Marvel: ‘Batman & Robin was important film’
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has called Batman & Robin “the most important comic book movie ever made”.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has called Batman & Robin “the most important comic book movie ever made”.
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Ringo Starr honored with Walk of Fame star
A star for former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday evening during a whimsical ceremony that also marked the 50th anniversary of groundbreaking on the sidewalk attraction.
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Super Bowl was most-watched program in TV history
The Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of “M-A-S-H” to become the most-watched program in television history.
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Actor Gary Coleman pleads guilty in Utah court
Former child television star Gary Coleman pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor criminal mischief charge related to a domestic violence incident last April.
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Michael Jackson’s doctor charged with killing the ‘King of Pop’
Michael Jackson’s doctor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop singer’s death last year. Los Angeles prosecutors charged Dr Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s cardiologist, on Monday. He faces up to four years in prison if convicted… click to read more.
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Doctor finally looks at charge in Jackson death
Dr. Conrad Murray, who has been trying to surrender to authorities for a week, will likely get his chance with prosecutors saying they will file a charge Monday in the death of Michael Jackson.
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Cameron praises ex-wife’s movie
‘Avatar’ director James Cameron reckons his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, is his biggest competition for the Best Picture Oscar with her movie, ‘The Hurt …
Super Bowl wanted a big stadium show, and The Who gave one
The Who played their most celebrated U.S. stadium date a long time ago - October 1982 at New York’s Shea Stadium, with a quartet of British punk descendents, The Clash, opening.
Super Bowl TV spot brings Leno, Letterman together
Super Bowl viewers were rubbing their eyes over a TV spot pairing CBS late-night host David Letterman with longtime NBC rival Jay Leno, plus Oprah Winfrey.
Blizzard paralyzes mid-Atlantic; two killed
A blizzard dumped two feet of snow across much of the U.S. mid-Atlantic on Saturday, paralyzing travel, leaving tens of thousands without power and creating a winter wonderland in a region not used to big snows.
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‘Dear John’ bumps ‘Avatar’ from top spot
Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried play a couple in ‘Dear John.’ LOS ANGELES — A sci-fi love story has given way to an earthbound romance at the box office, livening up typically slow times at theaters over Super Bowl weekend.
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Jazz musician Sir John Dankworth dies at 82
Sir John Dankworth plays his saxophone at Buckingham Palace, London, Thursday, March 2, 2006, after receiving a knighthood from the Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Carey Mulligan: ‘I’m so lucky’
Carey Mulligan, the 24-year-old star of ‘An Education,’ talks about her excitement at receiving her first Oscar nomination.
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Karina Smirnoff, others party on Super Bowl eve
Dancing with the Star’s Karina Smirnoff is staying quiet about who she wants to win the Super Bowl because she doesn’t know who is going to be on the next season of the show.Smirnoff said Saturday that she didn’t want to say anything she would regret about the Super Bowl.
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Rob Lowe’s a traveling Indianapolis Colts fan
Rob Lowe isn’t just another celebrity who scored a Super Bowl ticket. He’s a dedicated follower of the Indianapolis Colts who has the mileage to prove it.
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Alba not flattered by attempt to look like her
Imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery for Jessica Alba. The actress said Saturday she’s been distressed by Internet reports about a Chinese woman who is having a plastic surgery makeover to look like Alba in hopes of getting her lover back.
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Veteran actor Ian Carmichael dies
Veteran British actor Ian Carmichael has died at the age of 89, his wife said. The star of large and small screen from the 1950s to the 1970s had fallen ill over Christmas and New Year, Kate Carmichael said.
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Leif Garrett charged with heroin possession in LA
In this booking photo released on Wednesday Feb. 3, 2010 by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department showing former 1970s teen idol Leif Garrett, 48, after he was arrested Monday night after allegedly carrying heroin into a Los Angeles subway station.
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Considerable excitement is brewing over plans by the Coen Brothers to remake the John Wayne classic film: True Grit.
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Doherty is top nightmare neighbour
Hellraiser Pete Doherty has been named the nation’s nightmare celebrity neighbour.
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Howard Stern tapped to replace Simon Cowell on ‘American Idol’
Shock jock Howard Stern has been offered Simon Cowell’s seat on the “American Idol” dais, a new report says.
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Laureen Falco, executive producer of the new DVD, âThe Art of Soy Container Candle Making,â will demonstrate just how easy it is to make soy candles at home, with lessons ranging from the benefit of using soy wax to fragrances and essential oils.
