BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Julie, madly deeply funny: Walters to star as an ex-hippy in new National Theatre play


Julie Walters is set to return to the National Theatre to play a former hippie
Hey, man! Julie Walters is getting that peace and love vibe about playing a former hippie on stage.
The award-winning actress will return to the National Theatre next summer —


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Spike Lee: Why I Haven't Made a Feature Film in Three Years

NEW YORK -- Spike Lee is not feeling the love from Hollywood’s money men.
“I haven’t made a feature film in three years,” said Lee.
Lee has lately focused on documentary work with two films about post-Katrina New Orleans for HBO. But he had designs o


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Love movies? Love beer? Brew & View is for you


Think lowbrow, not highbrow. Think loud, not quiet. Think Beer Cannes, not Cannes. Yes, there's a new film series in town, and it's definitely not for stuffy art-house types.
The Majestic Ventura Theater's Brew & View series is all about draining pitcher


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ROYAL BLOOD


It’s hard to imagine there being much of a demand for Shakespeare in the Park tickets this year. At least not the kind that leads people to camp out overnight to see Anne Hathaway (Twelfth Night) or Al Pacino (The Merchant of Venice).
Not only is the Pub


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25 People

You only need to look at the way they treat 25 people.
The top 25 hedge fund managers in the United States collectively earned $22 billion last year, and yet they have their own cushy set of tax rules. If they operated under the same rules that apply to


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Steven Weber checks in to 'Three Hotels' at Williamstown Theatre Festival

In the tally of tabloid gossip, actor Steven Weber's rampant avarice and wanton excess rarely make the top 10.
"If only I was as greedy as the character I'm playing," he says, "I would have way more material wealth than I do now."
The character in questi


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Theron Thanks Hackford For Advocate Backing

The Oscar winner made her big screen breakthrough in the hit 1997 horror as Mary Ann Lomax opposite Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino, who played the Devil.
But Theron wasn't popular with studio bosses, who dismissed the actress as "too pretty" to tackle the ha


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Lindsay Lohan free from house arrest after 35 days


ActressLindsayLohanarrives in court in Los Angeles, California June 23, 2011.Lohan, currently serving a home detention sentence, was ordered Wednesday back to court on an allegation she violated her probation in a drunken driving case, a court official s


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The Trip worth taking


Starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. 107 minutes. Opens July 1 at the Cumberland. PG
Were you actually in the car with The Trip co-stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, bouncing over the Yorkshire Dales, you’d likely be te


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Looking Through The Transfer Window

Summer means a lot of things to a lot of people. For some, it's the sound of leather on willow in a quiet corner of Middle-England, while the sound of bees humming away and Mrs. Jones, making Sandwiches in the pavilion ripple through the air.
For others


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He's a pretty fly guy... John Travolta and Kelly Preston show off baby Benjamin their bundle of joy during a holiday in Paris


John Travolta looked every bit the doting father as he stepped out with son Benjamin during a day out in Paris.
The actor, 57, left the Ritz hotel in the French capital with the six-month-old pressed securely against his chest.
Wife Kelly Preston accom


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ArtsBeat: Sidney Lumet Tribute Planned by Film Society of Lincoln Center

June 28, 2011, 9:19 am By DAVE ITZKOFF Luc Skeudener/European Pressphoto Agency Sidney Lumet in 2007 He made angry men of Lee J. Cobb and E. G. Marshall, got Peter Finch mad as hell and had Al Pacino screaming “Attica” at the top of his lungs , and next


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Transformers 3: Senseless overload

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley aptly fills the gap left by the departed Megan Fox as Shia LaBoeuf's girlfriend in Transformers 3. Robert Zuckerman/Paramount Pictures Peter Howell Movie Critic Transformers: Dark of the Moon (out of 4) Starring Shia LaBeouf, Ro


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We Hear: Micky Ward, John Pirrucello, Bette Midler and more...

That the Vineyard is buzzing that the First Family will, once again, spend their summer hols in August at their fave spot in Chilmark, the oh-so-private Blue Heron Farm. No one can dish about the exact dates, but it’s likely to be during the latter part


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Sidney Lumet, Famed Director, Has ‘A’ List Memorial


Al Pacino, Glenn Close, and Treat Williams were just some of the stars who turned out on Monday afternoon at Alice Tully Hall to celebrate the life of director Sidney Lumet. The man who made “Serpico,” “Network,” “12 Angry Men,”  “Prince of the City,” an


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Adam Mazer and HBO headed to women's prison with 'Big Girls'

Adam Mazer is writing the pilot for HBO's The Big Girls, an upcoming drama based on Susanna Moore's 2007 novel of the same name.
Mazer's commitment to the project serves as a sort of reunion, as he is responsible for the Emmy-winning script for the netwo


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Lincoln Center Celebrates Sidney Lumet

Pete Hammond Remembers Sidney Lumet
Having covered Hollywood from a New York base for over 20 years, I watched Gotham hold its own because of filmmakers that included Jonathan Demme, Alan Pakula, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese and Sidney Lumet.


