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20731

Arts & Entertainment | 207312 hits | 8:42 AM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl

Betty Garrett, the vivacious Broadway star who played Frank Sinatra's sweetheart in two MGM musicals before her career was hampered by the Hollywood blacklist, has died in Los Angeles, her son said Sunday. She was 91.

20698

Arts & Entertainment | 206982 hits | 6:45 PM on Friday | posted by wildrosegirl

Elizabeth Taylor has been hospitalized for treatment of congestive heart failure.

20689

Arts & Entertainment | 206875 hits | 9:31 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

An Ottawa radio station has banned country superstar Carrie Underwood's music from its airwaves in protest of Mike Fisher's trade to the Nashville Predators.

20691

Arts & Entertainment | 206914 hits | 5:41 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

In 1966, George Beverly Shea claimed his first -- and what he figured would be his last -- Grammy Award. After all, he was happily settling into what he naturally assumed would be the twilight of his long, illustrious career.

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Arts & Entertainment | 207062 hits | 11:00 AM on Monday | posted by Canuckism

Christina Aguilera says she flubbed a line as she belted out the U.S. national anthem at the start of the Super Bowl on Sunday night after getting lost in the moment and losing her place.

20690

Arts & Entertainment | 206895 hits | 5:35 PM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl

An Ottawa audience whooped in support of free speech on Sunday as a film about Iran's nuclear ambition finally had its national capital premiere.

20706

Arts & Entertainment | 207059 hits | 1:43 PM on Thursday | posted by Scape

Peter Jackson has been released from a New Zealand hospital after undergoing surgery Jan. 26 for a perforated ulcer.

20842

Arts & Entertainment | 208415 hits | 12:41 PM on Monday | posted by Canuckism

NORTH VANCOUVER - A local jewelry designer's work will be featured in this year's Oscar gift bags.

20833

Arts & Entertainment | 208332 hits | 10:59 PM on Sunday | posted by Canuckism

VANCOUVER - A Trinity Western student from Fort Langley has been named Miss Canada 2011.

20874

Arts & Entertainment | 208738 hits | 7:35 PM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl

A Vancouver singer who battled cancer while using her talents to raise money for research and lift the spirits of young chemotherapy patients has died at the age of 20.

20827

Arts & Entertainment | 208268 hits | 12:56 PM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl

It's no secret that lawyers don't get a lot of love. ("What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?" goes one old joke. The answer? "A good start.")

20833

Arts & Entertainment | 208326 hits | 3:08 PM on Saturday | posted by Canuckism

PARK CITY, Utah — The Sundance Film Festival ranks as one of the most important events on the film industry calendar, but combine the heady rush of celebrities streaming through Park City with an Oprah moment, and you have the makings of an indelible memo

20804

Arts & Entertainment | 208041 hits | 9:14 PM on Friday | posted by Canuckism

VANCOUVER — If you see a guy soaring through the sky in blue tights and a red cape this summer, don’t fret: They’re going to be filming a new Superman movie in town.

20692

Arts & Entertainment | 206917 hits | 7:30 AM on Thursday | posted by Guy_Fawkes

A Canadian has become the first person to graduate from a Liverpool university's master's program on The Beatles. But Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy says she wasn't a Fab Four fanatic when she started the degree.

20682

Arts & Entertainment | 206823 hits | 7:17 AM on Thursday | posted by Guy_Fawkes

The 63-year-old singer and his long-term partner David Furnish became parents to Zachary - who was born through a surrogate mother last month - and the legendary entertainer feels "blessed" by his good fortune.

20883

Arts & Entertainment | 208830 hits | 9:45 PM on Tuesday | posted by Canuckism

METRO VANCOUVER — Vancouver was shut out of the Oscar nominations Tuesday, but there is a local connection to one of the best actor nominees: Colin Firth once lived in Maple Ridge.

20696

Arts & Entertainment | 206956 hits | 5:25 PM on Tuesday | posted by Canuckism

Vancouver’s own Godfrey Gao has become the first Asian model for Louis Vuitton, a contract that has earned him the title of “world’s first Asian supermodel” from some observers.

