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In-Flight Movie Channel Features Indies
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Direct-mail DVD club Film Movement, which offers its subscribers one independent film each month, is taking to the skies this month. | 1 |
Japanese Acts Woo U.S. Through Anime
NEW YORK (Billboard) - It's not unusual for adoring Japanese pop fans to sing along with their idols during a concert. But it's not often that an American audience does that -- and gets all the Japanese words right. | 1 |
British Badgers Threaten Ancient Burial Sites
STONEHENGE, England (Reuters) - Determined digging by badgers living near Britain's Stonehenge, a 5,000-year old circle of megaliths, is damaging ancient archaeological artifacts and human remains. | 1 |
The Cure's Smith Still Connects with Young Crowd
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Still singing about existential angst and slinging on his heavy makeup, The Cure's Robert Smith is connecting with audiences a third of his age as he headlines this summer's Curiosa festival even as he contemplates retirement. | 1 |
Nudes Battle Prudes on East German Baltic Beaches
WARNEMUENDE, Germany (Reuters) - Susanne Koch was wearing nothing but a friendly smile as she defended the merits of nude sunbathing on eastern German beaches. | 1 |
Iran Theater Director Turned Prison Boss Is Praised
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Putting a former theater director in charge of a detention center for hardened young criminals might seem a bold decision. | 1 |
Poor S.Africa Golf Fanatics Play Ganglands Course
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) - Khotso Mokotso is unemployed and lives in Cape Town's poor Guguletu township -- but like his heroes Ernie Els and Gary Player he too has designed a great South African golf course. | 1 |
Writer Jimmy Breslin Takes on Catholic Church
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Some people call him a saint of American journalism -- a man who walks, talks and breaks bread with the homeless and the afflicted, a man who doesn't hesitate to take on city hall or march into a riot. | 1 |
Sniffer Dog Is Heaven Scent for U.S. Kabul Envoy
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Cisko the sniffer dog is worth more than a new Corvette sports car, but his ability to intercept explosives is priceless. | 1 |
Venezuela's Poor Struggle as Politicians Talk
CARMEN DE URIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - In a derelict ghost town on the Venezuelan coast, 12-year-old Elvis Palacios salvages rusty steel bars from ruined buildings flattened by 1999 landslides. | 1 |
River Slaying Casts Shadow Over Kosovo Future
GORAZDEVAC, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Milisav Dakic said his wife had warned him not to let the children play outside their Serb enclave in Kosovo. But the summer heat was stifling, and the nearby stream was a popular place to cool off. | 1 |
Nepal Villagers Sell Kidneys to Beat Poverty
SHIKHARPUR, Nepal (Reuters) - Man Dhoj Tamang cuts a forlorn figure as he stands in front of his house in central Nepal, overlooking a valley full of lush green rice fields. | 1 |
Cult of the 'body beautiful'
A Boston exhibition of Greek art reflects both ancient athletic games, and modern moments of Olympic spirit. | 1 |
Bold opera draws stars to rural nook
It may look like a barn, but its star power makes it feel like the center of the opera universe. | 1 |
Movie Guide
Capsule reviews of current movies and new releases. | 1 |
Marriages of inconvenience
Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, and Naomi Watts ignore the Seventh Commandment. Domestic bliss does not ensue. | 1 |
A hot place for free expression
California's Venice Beach celebrates 100 years of beats, hippies, breakdancers, and fire breathers. | 1 |
Tuning in: On TV this week
Shows for Aug. 14 through 19th. | 1 |
Ad space invades 'Space Invaders'
From McDonalds to Levis, video games are increasingly being used for product placement. | 1 |
As nation gets more political, so does TV
Politically charged drama, comedy, and reality fare is coming to network and cable TV. | 1 |
Rolling Stones drummer has cancer
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is undergoing treatment for throat cancer, a band spokesman has said. | 1 |
Jackson probe 'should be public'
Santa Barbara's sheriff asks a judge if he can release the results of an inquiry into Michael Jackson's treatment by police. | 1 |
Rowling reads to gathered fans
Harry Potter author JK Rowling delights a small group of fans by giving her first public reading in Scotland for four years. | 1 |
Thousands dance in Rotterdam
Hundreds of thousands of techno music fans revel in the streets of Rotterdam, Holland, for the Fast Forward Dance Parade. | 1 |
Cruise Mission film shoot delayed
Shooting on Mission: Impossible 3 is delayed after star Tom Cruise was "forced" to find a new director. | 1 |
Oprah set for jury service duty
Millionaire chat show host Oprah Winfrey is be in court on Monday to serve jury duty. | 1 |
Fans can stay in Elvis' apartment
A Memphis apartment lived in by a teenage Elvis Presley is available for fans of the late star to rent. | 1 |
Nobel laureate poet Milosz dies
Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz, who campaigned against tyranny, dies aged 93 in Krakow. | 1 |
US Italians attack De Niro prize
Italian Americans object to plans to give actor Robert De Niro honorary Italian citizenship. | 1 |
Home win for Creek star
Actor James Van Der Beek wins his legal action against a real estate agent.
