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6 hours ago
The former television producer who tried to blackmail late-night talk show host David Letterman over his sexual affairs was freed Thursday after four months in jail.
7 hours ago
South African journalists are finding themselves increasingly at odds with their own government over two proposals that have the potential to limit press freedom.
6 hours ago
The Atlantic Film Festival will open with Score: A Hockey Musical, Michael McGowan's light-hearted romp through Canada's national sport.
11 hours ago
Christopher Plummer is set to revive his Tony Award-winning show Barrymore in Toronto in the new year.
6 hours ago
Canadian-American actor Brendan Fraser will make his Broadway debut in Elling, a comedy about two mismatched roommates.
8 hours ago
World music singer and musician Youssou N'Dour has successfully launched a private TV station in his homeland of Senegal, despite initial resistance from the government.
9 hours ago
Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose irritated thousands of his Dublin fans at the 02 Arena on Wednesday night by showing up late - a recurring problem on his band's European tour - and then walking off after an unruly minority in the crowd hurled water bottles.
9 hours ago
Neil Gaiman's comic The Sandman is to be adapted as a TV series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
11 hours ago
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was released from prison in May after an outcry by filmmakers from around the world, is still not free to travel.
11 hours ago
Coronation Street will once again go live for a landmark edition, this time the 50th anniversary episode set for December.
8 hours ago
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab, a competitor tablet computer to Apple's hit iPad, and it is shipping with some Canadian content: the Kobo e-reading application.
14 hours ago
ABC reporter Pierre Thomas didn't even leave the office when he wanted to interview a source in Connecticut for a recent World News story on technology.
1 day 5 hours ago
B.C. Culture Minister Kevin Krueger has suddenly found another $7 million for the B.C. Arts Council, which awards grants to artists and cultural institutions.
1 day 7 hours ago
New York's Metropolitan Opera plans to bring 12 of its operas to cinema screens in 2010-11, including a production of Das Rheingold by Canada's Robert Lepage.
1 day 7 hours ago
The life of Jesus, which has seen film adaptations by directors from Cecil B. DeMille to Mel Gibson, is now to get the Bollywood treatment.
9 hours ago
Rocker turns up to show late then walks off when bottles are thrown at him
13 hours ago
Robert Halderman still has community service to perform; plus he’s up for an Emmy
17 hours ago
Performer, now starring in box office hit Takers, arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance
23 hours ago
One-man show to open in Toronto in January
23 hours ago
Why no recognition for Brent Butt, Sean McGinley or Erin Karpluk?
1 day 6 hours ago
Provincial arts council gets $7-million in the wake of chair's resignation
1 day 7 hours ago
As teens trip out to beats said to mimic the effect of hallucinogenic drugs, police and parents panic. As it turns out, they need to take a chill pill
1 day 7 hours ago
For the first time, the singer-songwriter lets someone else do the producing
1 day 7 hours ago
Funnyman turned author uses a deadly metaphor to pick apart literary jealousy and the act of taking control
1 day 8 hours ago
Boyfriend, meanwhile, ‘separated’ from job as nightclub manager
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11 hours ago
Attention TIFF fans! Celebrity spotting during the festival in Toronto is about to undergo a new change of view.
10 hours ago
The 48-year-old irritated thousands of his Dublin fans by showing up nearly an hour late and then walking off after an unruly minority in the crowd hurled water bottles.
9 hours ago
A Toronto comedian whose body was found in a burned-out home in St. Thomas, Ont., briefly hosted an Internet comedy show based on his exploits outside Toronto nightclubs.
3 hours ago
A California appeals court has scheduled a hearing for Michael Jackson's father to argue he deserves a role in his son's estate.
13 hours ago
"Score: A Hockey Musical" will kick off five film festivals across Canada this month. The movie will open the Toronto International Film Festival next week, and go on to open events in Halifax, Sudbury, Calgary and Edmonton.
9 hours ago
The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman over the comedian's office affairs was freed from jail Thursday, city Correction Department records show.
