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Man who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter sentenced to 30 months in prison
Posted 03/15/2010 2:39 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) Man who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter sentenced to 30 months in prison.
'Alice in Wonderland' keeps hopping with $62.7M
Posted 03/15/2010 2:21 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" still reigns at the box office, pulling in $62.7 million in its second weekend and becoming the first film released in 2010 to top the $200 million mark.
Newcomers opened weakly, led by Matt Damon's Iraq War thriller "Green Zone," which opened at No. 2 with $14.3 million.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gros… Click to Read More
Sony boss asks theater owners for healthier snacks
Posted 03/15/2010 1:53 PM
LAS VEGAS (AP) The head of Sony Pictures has suggested that movie theaters offer healthier snacks to help fight obesity and give audiences a broader range of food choices.
Michael Lynton told theater owners at their annual ShoWest convention Monday that a survey by the studio found that two-thirds of movie-goers said they would be likely to buy healthy concessions if available.
The chairman and chief executive officer for Sony says the survey al… Click to Read More
No prison for ex-jailer in Girls Gone Wild case
Posted 03/15/2010 1:44 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) A former sheriff's employee in Nevada will serve no prison time after admitting her part in a bribery scheme to give special treatment to Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis while he was jailed in Reno on tax charges.
U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks sentenced Mary Boxx Monday to 100 hours of community service, three years probation and a $1,680 fine for accepting a gratuity as a public official.
The maximum possible penalty was t… Click to Read More
Baldacci says he has 'enriched' e-book on the way
Posted 03/15/2010 1:01 PM
NEW YORK (AP) David Baldacci is ready for e-book immersion.
His next thriller, "Deliver Us from Evil," comes out April 20 as a hardcover, an e-book, and in an "enriched" electronic version which will include passages deleted from the final text, research photos, an audio interview and video footage of Baldacci at work.
"I have a pretty cool office, if I do say so myself," the author told The Associated Press during a telephone interview Monday f… Click to Read More
Top art heist rattles investigators 20 years on
Posted 03/15/2010 12:09 PM
BOSTON (AP) Investigators of a 20-year-old art heist at a Boston museum that was the largest such theft in history are stepping up their efforts.
Leaders of the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum say they're renewing their push to recover the works. They're seeking new DNA analysis and publicizing the museum's $5 million, no-questions-asked reward.
In the early hours of March, 18, 1990, two thieves walked into the museum disguised as Boston police.… Click to Read More
Judge grants Evans temporary injunction against ex
Posted 03/15/2010 12:04 PM
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) A judge has ordered a temporary injunction against the ex-husband of country singer Sara Evans.
Monday's ruling prevents Craig Schelske (SHEL-skee) from making any more public statements about his ex-wife or the reasons behind their 2007 divorce.
Evans received a temporary restraining order last month after Schelske made comments about their divorce while testifying about a possible new law in front of the Tennessee Legislat… Click to Read More
British actress Kate Winslet splits from husband
Posted 03/15/2010 10:47 AM
LONDON (AP) Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has split from her film director husband Sam Mendes, a British law firm said Monday.
The 34-year-old star separated from Mendes at an unspecified point earlier this year, Shillings law firm said. It wasn't clear whether divorce proceedings have begun. The pair have been married since 2003 and have two children.
In a statement e-mailed to journalists, the law firm said the split was "entirely amicabl… Click to Read More
ABBA, Genesis ready for induction to Rock Hall
Posted 03/15/2010 8:43 AM
NEW YORK (AP) Some musical acts that thrived in second lives are joining the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
ABBA, Genesis and The Hollies will be inducted Monday at the annual ceremony at New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel. They'll be joined by the Stooges and reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff.
The four-member Swedish hit machine ABBA split up in 1982 after producing including "Dancing Queen" and "Waterloo." The band never reformed, but the Broadway and m… Click to Read More
Farrell, Duvall bring films to Tribeca Film Fest
Posted 03/15/2010 8:21 AM
NEW YORK (AP) Colin Farrell and Robert Duvall are among those bringing films to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
The annual festival announced the bulk of its lineup Monday.
Making its U.S. premiere will be Neil Jordan's "Ondine," starring Colin Farrell as a fisherman who reels in a mermaid. Duvall stars in "Get Low," a folk tale set in Tennessee in the 1930s.
Other selections include documentaries about comedian Joan… Click to Read More
Filmmaker Tim Burton gets French cultural honor
Posted 03/15/2010 7:45 AM
PARIS (AP) American movie director Tim Burton has been inducted into France's cultural honor roll in a Paris ceremony.
Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand made the director of such films as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Edward Scissorhands" an officer in France's National Order of Arts and Letters.
Burton, wearing a dark suit and his trademark fuzzy hairdo, says he has always loved France and felt a special connection with the French public.
… Click to Read MorePolanski's wife says their worst moments are over
Posted 03/15/2010 6:24 AM
WARSAW, Poland (AP) The wife of Roman Polanski says she believes the 32-year-old sexual abuse case against her husband will be finished soon.
French actress and singer Emmanuelle Seigner, 43, is to appear in a TVN24 interview in Poland on Monday and the station ran some clips before its broadcast.
The 76-year-old Polanski was arrested in September on a U.S. arrest warrant and is under house arrest in the couple's house in Gstaad, Switzerland, pe… Click to Read More
Sheen returning to Aspen in domestic violence case
Posted 03/15/2010 2:15 AM
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) Actor Charlie Sheen is returning to court in Aspen on domestic violence charges stemming from a Christmas Day dispute with his wife.
