CHICAGO (AP) – A religious group set up a DVD player and TV set at a downtown holiday bazaar to show a movie trailer depicting the birth of Jesus after the city dropped an objection to the display.The city initially disapproved of the showing of promotional clips from “The Nativity Story” at the traditional German […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – In the opening of Courteney Cox’s seductive new FX series, the actress is seen as a red satin-swathed colossus dominating the Hollywood landscape.In fact, Cox’s beautiful, even beatific Lucy Spiller is wallowing in the gutter as the editor of tabloid magazines whose mission is reflected in the show’s title: “Dirt.”Turns out, […]

NBC tightens ‘Raines’ The belt-tightening 2006-07 TV season has claimed another victim, at least partially: Jeff Goldblum.NBC has cut back the order on Goldblum’s midseason series “Raines,” a noirish drama that stars Goldblum as an L.A. detective who hallucinates that the dead victims in his cases speak to him. Although he’s at first shaken by […]

Tom Green has been toiling for the last six months on a late-night talk show – the sort of thing he once did for MTV.However, unless you’ve been in front of a computer visiting tomgreen.com, you probably don’t know about it.“We’re in the grassroots phase,” Green said. “This has been a real cool experience. I […]

• Farmington now has as fine a water supply as can be found anywhere – perhaps the best. It is a gravity system from a mountain pond 350 feet above Broadway square and a little over five miles away. No endeavor has been spared to make the line in every way the best possible.• The […]

CHICAGO (AP) – A trailer for a movie depicting the birth of Jesus played at a holiday bazaar Wednesday afternoon but went largely unnoticed by the lunch-going crowd, despite early city concerns that it represented paid advertising that could offend non-Christians.A religious group showed the clips from “The Nativity Story” at the traditional German Christkindlmarket […]

Wanna make a teenager groan?Buy them the wrong music for Christmas.Goofing up on which CD will please your niece, nephew or even a kid of your own won’t be seen as just an innocent boo-boo or a passive misreading but as a personal violation, if not a hate crime.As a teen, I toiled in a […]

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) – Rap megastar Eminem and his high school sweetheart divorced for a second time Tuesday, less than a year after they remarried.Eminem and Kim Mathers agreed to divide property under terms of a private settlement and to share custody of their 10-year-old daughter, Hailie Jade Scott. They told a judge they […]

NEW YORK – I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.Like I’ve got a choice. The media are pounding it into my head. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. No way of ducking this annual storm.Nearly 200 years ago, Clement Clarke Moore described a night before Christmas when “the moon on the breast of […]

Those of us born in the late 1950s and early ’60s are often called space-age babies, with John Glenn as our hero.But you could just as easily call us children of the TV-cartoon era. A man who made that era possible has gone on to everlasting syndication in the sky, no rocket needed.Joseph Barbera, who […]