Sundance takes a hike with screenings around US
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Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival is going on the road for one night next winter. The independent-film showcase is sending eight films playing at the festival for screenings in eight cities around the country on...
Man arrested in LA celeb burglaries case
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Los Angeles police say they have arrested a man sought in a case involving burglaries at the homes of celebrities. Police say Jonathan Ajar surrendered to police in Hollywood on Wednesday. Prosecutors charged him with...
Chris Brown is unsure about his image
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Chris Brown says he is unsure about how the public perceives him since he attacked Rihanna. Brown beat up his ex-girlfriend in February and is on probation for the assault. In an interview with MTV News, the...
Dancers gather to honor Patrick Swayze
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Before Patrick Swayze was a film actor, a TV actor and People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive," he was a dancer. And so it was fitting that a huge, eclectic group of dancers gathered to honor him this week at the annual...
ABC's Roberts lands Janet Jackson interview
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ABC has booked a prime-time interview with pop star Janet Jackson, expected to be her first lengthy television interview since her brother Michael's death. ABC's Robin Roberts will interview Jackson at her California...
Berlin Wall drives wedge through LA art community
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Call it the Irony Curtain. The concrete wall that divided the city of Berlin for 28 years is suddenly splitting a segment of Los Angeles' art community just as the 20th anniversary of the wall's falling nears. The...
New reality cooking show for chef Gordon Ramsay
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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has some new people to yell at. The verbally abusive star of Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" has signed a deal with Fox for a second show. Tentatively called "Masterchef," it will feature Ramsay...
Comic magazine Viz turns 30, refuses to grow up
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What makes a British cultural institution? Style? Sophistication? In the case of comic magazine Viz, the ingredients are swearing, toilet humor, and biting satire. Martin Rowson, editorial cartoonist for publications...
Review: Willem Dafoe stars in an absurdist comedy
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The Idiot Savant asks Marie, "Am I no longer capable of saving us from magic words?" In turn, she asks him, "What makes chosen words _ magic?" And they're off and running, in the surreal immersion that is Richard...
Palin book tour to start Nov. 18
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Sarah Palin's book tour is a gift for her base. No stops are planned in Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and other major cities and book-buying communities that are standard for authors on the road,...
Founder of San Diego Comic-Con dies at 76
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Sheldon Dorf, who founded the world famous Comic-Con International comic book convention, has died. He was 76. A longtime friend, Greg Koudoulian, says the Ocean Beach resident died at a San Diego hospital on Tuesday...
Review: `A Christmas Carol' suffocates in glitz
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Lionel Barrymore. Alastair Sim. Laurence Olivier. Albert Finney. George C. Scott. Bill Murray. Michael Caine. Mr. Magoo. Scrooge McDuck. Of the many to play Ebenezer Scrooge, Jim Carrey now adds his name, starring in...
Review: 'The Road Out of Hell' a chilling tale
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"The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders" (Union Square Press, 304 pages, $24.95), by Anthony Flacco, with Jerry Clark: This is a darkly disturbing true account of a 13-year-old...
John Lithgow's serial killer soars on 'Dexter'
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John Lithgow was going to pass on the chance to play serial killer vs. serial killer on "Dexter," with an Italian vacation, cruise and his son's wedding awaiting him. He made it to the ceremony but postponed the trip,...
Jude Law's 'Hamlet' goes from red to black
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Jude Law and his fellow cast mates in Broadway's production of "Hamlet" have no reason to be melancholy: They are an official hit. Producers of the Shakespeare classic now playing at the Broadhurst Theatre said...
British singer Leona Lewis performs in hometown
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British pop singer Leona Lewis won strong fan support at her first ever full-length concert Monday night, performing on familiar territory in the east London neighborhood where she grew up and still lives. It marked a...
Brad Pitt looking for new motorbike after LA crash
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Brad Pitt says he is in the market for a new motorcycle. The actor, in Tokyo to promote his latest movie, "Inglourious Basterds," said he trashed his favorite bike recently while trying to escape overzealous...
MTV Europe Awards to celebrate fall of Berlin Wall
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For Katy Perry, learning can be fun. The singer, hosting MTV's European Music Awards for a second consecutive year, said that Thursday's show is a chance to combine performances by artists like U2, Foo Fighters and...
Tom Hanks-produced '4-D' film comes to WWII Museum
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Actor Tom Hanks says viewers are in for a realistic "wartime experience" when the new film he produced, "Beyond All Boundaries," opens at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Friday. The film will be...
Review: 'SuperFreakonomics' as fun as predecessor
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"SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance" (William Morrow, 320 pages. $29.99) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: In their 2005 book...
Disney says China approved Shanghai theme park
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China's planning agency has approved plans for a Disney theme park in Shanghai, the Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday, a major step toward setting a deal for the long awaited project. The approval by the National...
'Dragon Age' adds grit to fantasy role-playing
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The role-playing fantasy has been a staple of electronic gaming since the 1970s, when students cobbled together interactive quests on university mainframes. But the genre has fallen out of favor in recent years,...
Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father
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President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel _ the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote...
