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Jake Gyllenhaal and Brian F. O'Byrne bond onstage
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:50AM September 20, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Jake Gyllenhaal and Brian F. O'Byrne don't seem to have too much in common.
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Beyonce, Carole King added to Keys' Black Ball
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:15AM September 20, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Call it ladies night: Beyonce and Carole King are joining Oprah Winfrey and Alicia Keys at Keys' annual Black Ball event.
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Obamas to Make Joint Appearance on 'The View'
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President Barack Obama joins the co-hosts, from left, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on the set of the ABC daytime talk show "The View," Wednesday, July 28, 2010 in New York. The segment will air on Thursday.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will make their first joint appearance on the daytime show "The View" next week.
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Capsule reviews of 'Dredd 3D,' other new releases
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:27PM September 19, 2012 Comment"Dredd 3D" — A wickedly dark comic streak breaks up the vivid violence and relentless bleakness of this 3-D incarnation of the cult-favorite British comic series "2000 A.D." The visceral visuals, shot in 3-D by Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, feature extreme close-ups and sequences of super-cool slow-motion photography, which wisely are spread sparingly throughout the course of the picture. Karl Urban stars as the stoic Judge Dredd, the baddest bad-ass of them all in a dystopian future where enforcers like him serve as judge, jury and executioner. Dredd is the most fearsome of the judges in the squalid, densely populated Mega City One, with his ever-present helmet and a low, monotone grumble that recalls both Christian Bale's Batman and Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name. (For the uninitiated, Dredd is actually much funnier than this description makes him sound; his terse, deadpan responses to the most absurd and depraved situations provoke the biggest laughs.) Olivia Thirlby has a calm yet confident presence as the rookie Judge Anderson, who happens to have been assigned to Dredd for training upon one particularly bloody day. Her psychic abilities make her an asset when things get especially chaotic, and her slightly ethereal nature provides a nice complement to Dredd's intense groundedness. Dredd and Anderson respond to a triple homicide at the Peach Trees housing complex, a 200-story ghetto ruled by the ruthless prostitute-turned-drug-lord Ma-Ma (Lena Headey). When they take one of her lieutenants (Wood Harris) into custody, Ma-Ma puts the whole place on lockdown and insists she'll keep it that way until the judges are killed. R for strong bloody violence, language, drug use and some sexual content. 98 minutes. Three stars out of four.
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Review: 3-D makes beautifully bleak 'Dredd' pop
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:25PM September 19, 2012 CommentA wickedly dark comic streak breaks up the vivid violence and relentless bleakness of "Dredd 3D."
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Review: 'Wallflower' a thoughtful teen tale
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:23PM September 19, 2012 CommentFootball games and awkward dances, late-night gabfests at the local diner and tentative first kisses — they're all there over the course of a school year in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."
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Letterman: I don't hate Romney for Leno appearance
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:55PM September 19, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — David Letterman is reassuring Mitt Romney that he doesn't hate him — and getting in a dig at Jay Leno in the process.
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Is Portland really where young people retire?
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:32PM September 19, 2012 CommentPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland may not be "a city where young people go to retire," but it's the place they go to be underemployed, a new study found.
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Ben Vereen files for divorce from wife of 36 years
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:59PM September 19, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Award-winning actor Ben Vereen has filed for divorce from his wife of 36 years.
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News Corp. seeks dismissal of lawsuit over hacking
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:50PM September 19, 2012 CommentDOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for News Corp. asked a Delaware judge on Wednesday to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit alleging that company directors allowed a damaging cover-up of the phone hacking scandal in Britain.
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Ashbel Green, editor of Cronkite, dies at age 84
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:02PM September 19, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Ashbel Green, a versatile and respected editor at Alfred A. Knopf who persuaded Gabriel Garcia Marquez to switch publishers, worked on Walter Cronkite's memoir and a foreign policy book by President George H.W. Bush and helped discover the crime classic "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," has died at age 84.
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Ex-NFL star Chad Johnson, Evelyn Lozada divorced
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:15PM September 19, 2012 CommentFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Chad Johnson's divorce from reality TV star Evelyn Lozada was finalized Wednesday, a little more than a month after his arrest on a domestic battery charge, his lawyer said.
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Exhibit reunites art JFK saw before assassination
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:26PM September 19, 2012 CommentDALLAS (AP) — On the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy realized that their Fort Worth hotel suite featured an extraordinary array of artwork — from a painting by Vincent van Gogh to a bronze by Pablo Picasso.
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Jimmy Kimmel rolls out red carpet as Emmy host
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:18PM September 19, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — After rolling out the red carpet Wednesday morning in anticipation of Sunday's Emmy ceremony, host Jimmy Kimmel warned he's planning a prank on folks not watching the show.
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Celeb chefs team with Matt Damon for cancer cause
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:54PM September 19, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Ming Tsai, Mario Batali, Marc Forgione, Masaharu Morimoto and ... Matt Damon?
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Posh post-Emmy bash to be in the red
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:29PM September 19, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Emmy losers — and even the winners — will be seeing red at this year's Governors Ball.
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Work by graffiti artist Basquiat set for NYC sale
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:09PM September 19, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — An auction house says an important early work by graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (zhahn mee-SHEHL' BAH'-skee-aht) is going up for sale in New York.
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2 Nora Ephron collections coming back in print
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:09PM September 19, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Two of Nora Ephron's early essay collections are coming back into print.
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Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:33PM September 19, 2012 CommentBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — For a man who built his career on word economy, the title is pretty darned long — The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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Milan offers women color, patterns for next summer
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:33PM September 19, 2012 CommentMILAN (AP) — After New York and London, it's Milan's turn to have a say as to how women will dress for the spring-summer 2013.