Plus other entertainment news in brief. | 1 |
Moore embarrasses CIA chief
Film-maker Michael Moore says the man chosen to head the CIA believes he is unqualified for the job. | 1 |
Crowds pay tribute to Rick James
Hundreds of friends and fans gather in Los Angeles to pay tribute to singer Rick James. | 1 |
Museum exhibits Sudan treasures
The British Museum in London unveils a major programme featuring cultural treasures from Sudan. | 1 |
Beatles Grammy up for sale
Grammy Awards won by the Beatles and Sir Paul McCartney are to be auctioned in California. | 1 |
BBC finance inquiry ordered
The BBC calls in an independent accounting firm to assess its financial systems. | 1 |
Writer Kooser is US poet laureate
Poet Ted Kooser from Nebraska, a "major voice", is named the new US poet laureate. | 1 |
Pay-TV outstripping advertising
The amount spent in the UK on pay-TV services is now greater than advertising revenue in the TV industry. | 1 |
Photographer sues Aguilera
A photographer sues singer Christina Aguilera alleging her bodyguard punched and spat at him. | 1 |
Psychiatrist tests Zeta 'stalker'
A psychiatrist is to examine whether a woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta Jones is fit to stand trial. | 1 |
Blige joins anti-Bush song remake
Mary J Blige, Missy Elliot and Eve unite to record a song to encourage voters away from President Bush. | 1 |
Inmates Help in Rescue of Captive Guard
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Inmates helped rescue a guard taken hostage by four other inmates at a regional Virginia jail Saturday, ending a four-hour standoff, officials said... | 1 |
Inmates Help in Rescue of Captive Guard
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Two guards who were held hostage by four inmates at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail were rescued, one of them by other inmates, as police negotiated for more than four hours to end the standoff... | 1 |
Hong Kong Attackers May Have Had Wrong Man
HONG KONG - A Hong Kong man whose right hand was chopped off by two assailants in a busy restaurant might have been wrongly targeted, a newspaper reported Sunday. Two men wearing surgical masks walked up to Lee Kwok-sum as he was having afternoon tea with a female friend on Friday, and one of them chopped off his right hand with a large knife... | 1 |
Twin Delivers Quadruplets on Her Birthday
WYNNEWOOD, Pa. - The odds of a fraternal twin giving birth to two sets of identical twins may be one in a million, but Geana Morris can attest to it... | 1 |
Police: $46G From Bank Found in Landfill
COLUMBUS, Ga. - A cache of cash found in the Columbus landfill was the result of a bank error, police said... | 1 |
Police: $46K From Bank Found in Landfill
COLUMBUS, Ga. - A cache of cash found in the Columbus landfill was the result of a bank error, police said... | 1 |
Twin Delivers Quadruplets on Her Birthday
WYNNEWOOD, Pa. - The odds of a fraternal twin giving birth to two sets of identical twins may be one in a million, but Geana Morris can attest to it... | 1 |
Man Drives Into Lake, Tries to Smoke Crack
NORTH PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - A police chase ended when a Long Island motorist drove into a backyard pond and tried to smoke a crack pipe just before his car sank, police said... | 1 |
Man Gets New Liver After Public Pleas for Help
A man's efforts to get a healthy liver with public pleas, including billboards and a Web site, succeeded as he underwent transplant surgery with a donated organ. Officials at The Methodist Hospital said Todd Krampitz, 32, was recovering Friday in the intensive care unit. | 1 |
Funeral Home Sued Over Decomposing Body
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A mourning family has sued a funeral home, saying it allowed the body of a 71-year-old husband and father to decompose for five days, until the stench of rotting flesh was so strong it sickened the minister at his funeral and dripped fluid from the casket... | 1 |
Colin Powell Meets Feline Doppelganger
WASHINGTON - Colin Powell, the cat, met Friday with Colin Powell, the secretary of state, who heaped praise on the uneasy black feline as "the best cat in the country." "Hey, Colin, how are you," Powell, the secretary of state, said when they were introduced in the treaty room on the seventh floor of the State Department before cameras and cat fanciers. "It's nice to have you here." The prize-winning cat, a copper-eyed Bombay born in the Brookfield, Conn., home of Sharyn and Sig Hauck, on the first anniversary of the Sept... | 1 |
