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Library honors Billy Joel with Gershwin pop music prize

by The Associated Press July 22, 2014July 23, 2014

With a career spanning 50 years in the entertainment industry, Joel is the sixth top-selling recording artist of all time.

Arts & Entertainment

Lack of prep time caused Charlie Hunnam to walk away from ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

July 22, 2014July 22, 2014

He was the first choice to play Christian Grey in the movie, but couldn’t work it in to his schedule.

Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity News

Court: Philip Seymour Hoffman didn’t want ‘trust fund’ kids

by The Associated Press July 21, 2014July 22, 2014

His accountant says Hoffman wanted his estimated $35 million fortune to go to his longtime partner and his children’s mother.

Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity News, Nation & World, News

James Garner, star of ‘Maverick’ and ‘Rockford Files,’ dies at 86

by Dennis McLellan Los Angeles Times July 20, 2014July 22, 2014

Garner amassed more than 80 movie and TV-movie credits during his career of more than 50 years.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

Theater Review: MSMT dazzles with ‘Seven Brides’

by APRIL BOYLE July 20, 2014August 19, 2014

The high-stepping production charms with its heart and excites with its dance numbers.

Arts & Entertainment

New on DVD

July 20, 2014July 19, 2014

NEW ON THE SHELF “RIO 2,” animated, with the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway. Lively follow-up to the surprise 2011 smash hit finds the ever nervous Blu (perfectly voiced by Eisenberg) and his mate Jewel (Hathaway) relocating to Brazil, confronting not only the dangers of the foreign wild but Jewel’s dad (amusingly voiced by […]