Entertainment
NBC, O’Brien negotiations hit a snag
HOLLYWOOD — Negotiations over Conan O'Brien's departure from NBC stalled Tuesday over the "Tonight Show" host's demands that NBC also compensate staff members who will lose their jobs when the show goes off the air...
Leno gives his side of ‘Tonight Show’ intrigue
LOS ANGELES — After days of being portrayed as the bad guy, Jay Leno came out swinging on his show Monday and provided a detailed chronology of NBC's bumbling behind-the-scenes maneuvers that sparked the talk-show host tug-of-war engulfing the network...
‘Avatar’ pulled from 1,628 Chinese movie screens
LOS ANGELES — "Avatar" may be too popular for its own good in China...
‘Extraordinary Measures’ is safe, not extraordinary
For its big screen debut, start-up studio CBS Films...
‘Avatar’ is the big winner at the Golden Globes
LOS ANGELES — It's the most expensive movie in Hollywood history — a $310-million epic that's also poised to become the highest-grossing global release ever — but James Cameron's...
Cheech and Chong get it legal
"It's getting closer all the time,” says Cheech Marin about what he calls the “quasi-legal” state of marijuana use in America. “You can walk down the street of just about any city smoking a joint, and nobody’s gonna hassle you. It’s ridiculous that it’s not legal. ...
Brandi Carlile bares her soul on latest album
One of the major ways Brandi Carlile feels she improved as a singer on her latest CD, Give Up The Ghost, was in being able to tap into the emotions that fueled her songs as they were first being written when it came time — sometimes many months later — to record her ...
‘Armored’: Terrible tough guys
Ever wonder what kind of guy drives an armored car full of cash? Yeah, I never did either, but that’s the environment that Armored presents us with: a bunch of edgy, tough-guy losers who somehow have ended up as employees of Eagle Shield Security...
A peek into the latest novel from author Mark Behr
In Santa Fe, I had a chance to hear 46-year-old College of Santa Fe (CSF) Professor Mark Behr, a Tanzanian-born novelist and essayist, read from his new book Kings of the Water at the O’Shaughnessy Performance Space on the CSF campus...
