TORONTO – There’s a broader vibe than the usual Hollywood A-listers this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the world’s top cinema showcases and a prelude for contenders at the Academy Awards. Stars such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Glenn Close, Robert De Niro and Viggo Mortensen are ...
NEW YORK – Just weeks after Fox dropped “America’s Most Wanted” after more than two decades, its creator-host, John Walsh, has a new home for the show on the Lifetime network. The deal, announced jointly on Tuesday by Walsh and Lifetime, will return to the air Walsh’s weekly criminal roundup, which since 1988 has helped ...
CLARKSDALE, Miss. – It’s not the Heartbreak Hotel or the Ritz, and George Washington didn’t sleep there. But The Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale is widely regarded as a history exhibit of blues music. And, oh yes. Muddy Waters did sleep there and Bessie Smith died there. Waters and other blues icons roomed at the Riverside ...
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – On September 11, 2001, when I was driving, I received a message from my friend, Heather Mac Rae: “Sorry to hear about Berry Berenson, but she was in one of the planes that crashed into the trade towers.” Stunned, I pulled the car off the road and thought about what a ...
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – On September 11, 2001, when I was driving, I received a message from my friend, Heather Mac Rae: “Sorry to hear about Berry Berenson, but she was in one of the planes that crashed into the trade towers.” Stunned, I pulled the car off the road and thought about what a ...
ROME – Salvatore Licitra, a tenor known in his Italian homeland as the “new Pavarotti” for his potent voice and considerable stamina, died Monday at age 43 after spending nine days in a coma following a motorscooter accident in Sicily. Catania’s Garibaldi Hospital, announcing the death, said Licitra never regained consciousness after suffering severe head ...
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. – Extreme snowboarder Travis Rice isn’t interested in making mere “ski porn” films — the downhill documentaries known for showing trick after breathtaking trick over a soundtrack of thrashing guitars. For Rice and director Curt Morgan, one-upping traditional snow sports movies with their latest film, “The Art of Flight,” meant using the ...
LOS ANGELES – “The Help” has stayed on the job over Labor Day, finishing as the No. 1 film for the third-straight weekend. According to studio estimates Monday, the acclaimed drama about Southern black maids took in $19 million over the long holiday weekend. That raised the film’s domestic total to $123.4 million. “The Help” ...
LAS VEGAS – The hosts of this year’s Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon said Sunday that Jerry Lewis retired from the organization and its yearly fundraiser as they solicited donations and trotted out as much celebrity punch as organizers could muster in the annual program’s first year without the beloved icon. The comments about Lewis, whose ...
ROME – A man has vandalized a fountain in Rome’s famed Piazza Navona, detaching two big chunks off a marble statue. The damaged statue was a 19th-century copy. A Rome culture official, Umberto Broccoli, said the pieces were recovered and can be reattached to the Moor Fountain. Security camera footage on Italian TV stations and ...