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'Fast 6' speeds past 'Hangover' to top box office
After a lackluster start to the year, the movie industry enjoyed its most robust Memorial Day weekend ever at the box office, with "Fast & Furious 6" speeding to the top spot. The record-breaking four-day weekend generated estimated receipts of $316 million. "Over $300 million for Memorial Day weekend has ...
Daft Punk sets Spotify record with new album
Daft Punk has set another record on Spotify. The music service said Monday that the electronic duo's new album, "Random Access Memories," had the biggest number of streams in its first week in the United States. Spotify wouldn't release the number of streams, but Daft Punk beat the 8 million ...
'Spellbound' star reflects on a Spelling Bee life
Of the 85 kids who have won the National Spelling Bee, only one became an instant movie star. For the millions who watched back in 1999, her face is frozen in time. She'll always be the 14-year-old girl from Tampa, Fla., with the glasses and dark shoulder-length hair, her arms ...
Americans mark Memorial Day
Dozens of ceremonies were held across the nation to honor Americans killed in wars. Here is a gallery of photos from across the nation.
Israeli author Amos Oz wins Franz Kafka prize
Acclaimed Israeli author Amos Oz has won the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize in the Czech Republic. An international jury that included prominent German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki selected Oz for the prize, which is awarded annually with a $10,000 prize. Past winners have included the American novelist Philip Roth and ...
Longtime 'Tonight Show' drummer Shaughnessy dies
Ed Shaughnessy, the jazz drummer who for nearly three decades anchored the rhythm section of Doc Severinsen's "Tonight Show" band, has died in Southern California. He was 84. William Selditz, a close family friend, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/1albfp7 ) that Shaughnessy had a heart attack Friday at his ...
10 fans injured when TV cable falls on race track
Charlotte Motor Speedway said 10 fans were injured Sunday at the Coca-Cola 600 and three of them were taken to the hospital after a nylon rope supporting a Fox Sports overhead television camera fell from the grandstands and landed on the track surface. CMS vice president of communications Scott Cooper ...
Cinema's colorful wildlife on view at Cannes
"Look at these people, this wildlife." As the partying journalist of Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty," Toni Servillo was surveying Rome's colorful nightlife, but he might as well have been contemplating the Cannes Film Festival. The 66th edition of the Cote d'Azur extravaganza drew to a close Sunday, awarding the ...
Jolie aunt dies of breast cancer days after op-ed
Less than two weeks after Angelina Jolie revealed she'd had a double mastectomy to avoid breast cancer, her aunt died from the disease Sunday. Debbie Martin died at age 61 at a hospital in Escondido, Calif., near San Diego, her husband, Ron Martin, told The Associated Press. Debbie Martin was ...
Affleck gets honorary doctorate from Brown
Academy Award-winning actor and director Ben Affleck has received one of six honorary doctorate degrees from Brown University. Affleck was among artists, writers, scientists and educators to receive the degrees from the Ivy League school at commencement exercises Sunday. He received a doctor of fine arts degree. The Massachusetts native ...
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