Fire at Cricket Club Blamed on Rabbit
DEVIZES, England - Investigators in England think a fire at a cricket club was caused by a burning bunny. The blaze destroyed a tool shed at the Devizes Cricket Club, wiping out more than $100,000 worth of turf mowers and other equipment... | 1 |
Doggy-Mess Mystery Solved at Conn. Capitol
HARTFORD, Conn. - A state Senate leader says he has the scoop on the poop in the state Capitol... | 1 |
Idaho Man's Romantic Gesture Turns Fiery
LEWISTON, Idaho - A young man's passion ignited a fire this week that only his girlfriend and the Lewiston Fire Department could put out. Police said that on Wednesday evening, Chihao Wu, a student studying English at Lewis-Clark State College, arranged rolled-up clothes, doused in lamp oil, in a parking lot to spell "Happy Birthday" in his native language... | 1 |
Police Ticket Freight Train in Indiana
GOSHEN, Ind. - A mile-long freight train was ticketed by police for blocking a dozen city crossings for almost an hour as it awaited the arrival of a replacement crew... | 1 |
Serial 'Snuggler' Gets Probation in La.
BATON ROUGE, La. - The serial "snuggler" will have to keep his hands to himself... | 1 |
Operatic Hot Dog Vendor Heads to Minors
DETROIT - Charley Marcuse, the Detroit Tigers' operatic hot dog vendor, is taking a trip to the minors. The Tigers' AAA-affiliate Toledo Mud Hens have invited Marcuse, 22, to sing his "Hoooott Doooogs" this weekend... | 1 |
'Cheer Naked' T-Shirts Get Coach Fired
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - University of Florida's cheerleading coach was fired after he gave the squad permission to promote more than school pride at a cheerleading camp... | 1 |
Colin Powell the Cat to Meet Human Powell
WASHINGTON - Colin Powell, the cat, will meet on Friday with Colin Powell, the secretary of state. Colin Powell, a black Bombay pedigreed cat, has been named cat of the year by the Cat Fanciers' Association... | 1 |
Woman Sent to Jail for Smoking Near Kids
BOWLING GREEN, Va. - A woman was sentenced Thursday to 10 days in jail for defying a court order not to smoke around her children... | 1 |
Ants Form Enormous Supercolony Spanning 60 Miles
Normally clannish and agressive Argentine ants have become so laid back since arriving in Australia decades ago that they no longer fight neighboring nests and have formed a supercolony here that spans 60 miles, scientists say. | 1 |
Turkmen Leader Scolds Presenters on Makeup
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader has scolded national television presenters for wearing too much makeup and told them to look natural. "Female presenters wear too much whitening powder... | 1 |
Serial 'Snuggler' Sentenced to Probation
BATON ROUGE, La. - Baton Rouge's serial "snuggler" - the man who snuck into women's apartments just to cuddle with them - has been sentenced to five years' probation... | 1 |
Colin Powell the Cat to Meet Real Powell
WASHINGTON - Colin Powell, the cat, will meet on Friday with Colin Powell, the secretary of state. Colin Powell, a black Bombay pedigreed cat, has been named cat of the year by the Cat Fanciers' Association... | 1 |
Nude Boaters Stop Traffic on N.C. Roadway
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Some motorists on Interstate 77 have complained about nude boaters, and others have stopped to watch... | 1 |
The Age of Doom
In 1993 six geeks had a digital nightmare that changed the culture. It's about to get far creepier | 1 |
New Kids In The Blocks
Devastated by doping, a sport looks to youth to revive its fortunes | 1 |
Built For Speed
Why phenomenon Michael Phelps wants the hype over his gold rush to last, not just for him but for the sport itself | 1 |
A Supremacy All Her Own
Too often the nice one, Joan Allen takes charge | 1 |
The Hit Man Took a Taxi
It's one very dark night of the soul in Los Angeles in the stylish Michael Mann thriller Collateral | 1 |
The Multitude Strikes Back
The authors of Empire, the It book of postmodern philosophy, have a new plan to save the world | 1 |
People
A talentless Miss America contest; why Clinton's My Life
is wacky in translation; a real-life fatal attraction | 1 |
Will Americans Love Glasgow Celtic?
