The History of Grand Central Station, in Photos
As the terminal celebrates its centennial today, a look back reveals that Grand Central has always been as enchanting as you wanted it to be.
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Gus Van Sant wanted it really badly. Joe Wright's name was thrown around. But the coveted job of directing the 50 Shades of Grey movie adaptation has gone to Sam Taylor-Johnson. Which is great — a studio believes in a female director to carry a movie based on a book with a massive female fan base. But... who? She's really quite cool. Trust us.
As the terminal celebrates its centennial today, a look back reveals that Grand Central has always been as enchanting as you wanted it to be.
Children will listen to Meryl Streep sing again. Composer David Krane, in an interview with the Litchfield County Times, confirmed a rumor that's been circulating: Streep will play the Witch in a movie version of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.
Go Daddy, the domain-name site with a history of provocative and sexist Super Bowl ads, is back at it again, and this year's Super Sunday spot rather graphically features a nerdy (but surprisingly prevalent) young man making out with supermodel Bar Refaeli.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the members of Pussy Riot has been hospitalized in her prison colony in Mordovia, for what the Associated Press is calling a "full medical check-up."
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Because 30 Rock may have been just about the most clip-friendly sitcom of our time — it was never a show for political correctness, propriety, or even sanity, and it was almost always hilarious all the way.
The artist's document of the 1980s recession is expected to go for as much as $30,000 at Christie's auction house.
Before answering her "haters," Beyoncé decided to address her Inauguration Day lip-syncing controversy by asking every everyone to stand at her Super Bowl press conference Thursday afternoon. She then proceeded the national anthem, a cappella, like a boss.
The Girls creator, star, and perennial think-piece subject is developing a series based on the life of Betty Halbreich, personal shopper for Bergdorf Goodman.
Her iconic character has always been more or less a fictionalized version of Fey herself, but the two aren't quite equal. To say farewell to 30 Rock, let's compare their highlights — with some very memorable video.
Spoiler alert: The Majority Leader's cameo involves "economic war criminals."
In the year of the "go viral or go home" Super Bowl commercial, Coca-Cola is now embroiled in the latest advertising controversy for going too far on-air and online with an offensive spot in the desert.
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The big new Super Bowl commercial from the little home carbonation kit that could got the thumbs-down from CBS, reportedly for taking aim at the two major soda giants (and major advertisers). Well, the banned spot has now surfaced, and guess what? It does.
Earlier this afternoon the Sesame Street Twitter account sent out a mysterious message, which led to a series of tweets that ended up being an adorable homage to one of the franchise's classic books.
Surprise, surprise: LiLo appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom today! But not without apparently being dragged there by way of the public court of online tabloid opinion.
If this new Hollywood Reporter profile is to be believed, it all had to do with the "furious negotiation" of one woman.
The supermodel does figure into the extended cut of the company's Super Bowl commercial released today, but it's really more of a cameo than anything else.
Well this is news that's going to make some of you verklempt: Barbra Streisand will be performing at the Oscars in what is shaping up to be a very musical ceremony.
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The Super Bowl is fast approaching and fan allegiances, many long lost to the regular season and others evolving as the playoffs press on, have come down to this: the 49ers or the Ravens. But how'd we get there? And which parts of America have jumped on which bandwagon?
The comparisons between Showtime's hit and FX's new show were bound to happen. And while viewers should always give every non-spinoff show its own chance, after watching the first two episodes last night we couldn't help but find even more similarities:
As Super Bowl ads start to trickle online in anticipation of Super Sunday, one spot is already facing a wave of criticism that could lead to its being pulled off the air during the big game.
Though she joins a growing line of female comedians who have ventured into the world of literature, Poehler's proposal sounds more like a hybrid picture book, joke collection, and diary. And it might have more of a cause than that.
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Monday is the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and The Economist has charted the number of times the novel's protagonists have appeared in books and journals in Britain over the years.
Get ready for what will be the either best or worst kept movie secret of the next two years. Entertainment Weekly reported Monday that Disney's top-secret, George Clooney-starring project will now be called Tomorrowland. Here's everything we think we know.
This Sunday night might be the culmination of two weeks' worth of stories you've heard about the Harbaugh brothers at the Super Bowl, but there is a lesser known — and much cuter — tale brewing at the Puppy Bowl over on Animal Planet.
President Obama welcomed the Miami Heat to the White House this afternoon to celebrate their NBA championship, and no one was more excited — or perhaps nervous — about the visit than LeBron James.
In a scenario that's ripe for terrible Twitter jokes but actually pretty frightening, Barbara Walters has the chicken pox, a disease most associated with schoolyard days — even though adults can have it bad.
There are now questions as to whether the group will be joining Beyoncé on the field Sunday, with a widely quoted "new" interview debunking the rumors — but we've found a schedule opening that may reveal more than a one-woman halftime show after all.
Two big weekend wins for Argo have the Hollywood pundits saying that its Best Picture chances have transformed from Academy snub to Golden Globes surprise to, suddenly, a done deal at the Oscars. Will all this make the biggest prize turn from dramatic to, well, boring?
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In a Hollywood battle over real-life tech that may say as much about the state of the movies as how angry Steve Wozniak is right now, Steve Jobs's right-hand man is doing some posthumous fuming over the first of two biopics about the main Apple genius — and the Ashton Kutcher vehicle is biting back.
We're nearly a week out from Super Bowl XLVII, and all kinds of details are trickling out, from the halftime set list to the ads to the Puppy Bowl. Let's break down what we know about the entertainment parts of TV's biggest day.
With as many as 10,000 on the loose after a massive flood, authorities and crocodile farmers on the hunt, with locals wrestling crocs to the ground and essentially handcuffing them.
It's not quite as nefarious as Gerard Depardieu's exodus from France, but still: We'll miss those pipes.
This should fuel some of the Zero Dark Thirty controversy fire once more: the movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden, which contains a controversial depiction of torture, will screen at the place that became synonymous with torture.
While exploring some of the absurdities of surrounding her Benghazi testimony, the Daily Show host took the opportunity to explain how Clinton is like X-Men's Magneto.
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The bitter cold that hit a large swath of the U.S. this week has been uncomfortable and at times dangerous, but it also has allowed photographers to capture some stunning images of places and objects that have quite literally frozen over.
John Kerry breezed through his chummy confirmation hearing Thursday, but what countries will he blaze through in his role as Secretary of State?
As President Obama nominated Mary Jo White to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission and re-nominated Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this afternoon, he had something bugging him — literally.
We've been getting dribs and mostly drabs of what each track of his career might look like this year — including the new Coen brothers trailer today — but let's break down which is really bringing Justin back.
Well, it's only one first-look video clip from jOBS, but here's a taste of what Ashton Kutcher playing Steve Jobs is going to feel like.
AMC has now released staged, non-episodic press shots ahead of the new season, featuring our beloved misanthropes at a party that might (emphasis on the "might) just offer some clues about where (and when) we're at this time around.
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The day that the White House and everyone else started to get a little too sick of "Beyoncé-Gate" ended with word arriving from Beyoncé's camp and an inaugural source that she did, in fact, mouth the national anthem over a pre-recorded track at inauguration.
With 80 billionaires in Davos this week, why not explore the numbers on some of the richest people in the world?
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