Arts

Coppola shares pain of losing son in new film - 09/13/2011

TORONTO, Michel Comte- Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola on Monday shared his cathartic exploration of a father's pain over a child's death in his new film "Twixt," which premiered at the...

Clooney looks back, and forward to his legacy - 09/11/2011

TORONTO, Michel Comte- Actor George Clooney always thought of himself as a movie star, even when he was cast in "crappy TV shows" early in his career, he said Saturday. "Even when I was on some...

US musicians from New York visit Cuba: state media - 09/08/2011

The US performers also brought musical instruments to donate. The Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by famed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, visited Cuba in October 2010, where they gave five concerts and...

British painter Hockney reveals iPad art - 09/08/2011

LONDON, Beatrice Debut- British artist David Hockney, one of the most influential painters of his generation, is to stage an exhibition of his landscapes from his native Yorkshire, including recent...

Barnes nominated on Booker Prize shortlist - 09/06/2011

LONDON, Robin Millard- Julian Barnes remains the favourite to win Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for literature after his "The Sense of an Ending" was nominated on the shortlist announced...

New York Met's conductor bows out with injury - 09/06/2011

NEW YORK- The principal conductor of the New York Metropolitan Opera, James Levine, is bowing out of upcoming performances at the famed house with a back injury, a spokesman said Tuesday. Levine...

Jury to be chosen for Jackson doctor trial - 09/05/2011

LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Jury selection will begin this week for the long-awaited trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, accused of manslaughter over the pop icon's shock 2009 death at the age of...

The 9/11 attacks as a literary watershed - 09/04/2011

PARIS, Myriam Chaplain-Riou- Ten years on, the dust from the twin towers hasn't finished settling on the literary world and continues to feed a growing body of fiction exploring the moral and...

Hollywood shies away from 9/11-inspired movies - 09/03/2011

LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy- For many people, the images of commercial airliners hitting the Twin Towers, and of Manhattan engulfed in a huge dust cloud as they collapsed, looked like a Hollywood...

Belgian museum eager to reclaim stolen 'Rubens' painting - 09/03/2011

But the museum said the oil sketch that was stolen in 2001, "The Calydonian Boar Hunt", is now attributed to one of Rubens's followers and not the painter's celebrated brush strokes. "The news in...
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