from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 13

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After sparking outrage Thursday for reportedly putting tickets for Michael Jackson's forthcoming funeral/memorial service for $25, AEG Live has deci...

Def Jam recording star Jeremih is close to netting a top 5 debut on next week's Billboard charts.Reeling off the top 10 charting single "Bir...

Rihanna could be headed to a Manhattan courtroom over allegations that she tattooed three patrons without a license in New York.The "Umbrella"...

Days after being lambasted for its 2009 awards programming BET says it "regrets" and will edit encore presentations of the show."BET Network...

Irish born R&B singer/songwriter Laura Izibor fuses pop with a big helping of soul on her debut album "Let the Truth Be Told". Laura ...

A petite musical stage actor who has also worked in features and TV, Texas native Buckley landed the role of Martha Jefferson in the Broadway musical "1776" upon arriving in New York in 1969. Over the course of the next

While lacking the name recognition of fellow sitcom auteurs like Norman Lear, Garry Marshall and James L Brooks, Jay Tarses must be counted among the major voices to emerge in the genre over the last two decades. As a writer-producer,

English-language playwright celebrated for his verbal acrobatics and madcap intellectual conceits. Stoppard first made his name in 1968 with the playful, breathlessly inventive "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", a play loosely related to "Hamlet" bu

Tall, dark and handsome, the classically-trained Gibson first gained attention on the NY stage and in the recurring role of heroine Lily Walsh's murderous husband on the CBS daytime soap "As the World Turns". After playing small roles in two

This reliable supporting actor has appeared in a handful of successful films in the 1990s, mostly as the leading man's best pal. He got his start onstage, though; the Bronx native acted in such off-off-Broadway shows as "The Brick and

Yeardley Smith is one of those actors whose voice and presence are so distinctive that with luck and talent they can work forever peppering up scenes, playing solid supporting roles and bouncing from medium to medium, always a pleasure for

Bald-shaven, mustachioed African-American daytime TV talk show host who brought a variously incisive, dignified, smartypants or pompous style to his duties discussing trashy, trendy topics with distraught studio and home audiences. While serving in the mi

A quirky teenage actor who played the role of Kimmy Gibler on the hit ABC sitcom "Full House" (1987-95), Andrea Barber made her acting debut at age four in a local production of "The King and I". Agents for other

Character player of stage, TV and film, best known as the sadistic killer, Clarence Botticker, in "Robocop" (1988) and the domineering, inflexible father in "Dead Poets Society" (1989). Kurtwood Smith is an award-winning stage actor whose work in TV and

A prolific composer who divides his time between theater, TV and film, David Shire began writing in earnest as an undergraduate at Yale in the late 1950s. Introduced to classmate Richard Maltby Jr, the pair soon formed a writing partnership

The controversial British director Ken Russell is noted primarily for his exploration of sexual themes and his stylistic excesses. He first drew notice between 1959 and 1962 with a series of unorthodox biographical films made for the BBC's "Monitor" serie

Audra McDonald emerged as one of the premiere musical performers on Broadway before tackling other media. The Berlin-born, Fresno-raised mezzo-soprano began her performing career at age nine in local dinner theaters. At the urging of her educator parents,

This statuesque Danish beauty has lent her considerable talents to parts that have cast her as everything from Satan's spawn to an astronaut to an emperor's daughter. Regardless of the role or the quality of the script, Connie Nielsen has