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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Museum of the Moving Image

A series on Jeanne Dielman‘s influences brings the film itself and work by Snow, Bresson, and Pasolini; somewhat different from Jeanne Dielman, Godzilla vs. Megalon plays Friday and Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives

A Joe Dante retrospective begins; films by Luis Buñuel and Chaplin screen through the weekend in Essential Cinema.

Film Forum

The recently restored Finnish classic Eight Deadly Shots begins its two-part run; Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity and The Conformist continue; two Harold Lloyd movies screen; The Jackie Robinson Story plays on 35mm this Sunday.

Film at Lincoln Center

The newly restored Drylongso continues screening. (Read our interview with director Cauleen Smith here.)

IFC Center

White Material, Chocolat, and Beau Travail offer a Claire Denis fix; Before Sunrise and Before Sunset screen, while Fight Club, Akira, Jaws, Barb Wire, and Poison Ivy have late showings,...

Is Reese Witherspoon Hollywood's biggest book mogul? Witherspoon turned Gone Girl into a box-office hit with her production company, Pacific Standard. Then she performed the same magic with Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild, which led to an Oscar nomination for herself. When she isn't converting books into films, she's posting about them on Instagram for her book club. Using the hashtag #RWBookClub, Witherspoon's favorites range from You'll Grow Out Of It by Jessi Klein to Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes. Many of the stories feature edgy, smart, imperfect women, and Witherspoon promises they're all great reads. To start your own #RWBookClub journey,...

Is Reese Witherspoon Hollywood's biggest book mogul? Witherspoon turned Gone Girl into a box-office hit with her production company, Pacific Standard. Then she performed the same magic with Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild, which led to an Oscar nomination for herself. When she isn't converting books into films, she's posting about them on Instagram for her book club. Using the hashtag #RWBookClub, Witherspoon's favorites range from You'll Grow Out Of It by Jessi Klein to Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes. Many of the stories feature edgy, smart, imperfect women, and Witherspoon promises they're all great reads. To start your own #RWBookClub journey,...

It was time for her book tour, and Jessi Klein was worried. She'd won an Emmy as head writer for Inside Amy Schumer (see her hilarious "Last F---able Day" episode, link Nsfw), but that didn't mean the world knew her. Would anyone schlep to bookstores to hear her read from You'll Grow Out of It, her collection of comic essays? "I was like, oh god, do I have to read to one cricket and one tumbleweed at all these places?" Klein says. She didn't. Published in July, You'll Grow Out of It is a word-of-mouth hit, the kind of book...

It took years of working in network television, but Julie Miller finally created the rarest of media opportunities: An insurrection.

“Riot is an uprising,” said Miller, who serves as creative director for the YouTube channel, which is backed by Refinery29. “It’s a space for women to make comedy for everyone and not feel like they have to skew male.”

Fifteen years ago, Miller was double-booked as an intern at Saturday Night Live and Comedy Central. “I was interning for Tina Fey at Weekend Update, and I spent the other half of the week at Comedy Central assisting Jessi Klein in development,” she said. “I came to New York and immediately worked for two of the best female comedians, so the stakes were really high.”

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In those jobs, Miller saw firsthand what content cable networks bought — and didn’t.

Late Night host Seth Meyers reminds President Obama, Dem nominee Hillary Clinton that one of the oldest precepts of a presidential election campaigning: Stay Out Of It as your political opponent’s campaign is imploding. “Obama, Hillary,…Trump is digging his own grave. Don’t grab the shovel!” Meyers said.”Leave it to Republicans like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to comment because, right now, those guys have got to be feeling like Dr Frankenstein.” Should Trump relent and…...

Writer Jack Nicholson and star Peter Fonda told Roger Corman he couldn't make a movie about LSD without trying it at least once. So Roger took a caravan of pals to Big Sur, where he dutifully dropped acid and communed with the elements. Out of it all came his most personal and revealing film, a pop art time capsule that was banned in Britain for nearly a decade.

If next spring’s crop of Wayward Pines tomatoes is a little redder and juicier than the usual, we’ll know who to thank. (And no, Jason, you’re not getting credit for this one — even if it’s your “clear and severe” strategy that adds a little extra fertilizer to the fields.)

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Rebel leader Ben Burke’s blood spills out into the acreage just outside the electrified fence protecting the last members of the human race, a pack of Abbies tearing into his flesh with glee and the town’s cretin...

