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Walter Latham's YouTube series 'Comedy After Dark' moves to TV

2013-02-21 14:47:00

Producer Walter Latham is best known for the "The Original Kings of Comedy" -- a successful comedy tour headlined by Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer and Steve Harvey that resulted in a movie directed by Spike Lee. Latham cemented his reputation...

Michael Clarke Duncan dies; Oscar-nominated 'Green Mile' star was 54

2012-09-03 16:14:00

Michael Clarke Duncan, the tall and massively built actor with the shaved head and deep voice who received an Academy Award nomination for his moving portrayal of a gentle death row inmate in the 1999 prison drama "The Green Mile," died Monday. He was 54....

PASSINGS: Zig Ziglar, Don Rhymer, David Courtney

2012-11-30 00:00:00

Zig Ziglar Speaker built motivational empire Zig Ziglar, 86, the consummate salesman who built a lucrative motivational empire, died Wednesday of pneumonia at his home in Plano, Texas, a family spokeswoman said. With an aim at helping people achieve...

Review: A$AP Rocky smokes out the Palladium

2012-10-27 13:04:00

Thick billows of acrid smoke engulfed the stage of the Palladium about an hour into A$AP Rocky’s sold-out concert on Friday night. A young Harlem-born rapper whose next-big-thing status in New York hip-hop mirrors that of Kendrick Lamar in L.A., A$...

High hopes, low notes for film world's NC-17 rating

2012-08-18 08:30:00

In the late '80s a thunderbolt of inspiration struck Jack Valenti, longtime chief of the Motion Picture Assn. of America: What if his organization got rid of the X rating, besmirched by years of misappropriation by hard-core exploitation films, and...

Las Vegas: 21 things to do for under $21

2012-03-04 00:00:00

For those who want to spend more time than money in Las Vegas, here are 21 things to do for less than $21, all aimed at keeping the bottom line low and the fun factor high. 1. Springs Preserve. Forsake the fake pyramid and fake Statue of Liberty for a...

Upfronts 2012: 5 buzzed-about pilots that didn't make the cut

2012-05-17 16:38:00

Saturday’s Highlights: 'Win Win' on Cinemax

2012-02-17 21:38:25

Adam Sandler dominates the Razzie nominations

2012-02-25 21:38:21

'Mad Men' recap: We need to talk about Betty

2012-04-02 16:37:26

Resale royalty lawsuits filed against nine California galleries

2011-11-02 16:33:00

Friday's TV Talk Shows

2011-08-25 21:36:16

has enjoyed a lot of fame and fortune from his TV and film career, few people know he was banned-for-life from appearing on Saturday Nigfht Live for a crude monolouge he delivered on the show in 1994. Wow. How crude do you have to be to get banned from SNL? He turns 45 today. (Photo by John M.

2013-03-05 18:46:00

Chappelle continued working in film, taking on roles as Tom Hanks' best friend in "You've Got Mail," an eccentric cabdriver in the 1999 comedy "200 Cigarettes," a jewel thief in Martin Lawrence's "Blue Streak" and a chicken restaurant owner in "Screwed" alongside Norm MacDonald, above, and Danny

2013-03-04 12:07:30

Cash in your chips and spend an afternoon with Monet at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art (pictured) through the end of the year. See more than 20 works by the Impressionist master for the $15 price of admission.

2013-02-21 00:00:00

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