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- AP - A reality televison producer arrived in Mexico escorted by nearly a dozen agents on Thursday after being extradited from the United States so he can face trial in his wife's killing.
- AP - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says six additional groups will be inducted this year after a committee determined they should be recognized with previously enshrined original lead singers.
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AP - CNN suspended political analyst Roland Martin on Wednesday for "offensive" tweets during the Super Bowl that some critics said were anti-gay.
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Jim Carrey's daughter, Jane Carrey, was cut from American Idol during Hollywood Week on tonight's episode. ...
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- Reuters - Sotheby's struggled to sell two of its top lots at a London auction of impressionist and modern art on Wednesday, taking some of the gloss off the art market after rival Christie's set a series of records the day before.
- omg! - BERLIN (Reuters) - "Farewell My Queen", recalling the early days of the French Revolution through the eyes of servants at Versailles, has its world premiere on Thursday at the start of the 2012 Berlin film festival. The French-language period drama, starring Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette, is one of 18 pictures in the main competition, and hundreds more films will be showcased in cinemas across the city over the next 10 days. ...
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As if Cassie Blake wasn't in enough trouble already,
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Movies : All The Gossip!!!
- Newsarama.com - "If you want to steal cars, maybe don't dress like a car thief!"That line, uttered by Spider-Man in the Amazing Spider-Man footage shown Monday at an international promotional event, showed that the new film looks to have a good handle on the title character's trademark wisecracks. Nearly five months away from the July 3 release date of Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man, fans across the globe got an early look at the film on at a simulcasted promotional event, held at multiple cities across the globe. ...
- Reuters - Apparently, I saw 2008's "Journey to the Center of the Earth," but remembering anything about it required digging out my old review, in which I noted, "an afternoon spent enjoying jumbo sodas and the 3-D effects of 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' isn't the worst way to kill a few hours. Just think of it more as an E-Ticket attraction and less as an actual movie."
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AP - A costume drama set during the French revolution and starring Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette kicked off the annual Berlin film festival Thursday — the first of the year's major European film festivals.
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AP - A judge has granted Katy Perry and Russell Brand a divorce, although the pair won't be legally split up until July.
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AP - With Uggie stealing hearts in "The Artist," snagging the spotlight at celebrity events and reportedly preparing for a sketch with Oscar host Billy Crystal, Hollywood really has gone to the dogs this year. There's even a brand-new award show honoring canine performers.
- Reuters - Tom Fleischman has mixed sound for many of the Martin Scorsese movies that are full of gunshots, punches and profanities - but like his director, Fleischman tried a change of pace last year with "Hugo." The Best Picture nominee's sound palette leans toward the ticking of clocks, the bustle of a Parisian train station and the occasional roar of a locomotive, much of it set to the strains of small-combo jazz from the early decades of the 20th Century.
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AP - "Forgettable" probably isn't a word you'd expect to use to describe a film starring Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson and Sam Shepard. But unfortunately, that's one of the most apt when pondering "Safe House."
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AP - Paintings, jewelry and fashions belonging to the late Elizabeth Taylor have sold for more than $183 million, with all of the more than 1,800 items on offer snapped up, Christie's auction house said Thursday.
- Reuters - Peter Jackson has chosen Billy Connolly to play a great dwarf warrior in New Line's two "The Hobbit" movies, thus completing the casting of both films, the director said Wednesday.
- Newsarama.com - Original Story: Fox Announces Release Date for THE WOLVERINE
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Music : Who’s Doing What, And Where!!!
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AP - Adele is the rare star who doesn't need multiple magazine covers, a cosmetics contract or a clothing line to sell albums. She does it all based on the strength of that sumptuous voice and those stirring songs.
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AP - Dierks Bentley, "Home" (Capitol Nashville)
- Reuters - Angry musicians will protest outside Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony over a decision to cut 31 ethnic and minority musical categories from the music industry's top awards.
- AP - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says six additional groups will be inducted this year after a committee determined they should be recognized with previously enshrined original lead singers.
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AP - Country music singer Rodney Atkins will not be prosecuted on a misdemeanor domestic assault charge if he continues to meet court-ordered conditions.
- Reuters - Chris Brown will perform at this Sunday's Grammy Awards for the first time since beating his then girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 on the eve of the music industry's biggest night, which threatened to derail his music career.
