Theater vets crowd out Hollywood stars at Tonys
NEW YORK (AP) — The day after the Tony Award nominations were announced, Annaleigh Ashford stood smiling in a Times Square hotel’s event space, cheered by the sight of all her fellow honorees...
View ArticleParis Jackson now in all-too-familiar spotlight
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Until he died in 2009, Michael Jackson was fiercely protective of his children (save for that one balcony-dangling incident). He covered their faces when they went out with him...
View ArticleKrasinski says life is weird after ‘The Office’
BOSTON (AP) — There is life after the hit NBC series “The Office,” but actor John Krasinski says it’s been “really weird” and he misses his friends and the routine of the show that gave him his...
View ArticleReynolds American launching revamped e-cigarette
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Reynolds American Inc. is launching a revamped version of its Vuse-brand electronic cigarette — which promises to give users the “perfect puff” — in Colorado, with its sights...
View ArticleFilm backs former SEAL trainee’s innocence claim
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The courts have spoken, and former Navy SEAL trainee Dustin Turner remains locked up for a 1995 slaying that another man has confessed to committing alone. Not content to let...
View ArticleVa. pair teach, promote backyard chicken coops
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As someone who knows chickens, talks to them — yes, talks to them and listens — and is a great advocate for what they mean to the food supply, the environment and human health,...
View ArticleCable operators buff up guides for Internet age
WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of making money providing Internet service, cable TV companies are now tapping the power of the Internet to improve clunky program guides that are a relic of the 1990s....
View ArticleReview: ‘This Is the End’ weirdly compelling
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with “This Is the End,” an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy in which a bunch...
View ArticleReview: The leaden ‘Man of Steel’ doesn’t soar
It has been a black eye to Hollywood that throughout this, the unending and increasingly repetitive age of the superhero blockbuster, the comics’ most iconic son has eluded its grasp like a bird or,...
View ArticleExecutives admit that TV isn’t everywhere yet
WASHINGTON (AP) — TV was supposed to be everywhere by now — watchable anytime, anywhere, on your smartphone or tablet. But four years into the industry’s effort, network executives readily admit: TV...
View ArticleJenner: Kim Kardashian ‘thrilled for the new baby’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Jenner says her daughter Kim Kardashian is thrilled to have a new baby. Kardashian and her rapper boyfriend Kanye West were keeping silent in the wake of multiple reports...
View ArticleNetflix to run original TV series from Dreamworks
NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix is going to start running original television series from Dreamworks Animation. Financial terms were not disclosed. Netflix Inc. says the multi-year agreement is its biggest...
View ArticleEnvelope mix-up at Daytime Emmy Awards
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — “Days of Our Lives” scored a rare win for best drama series at the Daytime Emmys in a show marked by an envelope mix-up, expletives and the constant din of audience...
View ArticleDrag racing at Va. speedway is a family affair
WAYNESBORO, Va. (AP) — The smell of rubber rises into the air as the smoke bellows out. The roar reverberates through the chests of spectators as each car speeds off from the finish line. Little...
View ArticleReview: ‘Monsters University’ gets a passing grade
In Pixar’s “Monsters University,” a prequel to 2001 “Monsters, Inc.,” our expert “scarers” to be — the wisecracking pipsqueak Mike Wazowski and the burly James B. Sullivan — are college freshmen...
View ArticleStarboard says Smithfield sale undervalues company
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One of Smithfield Foods Inc.’s largest shareholders says a $4.72 billion takeover bid from China’s largest meat producer falls short of what the company would be worth if sold...
View ArticleCritics hail Daniel Radcliffe’s latest stage turn
LONDON (AP) — Daniel Radcliffe has won magical reviews for his latest stage role as a disabled Irish dreamer in Martin McDonagh’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan.” The former “Harry Potter” star plays the...
View ArticleActor James Gandolfini, 51, dies of cardiac arrest
LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Gandolfini’s lumbering, brutish mob boss with the tortured psyche will endure as one of TV’s indelible characters. But his portrayal of criminal Tony Soprano in HBO’s...
View ArticleDaniels: ‘Dumb and Dumber To’ is ‘painfully funny’
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 20 years after “Dumb and Dumber” was released, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are reuniting for “Dumb and Dumber To.” Daniels said Carrey approached directors Peter and Bobby...
View Article‘Mad Men’ ending season with Don Draper at new low
NEW YORK (AP) — Breaking up is hard to do. That is, unless you’re “Mad Men,” which this season has been free-and-easy in its fragmentation. By now Peggy Olson and her radical beau are splitsville. So...
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