- Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:39:43 GMT
AP - James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar" had another stellar weekend with $68.3 million domestically, shooting past $1 billion worldwide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark.
- Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:56:23 GMT
AP - The National Society of Film Critics on Sunday selected "The Hurt Locker," a film about an elite Army bomb squad unit that works in Iraq to defuse improvised explosives while under the threat of insurgents, as the best picture of 2009.
- Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:06:34 GMT
AP - To speak of the latest milestone by "The Simpsons" seems to restate the obvious.
- Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:00:33 GMT
AP - The Spoleto Festival USA plans to celebrate the reopening of a nearly 300-year old South Carolina theater with a production that was the first opera ever performed in the American colonies.
- Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:42:53 GMT
AP - Policies forbidding payment for news interviews increasingly seem like the network television equivalent of the 55 mph speed limit: a rule often winked at unless you're heading into a speed trap.
- Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:37:58 GMT
AP - Evangelical pastor Rick Warren's plea for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch brought in $2.4 million, Warren announced to cheers during a sermon at the church on Saturday.
- Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:06:34 GMT
AP - To speak of the latest milestone by "The Simpsons" seems to restate the obvious.
- Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:56:23 GMT
AP - The National Society of Film Critics on Sunday selected "The Hurt Locker," a film about an elite Army bomb squad unit that works in Iraq to defuse improvised explosives while under the threat of insurgents, as the best picture of 2009.
- Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:30:01 GMT
Reuters - Lady Gaga's single "Poker Face" and Susan Boyle's debut album "I Dreamed A Dream" were crowned Britain's biggest-selling records of 2009, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.
- Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:37:44 GMT
Reuters - The peaceful resolution of Fox's spat with Time Warner Cable, the first big retransmission-consent fight between a broadcast network and a cable provider, ushered in 2010 -- which is certain to bring more clashes as broadcast networks search desperately for ways to supplement falling advertising revenue.
- Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:21:56 GMT
Reuters - Thieves have stolen about 30 paintings, including a work by Spanish master Pablo Picasso, from a private villa in the south of France, police said on Saturday.
- Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:52:51 GMT
AFP - Freya von Moltke, a prominent member of the German resistance during World War II alongside her husband, has died at the age of 98 in the United States, The Valley News reported.
- Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:35:35 GMT
Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is about to become a published children's author, with a tale about the lives of two family pets at one of his official residences, a spokeswoman said on Sunday.