Nicole Beharie took her last porch-seat swing as Sleepy Hollow‘s Abbie Mills in April, and for the first time since then, co-star Tom Mison is publicly commenting on her exit from the Fox drama.

“Abbie Mills represented more than just another character in the show,” the actor told The Realistic Optimist during a roundtable conversation at London McM Comic Con this weekend. “It wasn’t an easy decision for them to make. I know that. The writers, they like writing Abbie Mills. And I like acting with Nicole.”

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Echoing what Fox CEO Dana Walden...

Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance kicked off its “Next Generation” season on Monday with 3.7 million total viewers and a 1.0 demo rating, up from its Season 12 finale (2.4 mil/0.8) but down from its previous premiere (4 mil/1.3), hitting what must be all-time lows for a season opener.

TVLine readers gave the kid-centric edition an average grade of “D+.”

RelatedSytycd: The Next Generation Premiere Recap: Were These Kids All Right?

Leading out of that, Houdini & Doyle (2.1 mil/0.5) slipped 20 percent and a tenth to season lows.

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Over on ABC, The Bachelorette (5.9 mil/1.6) was down 11 and 20 percent from its season opener.

Fire up your Snapchat. Upload something cool on fleek to Instagram. And, Oh Em Gee, limit your opinions to a Twitter-friendly 140 characters. So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation is upon us, and it’s going to improve its ratings in the advertiser-craved 18-34 demographic even if it kills those of us who’ve faithfully watched Fox’s summer staple for the past 12 seasons.

RelatedThe Voice: 8 Easy Fixes to Stop the NBC Juggernaut’s Ratings Slide

Ah well, for all the social-media ridiculousness that pervaded the hour, at least they didn’t replace Cat Deeley with a series of emojis.

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The Aliens, from the producers of Misfits, is raucous fun with a social message. Here’s what to expect from E4’s new sci-fi comedy…

Whenever humans imagine being invaded by an alien race, it’s pretty much always a big deal. Flying saucers land and what follows are mind-blowing technological developments, intergalactic war, the White House being evaporated, or Sarah Jessica Parker’s head winding up on a Chihuahua’s body. Rarely is first contact no biggie.

Except in E4’s The Aliens, a new comedy sci-fi written by Fintan Ryan (Rev, In The Flesh, Never Better) set forty years after an extra-terrestrial craft crash-lands in the North Sea. Out of it came a few hundred humanoid aliens who travelled ashore on rafts and were, for a short time, integrated into British society before political resentment and intolerance eventually forced them into a ghetto. Known as Troy,...

Rob Gronkowski tells TMZ Sports he's definitely thinking about doing "Dancing with the Stars" one day ... but says he's worried that formal training will Ruin his trademark skills.   Gronk was out in NYC this weekend ... where he broke Several pieces of big news, including: -- Did he nail that hot local reporter on Valentine's Day? -- He's been training teammate Chandler Jones to fight his brother Jon "Bones" Jones-- He Never wants to leave the New England Patriots.

Writer Jack Nicholson and star Peter Fonda told Roger Corman he couldn’t make a movie about LSD without trying it at least once. So Roger took a caravan of pals to Big Sur, where he dutifully dropped acid and communed with the elements for 1967's "The Trip." Out of it all came his most personal and revealing film, a pop art time capsule that was banned in Britain for nearly a decade.

Writer Jack Nicholson and star Peter Fonda told Roger Corman he couldn't make a movie about LSD without trying it at least once. So Roger took a caravan of pals to Big Sur, where he dutifully dropped acid and communed with the elements. Out of it all came his most personal and revealing film, a pop art time capsule that was banned in Britain for nearly a decade.

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[Warning: Spoilers ahead for Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones, "The Watchers on the Wall."] Game of Thrones is arguably the biggest show on TV, but Sunday's episode was ambitious even by Thrones standards. The epic battle at the Wall featured giants and mammoths, bloody deaths and intimate character moments. Out of it all, director Neil Marshall, who is known for overseeing season two's Battle of the Blackwater, says he is most proud of the show's emotional goodbye to Ygritte (Rose Leslie). Photos: 10 Most Brutal 'Game of Thrones' Fights "I wanted to capture them in a little bubble.

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If you're a male of a certain age, the idea of remaking "RoboCop" is very nearly unfathomable.

The movie was a deeply personal one that showed a lot of us what the possibilities of action filmmaking really were (along with "Die Hard," released a year later); at once totally of its time and utterly timeless. And yet, a remake is exactly what we're getting this week, with MGM and Sony's big-screen overhaul of "RoboCop."

