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Critics enamored with Broadway revival of “Love Letters”

September 19, 2014 0

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – In an age of instant messaging, digital communication and fleeting relationships, the revival of “Love Letters,” a play about an enduring friendship recorded with pen and paper, is still capturing hearts on Broadway. A.R. Gurney’s play about two friends who shared their thoughts, emotions and lives by writing letters to each other for five decades debuted on Broadway in 1989, before the advent of cellphones and text messages. But critics said a noteworthy revival that opened on Thursday night is as touching as it was more than two decades ago. …

Angelina Jolie surgery sparks surge in female cancer tests – study

September 19, 2014 0
Angelina Jolie arrives at a summit to end sexual violence in conflict, at the Excel centre in London

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hollywood star Angelina Jolie’s decision to make public her double mastectomy more than doubled the number of women in Britain seeking to have genetic breast cancer tests, according to a study released on Friday. Jolie, 39, who has become a high-profile human rights campaign, announced her surgery in May last year, saying she acted after testing positive for a mutation of the BRCA1 gene that significantly increases the risk of breast cancer. …

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I don’t make tacky films: Farah Khan

September 19, 2014 0

New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) Her films have dances, songs, melodrama, romance, dollops of emotions, colour, star power and all of what make a typical Bollywood potboiler. If they manage to entertain the mass audiences in her homeland and the classy abroad, it gives the effervescent Farah Khan the joy of making the impossible possible.

Fake tweets stir debate about parody, lawsuit

September 19, 2014 0
In this Aug. 7, 2014 photo, Jon Daniel speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois office in Chicago. Daniel, who created a spoof Twitter account in the name of Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis, is taking his case to federal court after police raided his home. Ardis saw the account as an attempt to steal his identity. Daniel says the raid violated his constitutional rights. The police response also ignited a debate about online satire and free speech. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

CHICAGO (AP) — Jon Daniel was watching cartoons with one of his sons when he created a spoof Twitter account in the name of the Peoria mayor. Out of boredom, he said, he soon began sending profane messages about sex, drugs and alcohol.

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Governor signs bill raising Hollywood tax credits

September 18, 2014 0

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown has headed to the cradle of the Hollywood film industry to sign legislation that more than triples the state’s annual tax credit to $330 million a year for films and TV shows produced in California.

Daughter of comedian Joan Rivers thanks fans for support, kindness

September 18, 2014 0
Melissa Rivers and her son Cooper depart the funeral of her mother, comedian Joan Rivers, at Temple Emanu-El in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Melissa Rivers, the only daughter of legendary comedian Joan Rivers, who died two weeks ago following complications from an outpatient throat procedure, said her mother would have been overwhelmed by the depth of love people have shown for her. In her first statement since Rivers’ death on Sept. 4, Melissa and her teenage son, Cooper, thanked fans for the many cards, flowers, messages and condolences they have received from around the world and through social media. …

Directors Guild finds TV diversity hiring stalled

September 18, 2014 0
Directors Guild finds TV diversity hiring stalled

Women and minorities are largely shut out of the ranks of TV series directors in a stubbornly unchanged pattern of hiring, according to a Hollywood guild study released Wednesday. The Directors Guild of …