Looking to go “green” in 2010? Then learn how to make your own beautiful soy container candles with biodegradable soy wax in the comfort of your own home.

Not paying any attention to that kind of talk or even slowing down one bit to enjoy his record-breaking success of “Avatar,” its indefatigable director, James Cameron, has been participating in almost daily eye-opening Q&A sessions with his craft nominees at the Zanuck Theatre right after various below-the-line guild screenings of the film. Monday was the film editors, Wednesday, the sound mixing team and Thursday, the production designers. On Saturday night he will be tributed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and receive the Fest’s top honor, the Modern Master award. He told me he considers it significant that “Avatar” passed “Titanic’s” all-time domestic box office haul with $601 million on Tuesday, same day the film got 9 Oscar nominations. A good omen? He says if it weren’t for some upcoming 3-D pictures like “Alice In Wonderland” taking screens away, “Avatar” could probably hit $3 billion worldwide. As it is he thinks the film will gross $2.5 billion before it’s done.
But a difference there is. For the first time in the network’s 29-year
history, MTV has decided to give the channel’s iconic logo a face-lift.
“The people who watch it today, they don’t refer to MTV as music
television. They don’t have the same emotional connection that, say,
the people who are writing about [the logo change] do,” MTV’s head of marketing Tina
Exarhos said. Indeed, The Wrap called it “a minor change with major symbolism,” while The Hollywood Reporter wrote having “music television” in the old logo was “a constant reminder that
MTV was branding itself one way, programming itself another.”
Outside of its annual “VMAs” music video award show, and with the cancellation of “TRL,” MTV has long abandoned music as a programming mainstay. For years, all eyes have been on genre-busting reality shows like “The Osbournes,” “Newlyweds,” “Jackass,” “My Super Sweet 16″ and “The Hills.” The network is currently riding high with the docudrama “Teen Mom” and “Real World”-esque “Jersey Shore.”
Exarhos said the network’s marketing team had tossed around losing “Music Television” from the logo before, but “we had never taken the idea upstairs to [MTV president Van Toffler and MTV Networks chair-CEO Judy McGrath]. We thought, ‘No one is ever going to let us do this.’ It’s the one thing we’ve never touched,” she said. But with the channel’s most recent on-air redesign — something the network switches up every couple of years — “now felt like the right time.”
“It felt like, ‘Why have we been so scared when the channel itself has evolved so much over the years?’ ”
Does the newly cropped logo mean no music at all? “Absolutely not,” Exarhos said, pointing to the success of the “VMAs” and the recent Haiti telethon organized by George Clooney and the network. Some editions of the logo, in fact, feature Beyonce at the “VMAs” and Jay-Z on the telethon, while others promote new shows like “My Life as Liz” and upcoming ones including “The Hard Times of RJ Berger”.
Beyond cropping out the words “Music Television,” Exarhos said her team redrew and minimally tweaked the placement of the “TV” within the “M” (Spot the difference between the logos, pictured above.)
– Denise Martin
Photo: The MTV logo, before and after (left to right). Credit: MTV
Denim is for whimps. So say D&G, which showed tough-guy leathers instead. The show opened with a pair of studded a zip-strewn, leather biker trousers and in keeping with the biker theme, there was plenty of metal hardwear in the…
Itâs an argument that has raged over the tables of mountain restaurants for decades, probably since the beginning of recreational skiing itself. Which is the best cheese-based ski meal? Is it fondue, the shared hot gloop of molten cheese, eaten with slightly stale bread? Perhaps it is raclette â the aromatic cheese whose name is derived from the verb racler, to scrape, the means by which you dispatch it over a huddle of small, boiled potatoes. Others argue that tartiflette â a mess of Reblochon, onions, potatoes and bacon â should take the crown. Should croute or fried Camembert get a look in?
CBS may have stolen its own show last night with the telecast of Super Bowl XLIV, thanks to a network promo that stole thunder from all the costly commercials sprinkled liberally through the game.
IPALA, GUATEMALA — Red-shirted mariachis stroll singing and strumming into the dusty yard of a whitewashed villa where roosters crow the dawn. The lyrics of their serenade compare a maiden’s beauty to the shine of the moon, as homemade fireworks explode in the lightening sky.
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The Who took the stage for the Super Bowl halftime show in Miami on Sunday, and delivered a solid if expected medley of classic rock hits.