This new story features some familiar elements, mostly having to do with a street smart Detroit cop (this time played by Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman from TV's "The Killing"), who is horribly injured in the line of duty but brought back to life (sort of) using cutting-edge technology. He might be mostly machine now, but the existential questions of humanity and the soul still remain, buried within his hardwired programming.

Before the movie, a colleague casually...

Cutting to the chase; first up on the evening were breakthrough youngsters The Strypes, as they continue to ride on the wave they got started in 2012. This support slot being one many up and comers, and some more established, might’ve killed for or at least sold a relative, it’s an even bigger break for this four piece, and one that will likely cement the success they’ve garnered so far.

I’ll be honest though, I’m still wondering which one of them has a family member in the music industry. Call me sceptical, call me cynical, but I can’t trust the four kids release an Ep of blues covers and suddenly they’re getting fandom from the likes of Paul Weller, Dave Grohl, Jeff Beck, and Noel Gallagher, among others. I mean, it could’ve been being signed to Elton John’s management company, and his being a fan but…...

This week Arctic Monkeys made British Chart history by becoming the UK’s first ‘indie’ band to have five consecutive number 1 albums. A tremendous feat for an ‘indie’ band – the only problem being that the Arctic Monkeys are in no way ‘indie.’ Granted, they began as the MySpace sensation and the first number 1 single of the Digital Age, but the lads from Sheffield have managed, over the course of their near-decade long careers, to transcend the idea of genre. They have created their own crux in the music industry by striking a perfect balance between a signature sound and musical growth. 2006′s Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not provided a gritty, bombastic and raw slice of British youth that resonated, making it the fastest selling debut album in the UK.

Since then, each of the Monkeys’ albums have matured insound – going from a group of...

On tonight's new episode of Necessary Roughness Season 3, Tk will grow angry when he confronts his latest love interest and accuses her of Jeter-ing him.

Yes, Jeter-ing him, a referral in this case to Shira leaving our favorite fictional football player after a night of nakedness together... with nothing but a gift basket and the figurative back of her hand.

And Tk is not one to get Jeter-ed! Tk is the one who Jeters others!

Watch the funny exchange below and visit TV Fanatic tonight for a detailed review of "Snap Out of It."

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Levine Communications Office, a PR firm launched by Michael Levine in 1983, has been purchased by Icon Builder Media CEO David T. Fagan, Lco announced on Tuesday. Despite the change in ownership, the firm's name will not be changed and Levine will continue to serve as a consultant. Also read: Publicist Michael Levine to Ronni Chasen Tipster: Leave Me Out of It "I love Lco with all my heart and know that its best days lay ahead," Levine said in a statement before adding that the sale feels "a bit surreal." "I feel like a...

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Previously on Chicago Fire, Casey had a sleepover with Andy Darden’s widow, Mills decked Severide’s dad and was rewarded with an invitation to join an elite squad dedicated to investigating decades-old feuds. Shay asked Severide to be her baby daddy making the straight Shayveride shippers happy and causing many lesbians to bail on the show entirely. You know how shows have warnings about mature content? This episode needs a “you may want a drink for at least one of the storylines” warning. Seriously, lesbians, find yourself a brew.

We start this week with Heather Darden folding up the blanket on the sofa where she slept the entire night through and did not enjoy the man candy that is Matthew Casey. After he rejected her lasagna laced seduction she’s feeling a bit twitchy and flits around talking about having to go pick up her kids (at 7 a.

Former "American Idol" contestant Jermaine Jones has a message for the "Idol" castoffs threatening to sue the show for racism -- keep his name The Hell Out Of It!!Jermaine -- who was disqualified from "A.I." back in March 2012 for outstanding arrest warrants -- tells TMZ ... he is "offended" his name was cited in the current legal battle brewing between the reality show and several former contestants. TMZ broke the story ... nine African-American ex-contestants...

Anybody who has ever been to a high school reunion (and I’ve been to my share) will tell you that the calendar and the clock can be incredibly cruel (particularly when combined with the long-term effects of gravity, but let’s not go there).

Time punishes creative works as well. Some work grows dated, stale, stiff. Time and the evolving form of the given art leaves a once vibrant and exciting work behind looking dead and obsolete.

More cruel, perhaps, is work that is simply…forgotten. Not for any good reason. Good as it was, maybe it was simply not successful enough to lodge very deeply in the popular consciousness; working well enough in its day, but soon lost among the ever-growing detritus of a lot of other pieces of yesterday.

