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Arts & Entertainment | 140 hits | 12:46 AM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in films, on television and on Broadway in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," has died at age 81.

Arts & Entertainment | 220 hits | 8:54 AM on Friday | posted by Scape

The newspaper chain that delivers scantily clad women to family doorsteps across Canada is shocked that mature content is available on the Internet. But that shock only applies if the source is nominally the taxpayer-funded CBC.

Arts & Entertainment | 222 hits | 5:54 AM on Wednesday | posted by stemmer

A tell-all memoir by a bisexual man who ran a prostitution ring in Hollywood from the 1940s until the advent of AIDS details the sexual proclivities of some of filmdom’s greatest legends.

Arts & Entertainment | 148 hits | 7:32 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

Members of Monty Python's Flying Circus are reuniting for another film. The movie “Absolutely Anything” will be a science fiction farce that includes both live action and CGI.

Arts & Entertainment | 148 hits | 7:17 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

Ottawa residents will get a chance to sit down with one of sixty human books available to sign out at locations across the city on Saturday.

Arts & Entertainment | 112 hits | 6:01 PM on Friday | posted by Robht

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM. COM Longtime host of “Wheel of Fortune” Pat Sajak said that stories about game shows during their dinner breaks are tales of legend.

Arts & Entertainment | 122 hits | 8:58 AM on Friday | posted by Scape

Etta James, the singer who made “At Last” a classic and became one of the last survivors from early rock ‘n’ roll’s pantheon of soaring divas, died Friday at her home in Riverside, Calif., her manager said. She was 72.

Arts & Entertainment | 71 hits | 12:15 PM on Tuesday | posted by BluesBud

Ottawa's MonkeyJunk and New Brunswick’s Matt Andersen honored with multiple awards.

Arts & Entertainment | 189 hits | 9:07 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

A conductor with the New York Philharmonic halted a performance due to a ringing cellphone, a rare occurrence that has sparked much talk about proper phone protocol.

Arts & Entertainment | 176 hits | 5:38 PM on Thursday | posted by Strutz

As a guitar-maker for the stars, Ed Roman found a platform for fierce opinions about his commercially manufactured competition, exhorting musicians to drop what he called "misdirected ignorant brand loyalty."

Arts & Entertainment | 213 hits | 11:49 AM on Tuesday | posted by Newfy

Read 'Military Wives outselling Little Mix for Christmas number one, Simon Cowell concedes defeat' from our blog 110% pop on Yahoo! omg! UK. The Military Wives are all but certain to be Christmas number one this year, after outselling X Factor winners Lit

Arts & Entertainment | 204 hits | 6:20 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

It's almost winter, but get ready for some surf and sun: The Beach Boys are reuniting. The Beach Boys first concert is scheduled for April 27 at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Arts & Entertainment | 226 hits | 4:53 PM on Monday | posted by kitty

Can-con icons Blue Rodeo will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the 2012 Juno Awards, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced Monday. “I’m sure many Canadians feel just like I do ... that Blue Rodeo has been

Arts & Entertainment | 161 hits | 4:36 PM on Wednesday | posted by Strutz

Dobie Gray, a smooth balladeer who recorded the timeless hit "Drift Away" in 1973, is dead at age 69.

Arts & Entertainment | 317 hits | 10:55 AM on Wednesday | posted by Strutz

A stunt for the TV show "MythBusters" sent an errant cannonball through a California family's house and into a parked minivan a few hundred feet away.

Arts & Entertainment | 194 hits | 10:47 AM on Wednesday | posted by Strutz

Emmy-winning character actor Harry Morgan, whose portrayal of the fatherly Col. Potter on "MASH" highlighted a career that included nine other series, died Wednesday. He was 96.

Arts & Entertainment | 449 hits | 11:14 AM on Sunday | posted by kitty

A Pakistani actress who posed in the nude for an Indian magazine with the initials of Pakistan’s feared and powerful intelligence agency on her arm has triggered fury across this conservative nation.

Arts & Entertainment | 302 hits | 8:34 PM on Thursday | posted by kitty

“Confessions of a 29-year-old virgin.” That’s the title of the emotionally revealing blog of four virgins from British Columbia’s Fraser Valley who are looking for some good men for marriage and “holy” sex

Arts & Entertainment | 177 hits | 4:54 AM on Thursday | posted by stemmer

Playing violent video games produces changes in areas of the brain that help control emotions at for at least a week, new research suggests.

Arts & Entertainment | 174 hits | 4:44 AM on Thursday | posted by stemmer

A copy of the first issue of Action Comics, featuring Superman's debut, becomes the world's most expensive comic, fetching $2.16m (£1.4m).

Arts & Entertainment | 388 hits | 8:08 PM on Wednesday | posted by Scape

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabeï¿½s youth militia has seen the South African restaurant chain Nandoï¿½s new ï¿½last dictator standingï¿½ ad, and they are not amused

Arts & Entertainment | 205 hits | 9:43 PM on Wednesday | posted by Strutz

It's our theory that everyone can probably recognize a little bit of themselves in one of the Muppets - be it in the bold personality of Miss Piggy or the wild, hedonistic drives of Animal. In that spirit, we offer up character profiles of eight of th

Arts & Entertainment | 287 hits | 4:38 PM on Tuesday | posted by kitty

It may not diminish your blinding hatred, but if nothing else you can now block Nickelback from creeping into your online browsing.

Arts & Entertainment | 282 hits | 4:30 PM on Tuesday | posted by kitty

Iona Cockburn was born on Monday in San Francisco.

