- Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:01:29 GMT
AP - Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Nolan's "Inception" is anything but a sleeper as the thriller opened big with $60.4 million and a No. 1 finish at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
- Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:06:58 GMT
AP - An auction house selling Lucille Ball memorabilia says it is returning the actress' lifetime achievement awards to her daughter.
- Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:11:16 GMT
AP - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and others ran for cover as the opening of a flashy Austrian AIDS gala was cut short by a fierce thunderstorm.
- Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:32:21 GMT
AP - Paris Hilton was briefly detained in Corsica after sniffer dogs detected a "quite small" quantity of marijuana in her bag, a French newspaper reported Saturday.
- Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:54:30 GMT
AP - A bone marrow drive for an 11-year-old "Lion King" star with leukemia has turned out to be one of the hottest matinees on Broadway.
- Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:58:47 GMT
AP - The Vatican newspaper reported Saturday that a new Caravaggio painting may have been found in Rome, but cautioned that further analyses are required before it can be attributed for certain to the Italian master.
- Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:21:23 GMT
Reuters - "Futurama" halted its ratings slide and rebounded a bit Thursday night. The Comedy Central show bounced 10% from last week to 2.2 million viewers for its 10 p.m. airing. That's a good sign for the show, whose audience shrank for the first few weeks of its basic cable revival.
- Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:23:43 GMT
Reuters - Starz is firming up the cast and story line for its "Spartacus" prequel series, whose subtitle will be the epic-sounding "Gods of the Arena."
- Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:20:35 GMT
Reuters - American rapper B.o.B climbed two places to claim the top spot on Britain's singles chart on Sunday with "Airplanes," featuring Paramore rocker Hayley Williams, the Official Charts Company said.
- Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:20:16 GMT
Reuters - The co-founder of E! is launching a celebrity-focused online network complete with several programs in the hope of establishing a new brand in the entertainment programing space.
- Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:31:13 GMT
Playbill - Never Norman Rockwell, Kyle Baxter's screwball comedy about coming out of the closet on the eve of a wedding, begins July 16 at the Beckett Theatre at Theater Row as part of the 2010 Midtown International Theatre Festival.
- Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:19:29 GMT
Reuters - R&B singer Alicia Keys has parted ways with her manager, ending a decade-plus business partnership that began at the onset of the singer's career.
- Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:09:00 GMT
Fashion Wire Daily - What made the huge Hollywood premiere of "Inception" on Tuesday, July 13, different from most? It wasn't that it was staged at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard; that's been the spot where movie premieres have happened since 1927. Nor was it having a huge movie star like Leonardo DiCaprio head across the street to the screaming crowd, signing autographs and posing for photos with adoring fans, for that's been done, too.
- Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:24:48 GMT
AP - A University of Wyoming professor has compiled coal-bed natural gas expertise from UW and from around the world into a book.
- Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:38:03 GMT
AP - Churches and a gallery in Rome housing works by Caravaggio will stay open overnight to mark the 400th anniversary of the Italian painter's death.