4 hours ago
Grammy-winning rapper T.I., who has a history of drug offences and is on probation after spending time behind bars on gun charges, was arrested with his wife after police smelled marijuana coming from their car, authorities said.
16 hours ago
A New York woman has sued rapper-producer Sean "Diddy" Combs, saying he fired her because of her age two decades after she helped launch his career.
16 hours ago
Indiana State Police say an extra at a "Transformers 3" production site was seriously injured during the filming of a stunt.
16 hours ago
Thursday Sept. 2, 2010, is being celebrated as "90210 Day." It's the one day this century that the date will line up perfectly with the famous California zip code.
16 hours ago
The success of singer Katy Perry's second album has proven that she has staying power, following a summer where she had a No. 1 single and an increasing level of fame.
16 hours ago
The video phone service known as Skype is becoming an increasingly useful tool for news organizations, which use it to keep costs down and put more people on TV for interviews.
1 day 5 hours ago
For the past seven years, internationally-recognized architect Bruce Kuwabara has been able to look out his office window and see his dream become a reality -- literally.
1 day 5 hours ago
My TIFF memories start at my 18th birthday, when Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone) bought me two Gala tickets to see Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin in "All of Me." The year was 1984.
1 day 5 hours ago
Canadian actor Christopher Plummer will start the new year reprising his Tony Award-winning role in the play "Barrymore" in Toronto.
1 day 11 hours ago
Michael Douglas is vowing to beat cancer. The 65-year-old "Wall Street" star said in an interview that he expects to make a full recovery.
1 day 5 hours ago
From a gorgeous ballerina driven to madness by her ambition to political crooks and everyday Joes with links to the hereafter, here's your sneak peek of what the world will be watching in September.
1 day 5 hours ago
Author Margaret Atwood's support for a petition criticizing the prime minister over the proposed Sun TV news channel has caused a flurry of tweets on Twitter.
1 day 2 hours ago
Court records show a $20 million lawsuit in which Nicolas Cage accused a former business manager of mismanagement has been dismissed. A counterclaim by the manager, Samuel J. Levin, also was dismissed.
1 day 5 hours ago
Paris Hilton was banned Wednesday from two Wynn resorts on the Las Vegas Strip, and her boyfriend was dismissed as a nightclub partner following their arrests.
1 day 9 hours ago
There's Madonna, Oprah and now ... "Conan." Conan O'Brien took the simple approach Wednesday in announcing the name of his new talk show.
1 day 5 hours ago
Toronto filmmaker Deborah Chow is making her TIFF premiere with her film, "The High Cost of Living," with Zach Braff and Isabelle Blais. She'll be blogging for CTV.ca about her experience throughout the festival.
1 day 7 hours ago
The premier of Justin Bieber's home province may not be among the baby-faced pop phenom's legions of fans, but like them he's hoping his Twitter feed will catch the singer's eye.
1 day 13 hours ago
Jennifer Esposito is joining the force. Esposito will guest star on several episodes of "Blue Bloods," a new drama about a family with deep roots in law enforcement.
1 day 12 hours ago
On the Ontario set of the sequel to Disney mega-hit "Camp Rock," a Canadian cast member gave teen fan favourites the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato a lesson in Canuck cuisine.
Arts & Entertainment from United Kingdom media
1 hour ago
The BBC denies the director general compromised its independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the govenrment's spending cuts.
15 minutes ago
X Factor judge Cheryl Cole will reportedly be granted a divorce from her footballer husband Ashley in a court hearing on Friday.
17 hours ago
Two-thirds of people agree with the government stance on cutting arts funding and relying more on private cash, a survey suggests.
13 hours ago
Tony Blair's memoirs, based on his time as the prime minister, break sales records, booksellers say.
14 hours ago
A former Britain's Got Talent hopeful who claimed she was discriminated against at an audition fails to get her case taken to an employment tribunal.
12 hours ago
Some of musician Bob Dylan's artwork, never seen before by the public, is to be displayed at Denmark's National Gallery.
11 hours ago
British singer-songwriter Sami Yusuf, billed as "Islam's biggest rock star", is donating profits from his latest single to help flood victims in Pakistan.
