http://www.post-gazette.com/ Articles from all entertainment categories en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:45:00 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041411-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Public radio stations don't scramble for advertising revenues like their commercial counterparts, but they still compete for donors, ratings, public and grant support. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041406-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Music preview: Here are two facts you might not know about the mandolin: It's not merely for folk and bluegrass but also a classical instrument, and people tend to play it in very large ensembles. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041407-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Music preview: As nicknames go in classical music, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3, "Polish," has one of the most misleading. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041410-348.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien's sidekick at "The Tonight Show," is acknowledging some ill will toward NBC and Jay Leno in the wake of the network's late-night upheaval. "Why wouldn't I?" Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041412-28.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Five million dollars. That's how much money seven arts groups have saved by sharing the costs of marketing, advertising, ticketing, theater programs and collectively purchasing everything from Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041413-28.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The real work of preserving WDUQ-FM as an independent public radio station is going on behind closed doors, as the group trying to preserve WDUQ and keep its programming intact begins a long, hard fundraising and public awareness task. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041423-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Maybe part of the reason that "Human Target," tonight at 8 on Fox, doesn't appeal to me is that Christopher Chance has chosen a path "Burn Notice's" Michael Westen rejected -- being smart muscle for hire. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041172-369.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Learning to read is serious business. But that doesn't mean it can't be done in a fun way. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 01:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041171-369.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Capsule reviews of recent children's book releases. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041175-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Sunday night's Academy Awards broadcast captured the biggest audience for ABC in five years, the company reported Monday. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041177-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel. "Here's how bad it is for the U.S. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041178-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml She was supposed to be a lawyer. This lanky, toothy New York girl, a poli-sci grad out of Duke with a rich mind but shaky self-esteem, was "going to take the more accepted path." Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041180-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Patty Hewes, the Machiavellian lawyer played by Glenn Close on FX's addictive "Damages" (10 p.m. Mondays) loves to go after the rich and powerful. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041181-348.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Maybe it went semi-unnoticed because they were accepting one of the night's lower-profile awards, but the personal tiff between "Music by Prudence" producer Elinor Burkett and director-producer Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041182-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml LOS ANGELES -- Kathryn Bigelow played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker" to the screen. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1041118-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml In the end, the gold went to the movie with the men in Army green, not the avatars in blue. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1040617-129.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Former Pennsylvania Gov. and first Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge now is the president and CEO of Ridge Global LLC, an advisory corporation. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1041068-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml LOS ANGELES -- Sandra Bullock, nominated for best actress at the Academy Awards was a winner before the curtain went up on last night's Oscar show. Ms. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:33:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1041119-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml ABC's Oscar telecast tried to have it all last night -- pop tartlet presenters for young movie fans; a lengthy tribute to the late director John Hughes for the Gen X crowd and hosts specializing Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:32:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1041097-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The Academy Awards' red carpet took twists and turns where couture had gone before but hasn't gone for a while. No, Lady Gaga wasn't there, and Bjork's swan remained in hiding. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1041069-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml "Precious" swept the Film Independent Spirit Awards Friday night at a ceremony where "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" were nowhere to be found. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1040626-369.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Every 10 years, the United States counts its residents -- and it's a really big job. A decade ago, the number was 281,421,906. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1041112-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml MELVILLE, N.Y. -- In a surprise, Cablevision subscribers on Long Island, N.Y., saw WABC/7 return to their screens shortly after the start of the Oscars telecast Sunday. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1041066-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml NEW YORK -- Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's trip down the rabbit hole drew huge crowds, as "Alice in Wonderland" earned a whopping $116.3 million in its opening weekend -- a record for a 3-D film. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1041096-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The Academy Awards' red carpet took twists and turns where couture had gone before but hasn't gone for a while. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1040618-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Stage Review: It's a tricky business, time -- especially those fluid categories of past, present and future, flowing into each other before you can pin them down. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1040627-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml TV Notes: Now that the Olympics and its giant inflatable squirrel have exited stage left, it's back to regular TV, and how. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040359-148.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The financial crisis of September 2008 was triggered by a chain of massive losses in the mortgage market that prompted the federal government to commit $700 billion to rescue several large banks whose failures would have led to a systematic death of our financial system. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040943-455.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml If Van Kaplan is whistling a happy tune these days, he's probably multitasking. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:42:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1037993-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml It's more difficult than ever to predict which TV shows will be renewed come spring and which will be canceled. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040262-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040344-348.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml "Kelly Statue Could Grace City," read the Post-Gazette headline on Oct. 23, 1999. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040345-437.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A list of things to do this week. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040349-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A season without the Rockettes needs a touch of magic. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040356-44.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A list of the best-selling fiction and nonfiction titles. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040357-148.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Author Michael Lewis succeeded in such books as "Moneyball" and "The Blind Side" through lively interviews with people we never heard of, but who were up to their necks in the story, be it Billy Bean of the Oakland Athletics or football player Michael Oher. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040360-148.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml All the unemployed writers, broke musicians and worried filmmakers who see their professional horizons melting into the ether of cyberspace -- not to mention the lowly cephalopod (I'll explain later) -- will be cheered by Jaron Lanier's latest curmudgeonly screed. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10066/1040361-74.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml I had a bit of luck in the book review department last month. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500