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'Spellbound' star reflects on a Spelling Bee life
Of the 85 kids who have won the U.S. 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 Florida with the glasses and dark shoulder-length hair, her arms ...
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 ...
Ga. film alliance wants to attract movie makers
Three Georgia counties have joined a growing partnership that officials in southeast Georgia say will attract more film and television projects to the region. The Brunwsick News (http://bit.ly/18unqRs) reports that Libert, McInstosh and Charlton counties will join the Coastal Georgia Film Alliance. They will join Camden and Glynn counties in ...
Namesakes of Mich. air bases subjects of new book
A Detroit-area author and military veteran has written a new book about two pioneering aviators who are the namesakes of Michigan air bases. Lt. Thomas Selfridge and Capt. Phelps Collins are the subjects of Dan Heaton's book. Heaton is a public affairs specialist for the Michigan Air National Guard and ...
McCartney leaves pick on 1st visit to Graceland
Paul McCartney made his first visit to the one-time home of the King of Rock 'N' Roll and left a gift behind. According to the official Twitter account of the former Beatle, McCartney dropped a personal guitar pick on Elvis Presley's grave and said "this is so Elvis can play ...
LI police investigate stabbings at fireworks show
Police on Long Island are investigating two stabbings that occurred at a holiday weekend fireworks show. The violence occurred Sunday night at the annual Brookhaven Town Fair in Farmingville. WABC (http://bit.ly/16kvyGN ) says both victims were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. There were no immediate arrests. ___ ...
Flying Dog releases first compilation disc
"Beer and music go hand in hand. Literally. When's the last time you drank a beer in silence?" Chip Watkins, the marketing director at Flying Dog Brewery, has a point. He also admitted that it's often live music at the brewery that makes or breaks the evening. Because Flying Dog ...
Flint's Pure Pro Wrestling focuses on community
Sitting alone in a parking lot between the United Missionary Baptist Church and a vacant auto shop on Clio Road in Flint is the United Youth Center. The small, brick, windowless building is home to Pure Pro Wrestling. Joe Byrd, a 29-year-old Goodrich native, has run the business for the ...
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 ...
Fort Smith graduate takes on Abercrombie & Fitch
When Southside High School graduate and former Fort Smith resident Greg Karber saw and heard what he calls "a social ill," he was appalled. So he grabbed his cell phone, hopped into his car and dove into film-making action. Last week, the 26-year-old Karber, now a Los Angeles resident, writer ...
Jolie aunt dies of breast cancer days after op-ed
Angelina Jolie's aunt has died of breast cancer less than two weeks after Jolie had a double mastectomy to avoid the disease. Debbie Martin died at age 61 at a hospital in Escondido, California, near San Diego, her husband, Ron Martin, told The Associated Press. Debbie Martin was the younger ...
Duluth man finds his niche as the vintage amp guy
His work has been seen and heard at music festivals, clubs and arenas around the world, but you won't find posters of him lining the bedroom walls of teenagers. Nic Patullo started New Vintage Amplifiers in 2008. And with an ever-expanding client list that includes the bands blink-182, 3 Doors ...
PBS DEMANDS, AND GETS, MORE REPORTING IN A FILM
c.2013 New York Times News Service The independent short film “Outlawed in Pakistan” had its United States premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival, where the Los Angeles Times called it “among the standouts.” On Tuesday, PBS’ “Frontline” will broadcast the film, but not quite the same one, after ...
BUSINESS NEWS AT A GLANCE
c.2013 New York Times News Service AGENCY’S INQUIRY COVERS 400,000 FORD PICKUPS The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Sunday that it was investigating consumer complaints about “sharp reductions” in acceleration on 2011 to 2013 Ford F-150 pickups that are equipped with the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 engine. The action — ...
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 ...
HAROLD SHAPERO, NEO-CLASSICAL COMPOSER, DIES AT 93
c.2013 New York Times News Service Harold Shapero, a composer who was a central figure of American Neo-Classicism, a school of composition that thrived in the 1940s and ’50s, died on May 17 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 93. His death, at a nursing home, was announced by his family ...
INDUSTRY TAKES AIM AS COMPUTER PROGRAMS SIPHON OFF CONCERT TICKETS
c.2013 New York Times News Service As the summer concert season approaches, live music fans, and the concert industry that serves them, have a common enemy in New York. And in Russia. And in India. That enemy is the bot. “Bots,” computer programs used by advanced scalpers, are a hidden ...
Boston Marathon concert to feature music icons
Some of Boston's biggest music icons are scheduled to perform this week at a benefit concert for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. Aerosmith, James Taylor and New Kids on the Block are among the performers expected at the benefit concert Thursday at the TD Garden. The show will benefit ...
Seen and heard in Cannes
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. UNCOMFORTABLE MOMENTS FOR ACTRESS AS DAD WATCHES LOVE SCENES: Talk about awkward. Not only did Adele Exarchopoulos' father watch the graphic sex scenes between her and another woman in Cannes Palme d'Or-winning "Blue Is The Warmest Color (The ...
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