Movie music is particularly vulnerable to the cruelties of time. Outside of the form’s devotees, it rarely...

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I was recently able to sit down for a chat with Disney Pixar’s Brave director Mark Andrews and producer Katherine Sarafian for Blogomatic3000. Having been thoroughly impressed with their labour of love (have a look of my review for specifics), there were loads of questions I was eager to ask. However, due to time limitations, I was only able to raise a handful, but Andrews and Sarafian were quick to respond with an enthusiasm inherent to those who truly love their jobs.

Though focusing predominately on Brave and how they brought the film together, as a big fan of The Incredibles (which both Andrews and Sarafian worked on), my final question had to be about where things stand with a follow-up to Pixar’s super-est of heroes. So, read on for a peek inside two of the minds that make up the most innovative studio in film-making today.

Green Wake Volume 1 was released this week and collects the first 5 issues of the on-going series from Shadowline, an imprint of Image Comics. I recently got a chance to talk with Green Wake‘s writer and co-creator Kurtis Wiebe, and asked about the origins of Green Wake and where it’s headed. Included in the interview are exclusive details regarding the upcoming story arc and we also have a new piece of artwork that you won’t see anywhere else.

For readers who aren’t familiar with you, can you tell us a bit more about yourself and your career in the comic industry?

Kurtis Wiebe: I’m a Canadian writer that’s survived 32 winters from hell to bring you this monstrous little booked called Green Wake. I was first published in 2009 with a supernatural action booked called Beautiful Creatures through Red 5 Comics. It was about a group of college...

Todd Solondz's 'Dark Horse,' Sam Worthington Starrer 'Texas Killing Fields,' Persepolis Follow-Up 'Chicken With Plums' Also In Competition, Soderbergh's 'Contagion,' Madonna's 'W.E.' Out Of It After a few months of rumors flying around, the line up for the 2011 Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and to put it mildly, we're a little bit excited. The opening and closing films, George Clooney's "The Ides of March" and Whit Stillman's "Damsels In Distress," had been revealed over the past few weeks, and now, we've got the full selection. There'll be little new for anyone who spied the leaked line-up a few…...

The Feeling have announced a change of plans for their new single. The band have confirmed that they will release 'A Hundred Sinners' as the second single from their recent album Together We Were Made. The pop five-piece originally revealed that they were going to release the Sophie Ellis-Bextor collaboration 'Leave Me Out Of It', but have since decided to delay its official release. Speaking about 'A Hundred Sinners', the band explained: "It's the simplest song on the album... but it's fun. (more)...

I can admit when I'm wrong.

When Warehouse 13 debuted on Syfy, I immediately took to our Facebook page to decry it as just a "Robey-less Friday the 13th - The Series." There were many people on Facebook who disagreed with me ... including the show's star Eddie McClintock, who implored me to give the show another shot.

So I gave the show another shot. But it had nothing to do with Eddie! I just felt that I hadn't really given the show a proper chance, so I tried again, and eventually found myself hooked. Warehouse 13 is fun, goofy, and sexy, and may have its best season yet this year.

For the uninitiated, W13 is a top secret facility in South Dakota which houses rare and dangerous artifacts, such as Lewis Carroll's looking glass, Robin Hood's crossbow, and James Franco's brownie recipe.

Secret Service Agents Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly...

The Feeling have announced plans to release their Sophie Ellis-Bextor collaboration 'Leave Me Out Of It'. The London-based five-piece will officially release the track on August 22, when it will become the second single to be lifted from their new album Together We Were Made. Speaking to Digital Spy about the decision to collaborate with Ellis-Bextor, frontman Dan Gillespie Sells explained: "It was part of becoming more experimental that we decided to include the collaborations. "When we've worked with other producers it's always seemed a waste of time because (more)...

So you're a straying politician who doesn't want to end up in the tabloids. Don't date an employee, and do use birth control! Ex-madam Kristin Davis and the founder of Ashley Madison offer a guide to getting away with it.

It's no secret that Americans have the highest rate of divorce in the Western world; at least one study has found that 60 percent of men and half of women will cheat on their spouses at some point during their lives. But if cheating happens so often, why haven't we gotten any better at doing it? From Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose wife is leaving him over a secret child, to former presidential candidate John Edwards, who allegedly paid off his mistress using campaign funds, to the text-happy Tiger Woods, let's hope America's cheating husbands and wives have taken a hint on what not to do.

