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Shoe box, squashed Citroen at Orozco's UK show

A shoebox, chequered skull and squashed Citroen car were on display at a new exhibition at London's Tate Modern gallery dedicated to Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco.Some of the 48-year-old's most recognizable works are included in the retrospective, which runs from January 19 to April 25, including an oval, pocketless billiard table across which the red ball swings like a pendulum."Carambole with Pendulum" (1996) is a suitably playful work for a show where the artist's humor plays a prominent…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Jan 17, 2011
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David Nelson of "Ozzie and Harriet" TV family dies

Actor David Nelson, the last surviving member of the wholesome television family portrayed in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," has died at age 74, his spokesman said.Nelson died in Los Angeles on Tuesday of complications from colon cancer, his representative Dale Olson said.He played a fictionalized version of himself as the eldest son of the Nelson family in the sitcom "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" during the series' entire ABC run from 1952 to 1966.Viewers were treated to a…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Jan 12, 2011
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Curtain up! Theatergoers see `Spider-Man' return

Curtain up! Light the lights! Spider-Man returned to the stage without any apparent hitches Thursday, a day after two performances were canceled due to a scary fall that left a stuntman seriously injured.New safety precautions didn't seem to prevent the cast of Broadway's costliest show from hitting the heights in nearly 40 aerial maneuvers.Before the $65 million show could resume Thursday, producers had to give final confirmation to the state Department of Labor that they had enacted safety…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Dec 24, 2010
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2010 was a 'Perfect Gift' for Canadian Tenors

A year after releasing their first hit album, the Canadian Tenors are delivering "The Perfect Gift," a compilation of traditional and contemporary holiday music."You have the classics like 'O Holy Night' and 'Silent Night,' but there are songs that are not necessarily Christmas-specific," explained tenor Victor Micallef. "Some great producers worked on that, as well," added band mate Clifton Murray. "'Hallelujah' was (produced by) Bob Ezrin, who worked on 'The Wall.'"That's as in Pink Floyd's…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Dec 22, 2010
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Blog posts by Rafael Heyman Dec 21, 2010
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CNN host Larry King hands over his vintage microphone

Veteran CNN talk show host Larry King hangs up his famous suspenders Thursday, after a quarter of a century of interviewing the powerful and famous.The 77-year-old, who will be succeeded by former British journalist Piers Morgan, is finally retiring from "Larry King Live," the show he has presented on the Atlanta-based news network since 1985.Typically combining high politics with showbiz news and gossip, interviewees on his final shows this week have included Barbra Streisand and former…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Dec 16, 2010
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Music labels reach fans with multiplatform apps

The app is far too powerful a tool to be limited to mobile phones.In 2010, the developer and music industries took bold steps to apply this burgeoning distribution model to a range of new devices and platforms. Take Pandora, the personalized Internet radio service that became the killer app for music on the iPhone when it was first introduced in 2008. Having expanded to every available smart-phone platform, the Pandora app has since jumped to such new devices as the iPad, Internet-connected TVs…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Dec 13, 2010
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'The Closer' set to conclude after next season

TNT says its hit drama "The Closer" will be closing up shop next year.The network announced Friday that the detective series will conclude its run after a seventh season. Production of those final 15 episodes is scheduled to begin next spring.TNT says the series' Emmy-winning star, Kyra Sedgwick, decided to conclude the show's successful run.On the show, Sedgwick plays Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a transplanted Atlantan with a sweet tooth and a gift for…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Dec 11, 2010
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Police: Ex-con acted alone in publicist slaying

Hollywood's whodunit about the wealthy publicist gunned down driving home from a movie premiere now appears to be more of a garden-variety crime gone wrong.Police on Wednesday said preliminary ballistics tests showed the gun a man used to kill himself as officers went to talk to him about Ronni Chasen's killing was the same weapon that was used to kill her.Harold Martin Smith, 43, a down-on-his-luck ex-convict with a rap sheet spanning at least 25 years, had apparently ridden his bicycle to a…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Dec 9, 2010
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Stephen Sondheim Makes Rare Toronto Appearance Dec. 6

A crowd of 2,000 is expected at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre Dec. 6 for An Evening With Stephen Sondheim, a conversation between the 80-year-old Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist and journalist Robert Cushman.The onstage chat will be introduced by Broadway and Canadian director Des McAnuff, who directed Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2009. That staging will be resurrected for a Toronto run Dec. 15, 2010-Jan. 16,…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Dec 7, 2010
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Average joes welcomed alongside celebs at Elaine's

Celebrities and bold names and the publishing elite made Elaine Kaufman's restaurant famous. But you didn't have to be a star to pass her personal test and join the inner circle of regulars.So up-and-comers and celebrities alike who had called her a friend gathered Friday night at Elaine's to reminisce about the brash-voiced woman who had alternately played matchmaker and scold, hostess and grandma for them over the years."All the people who are now my friends and chosen family — we met because…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Dec 5, 2010
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In Fla. gov's binder, Jim Morrison shouts 'Love!'