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Lawrence O’Donnell’s Tribute To Director Sidney Lumet Includes An F-Bomb

Well, this one won’t make the new owners happy. On MSNBC’s Last Word tonight, a story about the career of Dog Day Afternoon director Sidney Lumet included a clip from his final film, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. That film’s considered a masterpiec


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Snowdon Deli meets Hollywood cool


Who would have thought that the Snowdon Deli - that bastion of smoked meat and matzoh ball soup - could ever be considered ... cool?
With décor that can best be described as early Formica, the Décarie Blvd. restaurant known for its fusty party sandwiches


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Whitey Bulger's former protege has been writing a movie about his captured mentor


For years, the ex-con and former drug kingpin John "Red" Shea would walk the streets dreaming of ways to exact revenge on Whitey Bulger, his onetime mentor in the notorious Winter Hill Gang. Shea had gone to jail for 12 years to protect his boss, only to


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Ensemble fares 'Well'

The new Shakespeare in the Park production of "All's Well That Ends Well" begins and ends with characters waltzing. The dances nicely bookend the elegance of Daniel Sullivan's staging, which removes some, but not all, of the problems within Shakespeare's


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Top 10 Movie Cops of All-Time!

Played by the legendary James "Jimmy" Stewart, John Ferguson is one of greatest characters of all-time, not just movie cops. James Stewart terrifically performs as the retired cop who investigates the strange activities of an old friends wife. 
Played by


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LE Coach Profile – Erin Weiss-Trainor


has some simple advice on how to be a successful parent.








As you can see, the PN coaches pour their hearts and their souls into the Lean Eating program.

The PN Lean Eating coaches are awesome. Every 6 months they take a bunch of o


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The Kennedys, BBC2, FridayJames May's Things You Need to Know, BBC2, Monday


Bobby's the best of a pretty grim bunch in this disappointing depiction of an American dynasty The chequered history of The Kennedys – the TV mini-series, rather than just the family – is already well known. Originally commissioned by the History Channel


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Lightning Bolton

Michael Bolton: adult-contemporary balladeer, lust magnet for middle-aged women, mullet-haired ’80s icon . . . Internet comedy sensation? The Connecticut native owes that last résumé item to his star turn in “Jack Sparrow,” a video by the Lonely Island c


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A Shakespeare heroine you don't want to mess with

Director Daniel Sullivan and the cast of Shakespeare in the Park's production of "All's Well That Ends Well" have done something hard — they've managed to make neither of its two lead characters into villains.
Annie Parisse as Helena comes across as a sp


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UMKC alum Kim Martin-Cotten returns to Shakespeare fest for 'Macbeth'


For anyone who has observed the local theater scene for years, its easy to think of Kim Martin-Cotten as a hometown girl. But even though she has delivered a series of memorable performances on local stages, her time in Kansas City has been fairly brief.


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There will be violins, and they will be plaintive

A SeparationCertNOTHING against violins -- but they do tend to get brandished. The average mainstream film finds it hard to leave a segment of any length without a soundtrack, assuming the audience won't get the drama/fear/poignancy without something orc


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The Lanscape of the Jackson Hole Writers Confernece: Who Cares About the Mountains?

Or: My stomach is a box of snakes, my mouth a desert, but my heart is a bird with wings.














It's lovely and all, but not paramount when you're facing a critique...
In a few d


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Movies: British road flick 'The Trip' a delicious example of comedy well done


Movie Review: “The Trip,” 4.5 stars (out of 5)
In the comment thread of a recent article I wrote for a friend's web site, a reader called me out for snobbery, taking me to task for a few semi-snide remarks I made about popular comedies and the folks – or


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'Scarface' Blu-ray Full Details Inside! Check out the Humidor!

Check out the humidor, winning art card images, and more for the highly anticipated Blu-ray release of Brian De Palma's landmark 1983 crime drama this September!
Considered one of the most influential gangster films ever made, 'Scarface’s' gritty depict


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The Actor’s Golden Box at the Acting Studio at Edgemar Center for the Arts Taught by Renowned Acting Coach Michelle Danner

Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny...except some clouds lingering through the afternoon at the beaches. Patchy drizzle early. Highs from the mid to upper 60s at the beaches to the mid to upper 70s inland. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the af


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Nikki Haley is India Abroad Person of the Year 2010

Nimrata 'Nikki' Randhawa Haley, who in 2010 conquered the odds to be elected South Carolina's first woman and first India [ Images ]n-American governor, was on Friday conferred the India Abroad Person of the Year Award 2010, at a glittering presentation


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Spacey and Mendes join forces for transatlantic production of Richard III

Director Sam Mendes and actor Kevin Spacey have already tangled with Shakespeare's Richard III separately. Paul Taylor hears why the two Oscar-winners are coming together to explore the pitiless, power-mad, potentate in a landmark transatlantic productio


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I Love You, Nova: How the Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1970s Made Me Into the Man I Am Today

