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Hyped worldwid e: Dan Brown's Inferno was released with all sorts of gimmicks around the world last Tuesday; in Amsterdam, women dressed as 'plague doctors' presented the book at the Amsterdam Central Station.

I'd seen the movies before reading the stories - Nicolas Roeg's masterful version of "Don't Look Now" featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie; and Alfred Hitchcock's strangely flat-footed and clunky version of "The Birds" - so I thought I knew what to expect from Daphne du Maurier's fiction.

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The well overdue wakeup call, which struck me like a bolt last month, came courtesy of a surprising source - the smart and funny one-man show "Buyer & Cellar." The play by Jonathan Tolins, which wrapped its run at the Rattlestick and reopens at the Barrow Street Theatre June 18, is inspired by Barbra Streisand's meticulously curated shoppes - built ... (more)

The Pennington Players will hold auditions for the musical "Big River," Roger Miller and William Hauptman's Tony Award-winning adaptation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

There are so many talking points for SNL 's 38th season finale that I hardly know where to begin! Maybe it'll help to organize them as a list: 1. Tonight marks Ben Affleck's fifth time hosting Saturday Night Live , which grants him membership to SNL 's storied Five-Timers Club.

Every year National Geographic asks the world's adventurers to enter their epic photographs into its Traveler Photo Contest - and each year the submissions prove stunning.

Wookie southern HQ has been in Orlando for longer than the site has been alive. While we try to bring you some coverage from Disney's Star Wars Weekends every year, this is the first time that we've actually had a chance to visit ourselves.

Compared to Alfred Hitchcock 's better-known films, Shadow of a Doubt may not claim as much suspense or plot perfection, but as an overall execution of storytelling, it's as effective as it gets.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., April 8, 2009 -- Halfway through the second act of an innovative Northern Arizona University production of "The Threepenny Opera" one demonstrator in a New York City crowd waves the sign: "AIG IS CRUEL !!!" Such is the topical and often humorous adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play and Kurt Weill's songs, as the realities of ... (more)

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The St. Louis County Library Foundation will present a special Children's Book Week event with popular young adult author Eoin Colfer.

This Oct. 22, 2012 file photo shows Vincent Kartheiser at the Paley Center LA Benefit in West Hollywood, Calif.

A Sure Bet - Publishers and booksellers already expect the latest Robert Langdon thriller to top bestseller lists all over the world.

Police patrol outside a Chopard store in Cannes after a $1m jewellery heist at the Novotel hotel.

A parody of the great Agatha Christie thrillers of the 1940's, And Then There Was Nun is a vampy cross-dressing cocktail of humor and "whodunit" as actors emulate your favorite movie stars of the past.

Armed with an array of questions about Charles Dickens' timeless classic story " A Christmas Carol ," author Leonard Brideau set about answering those clues and wrapping up loose ends.

Last week the Drexel community finally got to see the product of the Drexel Players' last couple months of work as they close the 2012-13 season with "The Grapes of Wrath." Preceded by two lighter performances, "The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee" and "To Fool the Eye," the adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic is a much graver production ... (more)

THESE days it seems that every big, new, heavily promoted children's book is rather like the ghost of poor old Jacob Marley : each one comes trailing a long, clanking chain of references - in the form of overexcited press releases and slightly hysterical jacket blurbs - to bestsellers of a supposedly similar nature.