TV host Mario Lopez to host Miss America pageant
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Here comes Mario Lopez as the Miss America pageant host. TLC and the Miss America Organization said Wednesday that the 36-year-old "Extra" host and former "Dancing with the Stars" contestant will again serve as master...
Rihanna: Brown's assault, aftermath 'humiliating'
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Rihanna says dealing with the media attention after being assaulted in February by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was humiliating. But she now hopes to speak for young women who are afraid to talk openly about domestic...
Zhang says 'Blood Simple' has shades of Chow
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Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format. In his first interview about...
Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father
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President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel _ the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote...
`Dancing with the Stars' celeb slate slimmed by 2
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Michael Irvin and Mark Dacascos have been booted from the ballroom. The football player and TV personality were eliminated Tuesday from "Dancing with the Stars." Irvin failed to capture enough viewer votes to keep him...
Price moves up and down for new Grisham book
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It was a weird day in the book price wars. The cost of John Grisham's "Ford County," officially released Tuesday, moved up and down like stock market shares as rivals Amazon.com and Walmart.com extended, then...
Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to co-host Oscars
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Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are taking on the Oscars. The two Hollywood veterans will share hosting duties at the 82nd Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday. Telecast producers...
Sarah Palin promises more cities on book tour
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Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is promising to visit more cities than a conventional book tour when her memoir "Going Rogue" is published later this month. Palin says the locations of her...
Ex-phone worker guilty in Hollywood wiretap case
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A former phone company employee has been convicted of lying to FBI agents and a federal grand jury investigating wiretapping allegations against Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano. Joann Wiggan of Burbank...
Kirstie Alley to star in A&E reality series
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Kirstie Alley is going to star in a new A&E reality "docu-series" about her life as a single mom and her efforts to lose weight. The network has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of the untitled series from "American...
Anthropology giant Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100
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After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young...
Ex-Miss California Prejean, pageant settle lawsuit
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The legal war between former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant organizers is over. A joint statement released Tuesday says Prejean (pray-ZHAHN') and the organizers of the pageant reached a confidential...
Warrant details alleged burglars' celeb loot
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Police seized dozens of diamond rings, high-end shoes, bags, guns and drugs from the homes of three people suspected of burglarizing celebrities' Los Angeles residences, search warrant records show. Louis Vuitton and...
John Grisham's short stories long on characters
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It's hard to sell a book of short stories. But not if you're John Grisham. The author of "A Time to Kill," "The Client" and other blockbusters has written his first collection of short fiction, "Ford County," set in...
Rod Stewart realizes dream recording with Smokey
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Rod Stewart grew up idolizing soul singers like Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson and Otis Redding. On his new album, "Soulbook," he gets a chance to pay tribute to his childhood idols in song _ and even gets a chance to sing...
Stars switch on London's Christmas lights
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Jim Carrey, Colin Firth and Bob Hoskins switched on London's Christmas lights on Tuesday and attended the world premiere of the 3-D film "A Christmas Carol." The actors came to the British capital to promote Robert...
Top 20 prime-time programs in Nielsen ratings
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Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by The Nielsen Co., for Oct. 26-Nov. 1. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes...
World Series helps Fox score a ratings home run
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The World Series gave the Fox network world-class ratings last week as the New York Yankees squared off against the Philadelphia Phillies in four much-watched games. Fox can thank baseball for a huge average audience...
Capsule reviews: `Precious' and others
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Capsule reviews of films opening this week: "The Men Who Stare at Goats" _ A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov's romp based on Jon Ronson's amusing...
Review: `Men Who Stare at Goats' has fuzzy vision
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A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney's "The Men Who Stare at Goats," and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: "More of this is true than what you might imagine." This...
Accused Seacrest stalker pleads not guilty
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A man arrested outside Ryan Seacrest's workplace has pleaded not guilty to a felony stalking charge. Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr. entered the plea Tuesday through an attorney. A court commissioner ordered Uzomah to stay...
Ambassador Theatre Group buys Live Nation
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The Ambassador Theatre Group said Tuesday it has completed a 90 million pound ($147 million) deal that makes it one of Britain's biggest theater groups. The company _ which already owns several central London theaters,...
Stormtrooper battle returns to British courts
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The George Lucas empire struck back Tuesday against a British prop designer who sold replicas of the iconic Stormtrooper uniforms from the "Star Wars" movies. Designer Andrew Ainsworth has fought a long legal battle...
British singer Leona Lewis performs in hometown
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British pop singer Leona Lewis won strong fan support at her first ever full-length concert Monday night, performing on familiar territory in the east London neighborhood where she grew up and still lives. It marked a...
Adam Arkin relishes new `Sons of Anarchy' role
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When Adam Arkin signed on for "Sons of Anarchy," he didn't have reservations about his role as a slick white separatist or the FX drama's dark heart. But he admits to feeling a bit "intimidated" about working with...
Obama enlists Hollywood names for arts committee
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The White House is enlisting "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker, Forest Whitaker and others from Hollywood and beyond to help push President Barack Obama's arts initiatives. On Tuesday, Vice President Joe...
E! to launch Asian version of flagship news show
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One of America's best-known entertainment news shows is launching an Asian edition. Los Angeles-based E! Entertainment Television will launch a weekly half-hour edition in Asia combining both Hollywood and regional...