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‘Nashville’ Takes The Show On The Road

‘Nashville’ Takes The Show On The Road

August 5, 2015

By Jon Bream Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (TNS) Deacon will be there. Scarlett, too. And sisters Maddie and Daphne. The stars of “Nashville” — ABC’s prime-time soap opera about country music...

Jack Black Juggles His Golden Nuggets Of Comedy

Jack Black Juggles His Golden Nuggets Of Comedy

July 29, 2015

By Josh Rottenberg Los Angeles Times (TNS) Jack Black gets some of his best ideas in the middle of the night. In his younger days, he would often stay up until dawn, playing Scrabble over the Internet...

Melissa Without Joan: A Daughter Deals With Loss The Rivers Way

Melissa Without Joan: A Daughter Deals With Loss The Rivers Way

July 22, 2015

By Amy Kaufman Los Angeles Times (TNS) Joan Rivers was about to die, and everybody needed her daughter, Melissa, to fix it. To magically bring her out of a medically induced coma. Keep her lucrative...

Remembering Orson Welles At 100

Remembering Orson Welles At 100

July 15, 2015

By Bob Hoover Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS) The second child of inventor Richard and opera singer Beatrice Welles was born 100 years ago May 6 in Kenosha, Wis. They named him George Orson Welles, but...

Fandor’s Fix Gives Female Directors A Vital Platform

Fandor’s Fix Gives Female Directors A Vital Platform

July 1, 2015

By Susan King Los Angeles Times (TNS) Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lynne Sachs and Nina Menkes are American independent, experimental filmmakers who have been making movies for three decades. Their films have...

Will We Someday Watch Blockbuster Movies The Way We Watch Blockbuster Fights?

Will We Someday Watch Blockbuster Movies The Way We Watch Blockbuster Fights?

June 17, 2015

By Steven Zeitchik Los Angeles Times (TNS) There were plenty of factors to chew over in analyzing why “Avengers: Age of Ultron” took in $188 million at the weekend box office — the second-biggest...

Sweden’s Biggest Movie Ever Celebrates An Adventuresome Old Gent

Sweden’s Biggest Movie Ever Celebrates An Adventuresome Old Gent

June 2, 2015

By Susan King Los Angeles Times (TNS) One can pretty much ascertain from its title the basic plot of the Swedish film “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.” But titles...

Bart and Homer characters interact and pose with guests at Universal Studios Hollywood. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Springfield, Home Of ‘The Simpsons,’ Open At Universal Studios Hollywood

May 26, 2015

By Martin Miller Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Springfield, the mythical city that serves as Anytown, USA for “The Simpsons,” is enjoying some urban sprawl in the real world. Home to...

Matthias Schoenaerts as Gabriel Oak and Carey Mulligan as Bathsheba Everdeen in Far From the Madding Crowd. (Photo courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures/TNS)

New Challenge For Actor In ‘Madding Crowd’ Role

May 19, 2015

By Colin Covert Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (TNS) In “Far From the Madding Crowd,” the versatile Belgian star Matthias Schoenaerts takes a difficult part and makes it soar. Schoenaerts, who has starred...

Do We Really Need Another Festival? Nope

May 7, 2015

By Randall Roberts Los Angeles Times (TNS) In what’s become a kind of seasonal migration, the country’s most successful musical acts are heading to the highways to take their art to the people....

Stagecoach Is Now The World’s Biggest Country Music Festival, With A Combined Attendance Of 210,000 This Year

Stagecoach Is Now The World’s Biggest Country Music Festival, With A Combined Attendance Of 210,000 This Year

May 5, 2015

By Randy Lewis Los Angeles Times (TNS) INDIO, Calif. — Miranda Lambert snagged an opportunity to catch her breath a few hours before she was to hit the stage as a headliner for the 2015 Stagecoach...

Jack Black Juggles His Golden Nuggets Of Comedy

Jack Black Juggles His Golden Nuggets Of Comedy

May 5, 2015

By Josh Rottenberg Los Angeles Times (TNS) Jack Black gets some of his best ideas in the middle of the night. In his younger days, he would often stay up until dawn, playing Scrabble over the Internet...

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