Arts & Entertainment | 187 hits | 8:40 PM on Wednesday | posted by Gunnair

The Benetton clothing company has withdrawn an ad showing Pope Benedict XVI kissing a top Egyptian imam on the lips after the Vatican denounced it as an unacceptable provocation.

Arts & Entertainment | 207 hits | 7:16 PM on Tuesday | posted by Alta_redneck

The special, which will be hosted by comedian Russell Peters, will deliver “an irreverent twist on the Christmas special making it unlike anything viewers have seen before.” No kidding. What, Ron Jeremy wasn’t available to play Joseph?

Arts & Entertainment | 190 hits | 4:04 PM on Wednesday | posted by Strutz

Bil Keane, the cartoonist whose "Family Circus" mixed humour with traditional family values, entertaining readers for nearly a half-century, died Tuesday. He was 89.

Arts & Entertainment | 204 hits | 9:45 AM on Saturday | posted by Regina

Rooney died only a month after leaving 60 Minutes; had gone to hospital for surgery

Arts & Entertainment | 321 hits | 7:58 AM on Wednesday | posted by stemmer

Canadian teen pop sensation Justin Bieber is reportedly facing a paternity lawsuit in California that accuses him of impregnating a fan after a brief sexual encounter backstage.

Arts & Entertainment | 251 hits | 1:41 PM on Monday | posted by Regina

Marriage to basketball player lasted only 72 days

Arts & Entertainment | 339 hits | 6:43 AM on Wednesday | posted by Regina

Singer, who had fought drug and alcohol problems for years, was found dead on July 23

Arts & Entertainment | 297 hits | 6:30 AM on Tuesday | posted by ShepherdsDog

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford called police after a crew from CBC's satirical show This Hour Has 22 Minutes showed up unexpectedly outside his house to interview him.

Arts & Entertainment | 248 hits | 8:15 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

NEW YORK — Fans of "The Simpsons" can breathe a "d'oh!" of relief: The animated series was renewed Friday for two more seasons. A contract dispute with the show's voice cast had threatened to end the series, but Fox announced it will air through seasons 2

Arts & Entertainment | 426 hits | 9:01 AM on Tuesday | posted by Scape

Difficult bargaining is nothing new for the show, which was created by James L. Brooks and Matt Groening. Fox studio execs have occasionally threatened to replace uncooperative cast members with sound-alike actors. But for the first time in nearly a quart

Arts & Entertainment | 285 hits | 8:45 AM on Tuesday | posted by Scape

“Are you ready for some football?” That question has greeted "Monday Night Football" viewers for some 20 years, but as of Monday it has been retired. ESPN decided on Monday to remove “All My Rowdy Friends,” Hank Williams Jr.’s iconic theme song for “Mo

Arts & Entertainment | 390 hits | 10:48 PM on Monday | posted by Regina

Leonard Nimoy has attended his final Star Trek convention.

Arts & Entertainment | 281 hits | 6:23 AM on Thursday | posted by Regina

Andy Rooney, the curmudgeonly "60 Minutes" contributor who once said he would only leave the show if he "dropped dead," will announce the end of his regular appearances on Sunday's edition of the CBS newsmagazine.

Arts & Entertainment | 216 hits | 1:07 PM on Thursday | posted by canuckns

In 1980, in the pre-Internet, pre-download days when R.E.M. formed in Athens, Georgia, there was no alternative. There was no Americana. There was no grunge.

Arts & Entertainment | 277 hits | 1:08 PM on Sunday | posted by Scape

The Russian billionaire owner of the UK's Evening Standard and the Independent has attacked a fellow tycoon on national TV.

Arts & Entertainment | 270 hits | 11:19 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

Henry Winkler, who played the supercool Arthur Fonzarelli in Happy Days, has been made a member of the Order of the British Empire for his educational work on dyslexia.

Arts & Entertainment | 360 hits | 7:03 AM on Thursday | posted by raydan

On any given night, about 50% of the city's exotic dancers on the job are fresh-faced college or university students who are shedding their clothes to earn degrees, industry officials say.

Arts & Entertainment | 339 hits | 2:26 PM on Wednesday | posted by Guy_Fawkes

Television medical expert, Dr. Mehmet Oz, is embroiled in a sticky dispute with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about arsenic and whether dangerous levels of the toxin can be found in some popular brands of apple juice.

Arts & Entertainment | 371 hits | 9:16 AM on Monday | posted by Scape

Actor died in Sydney on Sunday after battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Arts & Entertainment | 248 hits | 11:09 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Cliff Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in PT-109, won an Oscar for Charly and was famously victimized in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, died Saturday. He was 88.

Arts & Entertainment | 219 hits | 9:17 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

The CBC's Rick Mercer Report has been named best comedy, while international co-production The Borgias has won for best drama at the 26th annual Gemini Awards.

Arts & Entertainment | 242 hits | 4:28 PM on Thursday | posted by Strutz

"Dancing With the Stars" executive producer Conrad Green says despite controversy over the casting of its first transgender contestant, "Dancing" remains a family show and viewers should check out the new season before passing judgment.

Arts & Entertainment | 266 hits | 6:53 PM on Wednesday | posted by Strutz

Ed O'Neill's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is appropriately placed: in front of a DSW shoe store on Hollywood Boulevard.

Arts & Entertainment | 329 hits | 10:33 AM on Wednesday | posted by Strutz

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council says it should be up to individual radio stations to decide whether they want to play unedited versions of Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing."

Arts & Entertainment | 308 hits | 7:40 PM on Monday | posted by Brenda

NEW YORK (AP) – Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, has died at age 70.

Arts & Entertainment | 363 hits | 9:07 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

A Nova Scotia man has set up a live webcam inside a lobster trap, and it's drawing tens of thousands of curious viewers a day.

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