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Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, co-stars of the hit HBO series "True Blood", have officially declared their true love for one another with a trip to the altar over the weekend. According to their publicist, the couple tied the knot at a wedding ceremony...

Those still in mourning over the Fisher family of HBO's "Six Feet Under" can take heart. The show is getting an afterlife elsewhere on cable. Bravo has picked up rerun rights to the Emmy-winning series and will begin airing it later this year. The...

Julie Weiss is the costume designer for two of this season's hottest award contenders, "Hollywoodland" and "Bobby." Oscar-nominated for her designs in Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys" and Julie Taymor's "Frida," her work on Alan Ball's award-winning...

Jon Cassar was sitting in his director's chair on the Oval Office set of "24" during a typically hectic day for the first-time Emmy director nominee. Cassar was filming the first two hours of the Fox drama's sixth season, and there was an awful lot he has...

Wednesday September 15, 1999      Unsettling, unnerving, undefinable, "American Beauty" avoids quick and easy categorization. A quirky and disturbing take on modern American life energized by bravura performances from Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening,...

A changing of the guard took place in nominations for the 54th annual nighttime Emmy Awards announced Thursday, as an influx of new series joined the party, elbowing out an older generation of stalwarts, including "ER" and "Frasier." The most prominent...

After an uncomfortable, twice-postponed 2001 show, Emmy settled back into a big, fat, TV-loving groove Sunday, with a program that offered oodles of winning in-jokes, pleasant surprises in the awards and an ultimately strong performance from host Conan O'...

The following is a list of theatrical productions: ANNIE RUSSELL THEATRE The theater is on the campus of Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park. Season tickets are $50 and $60 for general audiences and $47 and $57 for seniors. Second-stage shows...

So does nobody in Park Forest — or Tinley Park or Matteson — have a grandchild to go out with? Boy, it sure felt that way, decidedly surreal, at the Chicago-area premiere of the hit musical "A Year With Frog and Toad." On Friday night's opening at the...

Even though Los Angeles has been the center of movie making for most of a century, you wouldn't always know it to look at the movies. Elaborate sets, sound stages and backdrops could transform Los Angeles into any place in the world. That Welsh mining...

While working as a writer-producer on "Six Feet Under," Christian Taylor decided to pursue a childhood dream while chronicling it on film. The result is the slyly amusing yet poignant "Showboy," which Taylor describes as "faction." This means he knew...