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CBS will premiere 4 new comedies in the fall, including 1 with Robin Williams
NEW YORK, N.Y. – CBS on Wednesday revealed a few nips and tucks it is planning next season for what is already network television’s most successful schedule, including adding a comedy with Robin Williams playing an unorthodox advertising executive with Sarah Michelle Gellar as his daughter. It will move “Person of Interest” to Tuesdays, pairing
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Preview: Molson Canadian Amphitheatre summer concert series
The music lineup for Toronto’s Molson Canadian Amphitheatre summer concert series has been announced. Music reporter Rudy Blair spoke with Live Nation Canada’s president Riley O’Connor about it.
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A stormy Cannes gets underway with ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Steven Spielberg
CANNES, France – The Cannes Film Festival got off to a blockbuster, if stormy start, as Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” opened on a soggy French Riviera. Amid heavy rain, dancing flappers flocked down the Cannes red carpet Wednesday night, bringing a touch of the Jazz Age to the Croisette. “Gatsby” stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey
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Seattle man dribbling soccer ball to Brazil killed by car on Oregon Coast
A Seattle man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup died Tuesday after being hit by a pickup truck on the Oregon Coast. Police in Lincoln City, Ore., said 42-year-old Richard Swanson was hit at about 10 a.m. while walking south along U.S. Highway 101
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Once the girl with the Billy Bob tattoo, Jolie now inspires with mastectomy revelation
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – In her bad girl days, Angelina Jolie’s body was a billboard for tattoos that said such things as “Billy Bob.” Now she’s sharing intimate details of her anatomy to help women at risk, going public with her preventive double mastectomy to greatly reduce her high odds of breast cancer. It’s the
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With sterling third record, Vampire Weekend glad the focus is back on music
TORONTO – When Vampire Weekend debuted to breathless blog fussing five years ago, their pristine blue-sky pop was marred by a few pesky clouds. The concern that was so crucial to any Vampire Weekend discussion at the time: was their unique, broadly accessible African-influenced pop somehow rendered unpalatable by the group’s preppy style, Ivy League
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John Cho gunning for Sulu to get his own ship in future ‘Star Trek’ film
TORONTO – Now that he has a taste for the captain’s chair, “Star Trek Into Darkness” cast member John Cho is setting his sights his own star ship. In the J.J. Abrams-directed 3-D sci-fi adventure opening Thursday, Lt. Hikaru Sulu (Cho) gets to sit in the cushy command spot as the Enterprise embarks on a
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Drake leads BET Awards with 12 nominations; Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz score 8 each
NEW YORK, N.Y. – He started from the bottom, but now he’s on top at the BET Awards: Drake has 12 nominations. BET announced the nominees Tuesday. Rappers Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz are up for eight awards each. Drake is nominated three times for the top prize, video of the year. His hit, “Started
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Hit single “Northern Touch” still notorious 15 years after tearing up charts
TORONTO – The chorus of one of Canada’s most famous rap songs almost didn’t happen. As Toronto’s Choclair, Thrust and Kardinal Offishall put the finishing touches on the highly popular single “Northern Touch” in the summer of 1997, Offishall struggled with constant sneezing. “I think this might have been the first year that I actually
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For “Great Gatsby” director Baz Luhrmann, the Cannes Film Festival is birthplace of his talent
CANNES, France – Baz Luhrmann might never have gone on to direct “The Great Gatsby” — or anything else, for that matter — if not for the Cannes Film Festival. “No Cannes, no me sitting here with you,” Luhrmann said in a recent interview. When Luhrmann opens the 66th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday with
