Netherlands

'The English Teacher' has a class of underachievers

2013-05-16 15:10:00

"The English Teacher" is a tragedy masquerading as a comedy and doing a disservice to both. The same could be said for the film's normally fine cast. Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Nathan Lane and Michael Angarano have all had better days. The movie...

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum returns to form, with light and life

2013-05-05 05:30:00

AMSTERDAM — A scrum of international TV reporters, photographers and other media packed the Gallery of Honor at the Rijksmuseum on a recent spring morning, while producers negotiated with publicists for time to shoot spots in front of Rembrandt's...

Lindsay Lohan's last stint at Betty Ford Center was troubled

2013-05-03 13:51:00

Lindsay Lohan is back at the Betty Ford Center to undergo her 90 days of court-mandated therapy as part of her sentence for reckless driving, ending 24 hours of speculation whether she would be arrested after walking out of an Orange County rehab center....

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2013-04-30 10:13:29

Dutch get a new monarch: Willem-Alexander succeeds Beatrix

2013-04-30 03:39:00

LONDON -- With an exchange of smiles and the flourish of a pen, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated the throne and her son Willem-Alexander took her place Tuesday to become the country’s first king in more than a century. In a simple...

Dutch have a new queen of fashion, Maxima

2013-04-30 17:30:00

On Tuesday, the Dutch celebrated the coronation of a new king and queen of the Netherlands, King Willem-Alexander and his wife, Queen Maxima. With her fashion choices for the events in Amsterdam leading up to the coronation, which included the signing...

Queen Elizabeth: Should she stay or should she go?

2013-04-30 18:38:00

So here’s the real question about the Tuesday ceremony in Amsterdam in which Queen Beatrix abdicated and passed the robe (they don’t wear crowns) to her son, Willem-Alexander, who just turned 46: Did Britain's Prince Charles, who was in...

In the eastern Sierra, cinema buffs look for frames of reference

2013-04-29 19:27:00

LONE PINE, Calif. — As howling winds tore through the eastern Sierra, Dan Gillespie and his wife Carol trudged along a narrow gravel path, their eyes alternating between photos they carried and the contours of a cove guarded by granite walls. At...

The starkly new face of the Netherlands' monarchy

2013-04-27 18:36:00

AMSTERDAM — Even by the unconventional standards of the Dutch, their new king is going to be a bit of a novelty. He has a license to fly commercial airliners. He's married to a South American, a lively Argentine who's more popular than he is. He...

Johnny Rivers gets in touch with his musical roots

2013-04-27 07:00:00

What's Johnny Rivers — the Brooklyn-born, Baton Rouge, La.-reared rocker who put 32 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1977 — doing headlining the Ventura County Blues Festival on Saturday? "I grew up in south Louisiana," Rivers,...

Tribeca 2013: In 'Tricked,' Paul Verhoeven turns fans into writers

2013-04-25 07:30:00

NEW YORK -- As Zach Braff and the people behind “Veronica Mars” could tell you, crowd sourcing isn’t a half-bad way to raise some money for a film. But can it enable new forms of creativity too? That's what the longtime Hollywood...

Fiat said to mull IPO after buying Chrysler

2013-04-24 16:58:55

Italian automaker Fiat is considering a plan to hold a public stock offering after the company buys 100 percent of Chrysler, according to a person briefed on the matter. The plan to sell shares of a combined company is among several options being...

Allie Theis and Lauren Holland pose for a photo during the Alzheimer's Association Rita Hayworth Gala at Hilton Hotel in Chicago on May 11.

2013-05-11 00:00:00

Holland Taylor portrayed Ann Richards, the brassy blue governor of the red state of Texas, in a one-woman Broadway show. "Ann," also penned by Taylor, marked the Emmy-winning actress' return to Broadway after three decades.

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King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands with his wife, Queen Maxima, during his swearing-in and investiture ceremony on Tuesday in Amsterdam.

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