I am most definitely a child of the ‘70s. The older I get, the more I realize how much the culture of my childhood – and the world around me at the time – shaped me into the man that I am today. I grew up in a Golden Age of science fiction. When I was in


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TV: Five shows worth watching tonight: June 24


FAMILY
A.N.T. Farm
Family Channel, 7:30 p.m.
The kids are alright in this Disney Channel series. Debuting tonight, the show’s premise focuses squarely on the precocious character of Chyna Parks (played by Disney newcomer China Anne McClain), an 11-year-o


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Hollywood ending eludes old Whitey bulger

Perp walk or red carpet, take your pick.
Given the choice between real life and Hollywood, we choose Hollywood every time. Who needs the real, depressing story of a shriveled and puny 81-year-old Whitey Bulger when we have Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed


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Dickie Scruggs wants conviction tossed


JACKSON -- Imprisoned former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs asked a federal court Thursday to throw out his conviction in the judicial corruption case involving former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter. Scruggs’ legal argument in the motion,


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George Clooney’s ‘The Ides of March’ will open the Venice International Film Festival

Image Credit: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images The Ides of March , a near-future political film based on Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North , will open the Venice International Film Festival on August 31. It’s the first film directed by George Cloon


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LAFF Panelist Recalls Dog Day Turnaround


That movie was originally intended to be more comedic. In fact, in the Columbia Pictures executive suite, it was dismissively nicknamed The Boys in the Bank. But everything changed one day when Pierson and Lumet were confronted by the sight of star Al Pa


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The Women Are More Than All Right: WIF Honors the Best in Film and Television at the Crystal + Lucy Awards - Hillary Atkin

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Ricky Gervais's 'Life's Too Short' Promo, We Need Another Mike Tyson Television Series, and More...


Endangering Peter Dinklage's status as "probably our funniest dwarf, if not the guy from Seinfeld," Warwick Davis will soon be starring in a BBC sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant [The] creators of "The Office" and "Extras,"...


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Summer movie guide 2011

It's the summer movie season, when we willingly pay to see movies we know will be bad. But there are some intriguing flicks well worth watching, and not just to escape the heat. Here is a rundown of the good, the bad, and the we-will-reserve-judgment-for


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Sands Point prime for film and TV crews

Wanted: An isolated "decrepit mansion."A home with a large water fountain -- preferably indoors.And a building resembling a courthouse in downtown Mineola .Since the Gold Coast village of Sands Point opened its door to film and TV crews earlier this year


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The U.S. Trade Agenda: Comedy, Tragedy, or Thriller?

The U.S. trade agenda, of late, has featured plot twists worthy of a summer blockbuster. After two years of neglect, the beleaguered agenda seemed poised to advance when the Obama administration reworked the free trade agreement with Korea, agreed on an


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'Whole Foods Parking Lot:' Q&A with the Supermarket Rapper

Composer Dave Wittman, who’s scored music for such films as The Son of No One (starring Al Pacino and Ray Liotta) and a recent commercial for Pepsi featuring David Beckham and Sofia Vergara, came up with the nearly four-minute ditty, which brilliantly rh


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Second-Story Daredevils

Every once in a while I like to attempt something new, risky and death-defying, something utterly out of character that astonishes friends and family and leaves strangers scratching their heads and mumbling, "What was he thinking?"
Thus, on Monday after


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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: June 19th, 2011

Get ready for Masters of the Con featuring our own Vic Holtreman; Tom Cruise rocks out with his..er… shirt off in Rock of Ages; there’s change ahead for John Travolta’s Gotti biopic; Green Lantern is in the red but Ryan Reynolds talks Deadpool and Kate W


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Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'


Isaacs as Jackson Brodie with Gwyneth Keyworth in Case Histories. Photograph: Ruby Films




Isaacs with Mel Gibson in The Patriot. Photograph: Allstar/Columbia Pictures




'I am not a sex symbol," says Jason Isaacs, fixing me with those


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A Different Kind of Index

By Charles Passy There's more than one way to play the index game.While investors have long followed indexes to monitor the stock, bond and other financial markets, there's no reason the same approach can't be applied to other items whose values fluctuat


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Dr. Kevorkian leaves mixed medical legacy


Actor Al Pacino, left, and Dr. Kevorkian attended the premiere of "You Don't Know Jack: The Life and Deaths of Jack Kevorkian" at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York on April 14, 2010. Pacino starred as Dr. Kevorkian in the Emmy-winning HBO made-for-televis


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From Paris with love! John Travolta and Kelly Preston take baby Benjamin to the city of lights


He’s no stranger to the French capital after starring in last year’s action film From Paris with Love, but this time John Travolta was visiting the city of lights for a family holiday.
The Hollywood actor was joined by his wife Kelly Preston, daughter El


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Al Pacino Pays Tribute to Co-Stars After Tony Loss

To be on Broadway, with all of you, and every night we make dreams come trueAl Pacino

Al Pacino refused to be downhearted after missing out on a Tony Award for his role in The Merchant Of Venice and paid tribute to his co-stars in a moving speech after


