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LOS ANGELES – Sandra Bullock may be the front-runner for the best-actress Oscar, but for her, awards season is more about camaraderie than competition with her fellow nominees. Except Meryl Streep.
“With Meryl, when this whole thing started, I left her a voice mail going, ‘You’ve got to watch your back. I’m gonna cut you. I’m [...]
The 2010 Golden Globe Awards, representing the best of television and film as seen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, were handed out Jan. 17 in Los Angeles. Some artists and titles related to the theatre world were honored.
“Glee,” the FOX TV series about a high school glee club, which has captured the attention of [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Weight Watchers International Inc sued Jenny Craig Inc for allegedly lying in advertising about a supposedly superior weight-loss program to capitalize on consumers’ New Year’s resolutions to shed extra pounds.
According to the lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, Jenny Craig falsely claimed in a television commercial that “a major [...]
MILAN (Reuters Life!) – Italian fashion house Versace will launch its first luxury cellphone, entering a blooming sector for designer brands.
The Milan-based house, a favorite with celebrities for the red-carpet, said in a statement on Tuesday it would launch the phone commercially in the spring.
It will show it off for the first time to select [...]
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle, who enjoyed a long, successful musical partnership with her sister and was the mother of musicians Rufus and Martha Wainwright, has died at the age of 63, her sister said on Tuesday.
McGarrigle had been suffering from clear cell sarcoma, a rare kind of cancer. She died on [...]
NEW YORK – A jury should get to decide whether a TV producer’s dealings with David Letterman were attempted blackmail or just hard-nosed business, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon refused to throw out an attempted grand larceny charge against the producer, Robert “Joe” Halderman. The ruling puts the case on [...]
BERLIN – The annual Berlin film festival will open next month with the premiere of a new movie from Chinese director Wang Quan’an, “Apart Together.”
Organizers said Tuesday that the latest film from Wang — whose “Tuya’s Marriage” won Berlin’s top Golden Bear award in 2007 — will kick off the festival Feb. 11.
The Berlin event [...]
LOS ANGELES – Dennis Hopper, battling prostate cancer, wants out of his marriage.
The 73-year-old actor-director filed for divorce Thursday in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences with Victoria Duffy, his wife of nearly 14 years.
Hopper has been battling prostate cancer and in October canceled all travel plans to focus on treatment.
Hopper is seeking joint custody of [...]
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – At a Miami Dolphins team banquet last year, CEO Mike Dee turned to the team’s newest minority owner, music producer and mogul Emilio Estefan, and asked what he thought of the event.
Estefan didn’t miss a beat as he rattled off his critique: There was no Spanish-language media there. How could the [...]