BERLIN — Anne Hathaway says she’d like to do more musicals after the Oscar-nominated “Les Miserables” – but don’t expect her to launch into a singing career.
Director Tom Hooper on Saturday presented his movie, an adaptation of a Broadway musical based on Victor Hugo’s novel, at the Berlin film festival.
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Everybody’s got their grand plans to put an end to piracy. Cable providers are instituting 6-strikes policies against alleged infringers, and the FBI, they like to take down sites like MegaUpload. But that doesn’t mean they don’t torrent, themselves. TorrentFreak dug up a little list of what’s been being pirated from FBI IPs. More »
Ah, the “nothing” fight. When a simple “What do you want to eat?” can send a couple spiraling into a passive-aggressive battle or a shouting match in your living room. But listen up! There’s a better way.
Watch how the very funny Charlene DeGuzman does it in the video above. Two words: drum-off.
What do you think was going through Lauren, er, Lorne Michaels’ head as he posed with Justin Bieber for Instagram only a day before Bieber hosts “SNL” for the first time?
NEW YORK (RNS) Heartened by his inaugural calls for gay marriage and for bold action on climate change, leaders of the Christian left are confident that President Obama will now claim the progressive legacy they believe he craves.
While acknowledging disappointment over specifics in president’s first term — worry over the use of drones as a foreign policy tool is a repeated refrain — progressive Christians say they believe the president’s solid re-election in November has emboldened him, and freed him to pursue concrete progressive goals they say always have been in his heart.
Still, those goals and the legacy they could produce won’t come easy, says Gary Dorrien, an ethicist at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, one of the nation’s most prominent liberal Protestant seminaries.
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is facing more controversy for using a contact list from the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators, or NICHE, to fundraise during the 2012 Republican presidential primary.
The Iowa Republican and NBC News report Bachmann’s Iowa campaign manager signed a sworn affidavit on Sept. 4 blaming another staffer for the contact list misuse. NBC News reports:
The Sept. 4 affidavit – first reported by the Iowa Republican and obtained Friday by NBC News – was written by Bachmann’s Iowa adviser Eric Woolson, and accuses former State Sen. Kent Sorenson of stealing the list from another Bachmann staffer. Sorenson was the campaign’s state chairman at the time.
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“The Killing” cast for Season 3 is growing and the latest addition is Max Fowler, TVLine reports.
The up-and-coming actor — who’s appeared on BBC America’s “The Hour” — will play Twitch on “The Killing.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, the character is “his own biggest fan,” isexually fluid, and “has been in trouble with the law since he was 10, having been arrested for prostitution, drug possession, trespassing and the like, but he always charmed his way out of it.”
The unexpected third season of “The Killing” — considering the AMC drama was canceled just monts earlier — will pick up a year after the Season 2 and will debut in February, according to AMC. Season 3 will focus on a mystery that’ll be resolved over the course of the season, unlike the controversial case of “Who killed Rosie Larsen? When Season 1 finale of “The Killing” failed to reveal who killed Rosie, viewers fled the series in Season 2, hence its previous cancellation.
A gun store in Royal Oak, Mich., is being praised by the local chapter of a Muslim rights group after agreeing to stop selling targets that depict an AK-47-wielding skeleton in a turban and robe.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), voiced his concern to Target Sports about the gun-range targets, fearing they may cause gun owners to view any Muslim in traditional garb as an enemy.
After “an extremely non-hostile meeting” with the store owner, the owner promised to stop selling the item, Walid told the Free Press. But Thompson Target — the Ohio-based manufacturer of the life-sized target called “Crazy Bones” — appears less willing to give in to Walid’s pleas.
WASHINGTON — Halfway through what has so far been a scandal-stained first term as Washington’s mayor, Vincent Gray can’t seem to escape the shadow of the predecessor he defeated by a hefty margin two years ago.
Gray’s performance in office has been steady but not splashy. However, his winning campaign is the subject of a federal investigation that leaves his political future uncertain. So far, three former aides have pleaded guilty to felonies.
JACKSON, N.J. — Former Washington Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield, who enjoyed a long career with AP Radio and ABC Radio, has died. He was 77.
Whitfield died Tuesday at a rehabilitation center in Jackson, N.J.
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