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Parsons Dance is eclectic yet accessible in Harriman performance - Visually arresting by way of incredible physicality, dynamic lighting and eclectic movement vocabulary, Parsons Dance is a proudly accessible modern dance company. Its debut performance Saturday night in the Muriel Kauffman Theatre of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts marked the company’s 11th appearance as part of the

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List of Grammy winners in select major categories - Winners in selected major categories at Sunday's 54th Annual Grammy Awards:Album of the Year: "21," AdeleRecord of the Year: "Rolling in the Deep," AdeleSong of the Year: "Rolling in the Deep," Adele Adkins & Paul EpworthNew Artist: Bon IverPop Solo Performance: "Someone Like You," AdelePop Performance by a Duo or Group: "Body and Soul," Tony

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Tom Cruise: Suri Was ‘Born With’ Style Sense - Some parents cultivate their kids' musical talent by getting them into piano or violin lessons at an early age. Others put their offspring on the baseball or soccer field as soon as they can walk, to work on bringing out that athletic ability. Mega-celebs Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, however, have decided that their daughter, 5-year-old Suri Cruise,

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Miss Venezuela wins Miss World crown - Miss Venezuela, Ivian Sarcos, was crowned the 2011 winner of the Miss World beauty pageant on Sunday at a glittering final ceremony in London. Wearing a pink dress with diamante studs that had a giant cascade of frills slashed below the waist, the 22-year-old gasped and threw her hands to her face as she was declared the winner. "I felt the most gorgeous

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Titans Clash Over a Mere Cadenza - “Artistic differences.” It’s the euphemism of choice to save face and explain away unpleasant disputes among performers. The phrase pops up all the time in the arts, but in truth it describes nothing. Sure enough, it was invoked to fend off questions about the puzzling cancellation of a recent series of concerts by two of classical music’s most prominent

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Is It Art, Science or a Test of People? - Over the past several years art museums have begun to place much more emphasis on a concept they call the “visitor experience.” Few, though, have attempted to define that concept quite as broadly — or as bodily — as the New Museum, which is mounting a career survey of the Belgian-born artist Carsten Höller that opens on Wednesday.A (greatly abridged) menu

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'Paranormal Activity 3' scares — Paramount Pictures will continue its scary fall tradition with the release of "Paranormal Activity 3," the third installment of the very profitable film franchise. Another newcomer should claim the second spot in the weekend's box office as Summit Entertainment's "The Three Musketeers" in 3-D should slash its way to a $15 million debut.The original "Paranormal

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A Hong Kong opera faces censorship from Beijing - For months, public structures in Hong Kong have been draped with dreary sepia-coloured banners, some as large as a small building, publicising a new opera about Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Chinese Republic, the architect of the revolution of 1911 that brought down the Manchu dynasty. But the Hong Kong premiere on October 13 of a modern opera

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Sixteen Injured in Accident on 'Resident Evil 5' Set - Sixteen actors dressed as zombies were injured Tuesday when they fell from a platform during filming of a new movie in the "Resident Evil" series, officials said.Toronto emergency medical spokesman Peter Macintyre said the victims' costumes made it difficult at first for crews to assess the severity of their injuries.Paramedics responded to

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'Phantom of the Opera' at 25 offers a special show — Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" will celebrate its 25th anniversary this weekend with a lavish birthday party that will certainly involve someone swinging from a chandelier.Producers will broadcast on Sunday a live performance of the show from London's 5,500-seat Royal Albert Hall to movie houses in the United States, the

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'Lion' not sleeping just yet — There's a chance Disney's "The Lion King" in 3-D will stay on top the box office food chain for an unprecedented third straight weekend. But it could be just a "50/50" chance.The re-release of the 1994 animated classic has turned out to be somewhat of a September surprise, and a likely gross in the mid-teens will put this "Lion" in the thick of the fight with the

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Republicans (cowboys) vs Progressives (aliens) - Cowboys and Aliens and Jerusalem 700 BC - The new Spielberg/Favreau movie, Cowboys and Aliens, tells a story about a town named "Absolution ... about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by

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Final 'Harry Potter' goes out with a bang -- They saved the best for last - The concluding episode of the long-running and phenomenally successful series is a triumph for J.K. Rowling and her collaborators: screenwriter Steve Kloves, producer David Heyman and most of all, director David Yates.This is blockbuster filmmaking with heart and soul, as well as grand spectacle, excitement and that

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Bollywood poster painters face extinction in digital age -- For decades, Bollywood film releases were accompanied by beautiful painted posters that decorated city streets all over India. Heroic princesses, noble maharajahs and dastardly criminals, painted larger than life by artists and craftsmen in vivid colors, graced billboards towering often fifty feet high. But where Mumbai,

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No more free shows by Lady Gaga, police tell fans — Lady Gaga may have surprised fans with two unexpected gigs in Australia, but don't expect a third free show.Police are urging ticketless fans not to throng the downtown Sydney area on Wednesday night, when she is scheduled to perform at a private concert for invited guests only."If you don't have a ticket, stay at home," said Superintendent Mark

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Crowds cheer Monaco's Prince Albert and new bride - With a wink and a smile, Monaco's ruler Prince Albert married South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock on Saturday in a ceremony attended by a who's who of European royalty and the international elite.The 53-year-old married Wittstock, 33, in the courtyard of his palace at the foot of a vast white-marble double staircase lined with white flowers