20717

Arts & Entertainment | 207173 hits | 12:53 PM on Tuesday | posted by Robht

After 50 yrs, one of the Fantastic Four is killed. :(

20684

Arts & Entertainment | 206837 hits | 8:06 AM on Friday | posted by QBall

British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, creator of the satire "Borat," will turn heads again with his new project "The Dictator," inspired by a novel from late Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein, his studio said Friday.

20680

Arts & Entertainment | 206797 hits | 4:14 AM on Wednesday | posted by Khar

It's official: Space channel announced today that it has ordered the fourth season of the Vancouver-shot sci-fi series Sanctuary.

20707

Arts & Entertainment | 207066 hits | 4:40 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

OTTAWA — The federal broadcast regulator may be asked this week to overturn a decision by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council that banned the airing of an original 1985 song by Dire Straits.

20717

Arts & Entertainment | 207169 hits | 8:55 AM on Monday | posted by Khar

Ricky Gervais, host of the Golden Globes, has been roundly given the thumbs down on his performance, which was full of what many consider nasty quips about Scientology, homosexuality and many celebrities in the audience.

20696

Arts & Entertainment | 206958 hits | 8:53 AM on Monday | posted by Khar

Canadians figure prominently on the short list for the $15,000 Lionel Gelber Prize for the year's best English-language book on global affairs, with Globe and Mail correspondent Doug Saunders' Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World joining S

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Arts & Entertainment | 206796 hits | 12:55 AM on Sunday | posted by Khar

With hundreds of cars on display at the 43rd edition of the Montreal International Auto Show, it can be hard to decide where to focus your attention.

20689

Arts & Entertainment | 206886 hits | 9:59 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

British actress Susannah York has died at the age of 72 after suffering from cancer, her son has said.

20663

Arts & Entertainment | 206631 hits | 2:07 AM on Saturday | posted by Khar

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, a fixture on Hollywood's social scene for decades, had most of her right leg amputated Friday to fight a gangrene infection, her spokesman said.

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Arts & Entertainment | 206647 hits | 2:05 AM on Saturday | posted by Khar

CBS is on Orange Alert over Charlie Sheen's partying ways, but his off-camera activities have not affected his job as star of the country's most popular comedy, CBS programming chief Nina Tassler told TV critics attending Winter Press Tour 2011.

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Arts & Entertainment | 206872 hits | 10:02 AM on Tuesday | posted by Curtman

They believe that they did not pirate tracks or commit copyright infringement because they hoped to pay artists at some point -- although they never did. In essence, their argument also boils down that it was too hard to find and legally purchase the tra

20672

Arts & Entertainment | 206715 hits | 6:39 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

PHILADELPHIA — Richard "Dick" Winters, the Easy Company commander whose World War II exploits were made famous by the book and television miniseries "Band of Brothers," died last week in central Pennsylvania. He was 92.

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Arts & Entertainment | 206672 hits | 4:34 PM on Friday | posted by Canuckism

A Vancouver landmark has been transformed into a little piece of India -- complete with palm trees and market stalls -- for filming starting tonight of the Tom Cruise blockbuster, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.

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Arts & Entertainment | 207026 hits | 2:27 PM on Wednesday | posted by Canuckism

Shane Bunting, known as emcee Mad Child with Vancouver hip hop group Swollen Members, has been banned from the United States after being questioned by U.S. customs agents at Vancouver airport about his association with the Hells Angels.

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Arts & Entertainment | 206869 hits | 1:43 PM on Wednesday | posted by Scape

In a YouTube clip, Williams, wearing an Army fatigue jacket and sporting a shaggy mane of hair, is seen carrrying a cardboard sign that reads: "I HAVE A GOD GIVEN GIFT OF VOICE. I'M AN EX-RADIO ANNOUNCER WHO HAS FALLEN ON HARD TIMES. PLEASE! ANY HELP W

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Arts & Entertainment | 207113 hits | 6:35 PM on Tuesday | posted by Canuckism

Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and Joshua Jackson are hard at work in Vancouver this week as filming of blockbuster Mission Impossible 4 and hit sci-fi series Fringe grinds back into gear. Film crews and film sets are popping up all over Hollywood North as

20696

Arts & Entertainment | 206959 hits | 6:33 PM on Tuesday | posted by Canuckism

Warner Music Group, the worldï¿½s third largest music conglomerate, named Vancouver-born music entrepreneur Cameron Strang as CEO of its publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, on Tuesday. Strang, who graduated from UBC Law School in 1992 and is a dieha

20679

Arts & Entertainment | 206789 hits | 6:04 PM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl

The preliminary hearing for the personal physician who watched over Michael Jackson on the day of his death has begun in Los Angeles.

