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King Kong's metal skeleton sold
The model used to film the final, climactic scenes of the 1933 film King Kong has sold for 121,250 pounds ($218,000) at auction.
ABC - November 25, 2009, 1:18 pm -
"Old Dogs" barks up the tree of ancient jokes
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Since they are old dogs, there are no new tricks in Walt Disney's "Old Dogs," a shamelessly predictable, overly broad comedy aimed at the family audience starting Thanksgiving weekend.
November 25, 2009, 1:18 pm -
Queensland grass is greener for Splendour
Byron Bay's Splendour In The Grass music festival is moving to south-east Queensland.
ABC - November 25, 2009, 12:06 pm -
Film director Tyler Perry gives $1 million to NAACP
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director and comic actor Tyler Perry, whose films include the recent "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," has given $1 million to the NAACP in the largest gift ever by a single person to that civil rights group.
November 25, 2009, 11:32 am -
Rafters finale draws over two million
Hit drama Packed To The Rafters has ended the year on a high, with more than two million Australians watching the finale.
November 25, 2009, 11:24 am -
Washington Post closing remaining U.S. bureaus
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Washington Post is closing its last U.S. bureaus outside the nation's capital as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news.
November 25, 2009, 10:47 am -
Washington Post will close U.S. bureaus
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Washington Post is closing its bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news in the nation's capital.
November 25, 2009, 10:43 am -
MGM documents go to News Corp, Time Warner, others
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the famed film studio that is considering selling itself, has sent confidentiality agreements to about 20 interested parties including Time Warner Inc and News Corp, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
November 25, 2009, 10:29 am -
Nude photo of Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski set for auction
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A nude photo of film director Roman Polanski, who is now being held in a Swiss prison, and his wife Sharon Tate taken shortly before she was brutally murdered, will be sold at an upcoming auction where it could fetch more than $10,000 (6,000 pounds), organizers said.
November 25, 2009, 10:21 am -
Clive James poetry shortlisted for award
Australian poet, author and TV personality Clive James is in the running for a prestigious 2009 Costa Book Award.
November 25, 2009, 10:14 am -
Darwin first edition, rescued from loo, sells for $180k
A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which was found in a British family's toilet has sold for more than 100,000 pounds ($180,166).
ABC - November 25, 2009, 10:03 am -
Carla Bruni accepts Woody Allen's film proposal
France's first lady, ex-supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has agreed to star in Woody Allen's next movie.
ABC - November 25, 2009, 9:16 am -
Adam Lambert fallout begins, but album soars
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Adam Lambert was kicked off one morning TV show and snapped up by a rival on Tuesday after his sexually-charged performance on a live music awards show made him one of the most risky and sought-after celebrities in the United States.
November 25, 2009, 9:09 am -
Jackman in the ring for sci-fi boxing tale
Australian heartthrob Hugh Jackman is joining forces with Steven Spielberg in Real Steel - a futuristic film about robot boxers.
ABC - November 25, 2009, 8:50 am -
UK fans want ABBA reunion
The British public would like to see Swedish band ABBA reform more than any other act, according to a survey.
ABC - November 25, 2009, 8:50 am -
Darwin book found on bathroom shelf makes $171,000
LONDON (Reuters) - A first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," which had been kept in a bathroom bookcase in England for years, fetched 103,250 pounds ($171,000) at auction Tuesday, around twice its pre-sale estimate.
November 25, 2009, 8:46 am -
Booker winner Hilary Mantel vies for Costa Book Award
LONDON (Reuters) - British author Hilary Mantel, who won the coveted Booker Prize for "Wolf Hall" set in the 16th century royal court of Henry VIII, is in the running for the Costa Book Awards after nominees were announced on Tuesday.
November 25, 2009, 8:30 am -
Ban on Iran paper over Baha'i photo lifted: report
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A popular newspaper critical of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, banned for one day for publishing a photograph of a temple of the banned Baha'i faith, can publish again Wednesday, media reported Tuesday.
November 25, 2009, 7:44 am -
Rio does away with coconuts on beaches
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - One of the enduring images of Rio's beaches -- coconuts opened to yield their sweet water -- is about to be a thing of the past under a new clean-up campaign by authorities.
November 25, 2009, 7:43 am -
King Kong figurine fetches $A217,000
The tiny King Kong figurine that helped launch the career of one of cinema's biggest monsters has sold for about STG121,000 ($A217,450) at a London auction.
November 25, 2009, 7:30 am
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