Sundance fest embraces hip-hop on stage and screen

News update in the category Entertainment on Friday 27 January 2012 at 4:30 PM

Hip-hop is making itself heard — and seen — at the Sundance Film Festival.

Picks revealed for free summer Central Park plays

News update in the category Entertainment on Friday 27 January 2012 at 4:30 PM

The Public Theater will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Shakespeare in the Park series this summer with a little Bard and a little Sondheim.

In original Internet shows, hints of coming change

News update in the category Entertainment on Friday 27 January 2012 at 4:30 PM

After years of experimenting, the top video destinations on the Web are suddenly flush with original programming: documentaries, reality shows and scripted series.

NY art dealer charged in $4M fraud

News update in the category Entertainment on Friday 27 January 2012 at 4:30 PM

A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the owner or giving him the proceeds.

Costume designer Eiko Ishioka has died at 73

News update in the category Entertainment on Friday 27 January 2012 at 4:30 PM

Eiko Ishioka, a bold, Academy Award-winning visual artist whose surreal and sensual costumes were worn by Broadway actors, Olympic athletes, Cirque du Soleil performers and movie stars like Jennifer Lopez, has died in Tokyo. She was 73.

Friend says on 911 call Demi Moore was convulsing

News update in the category Entertainment on Friday 27 January 2012 at 4:30 PM

Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night and was convulsing and "semi-conscious, barely," according to a caller on a frantic 911 recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials.

Peter, Paul and Mary bassist Dick Kniss dies at 74

News update in the category Entertainment on Friday 27 January 2012 at 4:30 PM

Dick Kniss, a bassist who performed for five decades with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-wrote the John Denver hit "Sunshine on My Shoulders," has died. He was 74.

Sundance question: How to spend a billion dollars

News update in the category Entertainment on Friday 27 January 2012 at 4:30 PM

The million-dollar question at the Sundance Film Festival, home of low-budget stories shot on begged and borrowed cash, is this: What would you do if you had $1 billion to make your movie?