.cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:’>>’;font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px} .cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0} .captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1} .cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:#004276;outline:medium none} .cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px} ]]> If you’re sick of your 2013 playlists, we’re here to help. Consider this your guide to some of 2014’s “don’t miss” offerings, starting…
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LaBeouf admitted last month he borrowed Daniel Clowes’ story for his short film Apology tweets included words “embarrassed,” “regret,” “terribly wrong,” “deeply sorry” LaBeouf’s tweets began mocking critics whose online attacks continue “I wish I hadn’t made so many of…
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.cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:’>>’;font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px} .cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0} .captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1} .cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:#004276;outline:medium none} .cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px} ]]> Sue Monk Kidd, the author of runaway best-seller “The Secret Life of Bees,” is already well on her way to notching another hit….
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Peter Jackson’s second installment in the “Hobbit” trilogy is being heralded as one of the year’s biggest box-office success stories, but it turns out movie theaters aren’t the only arena in which the Middle-earth films are popular. The first “Hobbit”…
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LONDON (AP) — Honor, She Got. Hollywood star Angela Lansbury, best known as the clue-collecting super-sleuth in the television series “Murder, She Wrote,” has been made a Dame of the British Empire. The 88-year-old actress was one of more than…
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Today marks the 105th anniversary of J.D. Salinger’s birth. The famously reclusive author, known for penning The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey, has been in the spotlight more than he probably would have liked this year, due…
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James Avery, seen here at the 2005 BET Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, has died at the age of 65. Avery starred as Uncle Phil on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” Co-star Alfonso Ribeiro tweeted the news of…
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Spider-Man swung through New York City on Tuesday, with fresh footage from the forthcoming comic-book sequel broadcast on Times Square’s billboards during New Year’s Eve festivities. Stan Lee, who co-created the web-spinning superhero, introduced the teaser, which features a battle…
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — As festive floats marched down this Southern California city’s streets in the 125th Rose Parade on New Year’s Day, a heavy police presence ringed the revelry in the aftermath of tragedy at another high-profile event. Spectators,…
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Fans can’t wait to see what happens next for “The Big Bang Theory’s” Amy and Sheldon, played by Mayim Bialik and Jim Parsons. Here is a primer on the characters of the show. Simon Helberg plays Howard Wolowitz, an aerospace…
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The year will be filled with Transformers and superheroes, biblical figures and Jersey Boys. We can’t fit all of them here, but here are a few to look out for — such as George Clooney’s newest film, “Monuments Men.” It’s…
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Lillo Brancato Jr. at the Skylight Studios in New York City, New York in 2005. Actor Lillo Brancato Jr. was released from prison Tuesday The former “Sopranos” actor served nearly 10 years for a botched burglary He’s also appeared in…
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In My Friendship with Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal: How They Buried the Hatchet (Amazon Kindle), I explain how I convinced both men to sit down for a joint interview. At this time Gore was promoting his book, Hollywood, an…
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