Two famous UK soccer teams make a tour of the U.S. | 1 |
Scary And Smart
Horror movies have grown up, toned down the gore and amped up the suspense. You could say they're dreadful. But in a good way | 1 |
Me-Ouch!
Richard Corliss reviews ÂCatwoman | 1 |
Broadway and Beyond: A Frog's Life
The new Nathan Lane play is strong on politics, light on entertainment | 1 |
Canadians at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games
The men and women who will push for the podium at Athens and make the nation proud | 1 |
Daniel Nestor
He may have won tennis gold in Sydney four years ago, but this time doubles star Nestor and his new partner are the underdogs | 1 |
Stubby Clapp
He may not be a household name outside the minor leagues, but this infielder could help lead Canada to a medal in baseball | 1 |
Immortal scream on Empire State top!
One of the most famous lines in cinema- and the most famous, precisely a scream - uttered way back in 1933 which echoed around the world to become a legend---AIIYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! | 1 |
Sanjay Dutt on NDTV's Jai Jawan
NDTV's award-winning program <i>Jai Jawan</i> is literally going places. | 1 |
Sanju planning to sue Canadian media
Sanjay Dutt is deeply hurt by the way the Canadian media lambasted him in the print and maligned his image while he was in the country to shoot for Anubhav Sinha's Dus. | 1 |
'Chot' director's next is 'Topless'
After directing HUM TUMPE MARTE HAIN [Govinda, Urmila] and CHOT [Ashutosh Rana, Sharad Kapoor], Nabhkumar Raju has been signed to direct producer B.S. | 1 |
Anubhav Sinha unable to handle Dus?
The Canadian media episode is not the only episode that is a hindrance to Dus. | 1 |
No Mission, it's War for Tom Cruise!
Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 3 will begin shooting only next year, but meanwhile, he will shoot for Steven Spielberg's War Of The Worlds. | 1 |
Rahman star of New York's I-Day parade
The craze to have a star lead the parade in NY is huge! | 1 |
Movies: Best of the week
rediff.com presents some of the top movies stories of the week. | 1 |
Kirsten Dunst to play Marie Antoinette
Sofia Coppola will write, direct and co-produce Columbia Pictures' Marie Antoinette. | 1 |
The director's cut: Soundtracks filmmakers love
Indian film music is big draw with some Western filmmakers. | 1 |
'I feel bad about playing Ash's uncle' :-)
Amitabh Bachchan on his latest film, Kyun! Ho Gaya Na... | 1 |
The man behind I, Robot
And, no, it ain't Will Smith! | 1 |
KHGN: Part-time fun
Samir Karnik's debut should do well in the metros. | 1 |
Kingsley to play vampire
The Oscar-winner will play Kagan, the evil king of vampires in BloodRayne. | 1 |
Meet the man Farah Khan will marry
You may fall in love with Shirish Kunder too! | 1 |
Rowling Teases Potter Fans With Hints
At the Edinburgh International Book Festival in Scotland Sunday, <b>J.K. Rowling</b> revealed some snippets of information about the upcoming sixth book, "<b>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince</b>." She said the plot revolves around two questions: ... | 1 |
Julia Child Dies at 91
Cooking TV show host Julia Child died in her sleep just two days before her 92nd birthday. The 6-foot-2 woman taught America how to cook healthy food for over twenty years. Top French chef Alain Ducasse, who knew Child commented, "Her enthusiasm for co... | 1 |
Did Mariah Plagiarize? Again?
Mariah Careyâs 1999 hit song âThank God I Found Youâ is being questioned for plagiarism. Songwriter Seth Swirsky claims that the song is a re-doing of a song he wrote called "Just One of Those Love Songs". This is not the first plagiarism case against ... | 1 |
The Teen Choice Awards
On FOX Wednesday night at 8pm the annual teen choice awards took place. The event was hosted by Paris Hilton and Nicole Riche. Some of the highlights of the evening included a kick butt performance by Lenny Kravitz, leatherface (from Texas Chainsaw Mas... | 1 |
Stages and Pages
U2 Show: The Art of Touring, a book looking back at the Irish rockers' numerous tours and live shows throughout the years, will be available Oct. 21. The tome, which is fully endorsed by the band, will feature hundreds of rarely seen images of U2 and t... | 1 |
Beach Boys Musical Coming to Broadway
A musical that uses more than 30 Beach Boys songs is set to open in Broadway in January next year. "<b>Good Vibrations</b>" is actually a book by <b>Richard Dresser</b> about small-town teenagers who come to Southern California. The songs expected to b... | 1 |
Subsets and Splits