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Movies

New Bourne to Make Four 02/27/08
Los Angeles (E! Online) - Universal is opting to keep Jason Bourne on the run. Their ears ringing with the sound of three Oscar wins for the Bourne Ultimatum, M...
Oscar snub leaves Whoopi sad, choked up 02/27/08
NEW YORK - Whoopi Goldberg seemed sad and choked up on The View Monday when her fellow co-hosts discussed how she was not included in a montage featuring Oscar ...
Hollywood reduced to supporting role at Oscars 02/27/08
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Four European actors and the maverick Coen brothers shared top honors at the Oscars, relegating the traditional Hollywood of big stars a...
'Vantage Point' leads weekend with $23M 02/27/08
LOS ANGELES - The assassination thriller Vantage Point debuted at the top of the box office, pulling in $22.9 million over opening weekend. The top 20 movies at...
Valerie Bertinelli: I cheated, too 02/27/08
CHICAGO - Valerie Bertinelli says despite her girl-next-door image, her marriage to Eddie Van Halen was hurt by infidelity and drug use by her, too. I wasn't an...

Music

NY Phil tries Dvorak diplomacy with North Korea 02/27/08
PYONGYANG (Reuters) - The New York Philharmonic arrived in a snowy Pyongyang on Monday to play the symphony From the New World in an overture to thaw still froz...
Kimmel Efs Affleck, Apes Damon 02/27/08
Los Angeles (E! Online) - Jimmy Kimmel has let loose the dogs of a YouTube war. After keeping his silence for an agonizing three-and-a-half weeks in the wake of...
More Mommy Time for Britney 02/27/08
Los Angeles (E! Online) - After not seeing her boys for almost two months, Britney Spears has scored her second face-to-face visit in the past three days. The e...
US sounds sour notes on North Korea 02/27/08
SEOUL, South Korea - Despite a symbolic symphonic thaw with North Korea, the only music the Bush administration is making here is with South Korea's new, pro-U....
Review: Erykah Badu's `New Amerykah' 02/27/08
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) (Universal/Motown) On her fourth studio album, New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War), Erykah Badu moves eve...

TV

YouTube Plugs in HBO 02/27/08
Los Angeles (E! Online) - Now it's really not just TV. HBO has inked a deal with YouTube to create a signature channel on the video-sharing site to air highligh...
Blair Underwood is 'In Treatment' on HBO 02/27/08
LOS ANGELES - Playing cocky charmers is a breeze for Blair Underwood. But playing alpha male Alex, the ultra-aggressive patient on HBO's taut saga of psychother...
News unit wins Italy Olympic rights, seeks partner 02/27/08
MILAN (Reuters) - Sky Italia, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, has won the Italian broadcasting rights to the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 and the Lond...
Oscars are a TV ratings dud 02/27/08
NEW YORK - The Oscars are a ratings dud. Nielsen Media Research says preliminary ratings for the 80th annual Academy Awards telecast are 14 percent lower than t...
Brad Renfro excluded from Oscar tribute 02/27/08
LOS ANGELES - Blogs were buzzing Monday with discussion of why Brad Renfro was left out of the Academy Awards tribute to Hollywood figures who died in the past ...

Reviews

Much memory loss is normal 02/27/08
Where Did I Leave My Glasses? The What, When and Why of /Normal /Memory Loss (Wellness Central. 245 pages. $22.99), by Martha Weinman Lear: The place where you ...
Aretha Franklin in regal form at L.A. show 02/27/08
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Memo to Beyonce and her father: Yes, Tina Turner is one of the greats, but Aretha Franklin is still the queen -- of soul and ...
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson keep their heads in 'Boleyn' 02/27/08
BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - Anne Boleyn may have married Henry VIII, but her sister Mary in would have been his queen if only she had been better at making ba...
Descendant of lyncher finds redemption 02/27/08
The Lyncher in Me: A Search for Redemption in the Face of History (Borealis Books, 196 pages. $24.95), by Warren Read: As Warren Read sifted through his family ...
'My Dad Is Better' cheap and dull 02/27/08
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There are a lot of words you can use to describe reality-style competitions on TV, but until the broadcast of NBC's My Dad Is...

