Let's get right to the point. "The Scottsboro Boys" is a staggeringly inventive piece of musical theater.
Its intentions are serious, its execution pretty much pitch perfect, and its entertainment value — featuring what is the final score by John Kander and Fred Ebb — of the highest order.
Yet the show, which opened Wednesday at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre, could not have found a more somber, real-life subject to musicalize: the story of nine young black men accused of rapin
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Hollywood's dealmakers have a busy couple of weeks ahead of them.
One day after March 19 was set as the deadline for binding offers for MGM, the same date has emerged as a deadline in the latest round of bidding for Miramax.
Owner Walt Disney Co. hopes to select a winning bidder from offers received by that date and close on a sale of the one-time indie highflyer within 30 days of the deadline.
Interested parties offer conflicting takes on how heated interest in Miramax h
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Stay tuned for more fee disputes threatening local television stations on cable TV lineups.
Broadcasters hurt by declining ad revenue are demanding more fees from cable and other subscription TV providers to carry the stations. The providers are resisting, and in the latest tussle, Cablevision Systems Corp. dropped the ABC station in New York in the hours leading to Sunday's Oscars telecast.
More such blackouts loom as several networks and various providers across the country ha
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"Secret Daughter" (William Morrow, 352 pages, $23.99), by Shilpi Somaya Gowda: Sometimes the image in our minds of what we have lost is far greater than the loss itself, and so it is for Asha, who was given up for adoption by her birthparents in India.
Boys are the prized possession in the Indian village where Kavita Merchant gives birth to a daughter. She loves this child and cannot bear to have her husband, Jasu, leave her to die, as he did with their first girl. In secret, s
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With a midnight deadline looming on a threat to pull the plug on Cablevision's 3.1 million customers in New York a day before the Academy Awards, there was still no word Saturday night on whether ABC's parent company and the cable operator have reached a decision.
Cablevision Systems Corp. spokesman Jim Maiella (may-EL'-ah) said no update was available on negotiations between the cable operator and the Walt Disney Co. as of about 9 p.m. A Disney spokeswoman didn't immediately respond t
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A former vice president and advertising sales director for Sirius XM Radio has been named the new publisher of amNew York.
Newsday Media Group announced Friday that Paul Turcotte will begin his duties as publisher of the New York newspaper beginning on Monday. He will report to Newsday Media Group Publisher Terry Jimenez, amNew York's former publisher.
Turcotte was most recently at Sirius XM Radio. Before that he held senior management and sales positions with Hachette-Filipacch
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