| Art Review | 'Superheroes' Power Dressing
Source: York Times
From left: Mystique “X-Men†costume, Alexander McQueen gold bodysuit, As Four nylon and rubber pants, Thierry Mugler corset ensemble. |
| 'Speed Racer'
Source: Angeles Times
By Zip Code: By Carina Chocano, Times Movie Critic IT'S hard to imagine a movie better suited to the aesthetic tastes of an addled 8-year-old boy than "Speed Racer," or one worse suited to his attention span. |
| Excess booze leads to an altared state in 'What Happens in Vegas'
Source: York Daily News
'What Happens in Vegas.' Romantic comedy about mismatched newlyweds forced to stay together. With Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher. |
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| 'Redbelt' a solid Mamet meditation on ideals, betrayal, marriage ...
Source: Jose Mercury News
By Bob Strauss David Mamet finally makes a real movie with "Redbelt." Not that the gifted playwright hasn't directed some good films in the past, although the last one I remember as fully satisfying was his second one, "Things Change. |
| Corporate earnings roundup
Source: Angeles Times
American International Group Inc., the world's largest insurer, posted its largest quarterly loss Thursday and said it would raise $12.5 billion to strengthen its balance sheet. |
| In 'Rambow,' two boys thrive as would-be filmmakers
Source: Jose Mercury News
By Christy Lemire AP Like "Be Kind Rewind" from earlier this year, the small comedy "Son of Rambow" has a love of movies and is bursting with unbridled imagination. |
| 'American Idol' Recap: Jason Castro Out Following Lyrics Gaffe
Source: York Post
Jason Castro made it a lot easier over the past week for voters torn between him and Syesha Mercado (David Cook and David Archuleta haven't been in the elimination equation for some time now). |
| Nick Cannon Gets Fingered
Source: .com
One week after becoming Mr. Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon flashed his wedding ring outside a NYC hotel on Thursday. Wonder if Mariah's ex-husband has a similar looking ring, too! |
| Eddy Arnold, Country Singer of Vegas Luster, Dies at 89
Source: York Times
By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN NASHVILLE - Eddy Arnold, the gentleman crooner who took country music uptown and sold more than 85 million recordings over seven decades, died Thursday. |
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| Paterson Meets With Bell’s Family and Sharpton
Source: York Times
By Sewell Chan Gov. David A. Paterson met Thursday afternoon with the parents and fiancée of Sean Bell and with the Rev. Al Sharpton, saying afterward that he understood and respected the large-scale protests that occurred on Wednesday, resulting in ... |
| Madonna to Embark on Sweet & Sticky World Tour
Source: uxMedia
By Jane Ivory The Queen of Pop is ready to embark on another spectacular world tour, this time in support of her chart-topping album “Hard Candy. |
| Police Beating of Suspects Is Taped by TV Station in Philadelphia
Source: York Times
By JON HURDLE PHILADELPHIA - About 12 police officers were videotaped on Monday beating three men stopped in response
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to a drug-related shooting, and six of the officers have been removed from patrols, Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said ... |
| End credits roll for Warners specialty units
Source: ters
By Borys Kit and Gregg Goldstein LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - After Warner Bros. absorbed New Line as an in-house production label in February, industryites wondered which Warners specialty unit would remain, Warner Independent Pictures ... |
| Foxy Brown guilty of phone charge
Source: News
Rapper Foxy Brown has avoided a further spell in prison after pleading guilty to menacing her neighbour with a phone. Appearing in a New York court, the 28-year-old admitted hitting Arlene Raymond during an argument over the volume of her car stereo ... |
| After nearly six years, R. Kelly child pornography trial seems ...
Source: cago Tribune
By Stacy St. Clair | Tribune reporter R. Kelly finally will have his day in court, nearly six years after first being indicted on child pornography charges. |
| Upcoming Feature Film Shows 'Women Can Have Sex at Any Age'
Source: News
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES Orgasms, sex toys and cosmopolitans pour through the lives of Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha -- now four 40-somethings who romped through New York City as four 30-somethings in the wildly popular HBO series "Sex and ... |
| Churchill's `Girls' Revisits Thatcherite England: John Simon
Source: omberg
May 9 (Bloomberg) -- It is a good thing for New York theater when two such important plays as Caryl Churchill's ``Top Girls'' and Samuel Beckett's ``Endgame'' open the same week. |
| Americans Are Heaviest Bidders on Impressionist and Modern Art at ...
Source: York Times
By CAROL VOGEL Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist and modern art on Wednesday proved to be a solid if unexciting evening. Experts there, however, pronounced it “fantastic,†as if to again reassure buyers and sellers that the art market was alive and well ... |
| First Look: 'W,' Oliver Stone's Bush Biopic
Source: ertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly goes inside the director's dark, comic, and already controversial movie about George W. Bush's rise to power, starring Josh Brolin By Benjamin Svetkey Oliver Stone is flinging open French doors inside an enormous brick mansion in ... |
| Britney Spears' reason to smile? More time with the kiddos
Source: York Daily News
BY NANCY DILLON LOS ANGELES - Praised for trying to get her erratic life back together, drama mama Britney Spears got a judge's okay today to spend more time with her two baby boys. |