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A new critical overview of 1960s film musicals is available for pre-order, ROADSHOW! THE FALL OF FILM MUSICALS IN THE 1960s by Matthew Kennedy .

This undated file photo provided by the Trapp Family Lodge shows cross-country skiers outside the lodge in Stowe, Vt.

The wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the U.S., made a perhaps long-overdue appearance in the high-stakes patent infringement battle between Apple and Samsung.

Actor and comedian Will Ferrell, who plays TV anchorman Ron Burgundy, stays in character during a news conference at Emerson College in Boston, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013.

According to Music.Yahoo.com , the soundtrack to Disney's FROZEN, featuring the voices of Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad and Kristen Bell and featuring original music by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez leapt from No.

LOS ANGELES _ Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Bruce Dern, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock and Chiwetel Ejiofor were among the performers nominated Wednesday morning for the 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards.

According to Variety , the network will re-air the Dec. 5 three-hour live musical event, starring Carrie Underwood, on Dec. 14 at 8.p.m. EST.

At the age of 39 he tussled with Trevor Berbick for 10 rounds and was defeated in a unanimous decision by the judges.

For most scribes who have toiled in the movie industry, portraying Hollywood as a healing paradise is roughly equivalent to regaling a lobster of the soothing properties of a boiling pot of water.

F riday afternoon, JoAnne Marlin, Mary Ellen Martin and Wanda Lee Rohlfs were busy numbering their new arrival of Christmas ornaments and adding the certificates of authenticity to each one.

"She fit the bill perfectly," the producer-director once said. "We engaged her and she was wonderful in the part, a sort of light 'heavy' that was also ultimately quite touching.

The provincial NDP Opposition is calling for the resignation of Finance Minister Ken Krawetz after Saskatchewan's auditor last week issued an adverse opinion on the government's general revenue... Saskatoon officials are understandably perplexed about what criteria the city should use to put capital projects on the federal government's most wanted ... (more)

I had a speaking engagement and I couldn't. But my kids did record it. I'll get around to it."

Leighton Meester is set to make her Broadway debut next year in a production of Of Mice and Men, The Associated Press reports.

Sandi Patty , the five-time Grammy and 40-time Dove award winning singer, recording star and author, is no stranger to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra 's annual "Duke Energy Yuletide Celebration."

Celebrating one of his personal heroes, President Barack Obama praised Nelson Mandela as the last great liberator of the 20th century, urging the world to carry on his legacy by fighting inequality, poverty and discrimination.

Celebrating one of his personal heroes, President Barack Obama praised Nelson Mandela as the last great liberator of the 20th century, urging the world to carry on his legacy by fighting inequality, poverty and discrimination.

"If you look at the people of Shelbyville, they're all helpful and they want to pitch in," says Mayor Jeff Johnson as he explains what makes his town tick.

Last week, five days after Black Friday's Walmart strike and the day before a nationwide fast food workers strike , President Obama delivered a speech at the Center for American Progress about economic disparity and low wages.

Eleanor Parker, an actress of patrician beauty nicknamed "the woman of a thousand faces" for the range of parts she played, from a terrified prisoner in "Caged" to the icy baroness in "The Sound of Music," died Dec. 9 at a medical facility near her home in Palm Springs, Calif.