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• 'Spider-Man' musical claims another victim
• Hailee Steinfeld's career saddles up
• Steve Landesberg dies; comic actor played intellectual detective on sitcom 'Barney Miller'
• The many shades of Pink — so far
• Oprah Winfrey Network, after delays, set to launch Jan. 1
• Firefighters battle blaze on Kings of Leon tour buses at London's O2 arena
• 'The Hunger Games' star search: 'There are no front-runners yet'
• Jim Carrey seeks a sketchy rescue with 'SNL'
• Big picture: My $29 movie experience: Is Gold Class Cinemas the new standard?
• Waiting for the New Jack Swing revival: A Bell Biv Devoe video primer

'Spider-Man' musical claims another victim Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:36 AM PST The troubled Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was plagued by its fourth accident since it began previews last month when an actor performing an aerial stunt fell about 30 feet (9 meters), fire officials said.

Hailee Steinfeld's career saddles up Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST The 14-year-old star of 'True Grit' is getting a crash course on how Hollywood works. The 14-year-old star of 'True Grit' is getting a crash course on how Hollywood works.

Steve Landesberg dies; comic actor played intellectual detective on sitcom 'Barney Miller' Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST The New York native joined the cast in 1976 as Dietrich, whom a Times reviewer once referred to as 'infuriatingly cerebral.' Steve Landesberg, a comic actor who played the intellectual Det. Arthur Dietrich in the long-running ABC sitcom "Barney Miller," has died. He was believed to be 74.

The many shades of Pink — so far Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST Feisty. Trailblazing. Candid. Talented. The only question: Why isn't she a bigger star? On a warm November day, Pink sat at a back table in a Malibu restaurant, ordering salmon and behaving like a good pop star. Dressed in workday denim and plaid, a skullcap covering her short platinum hair, she was all set to start unloading furniture into her new beach house near Point Dume. Instead, this lunch date interrupted the move that cements her reunion with husband Carey Hart, the on-again love of her life and father-to-be of her first child, due in May.

Oprah Winfrey Network, after delays, set to launch Jan. 1 Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST Launch of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network will be the biggest for a cable channel in more than a decade. One obstacle: It will appear mostly on channels above 200. It happened in its OWN time.

Firefighters battle blaze on Kings of Leon tour buses at London's O2 arena Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:48 AM PST Sixty firefighters have tackled a blaze that engulfed two tour buses belonging to the band Kings of Leon at London's O2 Arena.

'The Hunger Games' star search: 'There are no front-runners yet' Posted: 20 Dec 2010 04:04 PM PST "We'll start auditioning fairly early in the new year," says "Hunger Games" producer Nina Jacobson.

Jim Carrey seeks a sketchy rescue with 'SNL' Posted: 20 Dec 2010 04:08 PM PST It's hard to imagine an actor with a more peculiar career than Jim Carrey.

Big picture: My $29 movie experience: Is Gold Class Cinemas the new standard? Posted: 20 Dec 2010 05:39 PM PST Rainey: Too many people have been willing to give up on the joy of the communal theater experience.

Waiting for the New Jack Swing revival: A Bell Biv Devoe video primer Posted: 20 Dec 2010 04:14 PM PST There's no question that watching the crisp dance moves and high-top fades in videos like "B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)" and "Poison" can rekindle the memories of '90s R&B with one click of a mouse.

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