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As movies go, 2007s Bee Movie is an odd one. The animated film follows honey bee Barry B. Benson who sues the human race for exploiting bees upon learning from his human friend Vanessa Bloome - yes, Barry can talk to humans - that humans sell and consume honey and while the premise is a is a [...]

Comedian returns to regular series TV with 'The Problem with Jon Stewart' on Apple TV+

NEW YORK (AP) — Walter Yetnikoff, the rampaging, R-rated head of CBS Records who presided over blockbuster releases by Michael Jackson, Billy Joel and many others and otherwise devoted his

NEW YORK (AP) — Walter Yetnikoff, the rampaging, R-rated head of CBS Records who presided over blockbuster releases by Michael Jackson, Billy Joel and many others and otherwise devoted his life to a self-catered feast of “schmoozing, shmingling and bingling,” has died at age 87.

One thing he learned at TCC was how to play guitar. A classmate named Kyree let him borrow hers one day, taught him a few chords, nothing fancy. He’d been secretly writing songs for a while by then, and the songs were nothing fancy either. Nothing vulgar, nothing sexual, nothing worldly. At eighteen, the young man had given his life to Christ. Joined a Reformed church of his own choosing. He liked that the church’s music featured some piano, some percussion, a guitar, but “nothing crazy....

Some years ago a studio executive predicted that moviegoers would never accept Willie Nelson as a hero because he looked too much like Gabby Hayes. Presumably this executive is now in charge of the popcorn concession. Nevertheless, this observation illustrates some of the many contradictions about Willie’s acting career. No matter what character he is asked to play, Willie nearly always manages to turn the character into Willie Nelson. And more to the point, Willie is larger than life precise...

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Milton Moses Ginsberg, who directed two ambitious but eccentric films before falling into obscurity, one about the meltdown of a psychiatrist and the

His movies about a psychiatrist’s disintegration and a werewolf working in the White House bombed. But they both drew favorable attention many years later.

Ira Sachs’s latest swaps buzzing New York for the beautiful resort town of Sintra, where its all-star cast struggles for energy in spite of the family drama’s high emotional stakes.