Articles Posted in the Review Category
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Family: Country singer Slim Whitman dies at age 90
MIAMI (AP) — Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy “Mars Attacks!,” died Wednesday at a Florida hospital. He was 90.
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Best-selling author Vince Flynn dies at age 47
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Best-selling author Vince Flynn, who wrote the Mitch Rapp counterterrorism thriller series and sold more than 15 million books in the U.S. alone, died Wednesday in Minnesota after a more than two-year battle with prostate cancer, according to friends and his publisher. He was 47
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Madonna premieres tour film, talks secret project
NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna said there were days when she was exhausted during her recent “MDNA” world tour, but she decided to press on.
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‘Man of Steel’ promoted from the pulpit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seems Warner Bros. has taken movie marketing to a whole new level — even higher than a bird or a plane.
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‘Voice’ winner calls it ‘incredibly overwhelming’
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.
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Brad Pitt tries to build a better blockbuster
NEW YORK (AP) — Brad Pitt wanted to build a better blockbuster.
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NBC News airing documentary on Valerie Harper
NEW YORK (AP) — Valerie Harper has agreed to give a first-person account of her battle with terminal cancer to NBC News.
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Daniel Radcliffe proves acting skills in London stage role
By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) – British actor Daniel Radcliffe won plaudits this week for a new stage role as a bullied Irish cripple that takes him a critical step further away from his days as boy wizard Harry Potter. In his third foray onto the stage in six years, Radcliffe adopts an Irish accent to play Billy, the bullied 17-year-old title character in “The Cripple of Inishmaan”, a politically incorrect black comedy by Martin McDonagh.
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Tales of triumph over terror win top children’s UK book awards
LONDON (Reuters) – The stories of a dyslexic hero and a little girl who overcomes her family’s fear of a stray dog won two of Britain’s most coveted children’s literature prizes on Wednesday. “Maggot Moon” by Sally Gardner outshone Booker prize-winner Roddy Doyle to win the Carnegie medal for a book starring dyslexic hero Standish, who takes on a sinister dictatorship while friends and family disappear. …
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A Minute With: Gemma Arterton on choosing roles, new challenges
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – British actress Gemma Arterton does not need to worry about typecasting with roles ranging from a fairy tale character and literary heroines to MI6 agent Strawberry Fields in the 2008 James Bond film “Quantum of Solace.” In “Unfinished Song,” a comedy-drama that opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, Arterton, 27, stars as Elizabeth, a music teacher in a boys' school.