Daily entertainment news covering City Slickers en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/17/movies_with_heart_the_100_best_romdramed Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:00:29 EST Entertainment News 84084@http://www.starpulse.com/news There's the quintessential romantic comedy, and then there's the romdramedy. Similar to a dramedy (in which there is an equal balance of humor and serious content), a romdramedy combines comedy and drama with that mushy thing we call romance.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/10/12/billy_crystal_honored_in_washington_with Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:00:40 EST Entertainment News 63464@http://www.starpulse.com/news WASHINGTON (AP) - Carl Reiner, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg have all won it. Now, to borrow a famous movie line he wrote, Billy Crystal is having what they're having.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/02/the_kennedy_center_will_award_actor_bill Wed, 02 May 2007 09:24:38 EST Entertainment News 40453@http://www.starpulse.com/news WASHINGTON (AP) - Billy Crystal will be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He's the 10th recipient of the award, given annually by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It'll be presented Oct. 11 at a tribute performance that will be televised by PBS.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/04/18/billy_crystal_and_rob_reiner_present_com Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:00:00 EST Entertainment News 38740@http://www.starpulse.com/news Composer Marc Shaiman claimed the Henry Mancini Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements and contributions to the music of film and television at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Film and Television Music Awards last night.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/02/22/gwyneth_paltrow_jack_palance_top_worst_o Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:11:19 EST Entertainment News 31166@http://www.starpulse.com/news Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Palance have been voted the worst ever Best Actor and Actress Oscar winners in a new poll. The survey of film fans by MSN Movies has found Academy Awards voters are often out of touch with the thoughts and opinions of regular movie-goers.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/12/25/starpulse_top_10_of_2006_9_gone_but_not Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:00:00 EST Entertainment News 24249@http://www.starpulse.com/news 2006 was a great year in the entertainment world; however, let us not forget those who entertained us for generations but have moved on. We look back on those entertainers and cultural icons who left us in 2006 to pay our respects... Jazz, R&B and pop singer Lou Rawls, lost a two year fight with brain and lung cancer (1/6). He was 72. Prolific film star of the 50s, 60s and 70s and star of such hits as Alfie and The Poseidon Adventure, Shelley Winters at age 85 (1/14). 60s soul star Wilson Pickett, who brought us such hits as Mustang Sally and In The Midnight Hour age 64; of a heart attack (1/19); and actor Anthony Franciosa, 77 (1/19). Country singer Janette Carter, of cuuntry music's founding family, the Carters, 82 (1/22); and actor Chris Penn, 40, brother of actor Sean Penn who starred in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1/24). And Coretta Scott King (76), civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr (1/30).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/11/11/jack_palance_dies_at_84 Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:48:32 EST Entertainment News 21212@http://www.starpulse.com/news Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance died yesterday at his home in Montecito, California. He was 87. The City Slickers star died of natural causes and was surrounded by his family when he passed away, according to his spokesperson Dick Guttman.

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