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The Starz cable channel said on Tuesday that it would delay production of the second season of its series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” so the actor Andy Whitfield, left, who plays the title character, can start treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Starz said in a news release that Mr. Whitfield “discovered ...
LOS ANGELES Can an introduction be an art form? The people who hand out film awards are beginning to think so.
Next week in Austin, Tex., the South by Southwest festival will honor the winners of a film and tv titles competition, a rare move to recognize those miniature ...
The Barbie and Ken versions of the “Mad Men” characters are, from left, Joan Holloway, Roger Sterling, Don Draper and Betty Draper.
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Nan Martin, a veteran stage, tv and film actress whose Broadway credits include “J.B.” and “Under the Yum-Yum Tree” and who played Ali McGraw’s snooty mom in the film “Goodbye, Columbus,” died on Thursday at her home in Malibu, Calif. She was 82.
The cause was complications of emphysema, stated her ...
This article was reported by Brooks Barnes, Michael Cieply and Melena Ryzik and written by Mr. Barnes.
LOS ANGELES The morning after the Oscars in Hollywood feels a bit like a nightclub that abruptly flips on the lights at closing time. Remnants of fake fog dispersing through the air, exhausted ...
The Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday night was one enormous Hollywood stimulus package. Not one host but two, 10 ideal picture nominations instead of five, two tributes to dead film luminaries and even an unexplained homage to the horror film, a genre that is very much alive. (Of course, ...
MIDWAY through the first hour of “Band of Brothers,” HBO’s 2001 mini-series about a company of paratroopers during and after D-Day, there’s a scene on a troop ship that’s jampacked with new recruits on their way to hard fighting in the European theater. “Right now some lucky bastard’s headed for ...
Hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin: will they make music together?
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Wolves seem to be having something of a moment. In January there was “Clash: Encounters of Bears and Wolves” on PBS’s “Nature,” which looked at how the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park has given the grizzlies there competition. Last month came the motion picture “The Wolfman,” with Benicio ...
Every once in a while someone states something astonishing in the HBO documentary “Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals.” Usually it’s Larry Bird.
Reflecting on the 1984 National Basketball Association championship, which his Boston Celtics won over Magic Johnson’s Los Angeles Lakers, Mr. Bird states of his rival: “I hope ...