Romantic drama Dear John has knocked sci-fi epic Avatar off the top spot in the North American box office chart.
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LOS ANGELES â Dr. Conrad Murray, who has been trying to surrender to authorities for a week, will likely get his chance with prosecutors saying they will file a charge Monday in the death of Michael Jackson.
A district attorney’s spokeswoman did not name the doctor nor say what the charge will be but Murray’s lawyers have said they expect a single charge of involuntary manslaughter against the man who administered an anesthetic to the singer before he died.
As the last person to see Jackson alive, Murray has been the focal point of a police investigation since Jackson died last June 25 at age 50. Murray acknowledged that he administered the hospital anesthetic propofol and other sedatives as Jackson, a chronic insomniac, struggled to sleep.
Murray had been hired as the performer’s personal physician as he prepared for a monumental comeback concert in London. The doctor was to have traveled with Jackson and had closed down his cardiology practices in Houston and Las Vegas to devote himself to Jackson full time.
The death of the pop superstar left the doctor’s life and medical practice in limbo. There was talk of a criminal case even before a coroner’s report found that Jackson’s death was a homicide and pinpointed propofol and other drugs as the cause.
On Friday, after a week of on-again, off-again reports that Murray would be charged, district attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said the office was delaying any action until Monday amid reports that police wanted to arrest and handcuff the doctor but his attorneys were negotiating to avoid that.
The drama of his surrender and subsequent arraignment was to be played out in front of news cameras, and Murray’s legal team wanted to avoid the spectacle of having the doctor seen in handcuffs by a large audience â including potential jurors for his trial.
One group that wants to see him in handcuffs is a contingent of Michael Jackson fans who launched a telephone campaign to the Los Angeles Police Department demanding as much. They threatened to hold a protest at the airport-area courthouse if Murray was allowed to surrender on his own.
The doctor maintains nothing he gave Jackson should have killed him. A trial would be expected to involve expert medical testimony on the use of propofol and whether there was gross negligence involved in its use at a private home. It is normally administered in hospital settings.
Murray’s lead defense lawyer, Ed Chernoff, has said the doctor is prepared for the legal battle ahead.
“We’ll make bail, we’ll plead not guilty and we’ll fight like hell,” said Chernoff.
..and thatâs why Iâm not allowed in the menâs room at work ever again.
Perhaps I shall back up.
I walked into the menâs room the other day to pee.
This in and of itself is not news, as I AM human.
Plus they donât let me pee at my desk anymore since the whole âruined the recycling binâ incident.
Whatever.
I stepped up to the urinal and prepared to release Mr. Wiggly.
I mean, um, THOR.
YES! I PREPARED TO UNLEASH THOR THE WONDER SNAKE!
Much more threatening.
Oooh! I have goosebumps! You?
Iâve digressed.
As I looked down into the urinalâŠI saw somethingâŠ
Different.
Amidst the normal little pink urinal cakes (FYI, pink is THE best flavor)âŠwere THESE:
(click to enlarge..the blurriness is my sucky fucking Verizon piece-of-shit-I-guess-you-get-what-you-pay-for-when-the-camera-is-free fucking camera phone)
There are nickel-sized, like, rocks or some shit in the urinals.
The fuck are these things?
I first start thinking that HOLY SHIT THESE ARE FUCKING KIDNEY STONES and now Iâm picturing some poor bastard who eats too much cheese saddling his fat ass up to the urinal and squeezing boulders out his urethra but then Iâm, like, âWell..I probably would have heard the guy screaming like it was his first night showering in prison or maybe the things PING PANG PWOOONNG! ricocheting off the porcelain or somethingâ so I went with guess number two:
GEMS.
YES! They are precious gemstones from the mythical land Urinasia brought by tiny little fairies that reek of the insides of nursing homes ESPECIALLY that creepy old lady that they stick in a chair at the end of the hall who keeps sticking her tongue out when you walk by and is just going âBLOO BLOO BLOO BLOOâ and youâre all like, âfuck this shit, I really hope I die before I end up turning into piss-stink-tongue-grandma.â
Fucking nursing homes.
Seriously. Put a fucking bullet in my head first, please.
Oh..Fairy Imported Urinasia Precious Urinal Gemstones.
Then I realized that I was about to piss myself because Iâd been standing there for ten minutes thinking of writing these stupid paragraphs, plus I didnât have one of those mining things to pan them out of there.
