Entertainment

Bronze statue of Roger Ebert unveiled at Ebertfest
Entertainment, Lifestyles
CARYN ROUSSEAU, Associated Press 
Apr 25, 2014
CHICAGO (AP) — Roger Ebert's final blog posting last April ended with his hopeful sign-off: "I'll see you at the movies." The award-winning film criti...
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NBC: Olympics show wide second-screen use
Entertainment, Lifestyles
DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer 
Apr 24, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Slightly more than half of the people who watched the Sochi Olympics on NBC also used a computer, tablet or smartphone to get informat...
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Amazon snares classic shows in deal with HBO
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BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Business Writers MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writers 
Apr 23, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Fans of classic HBO shows like "The Sopranos" and "The Wire" will soon have access to those series and more through Amazon Prime in th...
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NBC adding Weir, Lipinski to Derby
Entertainment, Lifestyles
DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer 
Apr 23, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC is adding Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski to its Kentucky Derby telecast as fashion correspondents next week, illustrating how the n...
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Tom Petty reflects on 40 years of songwriting
Entertainment, Lifestyles
SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer 
Apr 22, 2014
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forty years of practice has made songwriting harder, not easier, for Tom Petty. "As life goes by, you get a little more carefree or...
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Old timey car pushed to replace NYC horse carriages
Entertainment, Lifestyles
DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press 
Apr 22, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — An electric car that proponents hope will replace horse-drawn carriages in New York City was presented last week at the New York Inter...
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A bipolar doctor probes the brain on ‘Black Box’
Entertainment, Lifestyles
FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer 
Apr 22, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC's brainy new medical drama "Black Box" does a neat trick: It dares viewers to imagine for themselves the cost-benefit ratio of add...
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Coachella’s young audience a marketers paradise
Entertainment, Lifestyles
SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer 
Apr 22, 2014
INDIO, Calif. (AP) — When it first started in 1999, Coachella was a couple of stages and a dance tent. Tickets were $65. A few dusty stands sold hot d...
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Kim Novak speaks out against Oscar night ‘bullies’
Entertainment, Lifestyles
LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer 
Apr 19, 2014
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Novak says that cruel jabs about how she looked during the Oscar ceremony amounted to bullying that left her crushed at first, ...
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Lost radio program featuring Hank Williams found
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Mark Ivancic 
Apr 18, 2014
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Previously unreleased recordings of country music legend Hank Williams performing songs on a 1950 radio show will be released ...
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Revisiting NYC’s 1964 World’s Fair, 50 years later
Entertainment, Lifestyles
BETH J. HARPAZ, AP Travel Editor 
Apr 16, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — You can just barely see them through the window of the No. 7 subway as it rattles into the elevated station in Corona, Queens: a gigan...
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Country Music Museum grows to match genre
Entertainment, Lifestyles
KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press 
Apr 15, 2014
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is no longer bursting at the seams, thanks to a $100 million expansion that has more...
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