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Ashton Kutcher is a man full of ideas—and to that, he also knows a good one when he see it. Back in February, the actor and entrepreneur dropped by the La edition of Startup Weekend, a 54-hour no-sleep grindfest of tech entrepreneurs tasked with taking an idea from concept to launched startup in just one weekend. Out of it came some pretty clever products, like Zaarly, that Kutcher himself backed along with other investors. That got Kutcher and partner Jason Goldberg and their team at Katalyst thinking. Could this same format be done with online video content ideas? That’s when they looped in a major sponsor, Intel, and came up with IdeaJam, a 48-hour event held April 1-3 with 48 digital filmmakers forming six teams tasked with pitching, creating, adapting, building, devising, and editing their ideas under the over-arching “What Inspires You?” theme. Now video from the event, shot documentary style,...

At its essence, White Material is an exploded chamber drama. A Haneke-style family unit (complete with a brutally bored son) holed up mentally, emotionally, economically and geographically encounters various interlopers while fighting to preserve a bourgeois sense of "integrity."

Take the anti-psychological scalpelling of time and space of The Intruder and combine it with 35 Shots of Rum' almost classical use of objects, and you getWhite Material, a film that partly reveals itself through the way things pass in and out of characters' hands within the space of a folded chronology. But whereas 35 Shots of Rum limited itself to a handful—two rice cookers, an iPod, a red door—White Material is stuffed with bric-a-brac. There, are, for example, the battery-powered radios, all of which are tuned to the same reggae rebel radio station.

Or Christopher Lambert's gold-plated lighter, which passes from character to character. A distinctively ostentatious symbol of colonial decadence,...

The Buried Life Takes on Ferris Bueller Monday at 10:30 Pm in a segment titled Crash a Parade. This week on "The Buried Life," Duncan, Ben, and Dave head to Iowa to crash the state parade and surprise the crowd with a song and dance routine just like Ferris Bueller. The Buried Life began with a question: "What do you want to do before you die?" Out of it grew an inspirational TV show and a grassroots movement that has allowed viewers to live vicariously through four friends -- Ben, Jonnie, Duncan and Dave -- as they put themselves in the most incredible situations and helping strangers while traveling the country trying to complete a list of...

Tune in alert for MTV's new episode of .The Buried Life,. as the guys head to Las Vegas to help Dave find a bride. They also plan a fabulous bachelor party for him. Premise for .The Buried Life. began with a simple question: "What do you want to do before you die?" Out of it grew an inspirational TV show and a grassroots movement that has allowed viewers to live vicariously through four friends -- Ben, Jonnie, Duncan and Dave -- as they put themselves in unexpected situations while traveling the country trying to complete a bucket list of sorts, "100 things they want to do before they die." For every item they cross off their...

Another socially-conscious series on MTV like "World of Jenks." "The Buried Life" airs on Monday At 10:30/9:30C on MTV Tune in alert for Monday.s new episode of MTV.s .The Buried Life,. Duncan seeks out his dream girl, Taylor Swift, as he sets to cross off another item on the list -- .Ask Out the Girl of Your Dreams.. .The Buried Life. began with a simple question: "What do you want to do before you die?" Out of it grew an inspirational TV show and a grassroots movement that has allowed viewers to live vicariously through four friends -- Ben, Jonnie, Duncan and Dave -- as they put themselves in the most incredible and unexpected situations while traveling the country...

Monday MTV welcomes back it.s hit show .The Buried Life!. Join Duncan, Ben, Jonnie and Dave as they once again set off to cross things off their .100 Things To Do Before You Die. list . starting with streaking a sports game. Tune in Monday, September 27th, at 10:30 on MTV! .The Buried Life. Season 2 Premieres Monday At 10:30/9:30C on MTV .The Buried Life. began with a simple question: "What do you want to do before you die?" Out of it grew an inspirational TV show and a grassroots movement that has allowed viewers to live vicariously through four friends -- Ben, Jonnie, Duncan and Dave -- as they put themselves in the most incredible and unexpected...

