My Week With Marilyn (movie)

'Les Miz': Samantha Barks, Eddie Redmayne on intense auditions

2012-12-28 16:30:00

For aspiring actors growing up in Great Britain, "Les Miserables" wasn't just a popular stage musical, it was practically required viewing — particularly for Samantha Barks and Eddie Redmayne. Barks spent much of her youth performing a one-girl...

PASSINGS: Martin Pakledinaz, Marvin Traub, Leon Schlumpf, Robert Reno

2012-07-13 00:00:00

Martin Pakledinaz Tony-winning costume designer Tony Award winner Martin Pakledinaz, 58, who was one of Broadway's most sought-after costume designers, died Sunday at his New York City home after a long battle with cancer, said Patrick Herold, his...

Oscars 2012: All eyes on Billy Crystal, Sacha Baron Cohen and, yes, nominees

2012-02-26 11:00:00

Is silence truly golden? Can George Clooney's tears bring Oscar happiness? Will Billy Crystal's yuks play as well as they did eight years ago? And could the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the first time bestow acting statuettes on two...

Movies: Designs that build character

2011-12-18 00:00:00

A movie doesn't have to be jampacked with cinema style to have a memorable fashion moment or two, and in the course of screening the slate of holiday-season films, we found all kinds of clothes, accessories, hairstyles and makeup worth a mention. "Hugo"...

Kenneth Branagh, Zaha Hadid receiving titles from Queen Elizabeth

2012-06-18 07:00:00

That's "Sir" Kenneth Branagh and "Dame" Zaha Hadid, to you. The birthday honors for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II were announced recently, and among those receiving titles will be actor-director Branagh, a Shakespearean veteran of stage and screen, and...

Palm Springs International Film Festival tries to cover it all

2012-01-05 00:00:00

Golden Globes: Let the parties begin

2012-01-13 00:00:00

Oscars 2012: On the red carpet, white gowns ruled

2012-02-27 00:00:00

It wasn't a disaster — more of a mishap. But it was almost as if ABC forgot that the Oscars red carpet is the longest-running fashion runway in history. Keyboard critics took to social media to throw a collective hissy fit about the network's...

'The Artist,' 'The Descendants' win big at the 69th annual Golden Globe awards

2012-01-15 20:38:00

"The Artist," the charming film about Hollywood's transition from silent movies to talkies, and the family drama "The Descendants" were catapulted to front-runner Oscar status Sunday night with an armful of Golden Globes to their names as the awards...

Fests can start the buzz and carry it through

2011-11-10 00:00:00

Mark Roybal, president of production at Indian Paintbrush, still remembers the rush he got from viewing "Little Miss Sunshine" at its 2006 Sundance Film Festival screening. "It was one of the most unbelievable experiences I've ever had," he says. "I went...

Jill Taylor talks about dressing the character of Marilyn Monroe

2011-11-17 00:00:00

Dressing an actress to play a global icon is tough. However, watching Michelle Williams channel Marilyn Monroe in "My Week With Marilyn," you're seeing not the sex-kitten public film star but the private woman. It was this public versus private persona...

Author Laura Moriarty visits Baltimore

2013-06-15 00:00:00

It's difficult to imagine what Laura Moriarty's four novels would have been like if she had chosen a place to live other than Kansas, with its endless wheat fields and abundance of ordinary light. Moriarty, 42, focuses her gaze on the most common,...

Then: The new girl in town, who dared to leave her virginity behind in the big city. The series began with Jen Lindley's arrival in Capeside, and ended with her final goodbye as she passed away from a heart complication. Appropriate, no?

2012-10-23 13:28:00

Who plays the voice of Princess Pea in the animated movie "The Tales of Despereaux" (pictured)? It's the brainy, balmy, dulcet tones of Hermione Granger. Watson has also appeared in the BBC TV movie "Ballet Shoes" about three girls growing up in 1930s London.

2012-09-25 00:00:00

"My Week With Marilyn" actress Michelle Williams .

2012-02-26 16:01:26