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Movie review: The French comedy 'The Intouchables' is a real crowd-pleaser On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes his reluctant caretaker. Surely, life lessons will be learned by all and an unlikely friendship will form across racial and Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 20:03:31

46th annual Country Music Association awards to be held Nov. 1, live from Nashville NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Country Music Association's 46th annual awards show is scheduled for Nov. 1. The three-hour show moves to Thursday this year after a run of Wednesday nights. It will be broadcast live on ABC from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. More than 16 million viewers tuned in to the Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 20:03:31

Google creates online synthesizer as tribute to creator Bob Moog NEW YORK, N.Y. - Bob Moog's synthesizer helped change the sound of modern music. On what would have been his 78th birthday, Google is paying tribute to the man with a virtual version of his famous Moog on their homepage — and it's completely playable. The Moog doodle, a replica of the Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 20:03:30

Actor Michael McKean must bow out of his Broadway show following leg break in car crash NEW YORK, N.Y. - Broadway producers scrambled Wednesday to fill Michael McKean's part in a revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" as the actor recovers from a broken leg after being struck by a car. Producer Jeffrey Richards said that McKean's role will be played by James Lecesne from now on Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 20:03:30

Homeland Security Chairman: CIA, Pentagon co-operated too much with filmmakers WASHINGTON - A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defence Department jeopardized national security by co-operating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King. R-N.Y., first raised Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 20:03:29

Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Nelly Furtado to perform at MMVAs TORONTO - Days before the release of his third album, Justin Bieber will perform at the MuchMusic Video Awards. The 18-year-old pop star from Stratford, Ont., is the latest performer announced for this year's MMVAs, which will be held June 17 outside Much headquarters in Toronto. That's just Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 20:03:28

Major new Van Gogh show in Ottawa takes close-up view of artist as nature-lover OTTAWA - There doesn't seem to be anything particularly daring about getting down on your knees and elbows to take a close-up photo of a blooming flower or an interesting patch of foliage -- the zoom is part of our snap-happy culture. But when it's a renowned late-19th century painter applying Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 20:03:28

Founding member and guitarist leaves 3 Doors Down after close to 2 decades, health cited ESCATAWPA, Miss. - 3 Doors Down says on its website that founding member and guitarist Matt Roberts has left the rock band because of health problems. The statement Wednesday says Roberts has problems with blood circulation and other health issues. It calls the split amicable. Roberts grew up Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 20:03:27

Bassist Donald 'Duck' Dunn honoured by fans, musicians on Memphis' Beale Street; he died at 70 MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The late bass player Donald "Duck" Dunn was honoured Wednesday in the city where he performed on some of R&B's best-known hits, with musicians leading a lively funeral march down Memphis' Beale Street. Musicians played trumpets, saxophones and drums -- and more than 100 fans... Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 20:03:26

Stage and screen actress Janet Carroll dies in New York at 71 Actress Janet Carroll, who played the mother of Tom Cruise's character in the movie "Risky Business," has died. She was 71. Carroll's son, George Brown, said the actress died Tuesday in New York after a long illness. Carroll worked steadily since that breakthrough role with Cruise in 1983. Her Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 20:03:26

'The Great Gatsby' trailer debuts 2012 is shaping up to be the year of Leonardo DiCaprio. Newspaper: Winnipeg Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 12:17:03

Beliebers' dreams coming true There's going to be a lot less lonely girls in Winnipeg when Justin Bieber comes back this fall. Newspaper: Winnipeg Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Music Date: 2012-05-23 12:16:49

Justin Bieber announces 2012 tour dates Justin Bieber has announced the dates for his Believe tour with tickets going on sale June 1. But if you are part of Justin Bieber's fan club, a presale will begin at noon on Wednesday, May 23. Newspaper: Winnipeg Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Music Date: 2012-05-23 12:16:48

Bizarre 'Holy Motors' sets Cannes abuzz with talk of surreal cinema and Kylie Minogue CANNES, France - Holy cow. The most rapturous audience reception at the Cannes Film Festival has gone to "Holy Motors," a disorienting, whirling dream of a movie by French director Leos Carax. Starring Denis Lavant as a man who adopts a dozen wildly different personas during the course of a long Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 12:07:32

