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Can Dominique Strauss-Kahn salvage a future in French politics? Despite his legal problems in the U.S., observers say his most optimistic backers are keeping alive scenarios of their champion somehow extricating himself from the catastrophic turn in his once-brilliant career.
After months of political wrangling, the U.S. Department of Education finalized on Thursday its highly contentious “gainful employment” rule, a crucial element of the Obama Administration’s crackdown on the rapidly growing for-profit career-college industry.
Teaching seemed a natural, uncomplicated career choice for Stacey Moskowitz.
Is there life beyond the living dead? Can Robert Pattinson, the 24-year-old Englishman who achieved a teen-talisman celebrity playing the dreamboat vampire Edward, find longevity in a post-Twilight Saga acting career?
To say that Julius Erving jumps is to describe Beethoven as a guy who wrote music. Dr
Look closely and you can make out a theme running through Russell Brand’s major movie roles to date: lascivious rock star, drug-addicted rock star, drunk, rich drunk and an Easter Bunny who would rather be a rock star. But if Brand’s acting career lacks range, he hasn’t suffered for it.
Mia Wasikowska slips through the lobby of New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel, hat pulled low, scarf wrapped high, face scrubbed clean, a marvel of unadornment. If you hadn’t spent the previous evening at a screening of her new film, Jane Eyre, absorbed in her performance as the original plain Jane, you’d hardly notice her.
In the Lexicon of Clichés to describe characters accused of a despicable act, “He was once on a reality show” is the new “Neighbors say he was quiet and kept to himself.” Today the idea of a mad loner silently avoiding attention seems like a quaint throwback. In August, a VH1 dating-show contestant was charged with the murder of his ex-wife, then committed suicide
Lindsay Lohan will be heading to jail if a judge hears again the actress has not been attending a required alcohol counseling program. “This is the last time we are going to be talking about re-enrolling and doing what you need to do,” Judge Marsha Revel told Lohan on Friday in extending her probation for a 2007 conviction for driving under the influence
“Late Show With David Letterman” bandleader Paul Shaffer is a walking Wikipedia of rock ‘n’ roll history — and now he’s added his own story to the mix. Shaffer’s new memoir, “We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin’ Showbiz Saga” (Flying Dolphin Press) offers his take on a colorful career, from piano lessons in his native Canada to a “Saturday Night Live” stint to the gig he’s had, and relished, for 27 years — Letterman’s sidekick