The Karate Kid News

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 4, the 308th day of 2009 with 57 to follow. The moon is waning.

Good morning. Today is the 308th day of the year. On this day in 1979, about 500 Iranians seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 90 hostages.

A A - The Karate Kid' is all grown up Nov. 2: TODAY's Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford talk to actor Ralph Macchio about his life after "The Karate Kid," which includes a family and a role on "Ugly Betty." Video A A Was it a stunt? Balloon boy's family speaks out Oct.

A A - The Karate Kid' is all grown up Nov. 2: TODAY's Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford talk to actor Ralph Macchio about his life after "The Karate Kid," which includes a family and a role on "Ugly Betty." COMMENTARY By Susan C. Young msnbc.com contributor updated Snubbed by TV snobs, and bashed in episodes of ultra-hip "The Family Guy," CBS sitcom ...

"When he pours, he reigns." In another sign that New York City is losing its edge, prominent stage producer, Marty Richards , is bringing the straight-laced yet tutti-fruttiA Tom Cruise vehicle, Cocktail , to Broadway .

If there is one thing we learned from Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid , it's that you can heal a broken leg by rubbing your hands together and then touching it.

I recently came across a piece of information that downright kicked me in the pants.

ATLANTIC CITY This is a dream weekend for film enthusiasts as the second annual Downbeach Film Festival presents the Atlantic City Cinefest, opening Friday evening, Oct.

Here's a nice line-up of Java ME games from Sony Pictures for next year . See: Here's a quote: The newly-announced titles include: James Bond: 007 mobile game Wheel of Fortune JEOPARDY! The Three Stooges The Karate Kid Salt The Joker's Wild All SPHE mobile games are available on Android, Blackberry, BREW, J2ME , iPhone, Palm and Windows Mobile ...

Actor Ralph Macchio, known mostly for his role as Daniel LaRusso in "The Karate Kid'' series, will appear as the guest star at the Syracuse Crunch's home opener vs.

Bill Gambini and Stan Rothenstein were just taking a trip through the south when they became victims of circumstance.

A retro picture of the B-52s from flickr user scary_manilow . Music Eccentric New Wavers, the B-52s visit the South Shore Music Circus and they're leaving the apostrophe home.

I vividly remember the first time I saw the movie "Crossroads" in 1986. Starring Ralph Macchio , the teen heads to Mississippi to go down to "the Crossroads" where Robert Johnson, a poor blues guitar player, had gone in the early 1930s to make a deal with the devil to be the best blues player ever.

OK Leo. I think I can do something like that. Leo Southworth, fellow blogger and avid reader, recently commented on my blog regarding the remaking of "The Karate Kid." The movie, made in 1984, starred Ralph Macchio and was nominated for an Oscar .

Armijo High School in Fairfield has had its share of prominent graduates, from Pat Morita of "The Karate Kid" fame to former NFL player George Martin.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" opened this week. There, happy? People will rave it was awesome and fun and perfect or complain it didn't capture the, ahem, magic of the books.

Frickin' Eh Movie News 7.15.09: Lazy Edition Posted by Matthew Motiuk on 07.15.2009 Todd Phillips' next project, Washington drops Unstoppable, Portman joins Thor, and more! I just realized the other day that the summer is over half done.

Jackie Chan will play the wise kung-fu master in a Hollywood-Chinese remake of the 1984 hit "The Karate Kid" that kicked off filming in the Chinese capital at the weekend, a movie company publicist said Monday.

Film and television critic Philip Wakefield assesses the best movies on offer on the box this week, for Tuesday, June 30 to Monday, July 6. Tuesday, June 30 The Terminal 2004, AO, 8.30pm, TV2 Tom Hanks plays the ultimate homeless man: an eastern European immigrant who's stranded indefinitely at New York's JFK airport when the authorities refuse to ...

How is it that a film about the love of art can make art seem so detestable? Years before scripting Midnight Run and The Whole Ten Yards , writer-turned-director George Gallo was first an impressionist landscape painter, and his life-changing experiences from the summer of 1974 apparently resembled Ralph Macchio's leg-sweeping coming of age in The ...