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Jury selected in N.C. defamation lawsuit against author Sparks

RALEIGH, N.C. – A jury is ready to start hearing evidence in a federal lawsuit accusing novelist Nicholas Sparks of defaming the former headmaster of a private Christian school. T...

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 16-22

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Indian Horse In late 1950s Ontario, 7-year-old Saul Indian Horse is torn from his Ojibway family and committed...

Francis Ford Coppola on ‘Apocalypse Now’ 40 years later

NEW YORK – If filmmaking is a war, then “Apocalypse Now” was very nearly Francis Ford Coppola’s Waterloo. The battles Coppola fought while making his 1979 epic nearly destroyed hi...

Arts Calendar

Wednesday, Aug. 14 Story Hour, 9:30 a.m., James Ranch, 33846 U.S. Highway 550. Fired Up Stories, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave. Terr...

Comedian Andy Dick reports attack in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS – Comedian Andy Dick said he was assaulted outside a New Orleans nightclub after performing in the French Quarter. Dick tells The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advoca...

Story behind fake MAD magazine and TV Guide covers in ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’

Quentin Tarantino knew just what he wanted when he sought a fake Tarantino, ever exacting about period detail, wanted a custom cover that looked as if it were nearly six decades old – as m...

Universal cancels controversial ‘Hunt’ in wake of shootings

NEW YORK – Universal Pictures has canceled the planned September release of its controversial social thriller “The Hunt” in the wake of recent mass shootings and criticism from President Don...

Review: Mob wives turn mobsters in ‘The Kitchen,’ a pale shadow of last year’s similarly themed ‘Widows’

A bunch of guys try to pull of a heist, which goes drastically wrong. The women they leave behind pick up the pieces to embark on a life of crime that’s as cathartically liberating as it is ...

Review: There’s no treasure to be found in the boring ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’

At some point in time, a live-action version of “Dora the Explorer” must have seemed like a good idea. After all, the animated TV series has, for eight seasons, been a bilingual cash cow for...

Wayne Newton sued over monkey biting girl visiting his home

LAS VEGAS – Entertainer Wayne Newton is being sued by a Las Vegas woman who claims the veteran crooner’s pet monkey bit and injured her daughter during an invited visit to Newton’s showpiece...

Danny Trejo ‘superpowers’ to help save child

Actor Danny Trejo was about to drop off his 1965 Buick Riviera for repairs when he saw the sedan next to him run a red light and hit a Ford Explorer, flipping the silver SUV. The “Machete” s...

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 9-15

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) North by Northwest (Sunday only) While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roge...
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