LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- "XXX" is a trashy but entertaining-enough cross between a James Bond movie and one of those '80s action films where muscle-bound, thick-tongued heroes grunt out
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- It's remarkably hard to make a good movie. As evidence, consider that Charlie Kaufman, author and main character of the delightful "Adaptation," is today's hott
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Overall, 2002 was a better year for movies than the notoriously weak 2001, when many films were rushed to completion to avoid anticipated strikes by writers and
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- There was a time when children used to sit and read, and dream of fairies and princes and princesses. I don't think they do that anymore. Most children spend th
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- "Imaginary Friends," screenwriter Nora Ephron's first play, is about America's last sensational literary feud between Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy.
It could be like Florida without oranges -- Pasadena, Calf., without the Rose Parade floats. The beautiful floats that draw thousands to the annual procession likely will all be built elsewhere soon.
With the expiration of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1979, the Republic of Panama assumed full control of the Panama Canal on this date in 1999. The U.S. Panama Canal Commission ceased to exist.
New York's Times Square is primed for an enormous party on New Year's Eve starting at 10 p.m. when Dick Clark begins broadcasting live from the ABC-TV "Good Morning America" studio, then picking up steam at 10:30 with MTV's Pajama Party, hosted by Carson
Today's birthdays include Rex Allen, the "Arizona Cowboy," who was born in 1924 (age 78); folksinger Odetta in 1930 (age 72); Police guitarist Andy Summers in 1942 (age 60); the late John Denver in 1943; original Kinks bassist Peter Quaife, also in 1943 (
One of the great Swing trumpeters, Jonah Jones, was born this day in 1909 in Louisville, Ky. He began his career in Mississippi Riverboat bands then worked with Stuff Smith, Lillian Armstrong and McKinney's Cotton Pickers before taking a long-standing gig
Working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, McNeil drugs is recalling two types of children's Tylenol. The products, according to the FDA, include a bubble gum-flavored liquid Tylenol preparation and a grape-flavored liquid.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The ensemble comedy "Barbershop" was one of the most likable movies of 2000, sort of a black "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." Jesse Jackson's denunciation of "Barber
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- In the winter of 1969-70, when I was 26, I lived in my parents' house in Buffalo, N.Y. I had gotten out of the service the previous September, was going to graduate school and working part time. One evening I was putting on my coat in the entrance hall be
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Circus traditions in China date back more than 2,500 years, and the New Shanghai Circus, performing at Broadway's New Victory Theater through Jan. 12, draws on these ancient traditions.
The Mail on Sunday's female-only rich list has Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling -- at $76 million -- earning some six times more than Queen Elizabeth II at $12.3 million.
Suffolk County police say Arthur Dalke, 34, of Long Island, N.Y., nearly backed his car into a police cruiser -- which wouldn't have been so bad if the man hadn't had seven drunken driving convictions under his belt.
(CINCINNATI) -- "Old Riverfront Stadium" has come tumbling down. With hundreds of thousands watching on a variety of local TV channels and listening on radio, and with countless others watching from safe vantage points, Cinergy Field was imploded along th
U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act of 2012 as former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her husband Mark Kelly (R) and Vice President Joe Biden look on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on February 10, 2012. UPI/Pat Benic...