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Top 10 Remakes of All-Time (Movies)


There are many, many horrible remakes. Most being in the horror genre, these days. But, that doesn't mean that all of them are horrible... Actually there is many that are actually quite good and sometimes better than the original.
Here is a comprised lis


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'Viva Riva!' puts Congo on the movie map


'Viva Riva!' puts Congo with all its wild energy on the movie map Djo Tunda wa Munga grew up in the Congo during Mobutu Sese Seko 's brutal 32-year reign. "Dictators do not like artists," he says. "If you wanted to make films, you went abroad, and if you


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Gebhart: Unlikely pair defies oddsmakers

What are the odds, you might ask. How about 10-to-1, 50-to-1, 100-to-1? Why not insurmountable?
We’re talking here about a guy and a girl and the chances of them (1) ever getting together, (2) having any kind of lasting relationship and (3) not only gett


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Drug-related arrests surpass 100 this week in NYC


NEW YORK (AP) - It was a bad week for drug dealing in New York City, the police commissioner said.
Since Monday, 140 people across the city have been busted for trafficking and violence after four long-term investigations wrapped up with officers decimat


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'Cocaine kingpin Ceferino Perez who ran '2m-a-year drugs ring' kept framed picture of himself as Scarface by bed


He'd certainly never be accused of modesty.
An alleged cocaine kingpin was so convinced of his own grandeur kept a framed still from the movie Scarface next to his bed - with his face superimposed over Al Pacino's.
The narcissistic picture was among an e


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The first in a five-part series on growing up with a hippie father who was on the run

On a sultry August night in 1969 when the Healdsburg police pulled over Paul Kuitenbrouwer for a routine check about 60 miles north of San Francisco, where California Highway 101 winds through the lush vineyards of Sonoma County, only my father knew how


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One-Time Pops ‘Scarface’ Fanatic Yayo Kingpin Thuggin’ It Up Like Tony Montana

SMH… Every dog may have his day, but Papo Perez had to learn the hard way that the world wasn’t his — chico! Cocaine kingpin Ceferino “Papo” Perez was so smitten with the movie “Scarface” that police say he kept a framed picture from the movie with his f


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TV/FILM: Writer David Mamet Criticized for Phil Spector Remarks

Friends of the actress killed by music producer Phil Spector have challenged a famous writer over his pending movie project about the case. Edward Lozzi, on behalf of the group Friends of Lana Clarkson, took aim Thursday at comments attributed to famed p


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Clarkson's friends wonder how movie will portray her


Friends of Lana Clarkson, the actress killed in Phil Spector's mansion in February 2003, are urging director David Mamet to stick to the facts in a movie he is making for HBO.
Fearful of how she will be portrayed, a group of friends of the actress kille


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Riotous 'Trip' leaves pleasant laughter-taste

Not to be confused with the LSD-inspired 1967 Roger Corman film, Michael Winterbottom’s “The Trip” is the funniest, laugh-out-loud film of the summer.
Reuniting British actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon for a bickering, restaurant-sampling jaunt across


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Floodgates open for 'Tree' star Jessica Chastain


Jessica Chastain may be the busiest actress in Hollywood people haven’t heard of yet. With as many as half a dozen films rolling into theaters in the coming months, she’s about to become famous fast. A veteran stage actress, Chastain’s big-screen career


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Daily Variety Announces HOUSE OF BOYS IN THEATERS LATE SUMMER 2011

Luxembourg-based Delux Productions (Merchant of Venice; Girl With a Pearl Earring) has concluded an agreement with U.S. distributor Matson Films for a theatrical release of its feature film House of Boys for late summer 2011. Delux’s Bob Bellion and Jimm


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'Into Eternity,' a documentary on nuclear waste storage, is chilling

In what may be your scariest time in the dark this summer, "Into Eternity" ( * * *) examines the world's shortsighted plan for storing nuclear waste over the next 10,000 years. Director Michael Madsen (not to be confused with the actor who starred in "Re


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HBO 'Spector' Director Warned -- Don't Glorify a Killer!


4 minutes ago by TMZ Staff   David Mamet -- the guy directing the upcoming HBO flick about Phil Spector -- ignited a firestorm after publicly claiming Spector is innocent of murder ... and now the victim's friends are horrified that Phil "will be portray


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Should have gone to Spect-haters (sorry)

"I don't think [Spector] is guilty. I definitely think there is reasonable doubt ... they should never have sent him away ... If he'd just been a regular citizen, they never would have indicted him."I'm not sure that Mamet really understands the way "reg


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Film events: 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'

"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" 7 p.m. Tue. Various theaters. fathomevents.com. $12.50. Ann Arbor Summer Festival: Outdoor screenings of "Despicable Me," 10 p.m. Sun.; "The Social Network," 10 p.m. Tue.; "Back to the Future," 10 p.m. Wed. Top of


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People: Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin show off young girlfriends

Glossy issuesCaptain America Chris Evans discusses the quandary of playing a superhero in the GQ that hits newsstands Saturday. “The problem is, if the movie’s bad, that’s one set of problems. If the movie’s great, here come the sequels.”Fergie discusses


