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HBO’s ‘Luck’ runs out of luck

HBO’s “Luck” didn’t have much of it. The low-rated drama, which is set at a racetrack and stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, was abruptly canceled Wednesday after the injury and subsequent euthanasia of a horse used in the production led to widespread criticism. The show was already facing intense criticism from animal rights activists,

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Wispy ‘Once’ makes unlikely transition to Broadway

Reporting from New York— — Actor Steve Kazee was leaving Broadway’s Bernard Jacobs Theatre after a recent preview performance of “Once” when he was accosted by a woman who had just seen the show. Why didn’t your character end up with the person he loved? the woman asked him. Couldn’t he see they belonged together?

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‘American Reunion’: How Universal revived its oldest teen franchise

The world has certain immutable laws. Once you go bald and kids at convenience stores start calling you “sir,” your days as a hipster are over. It’s the same thing with movie franchises — once they lose their box-office sizzle and begin showing up in direct-to-DVD bins, they ain’t coming back to the multiplex. Until

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When TV characters get whacked

The courtroom battle between former “Desperate Housewives” costar Nicollette Sheridan and the show’s creator, Marc Cherry, over the circumstances of her character’s demise is another reminder that for an actor, the only thing worse than not getting a part on a show is getting killed off a show. “It’s a one-way contract, they can drop

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TV review: ‘Fashion Star’

I may not be a fashionista, but I wear clothes as often as the next person — I’m wearing some right now as a matter of fact. And stung into curiosity by that withering monologue about the cerulean blue sweater in “The Devil Wears Prada,” I am interested in how certain styles wind up dominating

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It’s a new scene at Disney Channel

“Gravity Falls” doesn’t sound like classic Disney animation. The new cartoon comedy series follows twins Dipper and Mabel, whose school vacation plans are dashed when their parents ship them off to spend the summer with cranky old Uncle Stan in Gravity Falls, Ore., where pterodactyls swoop overhead and gnomes plot to abduct Mabel and make

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Box Office: Big budget ‘John Carter,’ Eddie Murphy comedy bomb

In what is certain to go down as one of the biggest box office flops of the year, the $ 250-million-plus “John Carter” debuted with a disappointing $ 30.6 million this weekend. Instead, last weekend’s No. 1 film, “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax,” claimed the top spot yet again. The Universal Pictures film, an animated 3-D

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‘Fashion Star’ is designed with retail in mind

Fashion ought to be a no-brainer for television: It’s fun to look at, appeals to a spending-happy demographic and involves outsized personalities who tend to believe it’s their professional duty to create drama. Yet the history of reality TV is littered with fashion-based shows that never caught on or flamed out after one season. When

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Television review: ‘The Announcement’

Lakers legend and entrepreneur Earvin “Magic” Johnson made “The Announcement,” an ESPN documentary about his life with a frightening diagnosis, to remind people that HIV and AIDS are still both fatal — and preventable. “I am not cured,” he says at the film’s end. Director Nelson George’s moving and informative film does that and more.

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