May 25, 2013

Mary J. Blige faces $3.4M federal tax lien in NJ, says she’s trying to resolve

‘Do you know how long I have tried… Check out this week’s best celebrity quotes. more » http://www.canada.com/entertainment/celebrity/Mary+Blige+faces+federal+lien+says+trying+resolve/8430802/story.html

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Backstreet Boy Nick Carter to release memoir about substance abuse, tumultuous family Sept. 25

‘Do you know how long I have tried… Check out this week’s best celebrity quotes. more » http://www.canada.com/entertainment/celebrity/Backstreet+Nick+Carter+release+memoir+about+substance/8430788/story.html

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Watch: Amanda Bynes get arrested

We all knew this day would come, and to some, it’s a surprise that it hasn’t happened sooner: Amanda Bynes has been arrested. Amanda Bynes most recent mugshot from May 23, 2013. According to multiple outlets, including TMZ, law enforcement was called to Bynes’ building after a doorman had spotted her rolling and smoking a joint in the lobby of her building while acting erratically and talking to herself. According to reports, Bynes let the officers into her apartment and threw a bong out of the window of her 36th floor apartment. Luckily no one was the victim of the…

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Handwritten Beatles lyrics headed for permanent display at British Library

The funniest celebrity mugshots… Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, Snooki — and more… more » http://www.canada.com/entertainment/music/Handwritten+Beatles+lyrics+headed+permanent+display+British/8424607/story.html

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Edith Piaf composer Georges Moustaki dead at 79

The funniest celebrity mugshots… Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, Snooki — and more… more » http://www.canada.com/entertainment/music/Edith+Piaf+composer+Georges+Moustaki+dead/8424566/story.html

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Getting Arrested: A guide to the first three seasons

Here’s the cold, hard Bluth about the Netflix series’ first three seasons, which aired on Fox from 2003 to 2006. Season 1 The blue-blood Bluth family seemingly has it all: Fame, wealth, respect and financial security. Then, one day, patriarch George Bluth, Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), CEO of The Bluth Company, is exposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission for defrauding investors and spending millions of dollars of the company’s money on “personal expenses.â€� Bluth Sr. is sent to prison, leaving the company in the hands of his eccentric, borderline alcoholic wife, matriarch Lucille (Jessica Walter), who immediately names her insecure,…

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Chris Wedge has an Epic story to tell

By Hollywood standards, Chris Wedge should be a sought-after visionary. In 2002, Wedge’s Ice Age cartoon introduced the lucrative animated motion picture franchise by scoring an impressive $383.3 million at the worldwide box office. That led to his transition from director to executive producer on three subsequent Ice Age films, which have pulled in nearly $3 billion theatrically. So you would think that the filmmaker would get a quick “yesâ€� for anything he wanted to do; but not so fast. His latest, Epic, turned out to be an appropriate title in more ways than the theme. It took Wedge eight…

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Chris Wedge has an Epic story to tell

By Hollywood standards, Chris Wedge should be a sought-after visionary. In 2002, Wedge’s Ice Age cartoon introduced the lucrative animated motion picture franchise by scoring an impressive $383.3 million at the worldwide box office. That led to his transition from director to executive producer on three subsequent Ice Age films, which have pulled in nearly $3 billion theatrically. So you would think that the filmmaker would get a quick “yesâ€� for anything he wanted to do; but not so fast. His latest, Epic, turned out to be an appropriate title in more ways than the theme. It took Wedge eight…

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The restoration of Duddy Kravitz

CANNES, France — When the classic film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is shown at the Cannes Film Festival Wednesday, it will quietly correct a 39-year-old injustice and mark one of the strangest episodes in the history of Canadian cinema. It is the story of an unusual collaboration between an author and a filmmaker, a movie that was nominated for Oscars but was abandoned by its federal champions, and a decision that partly led an accomplished director to leave Canada for Hollywood. The movie was made in 1974 by Ted Kotcheff, now 82, a Toronto-born filmmaker who learned his craft…

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It was the best of TV seasons … and yet …

It was the best of seasons, it was the worst of seasons. The TV business has never been healthier, the TV business has never been in worse shape. It was a time of viewer discontent, it was a time viewer satisfaction. The 2012-13 network TV season officially ended Wednesday with the finales of Modern Family, Nashville, The Middle, Criminal Minds and the series finale of The Office. Judging from analysts’ accounts, it was arguably the most disruptive season in the history of broadcast television, with viewers continuing to defect the mainstream broadcast networks in droves, even as those very same…

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