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Ed O'Neill turns down low-paying HBO offer

HBO made Ed O'Neill an offer he had to refuse.
The "Modern Family" star said he was offered a mere $40,000 -- or union scale -- for six weeks' work on the cable channel's upcoming Phil Spector movie starring Al Pacino and Bette Midler.
When he was give


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Ed O'Neill receives minimum wage offer from HBO

Being on an award-winning television show might make your worth go up for offers on other projects. For Ed O’Neill, the offer HBO gave him was minimum wage for the business.
HBO is working on a film about the trial of Phil Spector. They called O’Neill an


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Katich out of the bag


Simon Katich has the right to challenge his removal from Cricket Australia's contracts list
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Graham Morris, that evergreen and ever-ready master of lens and shutter, served up an enchanting shot of Muttiah Muralitharan and Graeme Swann for


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Celebrity photos of the week: June 15


Ellen Barkin, nominated for best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play for The Normal Heart, is followed onto the red carpet by an unidentified woman as she arrives for the American Theatre Wing's 65th annual Tony Awards ceremony in New


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"The Book of Mormon" scoops Tony Awards

Trey Parker accepts the award for best musical for ''The Book of Mormon'' during the American Theatre Wing's 65th annual Tony Awards ceremony in New York, June 12, 2011.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Irreverent musical "The Book of Mormon," an affectionate spoof


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H'wood actors turn down Gotti Jr role

The producers of 'Gotti' are having a tough time to fill the role of John Gotti Jr. after Johnny Depp, Robert Downey, Jeremy Renner and James Franco turned down the offer.
According to the movie's executive producer Marty Ingles, none of the actors hav


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No one to play 'Gotti Jr.' as Depp, Downey, Renner, Franco say no to role!

According to the movies executive producer Marty Ingles, none of the actors having been considered were able to commit to the project.
"Franco turned it down and Depp, Jeremy Renner and Downey, Jr. were too busy with other movies. We are going to have t


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'The Book of Mormon' wins big at Tonys


NEW YORK - Satirical musical The Book of Mormon won several Tony Awards in its quest to make history by taking home a record number of Broadway's highest honors.

The winners for best book of a musical for 'The Book of Mormon,' Trey Parker, left, Matt


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Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin Show Off their Young Girlfriends at the Tony Awards

Sola has a daughter named Camila, who lives with the couple in Los Angeles.
Baldwin, 53, was also seen on the red carpet at the Tony Awards with his girlfriend, 28-year-old yoga teacher Hilaria Thomas.
UsMagazine.com is reporting that Baldwin and Thomas


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South Park creators win big at Tony Awards


Two Canadians who were up for three trophies between them were shut out at the Tony Awards in New York on Sunday night, while the creators of the potty-mouthed TV show South Park won big with their musical The Book of Mormon.
British-born Canadian actor


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Jinxed role

There doesn't seem to be anyone who can play John Gotti Jr. in the much-heralded biopic about his "Teflon Don" dad's crime family. James Franco, Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr. have all nixed the role. Executive producer Marty Ingles told us, "Franco t


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Tony Awards 2011: Kelsey Grammer takes Kayte Walsh a year after ex-wife Camille


Smiling broadly, his arm wrapped around his attractive blonde wife on the red carpet at the Tony Awards, at first glance Kelsey Grammer looked as if little has changed since last year.
His smart black suit and shoes were buffed and cleaned, his hair comb


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Musical Mormons take top Broadway honours


Blue and white lights dance across the stage as the lead singer belts out praises and 1,200 onlookers sway to the melody. Many throw their hands in the air, all the while singing along with the lyrics...




A mayor can't just walk out into the street


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War Horse canters to Tony Awards victory on Broadway

The National Theatre’s production of War Horse and the musical The Book of Mormon were the big winners of the 65th annual Tony Awards, which were announced last night at New York City’s Beacon Theatre.
War Horse took the Tony in every category in which i


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Who will win at the Tony Awards?

NEW YORK • It was a season on Broadway that was
bursting with brilliance and unpredictability. There was
Shakespeare, Wilde and Stoppard, but who could have foreseen a
musical with a song about the Mormon prophet becoming a giddy
hit?
Now it's time to pr


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PREDICTING THE UNPREDICTABLE: In a unique Broadway season,there are few things certainabout tonight’s Tony Awards

It was a season on Broadway that was bursting with brilliance and unpredictability. There was Shakespeare, Wilde and Stoppard, but who could have foreseen a musical with a song about the Mormon prophet becoming a giddy hit? Or a stage filled with horse p


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Quick journey from unknown to star


Jessica Chastain is worried that she might be the first unknown actress everyone will get sick of.
The 30-year-old redhead plays Brad Pitt's wife in filmmaker Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, which was awarded the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival thi


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Broadway 2011: Catch it if you can

Times Square may be nowhere near the financial district of New York City, but make no mistake: Broadway is bank.
The Broadway season that ended May 31 grossed $1.1 billion at the box office, aided by new blockbusters like "The Book of Mormon" and "Spide


