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Carole King to be honored with Obama-hosted show, Gershwin Prize
Carole King seems to have fans in high places: The singer-songwriter's life will be staged with an eye toward Broadway, and next week her oeuvre will be honored at the White House. Officials announced Friday that President Obama will host a star-studded...
Tags: Music Theater, Music Industry, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, PBS (tv network), Entertainment Events
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The men who would be Gatsby
Leonardo DiCaprio is one of a handful of actors who have portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tragic protagonist “The Great Gatsby” in film and TV over the last 87 years. Warner Baxter, who won the best actor Oscar as the Cisco Kid in the...
Tags: Truman Capote, Toby Stephens, ABC (tv network), The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013), Macdonald Carey
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reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker
FrameworkAnne Wilkes Tucker is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she has worked since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the museum that now has a collection of over 28,000... -
Frank Capra's 'The Donovan Affair' gets a live soundtrack
Frank Capra is best known for the three films for which he won the directing Oscar — 1934's "It Happened One Night," 1936's "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" and 1938's "You Can't Take It With You" — and the ultimate Christmas flick, 1946's "It's a...
Tags: Frank Capra, Movies, Entertainment Events, It's a Wonderful Life (movie), Entertainment
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How to make the most of a trip to the nation's capital
A spring break in the nation's capital is a rite of passage for some families, but if the airfare from the West Coast to the East has stretched your vacation budget, take heart. Many places are free, thanks to government funding (although the sequester...
Tags: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, U.S. Congress, Human Interest, Tourism and Leisure, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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Fay Kanin dies at 95; screenwriter was former Academy president
Fay Kanin, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the 1958 Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy "Teacher's Pet" and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday. She was 95. In a writing career that spanned more than four...
Tags: James Stewart, Charles Vidor, Lung Cancer, Celebrities, Doris Day
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2012 National Recording Registry selections unveiled
This post has been updated. See note below for details. Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” is no longer just the rock album that has logged more weeks than any other on Billboard’s national album chart nor merely the one acid...
Tags: Chubby Checker, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michelle Shocked, Bee Gees (music group), Janis Joplin
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Review: 'Oz the Great and Powerful' a rough slog on the yellow brick road
Sometimes sweet, sometimes scary, sometimes sour, "Oz the Great and Powerful" is a film that doesn't know its own mind. A partially effective jumble whose elements clash rather than cohere, this solid but not spectacular effort stubbornly refuses to catch...
Tags: James Franco, Entertainment Events, Mila Kunis, Harry Houdini, Joey King
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Great and powerful? Recalling the original ‘Wizard of Oz’ [Photos]
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times“The Wizard of Oz” is one of the most beloved movies of all time, so it's a bold move to ...... -
California lawmaker to present bill revoking cellphone unlocking ban
California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) said Wednesday that she plans to introduce a bill that would lift the ban on consumers unlocking their cellphones. "The ban on unlocking cellphones puts consumers in the back seat when it comes to...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Consumers, Anna Eshoo
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White House: Consumers should be able to unlock smartphones
The White House said Monday that consumers should be able to unlock their smartphones, and that it would support legislation to make such adjustments legal. The Obama administration said consumers deserve the flexibility to unlock their smartphones as...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Federal Communications Commission, U.S. Congress, Consumers, Marketing
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Proponents of cellphone unlocking ask the White House for help
Proponents of cellphone unlocking are trying to gain the White House's support through a petition drive, but they face a couple of non-trivial hurdles. First, they have until Saturday to reach 100,000 signatures — the new threshold the Obama...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Justice System
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