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The Emmys Latest Change

2012-05-31T14:36:21Z

LOS ANGELES — The Emmy Awards competition will be getting fiercer among TV movie and miniseries performers.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sc...

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Karen Dalton-Beninato: 2008 Fashion Police at the Mardi Gras

2008-02-26T23:46:22Z

If this year's Oscar fashions were too tame for your taste, check out the Saving NOLA Mardi Gras Open House. Styles were more Bjork than Tilda Swinton, so mix up a Sazerac, crank some Subdudes and check it out.

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Legendary Folk Singer Dead At 89

2012-05-29T20:17:25Z

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Doc Watson, the blind Grammy-award winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound was embraced by generations and whose lightning-...

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Mark Juddery: Tony Awards: The (Next) Movie?

2012-05-29T17:00:12Z

Though Hollywood doesn't make musicals as much as they used to, they still look to Broadway for possible hits. So what will be the next hit movie musical?

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David Finkle: Easy Reader: Peggy Pope of Nine to Five Tells Her Irresistible Show-Biz Story

2012-05-23T12:10:44Z

Her show-biz resume began accumulating credits not too long after she'd settled in Manhattan -- and all of it Pope recounts with great humor. She's a naturally funny woman when she's merely recounting the facts. Laughing out loud through these pages is a regular response.

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Daytime Emmy Nominees: Did Your Favorites Make The Cut?

2012-05-09T12:26:16Z

It's the last hurrah for "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" at the Daytime Emmy Awards. The canceled soaps got their last nominations in key cat...

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'Giuliana & Bill' Get A Big Hosting Break

2012-05-09T04:04:24Z

It was a busy week for Bill and Giuliana Rancic, with the couple house hunting in Chicago in anticipation of their hopeful new baby, and Giuliana cove...

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Freddie Gershon: Some People Tweet; Some People Peep

2012-05-04T01:04:48Z

On May 7, 2012, a brass plaque will be dedicated - In Honor Of Roger Englander whose visionary "peep hole" (created in 1960) opened the eyes of children and music lovers worldwide to the magic behind the music.

Read more: Serge Koussevitzk, Leonard Bernstein, CBS TV, Carnegie Hall, NewYork Philharmonic, Young People's Concerts, Emmy's, William S. Paley, Culture News

Mark Lashley: The Ricky Gervais Show and the Comedy of Self-Importance

2012-04-30T12:19:48Z

Gervais asserts that he plays a character on stage, ironically presenting himself as better or more knowledgeable than the people in the seats. But it's a bit harder to laugh along with the school bully than it is with the class clown.

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Demetria Irwin: Esperanza Spalding on Creativity, Inspiration and Hip Hop

2012-04-26T18:22:34Z

Twenty-seven-year-old Grammy award winner Esperanza Spalding is not only an amazing vocalist and musician, but also an inspiring public speaker. After a recent performance, she sat down to share some of her thoughts on music. Here are a few gems from that talk.

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Jim David: Why Barbra Streisand, at 70, Is Still the Greatest Star

2012-04-25T10:26:11Z

She has won two Oscars, eight Grammys, five Emmys and God knows how many other awards. She has directed three films, one of which was nominated for Best Picture. Who else has done all this? One can get exhausted trying to catalogue it all.

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Maggie Smith's 'Downton Abbey' Honor

2012-04-24T08:23:24Z

The Dowager Countess could be asking "What is a BAFTA?" very soon. "Downton Abbey" star Maggie Smith has been nominated for a British Academy Televisi...

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John Farr: On His 75th Birthday, The Best Jack Nicholson Movies of All Time

2012-04-22T10:57:27Z

It does not seem quite possible that Jack Nicholson could be turning 75 today. He seems ageless, particularly when you revisit his best films. And that's just what we should all do to mark the occasion.

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Happy Birthday, America Ferrera! (PHOTOS)

2012-04-17T23:26:28Z

America Ferrera turns 28 today and we're celebrating her cumpleaños by taking a look at her amazing career. From her breakthrough movie role in the ...

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WATCH: "Once In A Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus Story" Documentary

2012-04-13T12:21:35Z

The new documentary "Once in a Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus Story" follows the choir members of Public School 22 on their amazing journey from their schoo...

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Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: Philippe Falardeau on Monsieur Lazhar

2012-04-13T14:57:39Z

Philippe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar finds finely-shaded drama in a venue that has defeated many a filmmaker: a classroom full of children.

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PHOTO: Jessica White Strikes Her Best 'Angelina'

2012-04-11T13:41:57Z

The fashion set got gussied up last night for the 9th Annual Spring Dinner Dance New Year’s In April: A Fool’s Fete event in New York City.

Mo...

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WATCH: Channeling 75 Best Supporting Actress Winners In Just Five Minutes

2012-04-06T17:16:00Z

Oscar season may be a fading memory at this point, but that doesn't stop us from loving this clip!

A video showing YouTube user The Doomsday Diarie...

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Cynthia Ellis: Interview: Willem Dafoe Is The Hunter

2012-04-04T16:42:10Z

It was one of the most wonderful and unique starts to an interview ever: Within a minute, Willem was speaking in the incomprehensible babble of the Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil. And then in Italian. Two of the world's finest languages!

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Brad Balfour: Iranian Asghar Farhadi Gets Oscar & Retrospective at Lincoln Center

2012-04-03T11:07:48Z

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi manages to both enlighten and mystify. Maybe that's why he's been able to evade both the censors and jailers who polic...

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Paula Gordon: As the World Turns

2012-04-01T17:43:57Z

SAG-AFTRA, one union, now stands where once there were a separate Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors. The labor movement is far from dead.

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Richard Schiffman: Who Is Trying to Destroy the Humane Society?

2012-03-28T13:24:52Z

Just as we require political ads to disclose the sources of their funding, we should make sure that these faceless front groups come out of the shadows and tell us up front -- on the ads themselves -- who exactly is paying for them.

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Emmys Book Jimmy Kimmel As Host

2012-03-26T10:34:29Z

Late night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel is coming to primetime for the 64th Annual Emmy Awards. Kimmel will host the awards show telecast on ABC on Sun., Sep...

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Michelle Williams' Monroe Wig Cost HOW Much?

2012-03-26T07:51:52Z

For an actor, transforming into your character sometimes takes more than technique; the clothes or makeup they're wearing can often play a huge part i...

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Charlotte Safavi: Shahs of Sunset : Episode 2 and Counting

2012-03-22T19:35:31Z

This week I watched two very different Iranian worlds depicted in the powerful medium of film: one reality meticulously masked as fiction, one semi-fiction frivolously packaged as reality.

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