NEW YORK (AP) — It’s hats on for Kate Winslet. The Academy Award-winning actress has a deal for “The Golden Hat,†a concept book meant to raise awareness about autism. It’s inspired by a poem, also called the “Golden Hat,†in which a hat enables an autistic child to communicate. The poem was written by [...]
AP Entertainment Writer For even Zack Snyder, this is some nonsense. The director of “300†and “Watchmen†has temporarily abandoned comic books as source material, if not inspiration. “Sucker Punch†is based on Snyder’s own concept and written by him and Steve Shibuya, but retains Snyder’s hyper-stylized violence and thoroughly adolescent sense of reality. The [...]
AP Drama Writer NEW YORK — Helen Stenborg, a Tony-nominated stage, film and TV actress who was the wife of the late Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes and mother of the Tony Award-winning director Doug Hughes, died Tuesday. She was 86. Stenborg, who earned a Tony nomination for her 1999 role as pyromaniac Sarita Myrtle [...]
Associated Press NEW YORK — Did he or didn’t he? If you like a touch of Shakespearean mystery in your drama, check out “Double Falsehood,†a play of murky historical origin about betrayal, star-crossed lovers and hidden identities. The flowery language of the play is so accessible, in the charming production that opened Tuesday night [...]
Go online today and buy a book or DVD from an independent California-based seller on Barnesandnoble.com and you will pay a bit of sales tax. Buy the same book from Amazon.com and you won’t. Similarly, buy a jacket from Landsend.com and you’ll pay sales tax. Go to eBay and buy the identical item and chances [...]
For a few minutes each spring, government employee Rob DeFeo is the most carefully listened to person in Washington, D.C. DeFeo is the National Park Service’s chief horticulturalist and early this month, in the elaborate confines of the Newseum, he made his annual prediction: The city’s famed cherry blossoms would be at peak bloom between [...]
Lately there has been a lot of talk about stopping financial aid to our friend Israel. This is no big secret — most recently Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has climbed aboard the bandwagon — but is that a good idea? Now looking at it logically from a viewpoint of an American citizen raised on [...]
It was a time of uplift and uprisings. Yearning to be free of despots, find opportunity and have a voice in their own affairs in distinct places across a vast region, inspirited people rebelled, both a rising middle class and poor workers. Bad times had helped instigate their fury, which was further directed by a [...]
AP Business Writer TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s biggest automaker, said Thursday it expects to halt production at some of its factories in North America due to shortages of parts from Japan following a devastating earthquake. Toyota’s move adds to the spreading economic damage from the magnitude-9.0 quake and tsunami on March 11 [...]
AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES — “American Idol†finalist Naima Adedapo was on the move. The funky 26-year-old dance instructor from Milwaukee injected African dance choreography into her lively rendition of Martha and the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Street†during the Fox talent competition’s Motown-themed performance edition Wednesday. “Idol†judge Jennifer Lopez told Adedapo that [...]
Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Over two million people will contract a form of tuberculosis by 2015 that is difficult to treat, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands worldwide will die from multi-drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis during that period unless greater efforts are made to properly diagnose all patients and provide them [...]
Associated Press NEW YORK — From the White House to the Schein house, Passover is good to the last drop thanks to the Maxwell House Haggadah, lovingly passed down through generations, red wine splotches and gravy smears marking nearly 80 years of service at American Seder tables. The coffee company’s version of the text used [...]
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