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US appoints Spanish actor Antonio Banderas as Goodwill Ambassador for anti-poverty fight

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:36:08 +0000

Spanish actor Antonio Banderas has been named a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for the fight against poverty, the United Nations Development Program announced Wednesday. In his new role as an advocate fo...

Marie Osmond cancels week of Las Vegas shows to spend more time with her family

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:36:09 +0000

LAS VEGAS - Donny and Marie Osmond are cancelling their shows this week at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel while she copes with the death of her son. Marie Osmond's publicist Alan Nierob said Wednesda...

Trump is reviving original 'Apprentice' with regular folks hit by job crisis

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:08:27 +0000

NEW YORK - Donald Trump isn't firing "The Celebrity Apprentice," but he's bringing back the regular edition of the show with 14 ordinary job-hunters plagued by the economic crisis. NBC and Trump sa...

Country singer Gary Allan talks about family and new CD 'Get Off on the Pain

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:28:00 +0000

NASHVILLE - When Gary Allan was 15, his father refused to sign his first record contract. He thought his son was an imitator. It took a long time, but Allan realized that Harley Herzberg, who playe...

Chang-Rae Lee's 'The Surrendered'offers a flawed take on war's ravages

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:28:03 +0000

"The Surrendered" Chang-Rae Lee (Riverhead Books) "The Surrendered" gets off to a riveting start with a powerful first 30 pages, as readers follow an 11-year-old girl leading her two younger sib...

This is not a biopic, Joan Jett says of big screen take on The Runaways

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:47 +0000

TORONTO - Don't mistake the "The Runaways" for a biopic, warns raspy-voiced legend Joan Jett, who says the tale of sex, drugs and rock 'n'roll is more about the essence of those heady days in the late...

Cdn. filmmakers Guy Maddin and Nick Fox-Gieg win prizes at SXSW festival

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:53 +0000

TORONTO - Winnipeg movie maker Guy Maddin and Toronto-based animator and video artist Nick Fox-Gieg have won film awards at the South by Southwest festival in Texas. Maddin nabbed the jury award fo...

French documentary showing mock reality TV electrocutions probes TV's power

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:59 +0000

PARIS - A state-run TV channel is stirring controversy with a documentary about a fake game show in which credulous participants obey orders to deliver increasingly powerful electric shocks to a man, ...

Author Gerald Posner acknowledges failure to source material for new book

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:28:00 +0000

NEW YORK - An author and journalist who resigned last month from the Internet news site The Daily Beast over allegations of lifting material acknowledged that passages in his latest book are similar t...

Brand-new sitcoms are prepped to join TV Land classics this summer

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:49 +0000

NEW YORK - When TV Land was launched in 1996, it was more than just another cable channel. It was a refuge where viewers could revisit old friends like Beaver Cleaver, the Clampetts and Sheriff Andy T...

Usher says world has been looking for a hero like Canada's Justin Bieber

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:54 +0000

TORONTO - Millions of Justin Bieber's teenaged admirers would claim to be the 16-year-old's biggest fan. But they might have some competition from R&B star Usher. As Bieber prepares to drop his ...

'Toy Story 3': Woody, Buzz cope with abandonment issues as their kid grows up

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:20:43 +0000

LAS VEGAS - Playtime is over for Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear and friends. "Toy Story 3," which screened Tuesday for theatre owners attending their annual ShoWest convention, poses a new questi...

Ottawa's Cdn Screen Training Centre to close next month due to lack of funds

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:20:45 +0000

OTTAWA - An Ottawa-based film training centre that's offered lectures from some big names in Canadian cinema for nearly 30 years is set to close due to lack of funds. The non-profit Canadian Screen...

Simon Keenlyside makes Met opera revival of 'Hamlet' worth seeing

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:20:42 +0000

NEW YORK - Ambroise Thomas'"Hamlet" was last performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1897, and it's easy to see why more than a century passed before its revival. Even with two outstanding singing a...

Three U.S. history books receive prestigious $10,000 Bancroft prizes

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:20:44 +0000

NEW YORK - Biographies of Abigail Adams and Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange are among the winners of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history. Columbia University announced Wednesday t...