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Wed, February 01, 2012

Avatar's Cameron buys up land in NZ hobbit country

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Avatar is moving in next door to the Hobbit.

Successful U.S. film director James Cameron has snapped up more farmland near ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

L.A. contemporary artist Mike Kelley found dead

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Influential contemporary artist Mike Kelley has been found dead at his home in a Los Angeles suburb and ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

Adele beats 7 new albums to keep top spot on chart

By Piya Sinha-Roy

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British singer Adele stood her ground atop the Billboard album chart with "21" on Wednesday despite seven new ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88

WARSAW, Feb 1 - Polish Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, once described as the "Mozart of Poetry," died on Wednesday, after suffering from lung ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

Lisa Marie Presley opens new Elvis exhibit

By Tim Ghianni

NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, gave visitors to Graceland an inside look at her life with the ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

Amy Winehouse coroner not qualified: UK media

LONDON (Reuters) - The family of late soul singer Amy Winehouse said on Wednesday it was "taking advice" after learning that the coroner at the ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

Kodak wants its name removed from Oscars venue

By Sue Zeidler

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak eased away from the Hollywood spotlight on Wednesday, asking to have its name removed from the ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

U.S. filmmaker arrested at House hearing on shale gas

By Ayesha Rascoe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of a U.S. documentary that portrays shale gas production as dangerous was arrested and escorted out ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

"Opry" stage that once held Cash and Presley to be replaced

By Tim Ghianni

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - For six decades the stage supported the likes of Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, with the ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

Russia's shiny new Bolshoi grappling with gripes

By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya

MOSCOW (Reuters) - When Moscow's Bolshoi Theater threw open its doors after a six-year renovation, a gilded handle broke off in ...