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Publisher plans no future editions of Cosby bio

Friday, 31 July 2015, 16:18 Last update: about 12 years ago

No revisions or future editions are planned for a disparaged Bill Cosby biography, the publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Simon & Schuster vice president and executive director...

Madonna feels like Picasso, says art has no expiration date

Friday, 31 July 2015, 12:07 Last update: about 12 years ago

Madonna thinks artists deep into their careers should stop if they don't have anything more to say. But at 56, the singer says she still has things to talk about, and in short, she feels like Pablo...

The fetish fables of 'The Little Death' score

Thursday, 30 July 2015, 16:34 Last update: about 12 years ago

I come to praise the portmanteau. Anthologies, omnibuses, whatever you want to call them: Those cinematic conglomerations of disconnected or slightly interwoven stories are what I'm talking...

New Harper Lee novel presents an unsaintly Atticus Finch

Thursday, 30 July 2015, 16:17 Last update: about 12 years ago

Harper Lee's unexpected new novel offers an unexpected and startling take on an American literary saint, Atticus Finch. "Go Set a Watchman" is set in the 1950s, 20 years after Lee's celebrated...

Alan Jackson delivers on 'Angels and Alcohol'

Thursday, 30 July 2015, 12:06 Last update: about 12 years ago

Alan Jackson once again proves capable of finding fresh wrinkles in his comfortable, familiar style. His new album, "Angels and Alcohol," delivers good-time honky-tonk, emotional country ballads and...

'Towns' is modest, middle-of-the-road teen drama

Wednesday, 29 July 2015, 16:31 Last update: about 12 years ago

Based on an earlier teen fave novel by "The Fault in Our Stars" author John Green, "Paper Towns" is a mild coming-of-ager about dawning awareness and life lessons learned among a small group of...

'Day Four' sends a cruise adrift in supernatural waters

Wednesday, 29 July 2015, 16:17 Last update: about 12 years ago

For all the popularity of cruises, there are some things about them that scare people: close quarters with lots of other people, the threat of catching the gastrointestinal illness norovirus onboard...

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