Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is the highest-paid US TV actress for the third year in a row, earning some US$37 million (NZ$44m), according to Forbes .The 42-year-old earned significantly more than the top paid actor, Ashton...
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
Carey Mulligan taking 'Skylight' to Broadway
NEW YORK (AP) Carey Mulligan will reprise her role as an English school teacher when she brings a much-cheered revival of David Hare's "Skylight" to Broadway this spring.Mulligan plays a woman who works at a troubled inner-city...
'Simple' Norman and his Pieful Tower are out of The Great British Bake Off
FAT bottoms, Robert Burns, pastry-wrapped pears and piles of pies filled out a subdued follow-up to last week's ice cream meltdown
Alicia Keys ready for December release: baby No.2
NEW YORK (AP) Alicia Keys, who often releases albums in November and December, says she is preparing for another delivery at the end of the year: her second baby."December album? Well, I know one thing. I'm having a December baby,"...
Album review: Wiz Khalifa, Blacc Hollywood
As far as rap albums go, Wiz Khalifa's fifth studio release is blockbuster material.The North Dakota rapper's guest roster is like a who's who of hip-hop, with Schoolboy Q, Snoop Dogg, Nas, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Jeezy all making...
Album review: Mirel Wagner, When the Cellar Children See The Light of Day
Pitched somewhere between a weary self-analysing Kurt Cobain acoustic session, Mazzy Star raised on death ballads and P.J Harvey's most introspective work, this concise collection - 10 songs, 32 minutes - comes from an unlikely but...
Album review: Banks, Goddess
Sounding like the love child of Nelly Furtado and James Blake, 26-year-old Californian Jillian Banks' debut album has a wondrous confidence and is the work of an artist dead certain of who she wants to be. Five tracks (out of 14)...
Movie review: 52 Tuesdays
Formally audacious and driven by a performance of astonishing poise by its 16-year-old star, this provocative low-budget Australian indie doesn't quite carry off its risky ambitions - it's too long by 20 minutes or so, and it chases...
Movie review: The Keeper of Lost Causes
The latest slab of Nordic noir adapted for the screen, The Keeper of Lost Causes is drawn from the first in the series of novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen.It's exactly what you'd expect; a well-paced, entertaining and...
Movie review: Before I Go To Sleep
The best-selling 2011 novel that this film adapts was a bravura piece of writing that superbly sustained its high concept for 300 pages before an abrupt denouement that left the reader feeling cheated.The same problem mars the handsome...
Timeless Style! Helen Mirren exudes elegance for The Hundred Foot Journey gala screening
DAME Helen Mirren made sure all eyes were on her as she attended the gala screening of her latest film The Hundred Foot Journey this evening.
Review: Don't miss Tana French's 'Secret Place'
"The Secret Place" (Viking), by Tana FrenchTana French is irrefutably one of the best crime fiction writers out there. Her latest, "The Secret Place," is a mesmerizing story set in a girls' boarding school in Dublin.The murder...
NY Fashion Week kicks off a day early with Athleta
NEW YORK (AP) New York Fashion Week kicked off a day early Wednesday with a heavy breathing show of strength and style from the performance brand Athleta, a salute to the fashion challenges of returning U.S. servicewomen and models...
Prime TV's new-look season gets techy (+trailers)
In a week in which cyber security has been making worldwide headlines, Prime TV's high-tech new season line-up seems kind of timely.Announced today, the channel's programme launch for the 2014/2015 TV season includes two shows that...
Family: Ailing Rivers being 'kept comfortable'
NEW YORK (AP) Joan Rivers' family says the comedian has been moved from intensive care into a private room, where she is "being kept comfortable."No further details were released Wednesday on Rivers' condition. On Tuesday, the...
Reality suspended as acts cast a spell on appreciative audience
Along with the gasps of amazement, a perfectly staged illusion makes us question the evidence of our senses.Such scepticism is useful when reality is constantly transformed by digital manipulation and political spin doctors. The...
Dream cast, but only to plug resort
With a cast list featuring Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, a glamorous casino setting, and Martin Scorsese in the director's chair, it could be the most stellar heist movie since Ocean's Eleven .But the power of...
Rings star now lord of the spiders
When Dominic Monaghan told his former boss, Sir Peter Jackson, that he was travelling to Laos to track down a new species of spider, there were serious questions raised about his sanity."Peter doesn't like spiders very much so when...
Twelve Questions: Jo McColl
1. Describe your childhood: I grew up in Seatoun, Wellington, up in the hills. It was a great place to grow up, lots of freedom, trolleying down the hills, fishing and building forts and the bush. I think growing up there's given...
Cameron Diaz denies similarities between new film and nude celebrity photo leak
HOLLYWOOD star Cameron Diaz yesterday denied her new movie is similar to the scandal surrounding female celebrities whose nude photos have been uploaded to the internet.
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