- Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:47:44 GMT
AP - Kathryn Bigelow and "The Hurt Locker" became official awards-season front-runners Saturday after Bigelow won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America.
- Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:24:10 GMT
AP - A 22-year-old Virginia woman who said she once thought her only talent was singing is the nation's newest Miss America, emerging from a field of 53 contestants picked for their beauty, compassion and interview savvy.
- Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:44:20 GMT
AP - The Ozark Mountains drama "Winter's Bone" and the war-on-terror documentary "Restrepo" won top honors Saturday among U.S. movies at the Sundance Film Festival.
- Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:36:20 GMT
AP - More than 10,000 fans greeted the cast of "Lost" on Waikiki Beach and were treated to a special screening of upcoming season premiere.
- Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:01:34 GMT
AP - Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn has been charged with breaking into a Connecticut bank and carrying a loaded handgun while intoxicated.
- Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:57:16 GMT
AP - New copies of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall," Andrew Young's "The Politician" and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, a drastic step in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices.
- Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:24:10 GMT
AP - A 22-year-old Virginia woman who said she once thought her only talent was singing is the nation's newest Miss America, emerging from a field of 53 contestants picked for their beauty, compassion and interview savvy.
- Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:12:02 GMT
Reuters - Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the best director award from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday with her Iraq war thriller "The Hurt Locker," a low-budget film gathering awards steam ahead of the Oscars.
- Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:33:20 GMT
Reuters - New Zealand musician Pauly Fuemana, who found international fame with his country's biggest selling record ever, "How Bizarre," died in hospital on Sunday after a short illness, according to media reports.
- Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:24:33 GMT
The Newsroom - When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad in a breathless, globally-broadcast event Wednesday, few people were as bowled over as the man who took the photo displayed on the sleek product's desktop, veteran photographer Richard Misrach.
- Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:05:10 GMT
Reuters - After nearly a year of intense scrutiny, political posturing and consumer outcry, it's time for the music business to come to grips with its new superpower: Live Nation Entertainment.
- Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:53:16 GMT
Playbill - Meet the first-nighters of Broadway's Time Stands Still, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies.
- Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:35:33 GMT
AFP - A final decision on whether to extradite film maker Roman Polanski to the United States may be a year away, the Swiss justice minister said Sunday.
- Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:58:00 GMT
Fashion Wire Daily - Valentino offered a large dollop of eco modernist fashion in the house's Spring 2010 haute couture collection, presented before huge images of swaying digital trees projected on the walls of the medieval convent hospital in Paris where the show was staged Wednesday, Jan. 27.
- Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:08:03 GMT
AP - The ex-mistress of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards wants a "very private and personal" videotape back from a campaign aide who wrote a book about the politician, according to court documents.