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Labour Dispute Over Tony Awards Settled

Both labour and management are satisfied with the terms and conditions of the agreement, which will not be publicly disclosed
The 2011 Tony Awards will go ahead in New York without the threat of picketing after show producers and members of a stagehands'


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The Nominees

Saturday June 11, 2011
- With the Hat," "War Horse."
- With the Hat"; Joe Mantello, "The Normal Heart"; Al Pacino, "The Merchant of Venice"; Mark Rylance, "Jerusalem."
"The Book of Mormon"; Joshua Henry, "The Scottsboro Boys"; Andrew Rannells, "The Book


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The Tony Awards: Picking winners

Saturday June 11, 2011
AIDS polemic, "The Normal Heart," showed up at the 11th hour with real heart and great acting, but "Merchant" back in the fall was simply brilliant from top to bottom.
- With the Hat." Mantello’s return to the stage as an actor i


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Can Tonys razzle-dazzle 'em without selling its soul?


When the Tony Awards air Sunday on CBS, the celebration of New York theater naturally will feature faces closely associated with Hollywood. But has the annual Broadway event become too celebrity-focused?
The Tonys have long honored performers who have a


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Tom Long: Chastain finally gets screen time

Some actors seem to come out of nowhere and become stars overnight.
Some actors seem suddenly to be everywhere … and then, just as suddenly, they're nowhere again.
This brings us to Jessica Chastain. Over the past month, the red-headed beauty's face ha


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Movies Tonight and Sunday

(8) Field of Vision Tony Oller. A teen athlete makes a difficult decision regarding bullies. (2 hrs.) (29) The School of Rock See 10 am Sat. (38) >>> Red Eye Rachel McAdams. A plane passenger involves his seatmate in a deadly plot. (1 hr.30 mins.) (39) >


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Review: Coogan, Brydon take 'Trip' worth joining

Two dry wits chow down meals and chew the fat as they traverse the English countryside.
This is not a pitch that would cut it in Hollywood, but thankfully, director Michael Winterbottom never much thinks about what Hollywood wants.
Winterbottom's "The Tr


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Tonys look to regain audience

By intermission at the Broadway revival of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," I figured they could just call off the Tony Award competition and hand the prize for best actress in a musical to Sutton Foster.
The Troy Athens High School product has been nomin


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Gotti flick intrigues Larry

When we heard Larry King was seeking a meeting with John "Junior" Gotti, we desperately hoped King was being cast to play Lindsay Lohan's lover in the upcoming Gotti mob film. But it seems that legendary interviewer King merely wants to do a CNN special


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American Film Institute Honors Morgan Freeman at 39th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala

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Making converts

Every so often, a megahit storms Broadway, and from the opening number until the audience cheers, people cannot get enough. "The Book of Mormon," a hilarious and profane musical about Mormon missionaries in Africa, leads with 14 nominations at the 65th A


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'Jerusalem,' 'Mormon' front-runners at Tony nominations

As so often happens to a critic from the provinces, I saw just half the 26 shows nominated for the 65th annual Tony Awards, to be awarded Sunday (CBS-TV, 8 p.m.).
The half I did see accounted for two-thirds of the nominations. But for predicting, that's


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Thursday TV: Clapton's Big Festival, and Bugs

When it comes to music specials on public television, the
choices can sometimes be dodgy. Especially on Connecticut public television,
where the prime time offering is the middlebrow mush of "Andre Rieu: Live in
Tuscany" (CPTV, 8 p.m.), on for the 100th


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Coogan, Brydon take ‘Trip’ worth joining

Two dry wits chow down meals and chew the fat as they traverse
the English countryside.
This is not a pitch that would cut it in Hollywood, but
thankfully, director Michael Winterbottom never much thinks about
what Hollywood wants.
Winterbottom’s “The Tr


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Hero Complex Film Festival, the day-by-day guide

The Hero Complex Film Festival begins tonight. Here’s a rundown of the day-by-day schedule. There will also be trivia, prizes and some very interesting surprises throughout the four-day program.
DICK TRACY: Fourteen-time Oscar nominee Warren Beatty – the


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Al Pacino to star in John Lennon-inspired flick?

If the talks are successful, the legendary actor would play a washed-up musician who receives a lost letter from Lennon in Cars screenwriter Dan Fogelman''s directorial debut, reports Contactmusic.
In the film, a father decides to reconcile with his estr


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Novel forensics tool used in Anthony trial

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A novel forensics technique is being used in the trial of a Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter.
Prosecutors have called on an Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher to introduce his innovative method of det


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50 NYPD cops testify against colleagues ticket-fixing probe


As many as fifty officers from the New York Police Department have testified against colleagues over allegations of widespread ticket fixing and other corruption.
An average of two officers a day have appeared before the Bronx grand jury since it began m


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Pacino to play an ageing rocker

Acting legend Al Pacino is reportedly in talks to play an ageing rocker in "Imagine" in writer Dan Fogelman's directorial debut.
The film will focus on Pacino's character, a rocker who decides to track down his estranged biological son after finding a


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Lady Gaga dances away in sheer body suit


Lady Gaga was spotted in an over-exposed bodysuit and a G-string to protect her modesty at the CFDA Fashion Awards after-party.
After accidentally exposing her nipples as she arrived at the fashion awards, Gaga had removed her conservatively custom-made


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Why is reality TV so boozy?


