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It was the 1993 TV movie of the musical "Gypsy" starring Bette Midler with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim .

U.S. television was alive with "The Sound of Music" on Thursday as country singer Carrie Underwood and "True Blood" actor Stephen Moyer starred in a live version of the classic musical about an aspiring nun who falls in love with an Austrian captain.

This is a fantasy. A careless product of wild imagination. And my good friends, Man of Steel is all the better for it.For months, I actively worried about this movie.

A new production of "Bonnie & Clyde" is really more about Bonnie, a Depression-era woman who in this interpretation takes to a life of crime in order to star in a production worthy of Hollywood.

With the passing of Nelson Mandela on Thursday at age 95, the huge success of "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" takes on an even deeper relevance.

In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros.,Morgan Freeman portrays Nelson Mandela, left, and Matt Damon portrays Francois Pienaar in a scene from the film, "Invictus."

"The Sound of Music," 8 to 11 p.m., NBC. Returning to TV's live-theater era, NBC has a gifted star in a family-friendly show.

Nearly 50 years after its movie debut, "The Sound of Music" is hitting the national stage for a live performance featuring Carrie Underwood.

Despite just a handful of acting roles to date, country singer and "American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood was the first choice to play the coveted lead role of Maria in a new live version of "The Sound of Music" for television.

It's been a sticky year for actor Lane Garrison, but a good one. "I'm covered in corn syrup and blood," he cheerfully explained from the set of Robert Rodriguez's TV adaptation of Texican vampire bloodbath From Dusk Till Dawn .

Mob City Wednesdays, 9pm, TNT Captive audience: True-crime nerds; The Walking Dead fans; people who thought Gangster Squad was full of shit.

Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden has been cast as Christian Grey's mother in the movie adaptation of erotic bestseller "Fifty Shades Of Grey."

Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., has introduced legislation that would ease massive planned budget cuts under sequestration in 2014 and 2015 in part by lowering the annual cost-of-living adjustment in various benefits for military retirees and veterans, as well as Social Security recipients.

On the covers of magazines; live-tweeting her hit show "Scandal," with her fans ; hosting "Saturday Night Live"; and soon to be in ads for Neutrogena as the L.A.-based beauty company's new creative consultant.

The dedication of the National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa., on Nov. 19, 1863, is one of the most famous occasions in United States history.

While testifying before a House panel Tuesday, Michael Cannon, director of the Cato Institute's Health Policy Studies, said Barack Obama 's behavior -- specifically, his failure to adhere to the law -- could spark an armed revolt against the government, Mediaite reported.

The TNT project writer-director Frank Darabont leapt into following his abrupt and mysterious firing from AMC's "The Walking Dead," the great-looking "Mob City" is set in postwar Los Angeles and features 1947 versions of some of the Jewish mobsters notably Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel featured in the Warren Beatty vehicle "Bugsy" and in HBO's ... (more)

Another chapter begins in the storied history of the San Jose Civic Auditorium, a 77-year-old building that recently underwent an eye-popping, $15 million renovation and will be rededicated as the City National Civic on Wednesday.

Carrie Underwood may have received Julie Andrews' blessing for her role as Marie von Trapp in the upcoming live NBC adaptation of 'The Sound of Music,' but that doesn't mean everyone is as supportive.