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'Wall-E': The caption on a photo accompanying an article about the music in 'Wall-E' in Friday's Calendar section identified the man dancing with Barbra Streisand in 'Hello, Dolly!' as Michael Crawford.
Likening Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama to a political "trailblazer," singer Barbra Streisand has become the latest Hollywood celebrity to join the Obama campaign bandwagon, switching ...
First image: the Earth as a garbage dump, a future reduced to ruins. For the past 700 years, what's left of humanity has been cruising the skies in a spaceship.
Quite an impression: ark Alan Smith will lead a night of female...
Larry Edwards aka 'Hot Chocolate' in costume as Tina Turner. 'GLAMOUR BOYZ' 7 p. m. July 3 Downtown Brewing Co., 1119 Garden St., San Luis Obispo $20, includes dance; $10 for dance only www.slopride.com It was ...
Interview: WALLE director Andrew Stanton
Interviewed by Tasha Robinson June 26th, 2008 Writer-director Andrew Stanton got in on the ground floor at animation studio Pixar and apparently never looked back.
Lima woman fares well at Miss Ohio Pageant
Shannon O'Neill, of Lima, won the best interview award and was one of the 12 semifinalists in the Miss Ohio competition held during the weekend in Mansfield.
Stage Preview: Joan Rivers talks about laughing at life's trials
Joan Rivers will perform Saturday to benefit the Lambda Foundation. Can she talk? Yes, but rant and rave are more like it.
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Barbra Streisand changes tunes from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama
Barbra Streisand , the famous singer confirms this afternoon that she's supporting Obama and has has offered to help in his presidential campaign.
The year is 2700. Centuries ago, humans turned the Earth into an uninhabitable trash heap, moved to a giant orbiting spaceship and sent robots down to the planet to clean up the toxic mess we left behind.
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Sydney Pollack dies in Los Angeles
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood filmmaker Sydney Pollack, who won a pair of Academy Awards for the epic romance "Out of Africa" and earned praise for acting stints in films including "Tootsie" and "Michael Clayton," died on Monday after a battle with cancer, his spokeswoman said. He was 73.
During a varied career spanning almost half a century, Pollack directed such stars as Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford in "The Way We Were," Tom Cruise in "The Firm" and Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie." Redford starred in seven of his films, including "Out of Africa," alongside Meryl Streep.
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Endeavor Agency Signs Barbra Streisand
Endeavor talent agency will represent both Barbra Streisand as an actress, director and producer as well as her Barwood Films.
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ASCAP Honors Alan and Marilyn Bergman
An all-star lineup, including a surprise appearance by Barbra Streisand, paid tribute to lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman before a crowd of 1,000 at the annual ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards Tuesday, May 6, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Glittering stage numbers showcase a commanding Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levy, a New York matchmaker who can find a mate for anyone -anyone but herself, that is. via WETA-TV Arlington
Streisand pulls out of Israel 60th anniversary bash
Israel says Barbra Streisand has pulled out of a celebration of the country's 60th anniversary next month.
Barbra Streisand donates $5 million to hospital
Barbra Streisand has donated $5 million to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for a women's heart education and research program, the hospital said on Wednesday.
Peres Brings in Stars for Israel's 60th
Israel's President said Wednesday that a conference next month marking the Jewish state's 60th birthday - including attendance by President Bush and Barbra Streisand - will open with a tribute to Israel's staunchest ally, the United States.
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Barbra Streisand with her hubby, James Brolin hosted the event.
Women are likely to receive a lower level of medical care for the common heart condition angina than men, scientists have revealed.
For Spring Fever, a Little Dose of Hollywood
“It's a kind of a conceit that journalists live under, that they remain objective”
Wednesday, April 2, 2008; Page C03 Was it the summerlike temps or the cherry blossoms making everyone so darned goofy-giddy on Capitol Hill yesterday? No , of course, just another magical Hollywood airlift ... via The Washington Post
Michel Legrand's musical dreams
“I still don't know why. There is no musical education at all in France. Music, nothing. Art, painting, nothing. Literature, enormous. So when French audiences see people singing on stage they don't understand why.”
Jasper Rees meets the soundtrack composer Michel Legrand, who abandoned Hollywood for a more interesting life and at 75 is about to put on his first stage musical 'I want to be a man without any past," says ... via Telegraph.co.uk