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Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. LIBERACE'S POODLE IS TOP DOG AT CANNES Canine glamour was honored Friday in Cannes, with pampered poodle Baby Boy from Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra" winning the film festival's unofficial Palm Dog prize. The Hollywood pooches ...
Steely Cotillard shines in 'The Immigrant'
Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant." The gritty drama, which premieres Friday at the Cannes Film Festival and is competing for the Palme d'Or, ...
Jersey shore reopens for 1st post-Sandy summer
New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun. In fact, they even hired fun. — ...
Kid Rock, Rolling Stones on scalping, summer tours
Kid Rock is a scalper. The 42-year-old Grammy winner, who is launching a summer tour where most tickets are priced at $20, said he's scalping about 1,000 tickets from each show to make up for the cheaper regular price. "I'm in the scalping business, but you know what? We told ...
ToonSeum hosts National Cartoonists Society meetup
Pittsburgh adds to its geek cred this weekend when the city is host to the National Cartoonists Society Conference, a dream come true for ToonSeum director and illustrator Joe Wos. He created a chapter of the society along with first a Children's Museum gallery and then the Downtown museum dedicated ...
Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. ...
At Cannes' movie palace, talk of TV's rise
The annual Cannes festival on the French Riviera is the grandest platform in the world for the highest ambitions of film, a place where the art form is worshipped with wild passion and adoring reverence. Movies are projected pristinely in regal theaters, where they're greeted by the world's cinephiles with ...
Takei says Cho good choice for latest 'Star Trek'
Portraying USS Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu in the latest "Star Trek" movie comes with big shoes to fill, but the man who played the part in the TV series and six films has given his blessing to the actor currently playing the role. Even though George Takei — whose portrayal ...
JC Chandor gains a Cannes hit with 'All Is Lost'
J.C. Chandor may just have saved someone's life during an interview in Cannes. The director who put Robert Redford in a struggle for survival as a capsized sailor in "All Is Lost" is talking about mortality when a gust of wind lifts a large beach umbrella from its base and ...
Glitzy amfAR raises $25 million, goes to space
With an apt rendition of "Gold-finger," singing legend Shirley Bassey roused celebrity-revelers to dig deep into their pockets at the 20th amfAR gala in the Cap D'Antibes Thursday, helping to raise an estimated $25 million for AIDS research. The British-born singer was one of several performers including Duran Duran who ...
6 Wyeth paintings fetch $2M at NYC auction
Six paintings by the famous Wyeth family of artists have sold for just over $2 million at a New York City auction. New Jersey businessman Eric Sambol sold the works by Andrew, Jamie and N.C. Wyeth at Christie's on Thursday. They included three by Andrew, two by Jamie, and one ...
Brown hounded for calling Manila 'gates of hell'
Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital. The book "Inferno," which is being sold in the Philippines, describes a visitor to the city who is taken aback by poverty, crime ...
WikiLeaks leaks 'We Steal Secrets' doc transcript
WikiLeaks characterizes the new documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," as biased and accuses its director, Alex Gibney of "errors and sleight of hand." The publishing site released a statement Thursday announcing it had posted an annotated transcript of the film ahead of its Friday release. No author ...
Shelton, Underwood coming to aid of Oklahomans
Blake Shelton has a date and location for his benefit and fellow Oklahoman Carrie Underwood is writing a large check to help benefit those affected by this week's storms in their home state. Organizers say Shelton's "Healing in the Heartland" benefit concert will be held May 29 at Chesapeake Energy ...
87-year-old woman loses to Trump in civil case
An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday, she lost. Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a bait-and-switch scheme connected to condos in a Chicago skyscraper he built. The federal ...
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