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Family: Country singer Slim Whitman dies at age 90
Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy "Mars Attacks!," died Wednesday at a Florida hospital. He was 90. Whitman died of heart failure at Orange Park ...
Critics hail Daniel Radcliffe's latest stage turn
Daniel Radcliffe has won magical reviews for his latest stage role as a disabled Irish dreamer in Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan." The former "Harry Potter" star plays the title role in a Michael Grandage-directed production of McDonagh's scabrous tragicomedy at London's Noel Coward Theatre. First staged in 1996, ...
Review: Fighting and losing in Iran, then and now
"Children of the Jacaranda Tree" (Atria Books), by Sahar Delijani Let's get one thing out of the way: I admire Sahar Delijani for taking on post-revolutionary Iran as the subject of her debut novel, "Children of the Jacaranda Tree." It is a tough topic to tackle, especially for a novelist ...
'Wild Blue Yonder' features sky pirates, adventure
Jet packs, sky pirates and mountaintop taverns. Such are the elements of "Wild Blue Yonder," a five-issue comic book miniseries that centers on Cola, a skilled female teen upstart pilot whose adventures form a tale set in a world where humanity lives among the clouds in floating airships away from ...
Review: Pitt and his zombies entertain in 'WWZ'
Might there be a real-life zombie apocalypse one day? Not likely, but then again, the way zombies have chomped their way into our pop culture the last several years, it's maybe a bit less implausible than it once was. What IS increasingly quite plausible, alas, is a scary global pandemic, ...
Best-selling author Vince Flynn dies at age 47
Best-selling author Vince Flynn, who wrote the Mitch Rapp counterterrorism thriller series and sold more than 15 million books in the U.S. alone, died Wednesday after a more than two-year battle with prostate cancer, according to friends and his publisher. He was 47. Flynn was supporting himself by bartending when ...
'Wild Blue Yonder' features sky pirates, adventure
Jet packs, sky pirates and mountaintop taverns. Such are the elements of "Wild Blue Yonder," a five-issue comic book miniseries that centers on Cola, a skilled female teen upstart pilot whose adventures form a tale set in a world where humanity lives among the clouds in floating airships away from ...
McDreamy part of all-American team at Le Mans
The only all-American lineup at the 24 Hours of Le Mans might very well be the one that draws the most interest from non-racing fans. The No. 77 Dempsey Del Piero-Proton Porsche will be headlined by Patrick Dempsey — you know, "McDreamy" of "Grey's Anatomy" fame. He is joining co-drivers ...
'Nightline' anchor Moran heading to London for ABC
ABC News "Nightline" anchor Terry Moran is getting a new posting as the network's London-based chief foreign correspondent. Moran will head overseas late this summer, ABC said Wednesday. Moran was ABC's chief White House correspondent from 1999 to 2005 and has done many overseas and domestic stories for "Nightline," most ...
Palace sheds some light on Kate's baby plans
With Prince William and the former Kate Middleton expecting their first child in mid-July — and much of the world interested in the birth of a future monarch — the royals' office has released some of the couple's plans, although many details are still being kept private. Kate has made ...
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