Anyone who watches "The Real Housewives of New York City" is aware of one indisputable fact: Ramona Singer cannot be without a glass of Pinot Grigio. Ever. She said so herself on the most recent episode, when the seven ladies headed to Morocco for a two-


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A Summer in the Park

Daniel Sullivan, the director of last year's "The Merchant of Venice," is steering another Shakespeare in the Park production for the Public Theater this summer, "All's Well That Ends Well." The play begins previews at the Delacorte Theater Saturday, and


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Al Pacino Circling Dan Fogelman’s IMAGINE

Apparently intrigued by the prospect of playing an aging rock star, Al Pacino is currently in talks to star in Dan Fogelman’s directorial debut Imagine . According to 24 Frames , the potential turn would see Pacino’s character attempt to turn over a new


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Imagine Eyeing Al Pacino?


Al Pacino could be set to headline Dan Fogelman's Imagine. Variety reports that the talent is up for the role of an aging rock star in the dramatic comedy.

The film would see Pacino's character discovering that he has an adult son after reading a never-


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Ross Douthat / The legacy of Dr. Death


The case for assisted suicide seems to depend on human sympathy -- on the impulse toward mercy, the desire to ease what seems like pointless pain and suffering. Why shouldn't the terminally ill meet death on their own terms, rather than at the end of pro


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Angel of mercy or Dr. Death? HBO showcasing Jack Kavorkian film with Al Pacino through July

"Very rarely do you find something you say 'I want to play this,' " Pacino said in an HBO interview about the film (below). "It's (a) very eclectic kind of movie.
"He's the real thing and you very rarely come across the real thing." 
Kevorkian, 83, died


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Best of British - Mind The Gap - Under Blue Sky

Some people are just better than everyone else. Arthur Rimbeau is better at elucidating the ethereal ephemerality of life through the medium of prose poetical. Al Pacino can deliver a speech about being too old in a way that no-one else in Hollywood can


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Commish attracts nice crowd

New York's a city that never sleeps. I report on it so I don't. Just the last few days: Crammed jammed Grand Ballroom. Waldorf. Ray Kelly's NYC Police Foundation dinner. Everyone black-tie -- except honoree Ron Perelman in a cop's jacket Kelly gave him.


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CFA Alum Receives Tony Nomination


In the video above see costumes from The Merchant of Venice. Sketches by Jess Goldstein. Photos from The Merchant of Venice by Joan Marcus, courtesy of the Public Theater. Photo of Jess Goldstein by Jeffrey Dunn
For more than three decades, Jess Goldstei


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Neal Zoren: Dreyfuss shifts his focus to America’s schools

Richard Dreyfuss is worried about future American elections and political initiative.
Specifically, the actor, who earned a 1977 Academy Award in Neil Simon’s “The Goodbye Girl,” is concerned that today’s students in American schools are not getting the


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Dr. Jack Kevorkian remembered by those who knew him

ROYAL OAK — If you live or work downtown, odds are you had a brush with Dr. Death.
Jack Kevorkian, who died early Friday morning at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, had an apartment above a storefront when he began his assisted-suicide campaign in the 199


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Kevorkian, advocate for assisted suicide, dies at age 83


In this 1991 photo, retired Royal Oak pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian displays the “suicide machine” that he used to assist dozens of patients who came to him seeking to end their lives.
AP file photo
Jack Kevorkian, the world’s most famous advocate of as


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Jack Kevorkian dead at 83

By Rich Juzwiak, Jack Kevorkian, aka "Dr. Death," died Friday morning of an apparent pulmonary thrombosis, the Detroit Free Press reports. He was 83. Notorious for his right-to-die activism, the trained pathologist assisted in the suicides of approximate


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Contending with Kevorkian

Jack Kevorkian was in an especially good mood the last time I saw him, on a rainy Saturday morning about a year ago at the Royal Oak Public Library. My 9-year-old daughter had been attending a weekly Chinese class at the library since the beginning of th


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Idyll Banter: This kid loved Camp Lord of the Flies

Obviously, the 10-year-old boys there were not supposed to be climbing the old fire lookout tower, but it was an irresistible attraction. And, in all fairness, what the camp lacked in supervision, it made up for in neglect. Consequently, I have nothing b


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'Dr Death' Jack Kevorkian dies in hospital


Kevorkian's rise to fame, or infamy, in the 1990s led to a national debate in the United States on assisted suicide. He built a suicide machine, known as the Mercitron or Thanatron, which he operated out of a Volkswagen van to inject a lethal drug dose f


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Kevorkian a lightning rod for debate, controversy

