Entertainment

Ted Turner's vision of news as global and continuous changed both the industry and society itself

NEW YORK (AP) — When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, Beth Knobel, a future TV news correspondent, was in graduate school. Emerging from class, she saw TV sets had been set up in the lobby....

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Movie Review: In 'The Sheep Detectives,' the private eyes have wool over their eyes

Maybe out of fear of putting filmgoers to sleep, the sheep has not been much of a mainstay at the movies. There’s Charles Burnett’s lyrical classic “Killer of Sheep.” You could get...

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CNN founder Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer, dies at age 87

NEW YORK (AP) — Ted Turner, a brash television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and transformed the news business by launching CNN and introducing the 24-hour cable news...

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‘The Sheep Detectives’ is the starry, family-friendly whodunit you didn’t know you needed

Talking animal movies do not, on the whole, have the best reputation. Yes, there is “Babe,” but “Babe” is the exception. Most are pretty bad, whether it’s the uncanny effects, the shoddy storytelling...

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Marianne Boruch wins $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize as judges hail human genius in AI age

NEW YORK (AP) — A poet renowned for her insights into the natural world and our inner lives has received a $100,000 award. Marianne Boruch is this year's winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize for “exceptional...

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These are the finalists for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award

TORONTO — "Endling" author Maria Reva and "Small Ceremonies" writer Kyle Edwards are among the finalists for this year's Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Last year, Reva took home the Atwood Gibson Writers'...

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In a low period for comedy films, these were the best of the last decade

NEW YORK (AP) — The last decade has not been good for big-screen comedies. Hollywood studios nearly stopped making them. Horror became the in vogue genre. Laughs were out. Good comedies have kept being...

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Ten years later, the cult of ‘The Nice Guys’ keeps growing

NEW YORK (AP) — When “The Nice Guys” debuted 10 years ago, the writing was on the wall for the big-screen comedy. It came out sandwiched between “Captain America: Civil War” and “X-Men: Apocalypse.”...

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CNN founder Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer, has died at age 87

NEW YORK (AP) — Ted Turner could never be defined by just one role. He was a media mogul, philanthropist and conservationist. A yachtsman who won boating’s most famous race and owner of a baseball...

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CNN founder Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer, has died at age 87

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN is reporting that its founder Ted Turner, the outspoken and often outrageous television pioneer, has died at age 87. The network says Turner died Wednesday, citing a...

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