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‘Amazing Spider-Man’ gets more sequels: Third and fourth movies set

2013-06-17 13:12:12

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TKTS in Times Square turns 40, offers new features

2013-06-14 08:00:00

Let’s face it: Theater lovers don’t always plan in advance. Sometimes the yen for a glitzy, high-heeled hit such as “Kinky Boots” just washes over you unexpectedly. Which is why the mega-popular TKTS booth in Times Square --...

Maria Menounos: Jack Nicholson got me booted from Lakers game

2013-06-12 16:14:00

Maria Menounos' sports affiliations keep getting her into trouble. The "Extra" host is a self-proclaimed "die-hard" Boston Celtics fan and has no problems trash-talking and taunting players. And on Wednesday, the 35-year-old explained on "Conan"...

Tony Awards 2013: 'Matilda's' four young stars are all smiles

2013-06-08 04:30:00

NEW YORK — "Even if you're little, you can do a lot" sings the spirited 5-year-old heroine of "Matilda, the Musical," the Broadway hit adapted from the children's classic by Roald Dahl. The lyrics are a message of self-empowerment for Matilda, a...

Stay calm and let the NSA carry on

2013-06-09 00:00:00

After 9/11, there was a widespread expectation of many more terrorist attacks on the United States. So far that hasn't happened. We haven't escaped entirely unscathed (see Boston Marathon, bombing of), but on the whole we have been a lot safer than most...

Myspace launches mobile music app

2013-06-12 10:01:00

Myspace, continuing its effort to mount a comeback, launched a mobile application that offers free, unlimited streaming of radio stations programmed by such artists as Pharrell Williams, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Lady Antebellum and Justin Timberlake. The...

Harvey Fierstein is marathon man of awards season

2013-06-12 05:00:00

An entertainment kingpin named Harvey with a voracious appetite for awards campaigning? And an involvement in multiple hit productions? Hollywood veterans would immediately think of Harvey Weinstein. But the description fits another Harvey: Fierstein,...

Movie review: '1 Mile Above' spins out man's trek with little insight

2013-06-06 06:15:00

"1 Mile Above" is a spare, at times lovely film based on the novel "Zhuan Shan" by Xie Wang Lin. Directed by Du Jiayi and adapted by Chang Chia-Lu and Cheng Hsiao-Che, it follows the true-life story of Shuhao (Bryan Chang), a 24-year-old graduate...

Ada Louise Huxtable memorial explores architecture critic's legacy

2013-06-05 11:29:00

NEW YORK -- On Tuesday afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum in New York the architecture world, or what felt like a pretty substantial cross-section of it, gathered to remember the pioneering New York Times and Wall Street Journal architecture critic...

Obama to nominate Bush-era Justice Dept. official to head FBI

2013-05-29 21:26:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to nominate James B. Comey, a former senior Justice Department official who famously challenged warrantless eavesdropping under President George W. Bush, to replace Robert S. Mueller III as director of the FBI,...

Drone strike reportedly kills a long-sought target in Pakistan

2013-05-29 18:25:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For three long years, the CIA hunted the Pakistani militant who had helped send a suicide bomber deep into a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan. The audacious mission killed seven U.S. intelligence officers and contractors, one...

‘Star Wars’: Life-size Lego X-wing Starfighter coming to California

2013-05-23 18:12:57

The TKTS booth in Times Square.

2013-06-13 17:22:05

Colombian Emmy-nominated actress and model Sofia Vergara poses with one of her Madame Tussauds wax figures in Times Square in New York.

2013-06-04 00:00:00

With "Arrested Development's" highly anticipated return, the Netflix-revived series went all out this week promoting the show, even building a Bluth-style banana stand at Los Angeles' The Grove.

2013-05-23 19:22:57