LOS ANGELES, July 6 (UPI) -- Jim Carrey will star in a high-tech movie version of Charles' Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol," The Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
ROME, June 14 (UPI) -- One of the Catholic Church's holiest relics in Rome, the Santa Scala or Holy Stairs, have been cleaned and restored.
POWYS, Wales, May 27 (UPI) -- A writer at Wales' Hay-on-Wye literary festival this weekend is ruffling feathers with his new adaptations of Jane Austen's male characters.
CANNES, France, May 21 (UPI) -- Academy award winners Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep are set to star in "The Last Station," a Hollywood biopic about the life of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
LONDON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The director of the National Association for the Teaching of English says British Education Secretary Alan Johnson is a "bird brain."
UPI almanac for Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007.
MONTEREY, Calif., June 6 (UPI) -- Dancer, actress and producer Phyllis Lycett has died from complications of a hip fracture in Monterey, Calif., at age 75.
CHICAGO, May 15 (UPI) -- Charles Dickens serialized his novels -- "Oliver Twist, David Copperfield," amongst others -- in weekly newspapers and monthly magazines before they were published as books. Today, would-be novelists are publishing their fictional creations online on lite
ATHENS, Ga., April 5 (UPI) -- Comedy Central's "South Park," Sci Fi's "Battle Star Galactica" and FX's "The Shield," Fox TV's "House" and ABC's "Boston Legal" won Peabody Awards Wednesday.