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William and Kate's Hollywood BAFTA event "sold out" - If Prince William and his bride Kate Middleton's trip to Los Angeles were a movie, its pre-opening box-office sales would indicate an upcoming blockbuster.The one glitzy event of the Royal couple's July 8-10 visit to Hollywood is the inaugural BAFTA Brits to Watch dinner July 9 at the Belasco Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Tickets to the

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Kate Middleton related to author Jane Austen - Prince William's bride Kate Middleton is a distant relation of British novelist Jane Austen, genealogy website Ancestry.com said on Tuesday.Ancestry.com said that the new Duchess of Cambridge and the author of "Pride and Prejudice" are 11th cousins, six times removed due to their 15th century common ancestor Henry Percy, who was the 2nd Earl of

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'Super 8': Meet the kids -- Get to know the bright young actors who play the wide-eyed filmmakers within the J.J. Abrams film.Young actors play wide-eyed filmmakers in "Super 8." Elle Fanning Age: 13 Hometown: Los Angeles Character: Alice Dainard, the leading lady Since her film debut in 2001 as a younger version of her sister Dakota's character in "I Am Sam," Fanning has appeared in such

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Why we didn't want 'Wonder Woman' - Though he picked up plenty of high-profile projects like Playboy, The Firm and Prime Suspect, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt knew he’d have to answer for the one project he didn’t greenlight: What the heck was wrong with Wonder Woman and why didn’t it make the schedule?Not surprisingly, Greenblatt was diplomatic about the reboot from Warner Bros.

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21-year-old Californian wins Miss USA crown — America's latest Miss USA winner is a California model and self-described history geek, obsessed with Britain's monarchy of centuries past but also a fan of "Star Wars."Alyssa Campanella of Los Angeles says on Twitter that she was born in the wrong time period and played the popular pig-exploding game Angry Bird backstage on her iPad before the

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Israeli desert opera festival becomes a "tradition" - An Israeli opera festival's center-piece at the revered historical site of Masada this month was a tale of betrayal, love and death in the shape of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.The spectacular staging on the barren shores of the Dead Sea with the stark sandstone plateau as a backdrop, followed performances of Verdi's Nabucco at the

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Cannes film review: "Days of Grace" - A breathlessly paced adrenaline rush, "Days of Grace" is the second violent film in Cannes this year (after "Miss Bala," which is mild in comparison) depicting Mexico as a lawless land of drug lords, kidnappers, and corruption so endemic it goes "all the way up to the top." This Out of Competition entry written, directed and produced by Everardo Gout is a

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Spanish thriller "Kidnapped" - family torture porn - In his 1997 Austrian feature, "Funny Games," and less effectively in his own almost shot-for-shot 2007 Hollywood remake, director Michael Haneke used a chilling home-invasion scenario to explore the implications of screen violence and our responses to it as entertainment.Debuting Spanish director Miguel Angel Vivas sets up a similar wide-awake

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Five worst superhero movies — For all the enduring superhero movies that have been made over the years — "The Dark Knight," the original Christopher Reeve "Superman," Tobey Maguire's first two turns as "Spider-Man" — there are just as many that don't exactly live up to their own mythology or the expectations of their legions of followers.This week's "Green Lantern," starring Ryan Reynolds as the

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"3D Sex and Zen" -- no, it's not Chinese porn - To address the elephant in the bedroom, "3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy" certainly delivers the goods as far as quantity of sex goes. But the quality will leave some cold.Director Christopher Sunhas opted for a lot of rubbing, pressing and bouncing, and the soundtrack is heavy with breathless, whiny squeaks and squeals from the girls, leaving one

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100 women end up in hospital after Take That concerts - More than 100 women were admitted to A&E after drinking at Take That concerts.The number of people treated at Manchester Royal Infirmary jumped dramatically on six of the band's eight dates at Eastlands which began on June 4.Sixty five women were asked to leave City of Manchester stadium by stewards who believed they had drunk too much, with

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"Super 8" defies skeptics with big box office debut – To Hollywood's great surprise, moviegoers will show up en masse for the rare summer film that features real actors, an original story and some genuine thrills.The new sci-fi mystery "Super 8" easily claimed the top spot at the weekend box office in North America after selling about $38 million worth of tickets, despite concerns about a

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Mystery surrounds "Super 8" in a summer of sequels - Its pedigree could hardly be stronger -- producer Steven Spielberg and sci-fi master J.J. Abrams.But "Super 8" arrives in North American movie theaters on Friday shrouded in such secrecy that it may prove a hard sell in a summer bursting with familiar superheroes and sequels.The plot centers on a group of kids in a small Ohio town who spend

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'Super 8' a box office mystery - The pairing of J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg has turned "Super 8" into the box office mystery of the summer.The period sci-fi pic -- directed by Abrams and produced by Spielberg -- officially rolls out Friday in 3,379 theaters, following sneak previews at 329 locations Thursday. Amid decidedly muted advance buzz, its performance this weekend is the subject of

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"Super 8" opening one day early in Twitter promo - Amid rumblings about its low-key marketing campaign, "Super 8" will come out in movie theaters one day ahead of schedule on Thursday as part of a promotional campaign targeted at Twitter users.Paramount Pictures and Twitter said on Wednesday the sci-fi mystery will open in about 300 theaters across the United States and Canada. It expands to a

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