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George Clooney plays a smart, anxious assassin hiding out in a scenic Italian village in the slow-cooking thriller The American.

An Australian school principal has asked students to stop using the word "gay" when singing a classic children’s song, but said Thursday no offense was intended - he was simply trying to keep the kids from laughing.

Anyone who’s ever seen Marcy Harriell on stage, television, or the silver screen, knows how she illuminates the space around her. During her two-year run in the Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Rent, the New York Times called her "incandescent."

John McCain’s daughter says in a new book released Tuesday that Sarah Palin brought drama, stress and uncertainty to her father’s failed bid for the presidency in 2008, but she doesn’t blame the vice presidential nominee for losing the race.

Katie Perry started last Friday on the Today Show and ended it at Splash. Here’s our report on her last stop of the day.

A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel’s headquarters said he hated the company’s shows such as "Kate Plus 8" because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.

Got a Minute? is a collection of 60 super-short and sexy stories. Alison Tyler, its editor and an erotica aficionado, has gathered effective writers who know how to find that special spot--uh, that is, get to the point pretty quickly.

Can it be that autumn is already upon us? One perusal of the upcoming exhibition schedule for area museums, and you know that summer is over and it’s time to get serious.