http://www.post-gazette.com/ Articles from all entertainment categories en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:28:31 -0500 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/09311/1011622-34.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Fox has ordered up "Master Chef," a new reality show that will pit amateur cooks against one another in a battle for culinary supremacy. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011426-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml In the very old days in Europe a musician would come to a new city with a letter of recommendation from a local patron. Beethoven had one, Chopin had one -- it was common practice. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011623-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml If Brian Wilson were still taking stages with Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, would we have been bundling up to go see him on a November night at the Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead? Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011631-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml That hit the spot. A hallmark of the best classical music is its ability to usher in a world, taking you with it. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011424-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The stereotype of rock musicians paints them as flaky, unrealistic and even irresponsible. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011444-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml WTAE's expanded digital signal now is in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1010815-238.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml This week's TV Q&A responds to questions about "V," "Damages" and a fantastically funny/gross catch in a KDKA promo. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011180-348.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Rihanna says she feels ashamed that she returned to Chris Brown after he attacked her in April, leaving her bruised and bloody. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011181-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Even in a YouTube world where anyone can be a star, for some people there's still nothing quite like being on TV. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011182-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml John Lithgow was going to pass on the chance to play serial killer vs. serial killer on "Dexter," with an Italian vacation, cruise and his son's wedding awaiting him. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011183-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml "Precious" screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher will be among the guests at a Pittsburgh panel tomorrow tackling thorny questions at the heart of Hollywood: "Getting Started: Where Do Good Ideas, Great Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011184-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a terrible moral dilemma in Richard Kelly's "The Box": Press a button on a mysterious container, they'll get $1 million, and someone they don't know will die. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011185-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller "The Fourth Kind" offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnival-like hokum. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011191-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Jim Carrey joins the legions of actors who have played Ebenezer Scrooge. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011192-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Robert Zemeckis may just be the father of the performance-capture, 3-D mania sweeping through Hollywood. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011193-121.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011195-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Watching snow on an IMAX screen with 3-D glasses is like being inside a snow globe. Just lovely. Observing performance-capture characters on such an enormous canvas is something else. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011202-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Movies about Coco Chanel are as timeless as little black dresses accented with strands of genuine pearls. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011203-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml You have to like a movie that ends with this caveat: "The filmmakers ask that no one attempt walking through walls, cloud-bursting while driving, or staring for hours at goats with the intent of Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011206-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml First Paris, now New York and, soon, Rio, Shanghai, Jerusalem and Mumbai. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010781-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Joni's birthday party The great Joni Mitchell turns 66 on Saturday and to honor the folk-rock goddess, a group of local musicians will gather at Your Inner Vagabond in Lawrenceville for "Happy Birthday Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1011217-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Rap superstar Jay-Z has added a second leg to his BP3 North American tour and it includes a stop at the Mellon Arena on March 16. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1011114-100.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The Carnegie Science Museum's Highmark Sportsworks exhibition is slated to reopen Dec. 19, just in time for the Christmas holidays. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1011105-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A sculpture of the late children's television pioneer Fred Rogers was unveiled on the North Side today Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010770-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml If you're looking for a probing, in-depth and insightful interview with one of pop music's true geniuses, you've come to the wrong place. But it's typical of what people get from Wilson if they're even lucky enough to get him on the phone. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010807-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The wise-mouthed, working-class, gospel-singing characters that have catapulted Tyler Perry from struggling dramatist to top-grossing writer, producer and director are coming to Pittsburgh in "Tyler Perry's Laugh to Keep From Crying." Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010772-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml They say many newspaper people have novels or screenplays they've written stashed in desk drawers at home. In Peter King's case, he has been storing songs instead. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 06:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010771-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml "In January 2003, a band formed that would birth a new genre of music." Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010779-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Johann Sebastian Bach's last name means "brook" in German. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010798-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Denzel Washington seems constitutionally incapable of turning in a bad performance, and he and John Travolta make the remake of "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" a very respectable popcorn movie. ... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010799-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml n "I Love You, Beth Cooper" (HH): Larry Doyle ("The Simpsons") turns his novel into a movie about a nerdy valedictorian (Paul Rust) who proclaims his love for the most popular girl (Hayden Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010806-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Quantum Theatre stages classics and plays that are largely unknown, often American premieres, in places no one thought to stage them before. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010817-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Gabourey Sidibe isn't ashamed to say she was wrong. It's a mistake she will carry to ruby red carpets from now until Oscar night and beyond. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010818-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The Three Rivers Film Festival, presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Dollar Bank, opens Friday with a robust, diverse mix of movies. It continues through Nov. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010819-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The comic center may be an Indian-born physician and sometime filmmaker, but in "If It Ain't Broke, Break It," he's reminiscent of Bob Hope or Don Knotts. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010820-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml If the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons, the sins of the brothers fall hardest on each other. But exactly whose father, son or brother is Pawel? Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010840-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Here is a sampling of reviews of movies playing during the first week of the Three Rivers Film Festival. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010854-437.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A list of things to do this weekend. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010868-437.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A list of recommended things to do this weekend. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010902-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Trumpeter Lew Soloff holds to the following maxim: "One note is a thousand words." Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010903-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Perfect concert venue I was bored the other day so I decided to again watch the broadcast of the concert at Point State Park prior to the Steelers' opening kickoff. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010904-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml PASADENA, Calif. -- For Fox's new "Wanda Sykes Show," the comedian at its center has a simple mandate: "I'm your wrap-up of what happened during the week, but from my point of view." Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010744-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Country music legend Loretta Lynn will perform at the Carnegie Library Music Hall in Munhall on Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Opening the show will be Chuck Mead. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010555-44.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Can we remember a world before Google? Better yet: Do we want to? Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010859-100.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Sarah Palin's book tour will be marching through Washington County. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010517-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kirstie Alley, 58, is going to star in an A&E reality "docu-series" next year about her life as a single mom and her efforts to lose weight. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010519-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Jay Leno is perched in prime time, but he still says he would have rather stayed put at "The Tonight Show" -- and if NBC offered him that job again, he'd take it. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010523-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Considering the buzz for Maurice Sendak these days, it might be surprising to find that he considered a "bumblebee" to be a greater achievement than his heralded monsters of "Where the Wild Things Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010524-176.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml When Abraham Lincoln was confronted with unflattering press editorials during the Civil War that described him as "a blockhead" "a moron" and a "widowmaker," he shrugged it off with a joke. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010526-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml On the first Sunday in November, John "Squirrel" Mosley sat in the brass section of the Union Baptist Church of Swissvale cradling his trumpet and listening as other musicians in the choir reached for syncopated glory. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010533-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Audience members for a special production of "The Chief" are needed for a Nov. 12 show at Shady Side Academy that will be filmed for future release on DVD. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010534-348.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The White House is enlisting "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker, Forest Whitaker and others from Hollywood and beyond to help push President Barack Obama's arts initiatives. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010535-348.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Since Rihanna's horrific altercation with then-boyfriend Chris Brown in February, the "Umbrella" singer may not have kept a low profile, but she certainly has not been talking. Until now. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010536-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Conductor Leonard Slatkin, 65, was hospitalized in Rotterdam on Sunday after complaining of chest discomfort following a concert with the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010537-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml It's only November, but Jason Yoder's junior year at Pittsburgh CAPA has already been a whirlwind. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500