13 hours ago
The UK's first talent show to make music available for download immediately propels a little known act called Pepper and Piano into the charts.
17 hours ago
Coronation Street is to broadcast a live episode as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, soap bosses confirm.
17 hours ago
Channel 4 dramatises the rise of Labour party leadership candidates David and Ed Miliband, it is announced.
15 hours ago
Ex-This Morning host Richard Madeley presents the first five minutes of the show while Eamonn Holmes is stuck in traffic.
19 hours ago
Guns N' Roses have walked off stage at a gig in Dublin after being booed and having bottles thrown at them by the crowd.
1 day 9 hours ago
A south London museum that closed for three years is officially reopened after philanthropists pledged £2m to save it.
20 hours ago
A metal detecting enthusiast finds what is believed to be the only intact Roman lantern made out of bronze ever discovered in Britain.
1 day 13 hours ago
The revamped Shakespeare company theatres are to have a low-key reopening, the RSC says.
14 hours ago
Natalie Portman attends the opening of the Venice Film Festival, which launched with her film Black Swan.
18 hours ago
Catherine Zeta Jones reveals she is "furious" that doctors failed to detect husband Michael Douglas' throat cancer earlier.
1 day 15 hours ago
Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche hits back at the "violence" of criticism by fellow French actor Gerard Depardieu.
16 hours ago
Rapper TI and his wife Tameka Cottle are arrested in Hollywood for drug possession, police confirm.
1 day 7 hours ago
Apple launches a music-based social network called Ping as part of its latest upgrade to the iTunes music software.
1 day 11 hours ago
Sony has unveiled its own music and video download in an announcement timed to coincide with an Apple media event.
20 hours ago
Olympic medallist James Cracknell is expected home later this week, after fracturing his skull in a bike accident in the US.
1 day 2 hours ago
Police shoot dead a gunman who took three hostages at the Discovery Communications HQ near Washington and free his prisoners.
1 day 11 hours ago
The BBC loses a legal fight in the High Court to stop publication of a book which claims to reveal the identity of Top Gear's driver The Stig.
9 hours ago
In the latest in the BBC News Meet The Author interviews, Sir Terry Pratchett discusses I Shall Wear Midnight, the latest in his best-selling Discworld series.
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3 hours ago
THE slow pouring of cocktails in the office, the lighting of cigarettes, the extramarital carousing of elegantly dressed advertising executives in hats, and ah, the mixed feel
3 hours ago
ORGANISERS of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have admitted inflating its box office numbers by including thousands of free shows in the ticket sales figures.
3 hours ago
Shuffling the top brass at the Glasgow institution might improve its fortunes, but there are also deeper questions of funding and public interest all theatres must address
3 hours ago
British songwriter Don Black, known for tracks such as Born Free and Michael Jackson's Ben, is to be honoured by the US music industry.
3 hours ago
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Mahler 3 *****
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
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Ars Nova Copenhagen ***
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
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A traditionalist until now, this new contemporary opera has changed my views, writes Bill Jamieson
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SCOTLAND'S culture minister has refused to guarantee the future of a scheme which has supported dozens of home-grown productions at Edinburgh's festivals over the last
3 hours ago
The BBC has slammed the brakes on racing driver Ben Collins's career as Top Gear's The Stig following their High Court battle, according to sources.
3 hours ago
WHEN it comes to measuring audiences, there is no international standard or strict criteria as such.
3 hours ago
Jonathan Ross said the "sheer volume of negative press" he was attracting to the BBC was one of the reasons he quit the corporation.
1 day 3 hours ago
Jean Reno has developed a theory about Avatar. "Do you realise that when you watch it, it's what you've been doing since the beginning of going to the movies? Whe
1 day 3 hours ago
One of the most touching photographs I know is that of Sir Henry Wood standing among the ruins of the Queen's Hall in London soon after it was bombed in May 1941.
