom attendants voted Wednesday to authorize its leaders to call a strike if a new contract isn't approved by the end of the month, potentially throwing a wrench into a busy holiday season. Members of the 250-person 32BJ union voted during a n... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1761466-broadway-faces-potential-holiday-labor-headache.html 2012-12-13T00:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1760186-indian-sitar-virtuoso-ravi-shankar-dies-92.html NEW YORK (AP) — The kids at first didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival, in the fabled summer of 1967. As captured in D.A. Pennebaker's documentary, some nodded along and smiled; Jimi Hendrix listened carefully. Others dozed, or chatted. A few hippies danced wildly, a... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1760186-indian-sitar-virtuoso-ravi-shankar-dies-92.html 2012-12-13T00:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1762608-shhhh-law-tv-ads-blare.html NEW YORK (AP) — TV viewing could soon sound a little calmer. The CALM Act, which limits the volume of TV commercials, goes into effect on Thursday. CALM stands for Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation. The act is designed to prevent TV commercials from blaring at louder volumes than the program content they accompany. The rules govern broadcasters... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1762608-shhhh-law-tv-ads-blare.html 2012-12-12T22:07:00Z