Katy Hall is the associate entertainment editor at the Huffington Post.

Blog Entries by Katy Hall

Judy Collins Sings The Stuff Of Folklore, Perfectly

8 Comments | Posted October 1, 2009 | 09:55 AM (EST)


Judy Collins unpacks the dizzying history of the folk movement one musical story at a time. She sings the song her good friend Joan Baez wrote about her relationship with Bob Dylan, the song Collins recorded for Leonard Cohen that gave him the confidence to start performing, the billboard hits...

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'Spread' Review: Ashton Is Naked, Sad, Annoying

Posted August 14, 2009 | 12:26 PM (EST)


The lithe, glum women of Spread fulfill the prurient promise of the film's title without doing much else. Ashton Kutcher, the star and producer of the soft-core, low-budget ode to his own powers of seduction, does somewhat less. Kutcher plays Nikki, a heartless sexual grifter who left the Midwest for...

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'Addicted To Beauty' Not Terribly Addictive

4 Comments | Posted August 4, 2009 | 12:43 PM (EST)


An alcoholic does not necessarily a good bartender make. A band of unhinged plastic surgery addicts is similarly ill-advised to open a one-stop shop for body transformations, and this obvious disaster recipe is the basis for Oxygen's newest reality series, 'Addicted to Beauty' (premiering Aug. 4 at 11 p.m....

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Ted Danson Hopes Jellyfish Burgers Aren't On 'The End Of The Line'

38 Comments | Posted June 23, 2009 | 08:02 AM (EST)


Ted Danson narrates a new documentary that reveals an inconvenient truth about our love affair with seafood: if unsustainable fishing practices continue, we could see the collapse of the world's fisheries as early as 2048.

'The End of the Line' takes aim at fish wholesalers and restaurant chains,

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Larry David On 'Whatever Works': 5 Things He's Found To Complain About

39 Comments | Posted June 15, 2006 | 05:57 PM (EST)


Woody Allen's new movie, "Whatever Works" may seem to follow a familiar formula (old New York grouch reluctantly finds himself taken by spritely young ingenue, proceeds to sever his lifeline to happiness)--and it is based on a script Allen wrote in the 1970s and recently resurrected.

But this time...

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