Berlusconi Splits With a Coalition Ally The New York Times | ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi split with one of his major allies, Gianfranco Fini, on Thursday night, weakening Italy’s governing coalition and raising the possibility of early elections. | Mr. Berlusconi said at a news conference Thursday that Mr. Fini’s positions were...
Disney to sell Miramax for more than $660 mln The Guardian * Tutor/Colony team to buy Miramax * Deal includes rights to more than 700 film titles * Agreement caps months of stop-and-go talks * Focus on library; no current production plans - source (Add more background, NEW YORK dateline, additional byline, share price) By Susan Zeidler and Megan Davies LOS ...
True confessions in new women's lit The Guardian | Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City columns inspired some dire chick lit, but also a generation of more serious young writers Emily Gould and Meghan Daum, photographed by Nadya Wasylko in New York. | Emily Gould still finds it irritating when she g...
Tom Jones: He's actually quite unusual The Guardian | Set to go into the record books today with a No 1 hit in a whole new genre, the veteran singer once again displays his astounding ability to reinvent himself | A few weeks ago Sir Tom Jones was flying back to London from Dean Martin's old Bel Air h...
Axing of Film Council raises key questions about arts funding The Guardian | The abolition of quangos amid sweeping government cuts has serious ramifications for financing of the arts Forest Whitaker starred as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, a Film Council hit directed by Kevin Macdonald. Photograph: Allstar/20 Cent...
Look back in anger: Why the comic writer Richard Russo is haunted by his home town The Independent | When Richard Russo was a child, his father called him by the pet name "strunz". The word was a rare signal of his Italian heritage: before emigrating to upstate New York, Russo's paternal grandparents lived near Rome. | "Years later," he says. "I w...
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Mark Wahlberg gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Herald Tribune | LOS ANGELES - Rapper-turned-underwear model-turned-Oscar-nominated actor Mark Wahlberg has been enshrined in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. | The 39-year-old actor was presented wit...
Hilton gives away clothes after wearing them once m&c | Paris Hilton’s friends end up with a LOT of her clothes because the socialite does not wear the same ensemble twice. | Arrivals at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, Gibson Amphith...
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Award winning opera stars sing for Sarah Lilli Scoop Thursday, 29 July 2010, 5:30 pm | Press Release: Barnardos | Award winning opera stars sing for Sarah Lilli | Sarah Lilli Family Concert | Saturday 21st August, Queen Margaret Coll...
Single mom movies that inspire, part 2 The Examiner | | Here is the second list of movies featuring single mother households. As previously stated in Single Mom Movies that Inspire, Part 1, when it comes to finding movies that feature single-parent households, there aren't a lot of o...
Serbian film 'Tilva Ros' wins Sarajevo festival Breitbart | Serbian drama "Tilva Ros" won the best film award at the 16th Sarajevo Film... | Serbian drama "Tilva Ros" won the best film award at the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival, the Balkan region's biggest such competition, organisers said on Saturday. | The ...
Endless summer: Mike Love on why Beach Boys music has outlasted so many others National Post By Ted Shaw, Postmedia News July 30, 2010 Mike Love's only vice these days is an ice-cream shake. | Photograph by: Bruce Stotesbury / Postmedia News, National Post | He meditates every day and keeps trim at age 69 by watching his diet carefully. | But the Beach Boys’ Mike Love has one adolescent weakness: milk shakes. | “I will su...
