TIMES-REPUBLICANAMES - The Iowa State University Memorial Union and Student Union Board will conclude their spring concert schedule for The Maintenance Shop (M-Shop), the award winning, all-ages venue that has been providing live music for the ISU campus and Ames community since 1974, with a ...
NEW YORK - Emmy- and Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin is bringing a live presentation of his drama "A Few Good Men" to NBC next year, the network announced Wednesday.Sorkin, whose resume includes NBC's "The West Wing" and his Oscar-winning screenplay for "The Social Network," will adapt and produce "A ...
NEW YORK - Entertainment mogul Tyler Perry is producing a drama about a woman involved in a political sex scandal, the first scripted series that will air on the TLC network. TLC said Wednesday that the eight-episode series, tentatively titled "Too Close to Home," will air this summer. The lead ...
GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Police say actor Katt Williams has turned himself in at a Georgia jail to face charges following a fight with a teenager.Gainesville police Sgt. Kevin Holbrook says Williams was arrested Wednesday. Police in Gainesville, just northeast of Atlanta, said the 44-year-old ...
NEW YORK - Patty Duke, who as a teen won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker," then maintained a long career while battling personal demons, has died at the age of 69.The actress died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine, according to her agent, ...
NEW YORK - College basketball's March Madness is lifting CBS and its cable partner TBS in the television ratings.CBS' telecast of the Villanova-Kansas matchup to decide a place in the Final Four brought 11.6 million people to CBS on Saturday, typically a quiet night for broadcast television. ...
BURLINGTON, Vt. - The former "Most Interesting Man in the World" who appeared in Dos Equis beer commercials for nine years is lending his gravelly voice and bearded face to a Vermont cause: Make-a-Wish Foundation Vermont.Jonathan Goldsmith will star in public service announcements for the ...
LOS ANGELES - Model and TV host Janice Dickinson has revealed that she's got breast cancer and vows to battle the disease. "Janice is going to fight and she will not let this diagnosis define her. She wants to encourage all women to have regular checkups, as that is how her cancer was ...
NEW YORK - Barbara Cook's return to a New York stage in a show about her life has been postponed.Producers said Monday that "Barbara Cook: Then and Now," conceived by James Lapine and directed by Tommy Tune, will not be staged this spring at the New World Stages complex. In a statement, ...
NEW YORK - The last days of author Jim Harrison were not unlike so many days before: work, friends, cigarettes, vodka. Best known for "Legends of the Fall," Harrison died Saturday afternoon at age 78, found at his home in Patagonia, Arizona. According to his neighbor of 18 years, author and ...
NEW YORK - Broadway fans were treated to a surprise performance by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell at the end of their new musical, "Bright Star."The cast had taken their bows to a standing ovation when part of the set was rotated to reveal Martin and Brickell to thunderous applause at the ...
LOS ANGELES - Earl Hamner Jr., the versatile and prolific writer who drew upon his Depression-era upbringing in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to create one of television's most beloved family shows, "The Waltons," has died. He was 92.Hamner died in Los Angeles and had recently been ...
NEW YORK - In television news, a telephone interview is typically frowned upon. Donald Trump's fondness for them is changing habits and causing consternation in newsrooms, while challenging political traditions.Two organizations are circulating petitions to encourage Sunday morning political ...
LOS ANGELES - U2 will be honored with the Innovator Award at this year's iHeartRadio Music Awards for their impact on popular culture and commitment to social causes.IHeartMedia announced Friday that the special honor will be given to the rock band during the awards show in Los Angeles on April ...
LOS ANGELES - Snoop Dogg has heard the call of the wild. The rapper is providing commentary for nature and other videos on "Planet Snoop," a new series on his website. The world learned of Snoop's skill as nature host when his parodies of the "Plant Earth" series aired on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel ...
HAVANA - Tens of thousands of jubilant Cubans and tourists swarmed the site of the Rolling Stones' free concert in Havana Friday, calling it a historic moment for a country that once forced rock fans to listen to their favorite music behind closed doors.Coming two days after Barack Obama ...
LOS ANGELES - Garry Shandling, who as an actor and comedian masterminded a brand of self-inflicted phony docudrama with "The Larry Sanders Show," has died.Los Angeles Police officer Tony Im said Shandling died Thursday in Los Angeles of an undisclosed cause. He was 66.Im said fire officials ...
NEW YORK - CBS led with 77 nominations overall while its daytime drama "The Young and the Restless" led with 27 nods when nominations were announced Thursday for the 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy awards. TV's remaining trio of soap operas, "General Hospital" (24 nominations), "The Bold and the ...
NEW YORK - "Batman v Superman" may be a massive movie - a $250 million globe-trotting blockbuster with a pulverizing marketing assault - but it's just the opening salvo of a much larger campaign that aims to restore DC Comics to prominence in Marvel-dominated multiplexes.It has not gotten off ...
CEDAR RAPIDS - The award-winning documentary Movie Star: The Secret Lives of Jean Seberg is an official selection at the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival and will be showcased at the Collins Road Theatres, 1462 Twixt Town Road, Marion April 1 and 2. Show times and ticket information will ...