An arraignment is scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Sheen is accused of putting a knife to the throat of Brooke Mueller Sheen while they vacationed in Aspen. He has denied the allegations. He faces charges of menacing, criminal mischief and assault.
Sheen is the star of "Two an… Click to Read More
Sheen pleads not guilty in domestic violence case
Posted 03/15/2010 2:19 PM
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) Actor Charlie Sheen has pleaded not guilty in Colorado to domestic violence charges stemming from a Christmas Day incident with his wife.
Sheen entered his plea Monday to counts of menacing, criminal mischief and assault. A trial is scheduled July 21.
The star of "Two and a Half Men" on CBS is accused of putting a knife to the throat of Brooke Mueller Sheen while they vacationed in Aspen.
The maximum penal… Click to Read More
ESPN's Erin Andrews' stalker to get sentence in LA
Posted 03/15/2010 4:03 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) The man convicted of stalking ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shooting nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole facing sentencing in a Los Angeles courtroom.
Michael Barrett, a 48-year-old Chicago-area insurance executive, has pleaded guilty to interstate stalking and agreed to a 27-month prison sentence.
Andrews is expected to address the court and talk to reporters after the Monday hearing.
Her att… Click to Read More
ESPN reporter's stalker gets 2 years in prison
Posted 03/15/2010 3:54 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) An Illinois insurance executive who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was sentenced Monday to 2 years in prison before giving a tearful apology that was harshly rebuked by his victim.
Michael David Barrett pleaded guilty in December to interstate stalking after prosecutors accused him of following the reporter to at least three cities and shooting the videos through hotel peepholes.
Barrett, 48, of suburb… Click to Read More
Survey: Readers don't want to pay for news online
Posted 03/14/2010 9:03 PM
NEW YORK (AP) A new consumer survey suggests that getting people to pay for news online at this point would be "like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons."
That's one of several bleak headlines in the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual assessment of the state of the news industry, released Sunday.
About 35 percent of online news consumers say they have a favorite site that they check each day. There's little brand loyal… Click to Read More
'Celebrity Apprentice' begins with a 1st firing
Posted 03/14/2010 8:53 PM
NEW YORK (AP) Writer-comedian Carol Leifer (LEEF'-ur) is the first person to go as NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" starts a new season.
Leifer called her fellow female teammates "dumb" on Sunday's premiere. She was deemed the weak link in their initial project: to make more money from a startup diner than their rival team of seven men.
Rock-star wife Sharon Osbourne, singer Cyndi Lauper and actress Holly Robinson Peete are among the women. Next wee… Click to Read More
Penn spends serious time helping post-quake Haiti
Posted 03/15/2010 4:05 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Look closely at the foreigners buzzing around a hospital tent above one of Haiti's biggest earthquake-refugee camps and a face stands out: There, carrying the box of supplies, that's Sean Penn.
Now he's guiding a Haitian girl to waiting doctors. Now he's lobbying the chief of U.N. peacekeeping operations to provide better security for the camp's 45,000 people. And now he's talking to the press.
"These people are going … Click to Read More
'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves dies in LA
Posted 03/14/2010 6:35 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) Peter Graves, star of the television series "Mission Impossible" and the "Airplane" films, has died.
Graves' publicist, Sandy Brokaw, says the actor died Sunday shortly after returning to his Los Angeles home from brunch with his family. He was 83.
Graves was best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-running television series "Mission: Impossible."Click to Read More
It's Tallulah, Dahling, through Harper on Broadway
Posted 03/14/2010 5:08 PM
NEW YORK (AP) Wearing a full-length fur coat, a long blue scarf, a chic violet dress and sunglasses, she staggers into a recording studio. Four-letter words fly. And so do the laughs. But then, what did you expect?
Tallulah Bankhead always knew how to make an entrance. And so does Valerie Harper, who plays the flamboyant actress in "Looped," a fictional recreation of one of Bankhead's less celebrated moments the re-recording of some botched dialogue from her last… Click to Read More
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann's dad dies in NYC at 80
Posted 03/14/2010 4:10 PM
NEW YORK (AP) The father of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has died in New York City at age 80.
Theodore C. Olbermann was thrust into the nation's health care debate through commentaries made by his son on television.
Keith Olbermann says the former architect died Saturday of complications from colon surgery.
Theodore Olbermann's wife of nearly 60 years, Marie Olbermann, died last year.
Keith Olbermann had… Click to Read More
History channel offering series to schools
Posted 03/14/2010 3:37 PM
NEW YORK (AP) The History channel says it will give a free DVD copy of its new 12-hour series on American history to every school in the country that wants one.
The 12-part series premieres April 25. The network will mail posters, a teacher's guide and family viewing guide to 35,000 high schools and middle schools before that.
The series and educational outreach is the most expensive project in the network's history, although its executives won'… Click to Read More
History channel offering series to schools
Posted 03/14/2010 4:03 PM
NEW YORK (AP) The History channel says it will give a free DVD copy of its sprawling 12-hour series on American history to any school in the country that wants one.
The network is launching a broad educational outreach to accompany "America The Story of Us," which premieres April 25. Before the series starts, it will mail posters, a teacher's guide and family viewing guide to 35,000 high schools and middle schools.
"America The Story of Us" is t… Click to Read More
Bolivia drops bid to host Miss Universe contest
Posted 03/15/2010 4:07 AM
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) Bolivia is dropping its bid to host the Miss Universe pageant because it would cost more than anticipated.
President Evo Morales has lobbied foreign leaders to help him bring the glamorous contest to the impoverished South American nation.
But Culture Minister Zulma Yugar said Sunday that a closer look at estimated expenses forced the government to pull out.
Developing countries including Vietnam and Th… Click to Read More
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