Rolling Stone Thinks You're an Idiot Peter Travers, the mag's critic, casts a shadow of a doubt on moviegoers' smarts in an excerpt of his review, saying that "trusting the intelligence of the audience can cost Nolan at the box office." Hey, I didn't say it. But Can You Make Shoes Out of It? Only in our dreams could we imagine the Syfy Channel would pair ‘80s pop tarts Debbie Gibson (last seen in the not-as-good-as-it-sounded Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus) and Tiffany (last seen in the pages of Playboy) in their original TV movie Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, the mysterious latter of which sounds like either an unfortunately named sports drink or something you’d be unfortunate to catch from a dirty toilet seat. Yup, I'm in. Divine Resurrection What would Neil Patrick...

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Rolling Stone Thinks You're an Idiot Peter Travers, the mag's critic, casts a shadow of a doubt on moviegoers' smarts in an excerpt of his review, saying that "trusting the intelligence of the audience can cost Nolan at the box office." Hey, I didn't say it. But Can You Make Shoes Out of It? Only in our dreams could we imagine the Syfy Channel would pair ‘80s pop tarts Debbie Gibson (last seen in the not-as-good-as-it-sounded Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus) and Tiffany (last seen in the pages of Playboy) in their original TV movie Mega Python Vs. Gatoroid, the mysterious latter of which sounds like either an unfortunately named sports drink or something you’d be unfortunate to catch from a dirty toilet seat. Yup, I'm in. Divine Resurrection What would Neil Patrick...

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Back in February, we brought you the news that fan-favorite writer Grant Morrison was working on a new television project with "Push" director Paul McGuigan and actor Stephen Fry.

Calling it a "modern take on an old fable or fairy story," McGuigan said the project was in its early stages, but would be filmed in — and based on the local folklore of — their native Scotland.

When I spoke to Morrison recently about his run on on DC's "Batman & Robin" comic book series, I also managed to get an update of sorts on the TV project, and some details about what fans can expect from it.

"It’s not so much a fable," Morrison told MTV News of the inspiration for the project. "It’s a bit of everything."

"They called me up and said they wanted to do a seven-part event, a TV drama, and BBC Scotland was really interested in doing something big,...

Happy Birthday Carole Barrowman, goodbye and God bless Dr. Height, Details chats with Craig Lowe, and RuPaul wants you to "Snap Out of It"

Judith Light never misses a Glbt cause. Plus, look at her - she's 61!

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Last night the Point Foundation recognized activist David Mixner in New York City, and honored their scholars. Celebrities including Cheyenne Jackson, Judith Light, Kelly Ripa, Alan Cumming and more showed up and looked fabulous. The Point Foundation is the largest Glbt scholarship fund in the country. Jane Krakowski with the Point Scholars / Photo Credit Linda Lenzi for Broadwayworld.com Details of the Sex and the City 2 soundtrack are leaking out, and yes, there will be unexpected tracks such as Alicia Keys covering Blondie's "Rapture" but nothing caught me off guard like the news that Liza Minnelli is doing a cover of Beyonce's"Single Ladies.

If I only had a brain, I would have asked for The Wizard Of Oz: 70Th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’S Edition (Warner, $69.92) three months before it premiered on DVD last Tuesday instead of three days before. But, like the Cowardly Lion, I lack courage, and couldn’t muster the resolve to ask Warner Home Video for this stellar (and extras-packed) four-disc set so far in advance. If you read Part One of my review, then I guess you have a lot of free time. Speaking of time, I’m running Out of it, so let’s get back on that Yellow Brick Road as I break down the bonus features on Discs Three and Four. (And remember: I Have watched Everything on this whole set! Really!)

Disc Three starts things off with Oz director “Victor Fleming: Master Craftsmen.” How many directors can claim to have directed two of...

. With Paul Lynde on the set of Bye Bye Birdie Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 If you came of age during the Sixties, you may well remember the name Lada Edmund, Jr. who was one of the original gyrating, mini-skirted go-go girls who danced in a cage on NBC-tv’s music program, Hullabaloo 1965-66. Similar to ABC’s Shindig, Hullabaloo featured a different celebrity host each week to introduce some of the most popular musical performers of the day. However, the show received most of its press not for the rock groups or vocalists that guest starred but for Lada and fellow dancers who bumped, grinded and twisted their way into the homes of teenagers every week. So popular was she that she landed on the cover of TV Guide magazine.

Before she found TV fame, Lada began her career dancing on Broadway. She was one of...

Writer Jack Nicholson and star Peter Fonda told Roger Corman he couldn't make a movie about LSD without trying it at least once. So Roger took a caravan of pals to Big Sur, where he dutifully dropped acid and communed with the elements. Out of it all came his most personal and revealing film, a pop art time capsule that was banned in Britain for nearly a decade.