If Taylor Swift has any lingering insecurities after the Kanye West incident at the MTV Video Music Awards, the six nominations she received for the American Music Awards should clear those right up.
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Kanye West could be Leno’s new Hugh Grant
Jay Leno says immediacy is key to his new show, and he should have plenty of it for his prime time premiere Monday, when Kanye West is a musical guest. The rapper created a fan and artist uprising Sunday night when he jumped onstage at MTV’s Video Music Awards to hijack singer Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech
The Presidential Medal of Freedom
In a country built on a system of checks and balances, it’s intriguing to have an award that allows the President to reveal some personal preferences. Since February 1963, when John F
Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days
Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage has pretty much got this acting thing down.
Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dead at 97
Veteran actor Karl Malden, who won an Academy Award for his role in "A Streetcar Named Desire," has died at age 97, his manager said Wednesday. Malden died in his sleep about 2:30 a.m
The Palme d’Or
The Cannes Film Festival’s highest honor, the Palme d’Or, went on Sunday to Michael Haneke for his film The White Ribbon — both establishing it as the best movie of the festival and triggering the annual debate among critics and fans over whether the award was a revelation or a gross miscarriage of justice on the part of the Cannes jury. ‘Twas ever thus. Between 1939-1954, Cannes’ highest accolade was called the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon Wins Cannes Palme d’Or
For 11 of its 12 days, the 62nd Cannes Film Festival was in large part the Cannes Movie Festival. At a hallowed venue where minimalist art films usually dominate, this year sensation often ran rampant.
Spain’s Bullfighters Turn on One Another
Outsiders may debate whether bullfighting is sport or art, but within the normally close circle of Spanish aficionados, there is only one correct answer, and it has nothing to do with basketball. Yet if bullfighting is an art, does that make all its practitioners artists
British couple rescued after 40 days adrift at sea
A British couple have been rescued from their 13-meter yacht in the Atlantic Ocean after they drifted for weeks with a broken rudder.
A rich night for best picture ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
Perhaps it really WAS destiny. “Slumdog Millionaire,” the little film that overcame tremendous odds simply to earn an American release, won eight Oscars Sunday night at the 81st annual Academy Awards, including best picture.