It's a strange sheaf of documents for Florida's governor to have. The thick notebook describes how Jim Morrison discussed sex with a lamb he held on stage, ordered fans to "love your neighbor 'til it hurts" and later, at trial, defended his boozy singing to a prosecutor.But did the lead singer of The Doors show his genitals to the crowd at the 1969 concert in Miami, a charge on which he was famously convicted? Gov. Charlie Crist wants to posthumously pardon him of indecent exposure and…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Dec 3, 2010
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Putin praises DiCaprio as tiger pledge signed

Leonardo DiCaprio braved scary skies to get to a summit devoted to saving the worlds' tigers, donating $1 million to the cause and earning high praise from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.The Hollywood star arrived in St. Petersburg on Tuesday after two flight dramas, Putin said, just managing to make the meeting where officials from the 13 countries where tigers still live in the wild agreed to a program to save the iconic big cats from extinction.DiCaprio was one of more than 200 people…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Nov 24, 2010
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Palin's publisher sues Gawker over book excerpts

The publisher of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media on Friday for leaking pages of "America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag" before its release next week.The legal complaint was filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan, said a spokeswoman for HarperCollins Publishers. The filing came two days after Gawker published images of 21 of the book's pages and its dedication page. In response, Palin tweeted, "Isn't that illegal?"Her publisher contends…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Nov 21, 2010
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'Devastated' Eva Longoria files for divorce

"Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria filed for divorce from her French basketball player husband Tony Parker, three years after they married in a lavish French chateau wedding.Longoria, described as "devastated," said she was sad and still loved Parker, but reports suggested the divorce was precipitated after she found hundreds of text messages from another woman on his cell phone."It is with great sadness that after seven years together, Tony and I have decided to divorce. We love each…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Nov 18, 2010
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Calif. warehouse fire began in Neil Young's car

Fire officials in California say a fire at a warehouse that stored memorabilia belonging to Neil Young started in a vintage car the singer had converted into a hybrid vehicle.Belmont-San Carlos Fire Marshal Jim Palisi told the San Mateo County Times the Nov. 9 fire began in Young's 1959 Lincoln Continental and spread to the nearby warehouse in the San Francisco Bay area. Young had converted the car to run on batteries and a biodiesel-powered generator as part of his LincVolt project to create…See More
Blog post by Rafael Heyman Nov 16, 2010

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Rafael Heyman

Shoe box, squashed Citroen at Orozco's UK show

A shoebox, chequered skull and squashed Citroen car were on display at a new exhibition at London's Tate Modern gallery dedicated to Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco.

Some of the 48-year-old's most recognizable works are included in the retrospective, which runs from January 19 to April 25, including an oval, pocketless billiard table across which the red ball swings like a pendulum.

"Carambole with Pendulum" (1996) is a suitably playful work for a show where the artist's humor…

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Posted by Rafael Heyman on January 17, 2011 at 5:30pm

Rafael Heyman

David Nelson of "Ozzie and Harriet" TV family dies

Actor David Nelson, the last surviving member of the wholesome television family portrayed in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," has died at age 74, his spokesman said.

Nelson died in Los Angeles on Tuesday of complications from colon cancer, his representative Dale Olson said.

He played a fictionalized version of himself as the eldest son of the Nelson family in the sitcom "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" during the series' entire ABC run from 1952 to…

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Posted by Rafael Heyman on January 12, 2011 at 2:45pm

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Curtain up! Theatergoers see `Spider-Man' return

Curtain up! Light the lights! Spider-Man returned to the stage without any apparent hitches Thursday, a day after two performances were canceled due to a scary fall that left a stuntman seriously injured.

New safety precautions didn't seem to prevent the cast of Broadway's costliest show from hitting the heights in nearly 40 aerial maneuvers.

Before the $65 million show could resume Thursday, producers had to give final confirmation to the state Department of Labor that they…

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Posted by Rafael Heyman on December 24, 2010 at 2:58am

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2010 was a 'Perfect Gift' for Canadian Tenors

A year after releasing their first hit album, the Canadian Tenors are delivering "The Perfect Gift," a compilation of traditional and contemporary holiday music.

"You have the classics like 'O Holy Night' and 'Silent Night,' but there are songs that are not necessarily Christmas-specific," explained tenor Victor Micallef. "Some great producers worked on that, as well," added band mate Clifton Murray. "'Hallelujah' was (produced by) Bob Ezrin, who worked on 'The Wall.'"

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Posted by Rafael Heyman on December 22, 2010 at 5:48am

 
 
 

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