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• Tony noms: 11 nods each for 'Fela!' and 'La Cage'
• Straight A's are hard to find when the Summer Movie Posse grades the summer flicks
• Bruckheimer on a budget
• VIDEO: Idol Confessions with Michael Johns
• Jonathan Demme makes time for 'Family Week'
• 2010 Met Gala: Celeb arrivals at the Costume Institute bash
• 'Fela!' and 'La Cage aux Folles' lead 2010 Tony nominations
• Lynn Redgrave: An Appreciation
• Fox Searchlight utters the 'F-Word'
• Barbie wouldn't have been safe with young Michael Keaton: 'She would have been part of a ceremony'

Tony noms: 11 nods each for 'Fela!' and 'La Cage' Posted: 04 May 2010 07:30 AM PDT "Fela!" -- a dance-infused stage biography -- and a revival of the drag musical "La Cage aux Folles" led the Tony Award nominations on Tuesday.

Straight A's are hard to find when the Summer Movie Posse grades the summer flicks Posted: 03 May 2010 05:42 PM PDT Every year as the summer movie season looms on the horizon, I ask a group of teenagers to offer their assessment of the summer films' trailers.

Bruckheimer on a budget Posted: 03 May 2010 06:35 PM PDT The next 'Pirates of the Caribbean' will have a tighter filming schedule, cheaper locations and fewer visual effects shots. Like the subtitle of his next "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, producer Jerry Bruckheimer has found himself "on stranger tides" at Disney.

VIDEO: Idol Confessions with Michael Johns Posted: 04 May 2010 07:38 AM PDT Always affable Aussie Michael Johns is the latest "American Idol" alumnus to pop by the L.A. Times video studio, providing plenty of laughs and a little season 7 insight.

Jonathan Demme makes time for 'Family Week' Posted: 04 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT Beth Henley's emotional play about grief and recovery lures the director into his off-Broadway debut. If the dysfunctional, self-medicating characters that populate so much 20th-century drama were to check into rehab or get therapy, would they still be stage-worthy? Eugene O'Neill didn't write "Long Day's Journey Into Recovery" or Tennessee Williams "A Streetcar Named Wellness."

2010 Met Gala: Celeb arrivals at the Costume Institute bash Posted: 03 May 2010 07:23 PM PDT You didn't have to be an American woman to turn out in style Monday for the Met's Costume Institute Gala in New York -- but it certainly helped to be famous. You didn't have to be an American woman to turn out in style Monday for the Met's Costume Institute Gala in New York -- but it certainly helped to be famous.

'Fela!' and 'La Cage aux Folles' lead 2010 Tony nominations Posted: 04 May 2010 07:22 AM PDT The awards show will air June 13 on CBS.

Lynn Redgrave: An Appreciation Posted: 03 May 2010 03:12 PM PDT Of all the illustrious acting Redgraves, she was the most accessible, the one we could easily identify w

Fox Searchlight utters the 'F-Word' Posted: 03 May 2010 06:43 PM PDT The company is negotiating to bring on Alex Holdridge to direct a romantic comedy called "The F-Word." The company is negotiating to bring on Alex Holdridge to direct a romantic comedy called "The F-Word."

Barbie wouldn't have been safe with young Michael Keaton: 'She would have been part of a ceremony' Posted: 03 May 2010 05:16 PM PDT In the world according to Barbie, the Mattel doll met and fell in love with Ken in 1961 on the set of a TV commercial. In the world according to Barbie, the Mattel doll met and fell in love with Ken in 1961 on the set of a TV commercial.

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