"Gone With the Wind" fans give gowns another day (Reuters)

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Reuters – Fans of “Gone with the Wind” obviously do give a damn about Scarlett O’Hara’s extravagant dresses with a museum appeal for funds to restore gowns from the 1939 movie meeting its target in three weeks.

Met opera adds 300 theaters to its HD broadcasts (AP)

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

AP – The close-ups were so tight you could see a tear slowly trickling down the tenor’s face — and that the soprano’s fingernail polish didn’t match the color on her toes, though she did nail the high C.

No longer dog days at the multiplex (AP)

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

AP – August traditionally has been considered a dumping ground for movies, a time when schlocky little genre pictures would sneak into theaters for a couple of weeks before vacations wrapped up, kids went back to school and reality once again took hold.

Popcorn? Licorice? Blood? Bedbugs hit NYC theaters (AP)

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

AP – Bedbugs have attacked a popular movie theater in Times Square as New York battles the persistent pests.

Jazz photographer Herman Leonard dies at 87 (AP)

Monday, August 16th, 2010

AP – Jazz scene photographer Herman Leonard, famous for his smoky, backlighted black-and-white photos of such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 87.

Rachael Ray launches iPhone food shopping app (AP)

Monday, August 16th, 2010

AP – Now you can get things “Yum-o” to go.

Broadcast audience aging faster than population (AP)

Monday, August 16th, 2010

AP – For years, executives at ABC, Fox and NBC essentially stopped caring about television viewers once they had reached 50 years old.

Jimmy Johnson: ‘Survivor’ tougher than 3-a-days (AP)

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

AP – With NFL training camps in full swing, “Survivor” survivor Jimmy Johnson offered an apt comparison in describing his experience doing the CBS reality show in Nicaragua.

Jimmy Johnson to be contestant on ‘Survivor’ (AP)

Monday, August 9th, 2010

AP – Former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson will be a contestant on the reality television show “Survivor” this season.

Jennifer Aniston is 1 of Barbra Streisand’s people (AP)

Monday, August 9th, 2010

AP – There are Barbra Streisand fans, and then there’s Jennifer Aniston.