20698

Arts & Entertainment | 206977 hits | 4:00 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

Anne Francis, who costarred in the 1950s science-fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and later played the title role in "Honey West," the mid-1960s TV series about a sexy female private detective with a pet ocelot, died Sunday. She was 80.

20717

Arts & Entertainment | 207163 hits | 9:37 AM on Monday | posted by Benn

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay was doused in gasoline and held at gunpoint

20714

Arts & Entertainment | 207127 hits | 1:22 AM on Monday | posted by Scape

Joseph Mallozzi still holds out hope that SGU will find life somewhere, and soon

20657

Arts & Entertainment | 206572 hits | 11:53 AM on Thursday | posted by Regina

Bobby Farrell, whose group Boney M topped the 1970s European charts with its glittering showmanship and blend of disco and Calypso music, was found dead in his hotel bed Thursday while on tour in Russia, his agent said. He was 61.

20681

Arts & Entertainment | 206814 hits | 11:37 PM on Tuesday | posted by Scape

"The government wants China to become a great cultural nation, but our leaders are so uncultured," he told The New York Times earlier this year. "If things continue like this, China will only be known for tea and pandas."

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Arts & Entertainment | 208247 hits | 5:12 PM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl

The piano man and husband David Furnish became parents to a 7-pound, 15-ounce baby boy born on Christmas Day. The news was first reported Monday night by USMagazine.com and confirmed to The Associated Press by John's Los Angeles-based publicist.

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Arts & Entertainment | 207997 hits | 11:20 AM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

Newfoundland artist Luben Boykov has been selected to create a Terry Fox statue at the site in St. John's where Fox dipped his artificial leg in the ocean to start his Marathon of Hope in 1980.

20803

Arts & Entertainment | 208029 hits | 11:18 AM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

Bud Greenspan, the award-winning filmmaker who spent six decades documenting the stories of Olympic athletes, has died at the age of 84.

20833

Arts & Entertainment | 208334 hits | 1:20 PM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl

Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner says he's gotten engaged again.

20683

Arts & Entertainment | 206828 hits | 8:16 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

The Timmins, Ont., native is planning to marry Swiss businessman Frederic Thiebaud. The news was first reported in US Weekly and later confirmed by Twain's manager.

20679

Arts & Entertainment | 206794 hits | 5:40 PM on Friday | posted by wildrosegirl

Michael Buble is getting "nervous" about his upcoming wedding because he wants his future bride to have the "perfect day".

20686

Arts & Entertainment | 206864 hits | 12:43 AM on Friday | posted by Scape

Syfy has just announced that it’s cancelled Stargate Universe, which will now end after the final 10 episodes are broadcast next year. The network has been airing the various versions of Stargate since 2002, but with no further incarnations of the show i

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Arts & Entertainment | 206732 hits | 12:44 PM on Thursday | posted by Scape

Director Blake Edwards, best known for his "Pink Panther" film series and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," has died at the age of 88, his publicist said Thursday. Edwards passed away Wednesday night of complications from pneumonia at St. John's Hospital in Sa

20678

Arts & Entertainment | 206783 hits | 3:41 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

Florida's Clemency Board has posthumously pardoned late singer Jim Morrison of the Doors for his 40-year-old conviction for indecent exposure and profanity.

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Arts & Entertainment | 207926 hits | 10:48 AM on Tuesday | posted by Khar

The future of Leslie Nielsen's final film is in doubt because the animated movie's creator is still hunting for investors to finance the project's completion.

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