- Reuters - After weeks of hype and ridicule, singer Lana Del Rey had the last laugh on Wednesday by scoring the week's highest debut on the Billboard 200 album chart with her new record "Born To Die."
- Reuters - The Grammys in recent years have targeted young audiences even as older acts won key awards to the surprise of some music fans, but this Sunday's honors will shine its spotlight on Adele, whose popularity crosses all age boundaries.
- Reuters - If the single "Home" is the cornerstone of Dierks Bentley's latest album of the same name, then the song "Thinking of You" is the CD's hearth because the fire within it warms both body and soul.
- Reuters - Country music legend Merle Haggard is rehearsing with his longtime band, The Strangers, and gearing up to hit the road again after being sidelined by a bout of pneumonia and other ailments.
Television : Whats Happening On The Box!!!
- Reuters - Cable TV network CNN said on Wednesday it has suspended commentator Roland Martin over a series of Twitter remarks during the Super Bowl game that offended America's gay community.
- AP - New Jersey's second largest city is rolling out the welcome mat for the women of the "Jersey Shore."
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AP - Fox's medical drama "House" is ending its eight-year run this season.
- Reuters - Move over, "Mad Men" and Kim Kardashian. There's a new darling in U.S. pop culture, with a much posher accent and even fancier clothes.
- Reuters - The Denver Broncos say there will be no Tebow-ing anytime soon on "Dancing With the Stars," despite current champ J.R. Martinez's report that quarterback Tim Tebow might want to compete.
- AP - A Muslim convert from Brooklyn who ran a website that posted threats against the creators of the television show "South Park" for supposedly insulting the prophet Muhammad is expected to enter a guilty plea.
- Reuters - Now Angelina Jolie has another reason to accompany her Oscar-nominated husband Brad Pitt to the Academy Awards on February 26: Jolie will serve as a presenter, producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced on Wednesday.
- Reuters - A former producer of the reality TV show "Survivor" was extradited to Mexico on Wednesday to stand trial for the 2010 murder of his wife in the resort town of Cancun, attorneys in the case said.
- AP - CNN suspended political analyst Roland Martin on Wednesday for "offensive" tweets during the Super Bowl that some critics said were anti-gay.
- AP - With Uggie stealing hearts in "The Artist," snagging the spotlight at celebrity events and reportedly preparing for a sketch with Oscar host Billy Crystal, Hollywood really has gone to the dogs this year. There's even a brand-new award show honoring canine performers.
Arts And Stage : Whats On, And Where!!!
- ARTINFO - Andy Warhol moved to New Yorkfrom his native Pittsburghin 1949 and before long became one of the Big Apple’s most iconic citizens,advertising the city’s grittily experimental sensibility to the world throughworks like "Empire" and "Chelsea Girls." He was also head over heels in lovewith New York, and now it’s possible to view the city through his eyes — justin time for what would have been his 83rd birthday, on August 6 — with"Andy Warhol's New York City: Four Walks Uptown to Downtown," a newbook by Thomas Kiedrowski that traces the artist footsteps across 80 sites hedoted on. Some are no longer inexistence (others are never-realized), but most are still around —Â meaning that you can pretend to be part ofthe Factory gang, meandering around Manhattan with Andy to lunch at the Odeonin Tribeca, shop at Bloomingdale's, and attend openings at the Upper EastSide's Leo Castelli gallery.The beginnings of the book came about when friends askedKiedrowski what he wanted to do during his first visit to New York. Unlike most tourists, he didn'twant to check out Times Square or see theStatue of Liberty. Instead, he pulled out a piece of paper containing a list ofaddresses of buildings having to do with the Pop artist: the Silver Factory on East 47th Street,the White Factory at Union Square,and the townhouse on the Upper East Side whereWarhol lived with his mother. Kiedrowski eventually moved to NewYork, continuing to map out Andy's New York, and making a career out of hisobsession by offering tours to Warhol sites in the city.
- ARTINFO - How will Alice Walton's megalithic Crystal Bridges museum attract art aficionados to its scenic (read: backwoods) location of Bentonville, Arkansas? Well, making admission free is one strategy. A newly announced $20 million sponsorship gift from Walmart, a company founded and owned by the Walton family, will pay for all Crystal Bridges visitors, forever. Take that, MoMA and your new $25 ticket price!