Bristol Palin's Lifetime reality series about family and motherhood to premiere June 19 NEW YORK, N.Y. - Lifetime network has set a premiere date for its new reality series about Bristol Palin's home life in Alaska. The network says "Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp" will debut June 19 with two new half-hours airing weekly. The 14-episode series stars the daughter of former Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 12:07:29

David Cronenberg to be the subject of Toronto exhibit, set to launch in 2013 TORONTO - An exhibition celebrating the works of acclaimed Canuck filmmaker David Cronenberg is coming to Toronto. The Toronto International Film Festival says it plans to mount the Cronenberg show in Fall 2013 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Co-curated by TIFF director and CEO Piers Handling and Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 12:07:29

Louis C.K. to headline JFL42, a new incarnation of Toronto's Just for Laughs TORONTO - Comedy star Louis C.K. will headline JFL42, a new incarnation of Toronto's Just for Laughs festival, this fall. The stand-up veteran, actor, writer and creator of TV's "Louie" will perform "all new material" in four concerts at the Sony Centre on Sept. 27 and Sept. 28, say Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 12:07:28

Bieber announces extensive fall tour with seven Canadian dates; Jepsen to open TORONTO - With his much-anticipated new disc "Believe" about to drop, Justin Bieber has announced an extensive North American tour that will include seven Canadian dates. The Stratford, Ont., native will kick off his nearly four-month trek on Sept. 29 in Glendale, Ariz., and wrap up on Jan. 26 Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 12:07:28

Whiskey galore: Scotch expert from 'The Angels' Share' brings drop of the Highlands to Cannes CANNES, France - Charles MacLean is out of his element in Cannes, a town consumed by cinema and celebrity. His element is Scotch whisky -- "uisge beatha," he says, giving it its Gaelic name. The water of life. MacLean is on a mission: He has brought the world of single malts to the French Riviera Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 12:07:27

Hugh Dancy walks fine line in 'Hysteria,' about invention of the vibrator TORONTO - A mainstream, comedic film about the invention of the vibrator has to walk a delicate line, and actor Hugh Dancy says that's exactly what drew him to the script for "Hysteria" in the first place. "I had heard of the premise of this movie ... what intrigued me was the tone, was the Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 12:07:26

Review: Anderson rediscovers his mix of style, substance in 'Moonrise Kingdom' The contradiction inherent to all Wes Anderson films -- the juxtaposition of the meticulous artificiality of the settings and the passionately wistful emotions that are longing to burst free -- is at its most effective in a while in "Moonrise Kingdom." The director and co-writer's tale of first... Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 12:07:25

Donald Driver Cha-cha-chas to 'Dancing' win Green Bay Packers football star Donald Driver won the 14th season of 'Dancing With the Stars' on Tuesday, Cha-cha-cha-ing to victory on the strength of perfect scores from the show's judges and voting support from fervid fans. Newspaper: Winnipeg Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 08:07:43

'Glee' graduates face tears, fears, uncertain futures Eight stars of Fox TV's musical comedy "Glee" bid farewell to McKinley High and headed down separate paths to pursue their dreams. Newspaper: Winnipeg Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 08:07:42

Low ticket sales force cancellation of B.C. country music festival VANCOUVER - The jig's up for a country music festival that was once the biggest entertainment event in B.C.'s Interior and drew Grammy-winning crooners. The Merritt Mountain Music Festival attracted crowds of nearly 150,000 campers in past years and stars like Vince Gill and Crystal Gale. But Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 08:03:39

Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez face off on 'American Idol' finale LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Jessica Sanchez wishes she could've changed one thing about the "American Idol" finale: her final song. The judges completely dismissed "Change Nothing," the lukewarm potential future single that failed to fully showcase the 16-year-old singer's vocal prowess during the Fox Newspaper: Brandon Sun Region: Prairies Feed: Entertainment Date: 2012-05-23 08:03:39

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