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Watch: Beauty and the Beast Live-to-Film

Monday, 11 February 2019, 11:51 Last update: about 8 years ago

On Saturday 16th February, the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing to the live action film of Beauty and the Beast. The well-loved music sound-track will be performed as the original...

Charley Pride is in the spotlight with upcoming TV specials

Monday, 11 February 2019, 11:28 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Paging Terrence Howard. Charley Pride still wants the actor to play him in a movie of the country music star's life. The project has been discussed for about 10 years. Pride told TV critics...

With Dr. Dre behind him, Anderson .Paak is feeling epic

Monday, 11 February 2019, 11:18 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Getting Dr. Dre to produce his entire album had Anderson .Paak feeling like "the prodigal son," as he put it, since it's rare that you'll find Dre overseeing an entire music project these...

Nicole Kidman as a hardened LA cop in 'Destroyer'

Monday, 11 February 2019, 10:57 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

A different Nicole Kidman stares out at us under the harsh Los Angeles sun of the neo-noir "Destroyer." The actress who famously donned a prosthetic nose for "The Hours" has here gone to greater...

Real and emotional prisons flow through 'No Mercy'

Monday, 11 February 2019, 10:40 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"No Mercy" (Minotaur), by Joanna Schaffhausen Prisons come in various forms, as Joanna Schaffhausen shows in her second outstanding novel, "No Mercy." There are the mortar-and-brick prisons in...

After a decade of dormancy, Chaka Khan blooms again

Friday, 8 February 2019, 11:33 Last update: about 8 years ago

— If Chaka Khan were a flower, she'd be a perennial. "Because I go dormant and then I..." Khan stops and gracefully lifts her arms together, then slowly brings her hands apart, like a tulip...

In 'Cold War,' a love exiled by communism

Friday, 8 February 2019, 11:09 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

It took "Aquaman" two and a half hours just to put a fancy trident in its hero's hands. Pawel Pawlikowski's latest, "Cold War," follows a doomed romance over 15 years and across much of mid-century...

James Lee Burke's new novel is engaging, emotional mystery

Friday, 8 February 2019, 11:01 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"The New Iberia Blues: a Dave Robicheaux Novel" (Simon and Schuster), by James Lee Burke James Lee Burke's novels have mysteries that light the fuse of the story, but the almost poetic prose sets...

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