- ARTINFO - New Yorkers pride themselves on their blasé — nothing will phase a well-trained city pedestrian. But artist Zefrey Throwell's urban intervention turned even the most stoic of heads: those of Wall Street traders. Throwell's "Ocularpation: Wall Street" saw 50 performers strip down and mime different Wall Street-related professions (traders, yes, but also janitors, secretaries, and everything in between) in a critique of the financial industry, a piece inspired by the plight of the artist's mother, a 60 year old woman who lost her retirement savings in the economic crash, and was forced to come out of retirement to look for a job.
- ARTINFO - Over the past decade Dutch photographer Charlotte Dumas has fashioned a promising art career around soulful, haunting portraits of wolves, Roman Army and NYPD horses, the stray dogs of Palermo and New York, and even a blind circus tiger in an attempt to show that "the state of mankind can be read and studied by the way we relate to animals." She's succeeded critically and commercially: Sofia Coppola and the late Alexander McQueen are among many luminaries who've collected her emotive work.
- ARTINFO - Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté is certainly used to flights of fancy, but this one was more unusual than most: a "poetic social mission" in space, on board the International Space Station. He documented the experience in a series of extraordinary photographs, which are gathered in "GAIA," just published by Assouline.
- Reuters - The St. Louis Art Museum is rearranging galleries by theme rather than time period, seeking to make them more accessible to visitors as part of a $162 million expansion.
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AP - A black skillet, a heat gun, pigments and beeswax take up a corner of LeRone Wilson's art studio in Harlem.
- Reuters - Britain's National Portrait Gallery launched a major show of the late figurative painter Lucian Freud's work Wednesday, showcasing the fleshy portraits which made him one of the world's most revered artists in his lifetime.
- ARTINFO - @font-face {font-family: "Times New Roman";}@font-face {font-family: "Arial";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: SectionAlthough the U.K.monarchy doesn't exactly conjure up images of spiked hair, loud music, andstudded leather jackets, Madonna thinks one former king is "very punkrock," according to the Daily Telegraph. When asked why she put Englishpunk band the Sex Pistols's 1977 anarchist anthem "God Save the Queen"on the soundtrack of her new film, "W.E." — a biopic about Wallis Simpson, theAmerican divorcée who captured King Edward VIII's heart — thepop-star-turned-filmed-director explained to the British broadsheet: "Ithought [Edward] was quite rebellious and cutting-edge in his point of viewabout life and about how to run the empire, and using the Sex Pistols was aperfect marriage." ARTINFOlists five possible reasons why Madonna thinks the notorious abdicator and Nazisympathizer was "punk rock":
- AP - Three top works from the late Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor's art collection have sold at a London auction for nearly 14 million pounds ($22 million), the auctioneer Christie's said Tuesday.
Reviews : What The Critics Say!!!
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AP - The crazy eyes and idiosyncratic drawl of Woody Harrelson are enough to carry the dirty cop study "Rampart," but even such powers as those can't make engaging this weary L.A. noir.
- Reuters - Leonard Cohen sold off his song rights some years back, so he apparently doesn't collect royalties for the most hilariously over-covered song in "American Idol" history. That's bad for him, but good for us, since being cash-poor prompted the 70-something singer to come out of semi-retirement and return to the road in the late 2000s -- which, in turn, ultimately spurred the recording of "Old Ideas," his first studio album in eight years.
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AP - There's little mystery about "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island."
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Reuters - Lana Del Rey has not postponed her spring tour -- because she didn't even have one planned, says a representative for the "Video Games" singer.
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AP - "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" — There's little mystery to this island.
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AP - Take one neglected masterpiece, stir in a gifted bunch of young singers, add an attentive conductor and a savvy director.
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AP - "Tribulations of the Shortcut Man" (Scribner), by p.g. sturges:
- AP - "Forgettable" probably isn't a word you'd expect to use to describe a film starring Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson and Sam Shepard. But unfortunately, that's one of the most apt when pondering "Safe House."
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AP - "Going Solo" (The Penguin Press), by Eric Klinenberg: Living in families, though traditional and almost universal on this evolving planet, is experiencing an unplanned but effective attack, according to a new book.
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AP - "The Mirage" (Harper), by Matt Ruff: An alternate history of the events surrounding 9/11 creates a unique and compelling read in Matt Ruff's "The Mirage."
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