Orchestras, say people who want to defend those organizations' importance in today's world, are focal points of community spirit and civic pride. And, oh, how wonderful it is on the rare occasions when they actually feel like that.
Fox has ordered cement shoes for its "Mob Doctor" in advance of tossing it in the drink.
The press had already figured out "Mob Doctor" is probably not getting an additional order for the so-called "back nine" episodes that would give the freshman drama a full season order — and a future on the network.
EDITOR'S NOTE: It's the best-received "Peanuts" story we ever told. So as part of a holiday tradition here, Comic Riffs is "rebroadcasting" this "Charlie Brown Christmas" tale, which we first shared in 2010. A Charlie Brown Christmas" airs tonight at 8 ET on ABC.
Sir John Elliott is our greatest historian of 16th- and 17th-century Spain and the author of the magisterial biography "The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline." In "History in the Making" this distinguished scholar — now in his early 80s — looks back on his career as a Hispanist and reflects on the developments in historiography over the past 60 years.
Celebrities tend to be self-involved. To some extent, they have to be. When you make a living that focuses largely on your own image and how you present that image to the public, there is a natural tendency to become a bit wrapped up in one's own uber-glamourous, ultra-famous ego.
Celebrities tend to be self-involved. To some extent, they have to be. When you make a living that focuses largely on your own image and how you present that image to the public, there is a natural tendency to become a bit wrapped up in one's own uber-glamourous, ultra-famous ego.
As socko finishes go, few comedies can match the one William Shakespeare came up with 400-plus years ago for "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The mirthfully tragic "Pyramus and Thisbe" skit — an Elizabethan foreshadowing of the canon of Mel Brooks — is as close to a guarantee of giddy-ever-after as any bit of amusement a playwright has ever put to paper.
Jessica Simpson is pregnant again roughly seven months after giving birth to her first daughter, Maxwell Drew Johnson. Us Weekly broke the news via a source who says that Simpson and her fiance, Eric Johnson, were surprised by the singer/actress/fashion mogul's sudden with-childness. Reps for Simpson have not officially confirmed the pregnancy yet, nor have they explained how this will impact Simpson's status as a Weight Watchers spokesperson who rapidly lost all her baby weight post-first pregnancy. (Us Weekly)
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