Topic “entertainment”

By Kirk Baird (Toledo Blade)

If this Valentine’s Day finds you reeling from a relationship gone wrong or stewing about a heartbreaking ex, and you’re scarcely in the mood to spend Valentine’s Day watching others live a lie of true love, here are 10 anti-romantic films from this millennium worthy of your companionship and adoration.

“High Fidelity” (2000...

By Becky Wright (Standard-Examiner staff)

Mata Hari will forever be linked to spying, but she wasn’t the first female spy, or even the best. The exotic dancer from Holland was executed in France, during World War I, for espionage. Historians today say that if she was really a spy, she wasn’t very effective.

But there have been, and still are, highly skilled women in the field of...

By The Washington Post (The Washington Post)

The Washington Post has compiled a list of entertainment opportunities now available:

BOOKS

  • “House of Earth,” by Woody Guthrie
  • “Indiscretion, by Charles Dubow
  • ...
By Patricia Sheridan (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

She plays Ivy Lynn, an ambitious Broadway actress, on the NBC hit series “Smash.” It’s something actress Megan Hilty knows a little about. She starred as Glinda in “Wicked” and went on to play the Dolly Parton role in the musical “9 to 5,” also on Broadway.

The multitalented 31-year-old will debut her first album, “It Happens All the...

By The Washington Post (The Washington Post)

The Washington Post has compiled a list of entertainment opportunities now available:

TOP PICK

“Downton Abbey: Season 3” (U.K. version), on DVD, Blu-ray and HD

The British drama “Downton Abbey” is midway through its third season on PBS, but you can watch it now on DVD and see the entire...