Fifty years on, drummer Jimmy Cobb still can't believe what he, Miles Davis and five other jazz musicians achieved over two days in a converted church in New York. "Nobody could have... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 8 Nov 2009 | 2:22 am
Members of a local ballet perform an adaptation of Carmen, in Johannesburg. It's Bizet's classic opera but the beautiful, fiery gypsy Carmen is torn between team captain Escamillo and star player Jose... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Nov 2009 | 11:28 pm
Members of a local ballet perform an adaptation of Carmen in Johannesburg. It's Bizet's classic opera but the beautiful, fiery gypsy Carmen is torn between team captain Escamillo and star player Jose as... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Nov 2009 | 11:28 pm
A red rose in her hair, the furious Carmen storms onto a sports pitch to interrupt her two paramours who erupt in bursts of pirouettes and graceful leaps around several footballs. It's... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Nov 2009 | 11:28 pm
We hear the Parents Television Council is counting the reasons why Monday's touted Gossip Girl threesome shouldn't be aired. We see a like-minded group in South Carolina is making a...
Rocker Peter Wolf says he's looking forward to trying some home-brewed beer and good wine when he arrives in Maine for a gig with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. Wolf, the former... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Nov 2009 | 3:07 pm
Susan Boyle may not have dreamed the dream of being a dancing queen, but that's not stopping her from performing alongside a few of them.
The Britain's Got Talent phenom is...
The singer hit up BET's 106 & Park this week in a coned...
Prostate cancer couldn't keep Dennis Hopper away from the Breeders' Cup. The 73-year-old actor and artist attended the Breeders' Cup in support of The V Foundation for Cancer Research,... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Nov 2009 | 1:19 pm
"And so, the show heads toward its third-season finale with a new question: Is this finally the end of the Draper marriage? Weiner, notoriously tight-lipped, would say only that the finale episode is representative of the season's theme.
"I said at the beginning that it was about change, and things did change in the '60s," Weiner says. "But from the beginning of the series, I wanted there to be stakes to the fact that [Don] behaved the way he [did]. That's what you're seeing enacted right now: the irony of the fact that he came clean to Betty and his worst fear was that she wouldn't love him anymore. And there you are."
Can you feel the excitement in the air? Nancy Pelosi is confident that after a closed-door meeting with Obama this afternoon, the House will vote on the health care bill tonight. [TPM]
A 20-lb piece of the engine of a Delta 777 jet fell from the sky shortly after it took off from JFK, landing in a Long Island family's yard. Nobody was hurt, but eek. [CBS TV]
AP - A 19-year-old woman was the driving force behind a youthful burglary ring that preyed on Hollywood's rich and famous, often brazenly walking into unlocked homes to make off with cash, jewels and family heirlooms, authorities said.
An undated photo shows Russian-born American writer Vladimir Nabokov, born in 1899 and who died in 1977. Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but "The Original of Laura" survived and now, 32 years later,... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Nov 2009 | 12:06 pm
Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but "The Original of Laura" survived and now, 32 years later, the unfinished novel is about to be published for the first time. Despite... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Nov 2009 | 12:06 pm
Ewan McGregor was on Craig Ferguson last night to promote The Men Who Stare at Goats, and the two must know each other pretty well, because it was less an interview and more just two guys making each other laugh. Ewan gets into Craig's Purell stash, claims that his nudity in films is a feminist act, and then the conversation goes off the rails and onto just the subject of goats. Good times.
Gwyneth Paltrow has replaced Charlize Theron in The Danish Girl, based on the true story of the first surgical transsexual, to be played by Nicole Kidman. [Variety]
The House of Representatives is currently debating whether to include coverage for abortions in the health care bill, and MSNBC is streaming it live all day. [MSNBC]
It's no fancy-schmancy album cover art, but it sure is pretty.
American Idol champ Kris Allen has unveiled the music video for his first single, "Live Like We're Dying,"...
It was ladies' week in Hollywood (and related environs) as real stars like Rihanna and Mariah Carey opened up on TV about serious, emotional issues; celebish types like Kate Gosselin rehashed...
After a week of teases on GMA, ABC finally aired Diane Sawyer's full interview with Rihanna on 20/20 last night, and it actually lives up to the hype in terms of candor. Rihanna didn't deflect any of Sawyer's questions, even the tough ones, and comes across as someone who is doing this not as a publicity stunt but truly to help other victims of domestic violence. The fact that she refuses to totally rule out ever getting back together with Chris Brown might be seen as a dangerous message, but better that she was honest instead of preachy. The whole interview in four parts, after the jump.
Part 1: "I fell in love with my best friend."
Part 2: "It was almost as if he had nothing to lose."
If what you wear says a lot about who you are, someone might want to get Joey Fatone to therapy, stat!
The former member of 'N Sync donned a rather pessimistic—although...
The New York Times today wonders today whether Bloomberg will give hefty bonuses to his campaign staff for this year's election, even though his margin of victory was significantly lower than in the past. [NYT]
Details have emerged about Sgt. Kimberly Denise Munley, the police officer and SWAT team member who shot alleged Ft. Hood killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan even as he shot her, rendering him unable to kill more people -- namely, that she's a superhero:
"Her partner in Wrightsville, Investigator Shaun Appler, recalled how Sergeant Munley saved him one night when she wrestled a large man off him after the man had pinned him down and was trying to take his gun. She earned the nickname Mighty Mouse for that, he said."
And there's more!
"One neighbor, Sgt. First Class William Barbrow, said that about a year ago Sergeant Munley chased down a burglar who had been prowling around the neighborhood."
"She was also scrupulously honest, friends said. A year ago, she took pains to pay for the damage she caused to a neighbor’s car with her sport utility vehicle, even though no one had seen the accident."
We basically have another Sully on our hands, here.
Sorry for the delay in this blog. I was still sleeping from Thursday night's reunion show.
I love that the girls took the debutante approach again, as if they're not on a reality...
Even if she had never met Chris Brown, Rihanna knew how domestic abuse could turn into a vicious cycle.
"I always anticipated it happening. At night I wouldn't want to sleep,...
AP - Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders — and tattoos — exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.
AP - Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders — and tattoos — exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.
AP - Investigators cracked a youthful burglary ring that preyed on Hollywood's rich and famous, often brazenly walking into their unlocked homes to make off with cash, jewels and family heirlooms, authorities said.
We hear the Parents Television Council is counting the reasons why Monday's touted Gossip Girl threesome shouldn't be aired. We see a like-minded group in South Carolina is making a...
Susan Boyle may not have dreamed the dream of being a dancing queen, but that's not stopping her from performing alongside a few of them.
The Britain's Got Talent phenom is...
It's no fancy-schmancy album cover art, but it sure is pretty.
American Idol champ Kris Allen has unveiled the music video for his first single, "Live Like We're Dying,"...
It was ladies' week in Hollywood (and related environs) as real stars like Rihanna and Mariah Carey opened up on TV about serious, emotional issues; celebish types like Kate Gosselin rehashed...
If what you wear says a lot about who you are, someone might want to get Joey Fatone to therapy, stat!
The former member of 'N Sync donned a rather pessimistic—although...
Sorry for the delay in this blog. I was still sleeping from Thursday night's reunion show.
I love that the girls took the debutante approach again, as if they're not on a reality...
Even if she had never met Chris Brown, Rihanna knew how domestic abuse could turn into a vicious cycle.
"I always anticipated it happening. At night I wouldn't want to sleep,...
