It was a good night for HBO, "Glee" and probably the bartenders at Hollywood's annual Golden Globe awards.HBO's Prohibition-era drama "Boardwalk Empire" dethroned "Mad Men" as television's top drama — in the estimation of Golden Globe voters. Al Pacino and Claire Danes both won acting awards for their roles in HBO movies."Glee," meanwhile, won the Globe for television's best comedy or musical, its second Globe for the two years the exuberant Fox series has been on the air. Actors who play two…See More

Iranian authorities have suspended a Tehran theatre's production of the classic European play Hedda Gabler and set up a body to police cultural affairs in a sign of a new crackdown on the arts.Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, chief prosecutor in the Iranian capital, told the semi-official Fars news agency on Wednesday he had summoned theater company members to explain themselves and said a new office to police cultural affairs had been created."This play had some problems both conceptually and in the…See More

Capsule reviews of films opening this week:"Little Fockers" — Meet the latest in Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller's comedy franchise. Grit your teeth through the fairly short though agonizing duration of its stay. Then wave goodbye in relief as its huge cast of characters departs like the annoying in-laws they are. "Meet the Parents" was a tolerable trifle and "Meet the Fockers" was a bloated bore. But this third installment is tasteless trash, filled with abysmally unfunny gags involving vomit,…See More

A day that began with authorities confirming Lindsay Lohan was being investigated for battery on a female staffer at a California rehab facility treating the starlet ended with the worker fired after giving an interview about the incident.Riverside County sheriff's detectives said Tuesday they are investigating the "Mean Girls" star for an alleged altercation with a worker at a Betty Ford Center facility in Palm Desert that occurred after 1 a.m. on Dec. 12.The agency declined to say what…See More

Rapper 50 Cent made a hit song out of talking about how he gets money. Now another rapper wants to get some too — from 50 Cent.Lawyers for Tyrone Simmons, an Atlanta rapper who goes by "Caliber," filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn.The lawsuit names 50 Cent, along with the producer who created the instrumental beat for the 2007 hit song, "I Get Money," and a host of music industry companies.The lawsuit seeks damages and says Simmons had bought exclusive…See More

Sherrill "Shaun" Nielsen, a gospel singer who performed with Elvis Presley, has died at age 68.Nielsen's publicist, Aaron Crisler, says Nielsen died Friday of lung cancer.Nielsen sang with Elvis on the Grammy-nominated song "Softly as I Leave You" and performed with a number of gospel groups over his career including the Singing Speer Family and Voice.Nielsen is survived by his wife Brenda Hall Nielsen. His funeral is scheduled for Thursday in Cullman, Ala.…See More

Casting is set for the world premiere of The New York Idea, Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn's rewrite of the 1906 comedy of social mores. Atlantic Theater Company's commission will play the Lucille Lortel Theatre starting Jan. 6, 2011.Under the direction of Mark Brokaw, Jaime Ray Newman (Geffen Playhouse's Some Girls and Fat Pig) will make her New York acting debut as Cynthia Karslake, who is at the center of Langdon Mitchell's original play.The cast includes Patricia Conolly, Michael…See More

Poetry by imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo (lee-OO' show-BOH') is coming out in the U.S.Graywolf Press announced Thursday that "June Fourth Elegies" will be published in 2012. It is a bilingual edition of verse by the 54-year-old Chinese dissident and literary critic.Liu is serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion handed down last year after he co-authored an appeal for human rights and political reform.The title of his book, which has not come out in China, refers to the…See More

The gun a man used to kill himself as undercover police tried to talk to him about the slaying of a Hollywood publicist was likely not the same weapon used in her slaying.Harold Martin Smith died Wednesday as Beverly Hills police investigating the death of Ronni Chasen went to speak with him at a rundown apartment building. He shot himself with a handgun as police approached him in the lobby.A law enforcement official, who was not authorized to speak about the case so asked for anonymity, told…See More

Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer," a story of a journalist hired to write the memoirs of a British prime minister, has won the prize for best film at the European Film Awards.Polanski, who was awarded the Silver Bear for best director at the Berlin Film Festival, also took five other key prizes at the ceremony held in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, late Saturday.Nominated in seven categories, the movie won the best director prize, best actor for Ewan McGregor, and best screenwriter went…See More

A Washington art gallery pledged a round-the-clock protest Thursday against what it calls censorship by the Smithsonian Institution for removing a video that shows ants crawling on a crucifix after the Catholic League and members of Congress complained it was sacrilegious.Transformer Gallery manager Barbara Escobar said the small, nonprofit gallery will show the video piece, "A Fire in My Belly" by artist David Wojnarowicz, in its storefront window every day and night until it's reinstated at…See More

Leonardo DiCaprio braved scary skies to get to a summit devoted to saving the worlds' tigers, donating $1 million to the cause and earning high praise from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.The Hollywood star arrived in St. Petersburg on Tuesday after two flight dramas, Putin said, just managing to make the meeting where officials from the 13 countries where tigers still live in the wild agreed to a program to save the iconic big cats from extinction.DiCaprio was one of more than 200 people…See More

Singers, painters and television presenters were demonstrating across the Netherlands on Saturday against the government's plans to slash funding and subsidies for the arts as part of an (EURO)18 billion ($25 billion) austerity package.Thousands of members of the public also were attending events around the country, and organizers called for protesters to scream together to express their anger at the changes.On Thursday the Dutch parliament approved plans to raise sales tax from six percent to…See More

Westminster Abbey looks like the most likely venue for Britain's royal wedding, after Kate Middleton was photographed emerging from the central London landmark.The Daily Mail newspaper ran a front-page photo Thursday of Middleton leaving the abbey after an evening visit with courtiers. Kate and Prince William have met royal staff to begin planning their wedding, which will take place in London next spring or summer.Some have speculated the couple may choose St. Paul's Cathedral, where William's…See More