So I pissed on them instead.
When in RomeâŠum..pee on..uhâŠweird urinal rock things.
Then I put Mr. Wig..then I reeled in Thor the Wonder Snake, stood backâŠ
..and took those pictures you see above.
And it was on or around this EXACT moment in time that - even though Iâd been marveling at these kidney-piss fairy-gems in here for ten minutesâŠ
âŠthat someone walked in.
Our eyes meet.
And there I am.
Shitty fucking Verizon camera phone in hand.
Taking pictures of the inside of the urinals.
How. Awesome.
You knowâŠ
Shit like this wouldnât happen if theyâd just give me back my recycling bin at my desk.
I bet I could trade one of these gems for one.
I might not need this mining pan after all.
It’s been a very difficult week. I wish I could talk about it. Something about hashing things out here seems to make it better or at least, put it in perspective. But I can’t, so I won’t. I really resent it, though.
Tomorrow morning, I’m getting on a plane and heading off to Boston for a few days. The lovely woman who held my hair while I gagged and heaved and wished for death in a Moroccan backpackers’ hostel, who zipped around the tip tops of the Costa Rican jungle with me, and who taught me the meaning of Stupid & Fancy is getting married. I cannot wait.
The expected high in Boston is a balmy 37 degrees. I love her just that much.
One of the beautiful things about this wedding is that Jen is a New York friend, getting hitched in her hometown of Boston - which, happily, is also one of my old hometowns. This visit will be like the winner-winner-chicken-dinner of visits, lacking only a handful of beloved friends and the family element to make it perfect.
Speaking of Stupid & Fancy, on the advice of the Dork Lord, I’ll pulling out all the stops and wearing a really for real gown to this wedding. It kills me to see it collecting dust in my closet, and truly, there are not many Black Tie Optional events in my life, so I’m taking advantage of this one. Oh, crinoline, the twirling that will take place! Now, I had to up the Spanx quotient to fit into said gown, but Shhh. Let’s not ruin this fun with the truth.Â
Yay, the Super Bowl is this weekend, Ysolt says sarcastically. I’m not a big football fan, so I’ll likely not be tuning in. (Unless my boyfriend forces me to watch it with him, that is — my fingers are crossed.)
But if you are a football nut, I only have one plea: If you must paint your face, please do it in style. Not sure how to do that? Oh, it’s totally doable. I found a fabulous tutorial on StyleList.com. Whether you’re an Indianapolis Colts fan or a devout New Orleans Saints junkie, they have your bases covered. And the best part is, you’ll still look pretty!
Good luck!
–Ysolt
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These gruff, grizzled rock ânâ roll lifers gave it a good go as they chased past glories. At least Daltrey and Townshend werenât lip-synching as they struck poses amid the lasers and pyrotechnics. Townshend in shades and porkpie hat swung through windmill chords, Daltrey bellowed and blew through a harmonica solo, and drummer Zak Starkey (yes, Ringoâs son) wore a union-jack shirt for the occasion, evoking the bandâs earliest publicity photos from Britainâs Mod era.
Of course, back then Keith Moon was the bandâs drummer and John Entwistle its bassist. Both are long gone, and The Who has never really been the same since. No matter, Daltrey and Townshend keep pushing the brand and have licensed their music to countless advertisers to keep it alive. Their set list played like a compendium of TV commercials from the last decade as much as a classic-rock primer: snippets of âPinball Wizard,â âBaba OâRiley,â âWho Are You,â âSee Me, Feel Me,â and âWonât Get Fooled Again.â It all built up to the climactic, spleen-busting, technologically-enhanced Daltrey scream. Couldnât have said it better myself, Roger.
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The pregame performances — Queen Latifahâs gospelized take on âAmerica the Beautifulâ and Carrie Underwoodâs a capella âStar Spangled Bannerâ — both had a few duff notes, suggesting they werenât performed to backing tracks. In both instances, I found myself appreciating the powerhouse national anthems performed by Jim Cornelison at Blackhawks home games even more.
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A 14-year-old Doyle Redland began working at the Onion Radio News Office as an office page in 1963. After leaving to receive a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and a short lived job at CBS Evening news, he returned in 1974 to the Onion Radio News to become an anchor, where he has remained. Redland is fluent in two languages, enjoys cooking, and is an avid cross-country skier. He shares a home in Racine, Wisconsin with two black labs, Freedom and Liberty.