Some movies are just too big to watch on YouTube
By Jake Coyle Associated Press
Movies are increasingly creeping online, as video sites including YouTube and Hulu are adding feature films to their extensive libraries.
New DVD releases: ‘WALL-E,' ‘Tropic Thunder'
‘WALL-E' Continuing the perfect critical and commercial track record of Pixar Animation (The Incredibles, Ratatouille), the animated smash WALL-E defies convention, presenting a clunky robot and his sleek new girlfriend who communicate only through mechanical noises. The film comes in one- or three-disc DVD versions and two- and three-disc Blu-ray sets.
2 hours of trouble for Jack Bauer in the ‘24' film
By Frazier Moore Associated Press
NEW YORK — Spending six days with Jack Bauer has not only entertained us, but also taught us a lot.
Legal tangles keep 'Project Runway' off the air
By Edward Wyatt New York Times News Service
LOS ANGELES — At a time when audiences are shrinking for almost every type of television program, it stands to reason that producers and network executives would do almost anything to keep on the air a series whose audience is growing.Henry Clay junior advances in 'Jeopardy!' Teen Tournament
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Knowing Alexander Hamilton’s statue stands at the U.S. Treasury in Washington D.C. gave Henry Clay High School junior Jay Schrader a come-from-behind victory Thursday night in the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament. The $17,000 victory guaranteed Schrader will return next week for the semi-final rounds of the two-week contest between 15 high school students from across the country.
G4 to leave basic cable in Lexington
Lexington's Insight Communications cable system will move the gaming network G4 off its basic cable lineup in December.
'Legend of the Seeker': Fantasy series keeps its stars busy
By Frazier Moore Associated Press
NEW YORK — On Legend of the Seeker, the heroes do the work for you.
‘Top Chef': Trying to stand the heat in a pressure cooker
By Ginia Bellafante New York Times News Service
Last season on Top Chef we learned never to undercook beets. Undercooked beets will destroy you. As the show's executioner in chief, Tom Colicchio, frigidly chided the cook who had inadvertently disrespected this root vegetable, “No one has ever heard of an al dente beet.” Though issued before the final verdict, the words felt ominous and settled.
Staff cuts hurt radio news
By Jim Jordan jjordan1@herald-leader.com
Cumulus Broadcasting laid off seven of the 42 employees at its six Lexington radio stations last week, including two of its three news reporters, as it deals with declining advertising revenues.
David Alan Grier spares no one on 'Chocolate News'
By Frazier Moore Associated Press
NEW YORK — From a comedy standpoint, David Alan Grier was fine with whoever won the election. As the nation's first black president, Barack Obama will mean a wealth of material for Chocolate News, Grier's fearless spoof of a black-oriented news magazine show. And if Obama had lost, Grier said, chortling at how the pain of such a near miss could be salvaged for laughs, it would provide "material for the next 500 years!"
New DVD releases: 'Get Smart,' 'Christmas Story'
Steve Carell steps into Maxwell Smart's shoe-phone and Anne Hathaway takes over as Agent 99 in the hit update of the 1960s TV spy comedy.