Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Oscar-Tipped Winslet Wins Award - Ananova

Kate Winslet's hopes of triumphing at the Oscars received a boost as she grabbed a gong at a film ceremony seen as an indicator for the Academy Awards. The British actress scooped the best supporting actress title at the Screen Actor's Guild Award read more

NASSAU, Bahamas -- A paramedic has been charged in an alleged plot to extort $25 million from John Travolta after his teenage son suffered a seizure and died at the family's home in the Bahamas. Magistrate Carolita Bethel said that 47-year-old Tarino read more

BERLIN - Movies by Iranian and Peruvian directors will compete for the Berlin film festival's top prize this year alongside new offerings starring Renee Zellweger, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench and others, organizers said Tuesday read more

The ashes of the creator of "Star Trek" and those of his wife are going to be blasted into the final frontier -- and they're not coming back. A company called Celestis is sending the remains of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry into read more

Most people know Charlie Chaplin as the legendary comic actor and director of silent and sound films. Not so many, though, know of him as a composer – yet at the next Northwest Sinfonietta concert, he’s on the program next to the American great read more

BERLIN — Movies by Iranian and Peruvian directors will compete for the Berlin film festival's top prize this year alongside new offerings starring Renee Zellweger, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench and others, organizers said Tuesday read more