Apr
30
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Movie fans expect boy sorcerer Harry Potter will magically rule box offices in the upcoming summer blockbuster season that will see familiar faces like Sandra Bullock and breakout roles for a pair of "Star Trek" stars. Thirty-nine percent of respondents in an online enumerate released without interruption Thursday by AOL website Moviefone.com named "Harry Potter ...
Apr
30
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBGB always made a powerful first impression, even prior to the intended country music club in a derelict division of Manhattan became a world renowned rock 'n' roll mecca. It may have been the bathrooms, what one., depending on a patron's point of view, were either disgustingly foul or an artistic, graffiti-covered venue for sex ...
Apr
30
BERLIN (Reuters) - A commencing German film turns the spotlight on a man many persons in the people would sooner neglect: Veit Harlan, director of infamous Nazi propaganda movie "Jud Suess," a wartime hit which helped set the tone for the Holocaust. "Harlan - Im Schatten von Jud Suess" (Harlan - In the Shadow of 'Jew Suess'), which recently ...
Apr
30
More than six decades after the Nazi dictator killed himself in his Berlin bunker, a character parodying Hitler will feature in the first production in Germany of the award-winning Broadway musical comedy through Mel Brooks, "The Producers." Berlin'sitting Admiralspalast theatre -- precisely blocks to the north of the dictator's infamous bunker -- enjoin stage "The Producers - Fruehling fuer ...
Apr
30
The AP’s lead on last night’s Obama news conference: ”President Barack Obama said Wednesday night that waterboarding authorized by former President George W. Bush was torture and that the information it gained from dismay suspects could have been obtained by other means. ‘In some cases, it may be harder,’ he conceded at a White House news ...