http://www.post-gazette.com/ Articles from all entertainment categories en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:15:18 -0400 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1039712-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Review: Utterly unpleasant and unfunny, Fox's dispiriting "Sons of Tucson" (9:30 tonight, WPGH) may be the worst comedy series of a generally winning 2009-10 TV season. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042109-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Memory is a funny thing. In 2004, 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes became the youngest best actress nominee in Oscar history for "Whale Rider." Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042114-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Based on talent and various style points, Michael Buble would have been a contender for the Rat Pack. His behavior off the stage, however, could get him into big trouble with Sinatra's crew. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042106-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml PASADENA, Calif. -- Viewers of HBO's "The Pacific" may or may not recognize actor Joe Mazzello, but odds are good they've seen him before: At age 9, he starred as the grandson of the founder of Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042120-74.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Many of you are reading this column in the old-fashioned newspaper in its crinkly and foldable format. Others are reading this on a hard-edged inflexible digital device via the Internet. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042336-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Thousands of people are packing movie theaters across the country to see the new "Alice in Wonderland" in 3-D, and dozens of them will likely leave with headaches. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1039711-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml HBO's latest World War II epic, "The Pacific," arrives in the shadow of the network's much-admired 2001 WWII miniseries "Band of Brothers," and there will be inevitable comparisons. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042107-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have gone to war together before: on the 1998 film "Saving Private Ryan" and on HBO's 2001 World War II miniseries "Band of Brothers." Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042122-148.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml In the introduction to his 1916 masterwork, "The Passing of the Great Race," Madison Grant counseled his contemporaries to repudiate their pledge to "acknowledge no distinction in race, creed, or Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042123-148.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The subtitle's a tease, a catchy one. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042113-437.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Some things to do this week. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042118-44.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A list of the best-selling fiction and nonfiction books. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042121-148.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml It's been a good harvest for American short stories lately, as this trio demonstrates. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042301-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042593-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A little-known fact about the famous Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is that he worked as a music critic, and an astute one, for a Moscow newspaper for several years. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042401-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Jill Simonian's honeymoon story isn't like most -- her post-nuptial trip was sidelined by a new job and a group of very bad drivers. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042402-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Pittsburgh native Nikki Young will host the local premiere of her short film "Whistle Lesson" during the International Festival of Children's Films today at the August Wilson Center. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042398-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml WASHINGTON -- Jauvon Gilliam, for seven years a timpanist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, really, really wanted to win the vacant timpani position with the National Symphony Orchestra when Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042400-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Rock star Bret Michaels is going from his reality cable series "Rock of Love," where women try to earn his attention, to the reality competition series "Celebrity Apprentice," where he will seek Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042135-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml "Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio" (Arcadia Publishing, $21.99) is primarily a pictorial history of local radio in its glory days. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042134-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Every year at this time, CBS's daytime soaps get pre-empted, and every year, the plaintive pleas of despondent soap opera viewers flood my phone line: "Where are my stories?" Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042136-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Stainer has been friends with Kirk since grade school, but he's cold and analytical when it comes to scoring his friend on the 1 to 10 scale of desirability and looks. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042133-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Not least among reasons for "The Hurt Locker's" Oscar-laden upset triumph was the film's refusal to take a position on -- or really, even allude to -- the raging political issues surrounding the war in Iraq. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042140-44.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The region's literary life is starting to pop back up like those brave green shoots in the thawed landscape. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042142-121.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042143-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Make way for Team Rob. Unlike Team Edward or Team Jacob, Team Rob is all about -- who else? -- Robert Pattinson, starring in "Remember Me." Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042200-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Think a wrinkled bracket and a college sweatshirt are all you need to get the full March Madness experience? Pretty soon, you'll also need a bag of popcorn and a pair of goofy glasses. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042097-238.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml This week's TV Q&A responds to questions about Alex O'Loughlin, ABC's "FlashForward" and a new WQEX digital sub-channel. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042139-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml School ties come in handy when you want to turn the Mellon Arena into a movie set and film during a real Penguins game, with a cameraman crouched at the actors' feet and the director a few seats away. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042141-148.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Before he wrote crime thrillers, Jo Nesbo worked as an economist. His smartest investment was Harry Hole, the Oslo police inspector who has made his creator a bestseller all over Europe. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042045-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml These days everyone lives the hard knock life. We forget to dream. We forget optimism. We forget ... Annie. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041818-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Jay Baruchel is Canadian, he calls hockey his "religion," and he met one of its patron saints and finest ambassadors while making "She's Out of My League" in Pittsburgh. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:48:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041832-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Preview: The Manchester Craftsmen's Guild is sponsoring more than another concert this weekend in its Jazz Hall. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041857-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A list of things to do this weekend. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041771-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Last year, the Community Foundation of Upper St. Clair, through fundraising efforts, donated a 9-foot Steinway Concert piano to the Upper St. Clair High School Theatre. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041605-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Lenora Nemetz loves to laugh and make audiences laugh, so thank heavens for "Nunsense." Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041819-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival continues this weekend. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041849-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml BRISTOL, Conn. -- Robert De Niro is set to play Vince Lombardi in an upcoming movie. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041816-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The 17th annual Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival continues at the SouthSide Works Cinema and, where noted, other venues: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041604-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Those booking They Might Be Giants right now can choose from a menu of three different packages: There's the basic anything-goes set, the 20th anniversary of "Flood" celebration show and then the one that helps you learn your numbers and ABCs. ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041633-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml 28 North, a bluesy Pittsburgh band that doesn't hide its classic-rock influences (from the Allman Brothers to Zeppelin to Santana), will release its second CD, "Mystery," with a show at Altar Bar in the Strip on Saturday at 9 p.m. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041638-327.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Best of all is what's on stage, a high school production that felt more like a pretty good college. "Shall We Dance," which played to packed houses last weekend, was a slick, eye-filling revue. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041840-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Records are rated on a scale of one (awful) to four (classic) stars: Pop/Rock Gorillaz 'Plastic Beach' (Virgin) 1/2 "Plastic Beach" was inspired by Gorillaz chief Damon Albarn's visit to a Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041858-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml 'Scarecrow and Mrs. King: COMPLETE FIRST SEASON' These days, if you want to watch an odd couple who work together amid sexual tension, you can watch the likes of Booth and Brennan on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041825-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml When Nate Torrence read the character breakdown for "She's Out of My League," he thought, gee, that sounds familiar. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041845-437.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A list of recommended things to do this weekend. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041852-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Music preview: During its 27-year history, Megadeth has produced 12 studio albums -- some that have gone on to become thrash-metal classics, some of which the band and its fans might want to forget. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041859-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml 'Precious' four stars That montage of horror clips shown at the Academy Awards ceremony last Sunday might have included yet another monster: the mother-from-Hell played by deserving Oscar-winner Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500