1 day 3 hours ago
"UNSUNG heroes" was a phrase much exercised in reports of last month's 65th anniversary of VJ Day, and in particular the fate of the men of the Lanarkshire Yeomanr
1 day 3 hours ago
Nature Shock: Killer Squid
Five
The Deep
BBC1
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ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA ****
USHER HALL, EDINBURGH
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JAMES CRABB ****
THE HUB, EDINBURGH
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STEVEN OSBORNE *****
Queen's Hall
Arts & Entertainment from United States media
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2 hours ago
Danny Trejo, Robert DeNiro, Jessica Alba, Steven Segal, and Lindsay Lohan star in Robert Rodriguez's "Machete." Plus, Justin Long and Drew Barrymore in "Going The Distance." CBSNews.com's Karina Mitchell reports.
3 hours ago
Chicago Group Offers a Musical Alternative To Keep Young People From Joining Gangs
6 hours ago
WWE champion John Cena is starring in the upcoming drama, "Legendary." But, Cena tells CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi that he's not giving up on wrestling just yet.
7 hours ago
CBSNews.com's Shira Lazar spoke to Chris Juby of Durham, England who, on August 8, 2010, began tweeting the entire Bible under the Twitter handle @biblesummary.
10 hours ago
See What the Season 11 Lineup of "Dancing With The Stars" Could Have Looked Like
10 hours ago
Ryan Seacrest and Larry King will be leading celebrations for "Beverly Hills Day" on September 2, 2010, or "09-02-10" -- the city's famous zip code.
8 hours ago
Robert "Joe" Halderman, Who Tried to Blackmail Letterman over his Romantic Affairs, Served 4 Months
13 hours ago
Eleven New Teams are Set to Compete in CBS' Race Across the Globe
15 hours ago
Announces It in YouTube Video; "Conan" Starts Nov. 8, on TBS
1 day 13 hours ago
Stars Descend on the Italian City for the 67th Annual Film Festival
1 day 13 hours ago
Tells David Letterman His Disease Is Late-Stage but He's Optimistic He Can Beat It; Adds It Went Undiagnosed for Months
2 days 1 hour ago
Second Season Opener Draws More Than 5 Million Viewers, Show Mentioned by Obama in Speech
2 days 4 hours ago
Harry Smith reports that President Obama has added his own unique spin to his workspace. The Oval Office has been redecorated to fit the current Commander in Chief's tastes.
2 days 6 hours ago
At six feet, nine inches tall, Brazilian teenager Elisany Silva is hoping to become a model and soar to new heights. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
2 days 6 hours ago
David Hasselhoff in Germany; Plus, Jessica Alba, Fantasia, Lady Gaga, Samantha Harris, Katy Perry and More
2 days 8 hours ago
Users Who Go to Health Clinics for STD Checkups Will Get Badge in Sept. as Part of MTV's "GYT: Get Yourself Tested" Campaign
2 days 9 hours ago
"Harry Potter" Author Donates to Research, Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis, Disease That Killed Her Mother
2 days 10 hours ago
Leon Panetta Appears as Guest Judge on "Top Chef" as He Works to Protect CIA's Budget and Boost Staff's Morale
2 days 12 hours ago
Twelve New Stars Hope to Take Home the Coveted Mirrorball Trophy
2 days 13 hours ago
Jessica Kastrop Hit with Soccer Ball for Third Time; Player Apologizes, Gives Her Autographed Ball, Flowers -- and a Helmet!
2 days 12 hours ago
Venice Film Festival Seeks To Trump Toronto With Innovative Offerings
2 days 13 hours ago
In Tell-All Interview, Also Denies Addiction to Alcohol or Prescription Drugs; Insists Her Career Will Flourish Again
1 day 5 hours ago
Legal Analyst Lisa Bloom: Heiress' Statements Contradict, So-Called Dumb Defense May Not Work, She's "Likely" to Face Jail
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3 hours ago
Getting ready to leave New York, but already missing the High Line, the Shakespeare Garden and more.
3 hours ago
The Museum of Modern Art and TCM are revisiting “The March of Time” series, short films created from 1935 to 1951 that examine foreign affairs and social issues.
3 hours ago
In “Going the Distance,” Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are young lovers struggling through a cross-country romance.
