NEW YORK (AP) – In 1982, CBS uprooted “Captain Kangaroo” from its weekday berth after 27 years. The beloved children’s show got the heave-ho to make way for a breakfast-hour news show to go up against ABC’s “Good Morning America” and NBC’s “Today.”For the next 30 years, that ...
If you’re not crying by the third act of “A Monster Calls,” you may want to have your humanity checked.Anyone who’s experienced grief will be moved by Patrick Ness’ story of a lonely 12-year-old boy and the massive woody monster who befriends him. Beautifully realized onscreen by ...
To pigeonhole Douglas Preston a true-crime author is a gross understatement of his skills as a writer. Yes, his many best sellers with Lincoln Child are fun, suspenseful romps chronicling the adventures of an FBI agent. But he’s also an extremely capable investigator who, along with Italian ...
NEW YORK – When August Wilson’s widow first toured the set for the new movie based on his play “Fences,” she carefully examined the modest two-story brick house, the small yard and the tree where a ball hung from a rope – and she wept.Constanza Romero, who lost her playwright husband ...
NEW YORK (AP) – Pharrell appeared as scheduled on Thursday’s “Ellen DeGeneres Show” without fellow singer Kim Burrell. But the gospel star, who DeGeneres had disinvited days earlier, didn’t go unmentioned.“I didn’t think that it was good of me to have her on the show to give her a ...
NEW YORK (AP) – Oscar favorites “Moonlight,” “La La Land” and “Manchester by the Sea” landed Writers Guild Award nominations on Wednesday, but so did the R-rated “X-Men” spinoff “Deadpool.”The Writers Guild of America announced its nominees for the best screenplays of the ...
