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A Native American tale with international pedigree
It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen. The film, an English language one from French director Arnaud Desplechin, made its premiere Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where ...
'The Audience' to be shown in US nursing home
A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage next month in London in the play "The Audience" — some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing home. The live cinema event company BY Experience said Friday it will show a live performance of Peter Morgan's play ...
Tim McGraw recasts ACM's TV special, airing Sunday
When the producers of the Academy of Country Music's annual television special approached Tim McGraw about the 2013 edition, the country music star immediately flashed on the program's format. "They were tribute shows and I certainly didn't want anything to do with that," the 46-year-old McGraw said with a laugh. ...
Ticketmaster settles rewards lawsuit for $23M
Ticketmaster has agreed to settle claims for up to $23 million over a lawsuit affecting more than a million people who, after buying a ticket online, were enrolled in a rewards program that cost $9 a month but never gave them any benefits. U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer in Los ...
Review: No passing grade for 'English Teacher'
Craig Zisk moves from TV to big screen with the story of a teacher played by Julianne Moore who sleeps with a former student. Zisk has directed or produced episodes of standout TV comedies from "The Larry Sanders Show" through "Parks and Recreation." But those series boasted some of the ...
Coetzee tells Spain: Drop pro-bullfighting law
Nobel Literature laureate J.M. Coetzee has called on Spain to abandon plans to protect bullfighting, making a rare public appeal against what he called "an archaic form of entertainment." In an open letter to Spain's legislature released Thursday, Coetzee called bullfights "a throwback to a time when people took no ...
Review: 'Metro: Last Light' a can't-miss shooter
What are you doing after the apocalypse? Video-game creators have been asking that question for years, with results ranging from Bethesda's sublime "Fallout 3" to id Software's forgettable "Rage." Ukrainian developer 4A Games fell somewhere in between with 2010's "Metro: 2033," based on the bleak fiction of Russian novelist Dmitry ...
Protesters picket Barbie-themed house in Berlin
It probably wasn't the reception Barbie was hoping for at the start of her European tour. Feminist protesters burned a doll on a cross and left-wing demonstrators shouted "pink stinks" at the Berlin opening of a life-sized Barbie house Thursday. They far outnumbered Barbie fans who came to see the ...
Basquiat painting fetches record $48.8M in NY
A Jean-Michel Basquiat (zhahn mee-SHEHL' BAH'-skee-aht) painting has set a new auction record for the graffiti artist at a sale of postwar and contemporary art in New York. Christie's says "Dustheads" sold for $48.8 million on Wednesday. His "Untitled," a painting of a black fisherman, held the previous record when ...
Harrison, Glover face off on 'Idol' finale
Randy Jackson isn't sure which budding diva will take the crown on "American Idol." The veteran judge of the Fox talent competition declared Wednesday's final performance round at the Nokia Theatre a dead heat after finalists Kree Harrison and Candice Glover each performed three songs. "Dude, this is so close," ...
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