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As BWW previously reported , Matthew Warchus will not be joining Barbra Streisand as helmer for Universal's upcoming GYPSY big-screen adaptation, but now Nikki Finke writes that Babs could be considering a dual role as 'Mama Rose' and director for the project.

Actress Piper Laurie, shown at the 2012 Texas Frightmare Weekend in Dallas, abandoned Hollywood for 15 years before returning to the big screen in 1976 in "Carrie."

I love a good book on U.S. history, and Doris Kearns Goodwin's latest is one of the best I've seen.

A dirt-road funk fable, "Hurricane" was the perfect vehicle for Levon Helm - a figure whose voice conveyed a pride of ownership in every year, every wrinkle, every triumph over adversity.

James Brown stripped pop to its rhythmic essentials: the groove and the grunt, the bridge, and the scream.

You've seen glimpses of him kicking butt as elf king Thranduil in the trailer for "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies," and this weekend you can see much more of the actor as villain Ronan the Accuser in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy."

Illinois officials say budget cuts will force them to consider cutting hours at some state historic sites after the Labor Day holiday.

'Get on Up' wows with Chadwick Boseman's virtual channeling of James Brown , but it also succeeds as a psychological portrait of what drove his genius.

Photo by Daniel Free/New Jersey Herald - East Stroudsburg University's Matt Tobin, a former Hopatcong High School basketball standout, instructs a group of fifth- through eighth-graders on July 14 at the B.T. Basketball Camp in Sparta.

Mike Tyson made an appearance on IGN's Comic Con live stream this weekend to talk about his new series Cartoon Network series Mike Tyson Mysteries, while there, he spoke with us about a biopic he's got in development with Jamie Foxx .

Actor and former American football player Terry Crews turns 46 today. Crews was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the 11th round of the 1991 NFL Draft.

The sci-fi social media phenomenon "Sharknado" is back SyFy Wednesday night with "Sharknado 2: The Second One."

It's all about the love story in Shakespeare's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA and this one has at its core the epic romance of the ages - Mark Antony and the notorious Queen of the Nile - two dramatic individuals consumed with passion of whom much has been written.

August is one of the favorite months of the year for big fans of Turner Classic Movies with the classic film network's Summer Under the Stars programming that features films from a specific actor all-day long each day of the month.

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It was a day to tout Central Florida's triumph and UConn dual dominance and the undoubtedly successful inaugural AAC campaign because, well, why the hell not? It was a day for commissioner Mike Aresco to puff his chest, a day to admit "I do not care for the Power Five designation."

There have been many great musical biopics in recent years, everything from Ray , for which Jamie Foxx won an Oscar playing Ray Charles, and Walk the Line , which got Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar nod for his portrayal of Johnny Cash.

This little-seen challenging show premiered in 1964, catapulting Barbra Streisand to iconic status and an Oscar for recreating her role in the 1968 film.

Archaeologists excavating near the McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington have unearthed part of the footprint of the 1836 courthouse where experts said Abraham Lincoln worked as an attorney.

While Allen's new picture, "Magic In The Moonlight," isn't even close to being a disaster , I don't think it's unreasonable Dwayne Johnson tries, but he's surrounded by poor CGI and a terrible adaptation of yet another comic book.