Books

Best-sellers-Books-USAToday 02/02/08
Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback 1. Duma Key by Stephen King (Scribner) (F-H) 2. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Acros...
New Parker book strains credibility 02/02/08
L.A. Outlaws (Dutton, 352 pages, $25.95), by T. Jefferson Parker: Suzanne Jones, an eighth-grade Los Angeles high school teacher, thinks she is a descendant of ...
'Charlatan' chronicles medical quackery 02/02/08
Charlatan (Crown Publishing Group, 336 pages, $24.95), by Pope Brock: Goat testicles to restore virility. An electric hat that grows hair. Healing blue light fr...
Great love stories for Valentine's Day 02/02/08
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, From Chekhov to Munro (HarperCollins Publishers, 587 pages, $24.95), edited by Jeffrey Eugenides: In the intr...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS 02/02/08
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Duma Key by Stephen King (Scribner) 2. Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Press) 3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (R...

Celebrity

Big Easy on the watch for celebs 02/02/08
NEW ORLEANS - Sandy Pepa Denton got a lesson this week on how to toss beads and an up-close look at the elaborate float she'll be riding in Monday's Krewe of Or...
Court: Spears' dad has temporary control 02/02/08
LOS ANGELES - Throughout the course of Britney Spears' months-long emotional tailspin, one universal question has always lingered with each spectacular turn: Wh...
One 'Hannah' screening nearly empty 02/02/08
NEW YORK - The Hannah Montana concert movie may be the hottest ticket in town but early on opening day, at least one Manhattan theater was virtually tween-free....
Richard Hatch's tax conviction upheld 02/02/08
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the tax evasion conviction of Survivor winner Richard Hatch, who was found guilty in 2006 of failing...
Jury acquits Wesley Snipes of tax fraud 02/02/08
OCALA, Fla. - Action star Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges Friday, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts o...

Arts

Arthur Kramer, Brother of Larry Kramer Depicted in 'Normal Heart', Dea 02/02/08
Larry Kramer's play, a semi-autobiographical, socially significant drama which became a hit in 1985, tracked the early years of the AIDS crisis through prickly ...
Designers Korins, Eisenhauer, O'Donnell and Morgan to Talk Craft 02/02/08
Signature Theatre Company's artistic director James Houghton will moderate a discussion to include lighting designer Peggy Eisenhauer (The Ritz, Assassins), set...
Farley and MacDevitt Will Design Jason Robert Brown's '13' in CT 02/02/08
Performances will begin May 9 at the intimate Chester, CT, venue where Goodspeed incubates new works. The design team for the project was announced Jan. 28. Cas...
"Flying Crows," Novel by Journalist Jim Lehrer, Comes to the Stage in 02/02/08
In the play, it's 1997 and, prior to the demolition of the Kansas City Union Railroad Station, Det. Randy Benton is assigned one last inspection. He discovers B...
Bolshoi to reopen late in 2009 after rescue work 02/02/08
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre will reopen after restoration in November 2009, a year behind schedule, after emergency work to save it from collaps...

Fashion

Leading Ladies Model Red Dresses for Heart Truth 02/02/08
New York - Start spreading the news - you know it's not a run-of-the-mill fashion show when Liza Minnelli strides down a red carpeted runway in a shimmering Hal...
Stars turn out at New York Fashion Week 02/02/08
NEW YORK - It's a celebrity! No, a model! No, a celebrity! It was hard to keep the beautiful people straight at New York Fashion Week on Friday. Actresses Sara ...
French lingerie maker plans Valentine fashion show 02/02/08
PARIS (Reuters) - A French lingerie maker will hold a free Valentine's Day fashion show to glam up its image and mark its near 100 years of existence. The compa...
NY fashion show to take inspiration from economy 02/02/08
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The financial meltdown sweeping the United States hits the fashion runway on Friday, when New York Fashion Week takes off, but its impact m...
GQ Celebrates Best New Menswear Designers in America 02/02/08
New York - When it comes to menswear, it's all about the details. How a designer reinterprets the staples in a gent's wardrobe - be it a suit jacket, a pair of ...

Humor

Hillary Repackages Herself as a Black Man 02/02/08
Creators Syndicate - In what some party insiders are calling a Hail Mary bid to win Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary C...
Budget Crisis 02/02/08
Creators Syndicate - On New Year's Eve this year, instead of going out for an expensive night on the town, my wife and I went to a progressive dinner party in o...
All Day Suckers 02/02/08
DEAR ABBY: I have been seeing Dawn for a year and a half. Early in our relationship she cheated on me. I love Dawn more than I have loved anyone before, but I c...
Dear John 02/02/08
DEAR ABBY: On Foot in Orlando (Nov. 23) wrote about being nearly run down by bicycles going too fast, especially when they don't warn that they're approaching. ...
Next Year's News 02/02/08
DEAR ABBY: I'm a middle-aged man who has been married for 20 years. I own a duplex in a nice neighborhood. Last week, I put an ad in the paper and a 21-year-old...

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