5 hours ago
This weekend’s All Tomorrow’s Parties music festival in Monticello, N.Y., promises to be hugely loud and, as always, sponsor free.
5 hours ago
An exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta counters the art world notion that late work by Dalí is bad, and that most Dalí is late work.
3 hours ago
Robert Rodriguez’s splatter comedy “Machete” is a live-action comic book with roots in the pungent swamp of 1970s B movies.
5 hours ago
The musical, about two World War II G.I.'s whose friendship turns into romance, has been delayed until the fall of 2011.
8 hours ago
Producer Elizabeth I. McCann, who had announced she would mount the show in November, said on Thursday that she is now aiming for a spring opening.
4 hours ago
Lee Friedlander’s “America by Car,” opening Saturday at the Whitney Museum, consists of black-and-white photographs taken from inside cars.
3 hours ago
A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.
6 hours ago
The director Zhang Yimou honors the unlikely affinity between himself and Joel and Ethan Coen with a remake of their movie “Blood Simple.”
6 hours ago
Lorenzo Dow Turner dug deep to find many African-inflected elements in the Gullah language and culture.
5 hours ago
“Bad art” — rescued from trash heaps and thrift shops — has become a genre in itself, with its own fans.
5 hours ago
“Underground Pop,” at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., highlights the tension between college-trained sophistication and fictions of naïveté.
4 hours ago
In “It Must Be Him,” a comedy by Kenny Solms, Peter Scolari plays a television writer who’s trying to revive his career.
3 hours ago
An alcoholic finds self-respect as the coach of a high school girls’ basketball team in “The Winning Season.”
3 hours ago
This documentary by Lixin Fan traces the conflicts between married migrant factory workers in Guangzhou and their daughter, strains partly resulting from China’s accelerating economy.
7 hours ago
An exhibition about the Pennsylvania carver and sculptor Wharton Esherick, known for his mid-20th-century undulating furniture, opens on Sept. 7 in galleries at the University of Pennsylvania.
6 hours ago
A boy loses his rodent and finds a girl in “Etienne!,” a sunny-sweet fable about healing wounds with the balm of the open road.
5 hours ago
The Portuguese director Miguel Gomes blurs the line between nonfiction and fiction.
5 hours ago
The film about living in New York post-9/11, is earnest and well meaning and, while dangerously sentimental at times, never quite crosses the line into maudlin.
3 hours ago
Like its subject, the movie is sharp, charismatic and so light on its feet we never know which way it will turn.
5 hours ago
“Max Manus” is a solidly acted biopic of World War II derring-do.
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The bungled wedding story and the road movie collide happily in “White Wedding.”
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2 hours ago
Some ended in cliffhangers, so pick up where you left off as the new season begins.
4 hours ago
With better writing, the premise could have made for an enjoyable romantic comedy.
4 hours ago
Also newly released: 'Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?' and 'The Best of Soul Train.'
1 hour ago
Brace yourself, parents. If history is any guide, you'll see and hear a lot of Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (Disney Channel, tonight, 8 ET/PT) ...
3 hours ago
An appeals court has scheduled a hearing for lawyers for the father of Michael Jackson to argue that he deserves a role in decisions involving ...
3 hours ago
AMC's Mad Men may be revered for its dark, moody tone. But when the story line shifts to secretary-from-hell Ida Blankenship, TV's three-time ...
4 hours ago
Members of the original funk band War say they can't be friends with PepsiCo.
5 hours ago
Some veterinary hospitals approach felines as if they're more like small dogs than a separate species with its own unique needs.
8 hours ago
Character's soul struggles with hope and faith in new story arc from Marvel Comics.
8 hours ago
Indiana State Police say a movie extra has been critically injured on the production set of Transformers 3.
7 hours ago
Lanvin will be the next high-fashion house to become a partner of fast-fashion retailer H&M.
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'Water for Elephants' author shows her affinity for animals again in her novel about humans and animals at a university research facility.
10 hours ago
Axl Rose, it seems, needs a little more patience and a much louder alarm clock.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says Grammy-winning rapper T.I. and his wife have been released from jail after his arrest on suspicion ...
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