Entertainment

Ghosts of blues past

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That’s not a coat that Otis Taylor is wearing on the cover of his latest CD, Contraband, released on Telarc a couple of months ago. Not a Sasquatch costume, not a blaxploitation set piece...

reel to reel | Week of May 10, 2012

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ALL ABOUT ACTRESSES A woman director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown, the intellectuals, the comics and the forgotten ...Filming absolutely everything, with or without their permission, the director will be...

Jimmy Fallon Taps McCartney, Springsteen, Vedder for New LP

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Jimmy Fallon will release his second album, Blow Your Pants Off, on June 12th. Unlike his 2002 comedy record The Bathroom Wall...

Emma Stone, Andrew Garfield and Kristen Stewart to Present at MTV...

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MTV has announced the first batch of presenters for this year's MTV Movie Awards...

OutKast’s Andre 3000 to play lead role in Jimi Hendrix biopic

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We’d discussed it a long, long time ago, but now it’s finally happening...

‘Mad Men’ Paid $250K for Beatles Song

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Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner paid $250,000 in licensing fees to use the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" in last Sunday's episode of Mad Men, the New York Times reports...

Maurice Sendak, ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Author, Dies at 83

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Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, died early Tuesday. He was 83...

‘The Avengers’ scores biggest opening weekend of all time with $200.3...

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Puny Potter. Disney’s The Avengers smashed the opening weekend record by earning $200.3 million this weekend, according to studio estimates...

Beastie Boys Thank Fans for Support After Adam Yauch’s Death

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Beastie Boys rapper Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz thanked the group's fans for their support in the wake of his bandmate Adam "MCA" Yauch's death on Friday in a post on the band's official Tumblr. "As...

Shakira to Sign $30 Million Deal With Live Nation, Sony

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Shakira is taking cues from Madonna and Jay-Z: she'll forgo standard music-industry convention and issue her records through Live Nation and her former label, Sony...

Badly thought out film adaptations, nevermore

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Edgar Allan Poe introduced his 1840s readership to a new kind of fiction: detective novels. In his dark, twisted and often macabre stories, criminals committed crimes and were brought to justice by an officer of the law. But while his stories, including "The Cask of ...

Michael Jackson to Appear on Pepsi Cans

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Pepsi has struck a deal with the Michael Jackson...