DETROIT -- Jack Kevorkian, after years of combative advocacy for assisted suicide, slipped quietly from life early Friday morning. Known as Dr. Death even before launching his fierce fights against the medical and legal establishments, Kevorkian, 83, die


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Reviled and revered: Jack Kevorkian sparked a debate on death

The life of Jack Kevorkian -- a onceobscure pathologist who thrust end-of-life debates from lecture halls into courts, legislatures and living rooms -- ended quietly Friday morning, accompanied by the music of Bach. Kevorkian, 83, hospitalized at Beaumon


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'Doctor Death' Kevorkian dies at 83

JACK Kevorkian, the controversial pathologist who campaigned for the right to die and earned the nickname 'Dr Death' for helping dozens of terminally ill patients commit suicide, has died after a short illness. He was 83.Doctors at the William Beaumont H


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Jack Kevorkian forced nation to confront right to die

In the end, the man who stirred a national debate about physician-assisted suicide didn't need anyone to help him die.
By his own standards, Jack Kevorkian, 83, didn't qualify for help in ending his life, said his lawyer, Mayer Morganroth.
"He was in n


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Stage actors protest over Hollywood nods

Actor Al Pacino played Shylock in 2004 film The Merchant of Venice , a role he reprised for Broadway and for which he received a Tony Award nomination. Source: Supplied THE organisers of this year's Tony Awards were facing a revolt yesterday from stage a


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Today In Theatre History: JUNE 3

1866 Birthday of playwright and producer George Broadhurst (1866-1952), responsible for dozens of plays and musicals, including the first stage adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes. Also, namesake of the Broadhurst Theatre.

1931 Jump on the The Bandwagon at


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Prequels tell pre-hit tales


Robert De Niro (right) walks with Bruno Kirby in "The Godfather: Part II."
Robert De Niro (right) walks with Bruno Kirby in "The Godfather: Part II."
When a job doesn't work out, a wise man once said, go back to the beginning.
And sometimes, before the b


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Identity of burned woman sought

Wayne DETROIT Investigators are trying to identify a woman whose burned body was found along a park trail on Detroit's west side Thursday afternoon. The discovery came after two men's burned bodies were discovered in a house Thursday morning. Investigato


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Does Martin Scorsese have time for Liz Taylor and Richard Burton film?


News from Hollywood that Martin Scorsese is to make a film of the tempestuous relationship - which included two marriages - between Elizabeth Taylor
and Richard Burton has been greeted with considerable speculation, mainly regarding the casting of Liz a


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NYC mobster Vinny Gorgeous avoids death sentence


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NEW YORK A combative, fashion-conscious mobster already serving a life prison term dodged a death sentence on Wednesday for ordering a gangland hit while taking control of a once-fearsome crime family.
An anonymous jury deliberated less


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NYC mobster Vinny Gorgeous, already serving life, avoids death penalty for ordering killing

Prosecutors used the unprecedented testimony of former Bonanno boss Joseph Massino to try to portray Basciano as a stone-cold killer who deserved death. Massino — the highest-ranking member of the city's five Italian organized crime families to ever take


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Tecce’s seeks bankruptcy protection

It has been a celebrated Italian-American fixture for more than half a century, a thriving North End destination for Boston’s cops, politicians, and celebrities — and anyone else hankering for steak mafia alla marinara.
But Joe Tecce’s Ristorante is in p


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Awards night pits stage against screen

Actor Al Pacino played Shylock in 2004 film "The Merchant of Venice", a role he reprised for the Broadway stage show and for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.
Source: Supplied


DO not be fooled by all those air kiss


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As the Tony Awards approach, a push against the Tinseltown effect

NEW YORK — Every year, Hollywood celebrities head to Broadway, where they get plenty of attention for their headlining efforts. The Tony Awards, being presented on June 12, are the ultimate judge of the skills of any stage actor, famous or not, and many


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The Great White Way snubs Hollywood

This year, big screen A-listers like Daniel Radcliffe, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, and Robin Williams took their acting chops to the Great White Way, continuing the trend of Hollywood stars taking over the Broadway stage. However, amidst their buzzed about,


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Broadway posts larger takings for past season

India's GDP grew 7.8 percent in the March quarter, its slowest pace in five quarters, as rising rates crimped consumption and investment.  Full Article | Slideshow 
Patrons wait in line at the box office of the Foxwoods Theater, home to the Broadway play


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How to spend your summer staycation: The Pitch's 2011 Summer Guide

When asked for a memory of summer, Katie Karel recalls long days of working in cornfields around her hometown of Seward, Nebraska (population 6,000). Every summer in high school, she and her friends made pocket money pollinating, roguing and detasseling


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'Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune' writer Terrence McNally will be in St. Petersburg for play's opening


By John Fleming , Times Performing Arts Critic In Print: Thursday, June 2, 2011 Tonia Jackson and Tom Nowicki play the title characters, Frankie and Johnny, respectively, in American Stage’s new production of the love story Frankie and Johnny in the Clai


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