3-D movies help boost movie box office worldwide to record $30 billion
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
10 Mar, 2010 0 1
LOS ANGELES - The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 per cent to a record US$29.9 billion worldwide in 2009, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
The jump, from $27.8 billion a year earlier, was driven by a rise in ticket prices and the first incr
Carrie Underwood goes for broke with her 'Play on Tour' opening this week
Chris Talbott, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
10 Mar, 2010 0 0
NASHVILLE - After selling more than a million tickets to her last concert tour, Carrie Underwood is aiming higher this time.
Really high. She plans to fly over the audience, for starters.
"We're kind of going for broke on this one just because I feel like it's time," Underwood said in an inte
'Green Zone' a failure of intelligence, pales compared with 'Hurt Locker'
David Germain, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
10 Mar, 2010 0 4
All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm.
Their thriller about the futile search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is a visual and
Art patron's collection heading to auction, includes Picasso, Matisse
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10 Mar, 2010 0 4
NEW YORK - A late philanthropist's modern art collection featuring a rarely seen work by Pablo Picasso is being auctioned in New York City.
The seminal painting by Picasso is called "Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust." It's expected to fetch up to $90 million in the May sale at Christie's auction hou
Percy Sledge, Atlanta Rhythm Section at Alabama Music Hall of Fame
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10 Mar, 2010 0 4
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Performers appearing at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame ceremony March 25 in Montgomery include hall members Percy Sledge and the Blind Boys of Alabama.
Executive director David Johnson says the show will also include Eddie Levert of the O'Jays, Mac Davis, Jamey Johnson, the At
Mark-Anthony Turnage's 'Anna Nicole' opera to premiere in London next year
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10 Mar, 2010 0 4
LONDON - The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Anna Nicole" will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb. 17, starring Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the late model and Playboy playmate.
Covent Garden Music Director Antonio Pappano will conduct and Richard Jones will direct, the c
Jerry Seinfeld guest co-host Thursday on 'Live!' alongside Kelly Ripa
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10 Mar, 2010 0 4
NEW YORK - You don't see much of Jerry Seinfeld on his own new NBC show, "The Marriage Ref," which he lets someone else host.
But the 55-year-old comedian and former red-hot sitcom star will be on view for a full hour Thursday on "Live! with Regis and Kelly."
The syndicated weekday talk show
Designer Theyskens' book uses a camera to catch fashion shows' unposed moments
Samantha Critchell, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
10 Mar, 2010 0 4
NEW YORK - The scene backstage at a fashion show is far different than the one along the runway.
Yes, it's frantic; yes, it's frenzied. And, of course, there are the models there to do their job and clothes waiting for their debut.
But there is an intimacy behind the curtain that the audience
Hanks, Spielberg go to war with 'The Pacific,' follow-up to 'Band of Brothers'
Lynn Elber, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
10 Mar, 2010 0 4
LOS ANGELES - Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg swapped other people's war stories to groundbreaking, heartbreaking effect in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers."
The unsparing and visceral depiction of battle in their Second World War collaborations is revisited by "The Pacific," a 10-par
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