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Oh my God, they’ve shot Dame Helen Mirren! Realizing the Oscar-winning actress is playing a part, and not herself, the thought nonetheless is inescapable when Mirren’s ex-CIA agent takes a bullet in RED. I mean: How dare they...

Guillermo del Toro is attached to direct Beauty, a new take on the Beauty and the Beast tale set up at Warner Bros. Harry Potter actress Emma Watson is attached to star. At the same time, the studio has hired Andrew Davies to write the script...

Lindy Chambers lives in rural Texas, almost halfway between Houston and Austin. She spends a lot of time by herself in her studio, outside...

PHILADELPHIA — When Steven Spielberg's aliens launch...

Great Big Sea founder and lead vocalist Bob Hallett was still shaking off the airline rattles when we caught him earlier this week, back in the Maritimes after a victory-celebration gig in Vancouver, the Friday before the Olympics went off the air. Y’know, you can be...

Tamara Lindeman wasn’t sure she wanted to share the songs that became her upcoming record, How Is It That I Should Look At The...

Former Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 65, the Associated Press reports...

Friday, March 13...

American Life in Poetry: Column 524 and 525...

For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts. —George Eliot, Middlemarch On Jan. 31, 2003, Katherine Gun’s life changed. Gun, a translator working for...

Moviegoers can rest easy. Mel Gibson is back in the business of starring in violent, paranoid thrillers. Back in the business of starring in movies — period...

Elvis Presley's original crypt will be up for auction in June, the New York Times reports. The crypt is part of a two-day "Music Icons" sale of memorabilia to be held by Julien's Auctions on June 23rd and 24th...