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Dennis Harvey Film CriticNaomi Watts has had a penchant for highly physical roles unusual among female stars not particularly associated with action movies. It made her acrobatics the most special effect amidst so many CG wonders in Peter Jackson’s “King Kong,” and a vividly plausible victim of grueling crises in films like “Funny Games” and “The Impossible.” Of course, one can always get too much of a good thing, as when recent, regrettable “The Desperate Hour” seemed to reduce the hot-button topic of school shootings to a gimmicky “Watch this fearless actress run the gamut of emotions while JOGGING!”Fortunately, there is nothing gratuitous about the physicality demanded of Watts by “Infinite Storm,” which is based on a real-life incident that took place in New Hampshire’s White Mountains a dozen years ago.

Numbers updated this morning by the CDC indicate that the percentage of new Covid cases across the United States tied to the even more transmissible BA.2 variant has jumped from 23% in early March to 35% this week. On the positive side, that means the rate of increase has slowed from two 100% jumps over the previous month to a little less than 50% in the past two weeks. But there are portions of the country that are much worse. See map below, where BA.2 is represented in pink.

EXCLUSIVE: Stacey Dash, star of the Clueless film and spinoff TV series, is searching for redemption in a new reality series.

Robert Plant as Led Zeppelin‘s vocalist.She approached the band after they reunited for the one-off Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at the O2 Arena in London in December 2007.Despite Plant not wanting to take part in a full scale reunion, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones held some sessions where they jammed with potential new vocalists including Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler in 2008.At the time Wilson said she “threw (her) hat in the ring” but heard nothing back.“(Led) Zeppelin always was a boy’s club,” she told My Planet Rocks. “I know that because there was a minute when the rumour was that they were auditioning singers and I just threw my hat in the ring.

Friendly exes! Mandy Moore has returned to her musical roots — and enlisted a number of her famous friends and former flings for a new music video.

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New York Times-owned brain game’s alleged difficulty, weary Wordle players are apparently resorting to an unfortunate tactic to beat it — cheating. A recent study by data compiler Wordfinderx found that online answer searches increased 196% since the Times acquired the puzzle, in which players get five attempts to guess a new five-letter word each day.“Cheating for the game is at an all-time high and only growing,” read the study.The data compiler discovered the troubling trend by analyzing “Google Trends data over the past three months” to see how often Wordlers looked up answers online, per the research.They found that in December, before the Times’ acquisition in January, Google search interest for the topic “today’s wordle'” registered a “0” on a scale from 0-100.

NEW YORK -- The poet, activist and educator Sonia Sanchez is this year's winner of the Edward MacDowell Medal, a lifetime achievement honor started in 1960 and previously given to Robert Frost, Toni Morrison and Stephen Sondheim among others.“I had tears in my eyes as I learned about this award,” Sanchez, 87, said in a statement released Sunday by MacDowell. “When I consider my dear friend, Sister Toni (Morrison), and so many others who have been given this award, I feel so welcomed to be part of that group.

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August is growing up! Mandy Moore and Taylor Goldsmith sweetly celebrated their son’s 1st birthday with family and friends.

Another August? Mandy Moore and many other celebrity parents have chosen the same name for their children over the years.

For “The Price Is Right” contestant Catherine Graham of Marshfield, Massachusetts, the price was right but the prize was not.

According to a shocking news story out of Kentucky on Thursday, a 4-year-old girl hasn’t been seen in over a year… so why aren’t her parents doing everything they can to help?!

The clock is ticking! Seven weeks after welcoming their daughter, Bode Miller and Morgan Beck have yet to choose a name for the little one.

A couple who were married for over four decades held hands as they died from coronavirus just seconds apart.

Missing New Hampshire girl Harmony Montgomery‘s stepmother has been arrested on new charges as investigators frantically continue to try to solve the 7-year-old’s disappearance.

Seven-year-old Harmony Montgomery is still missing after last being seen two years ago in Manchester, New Hampshire. And now, police are finding new leads in the unsettling case of the little girl’s whereabouts.

A seven-year-old girl who is partially blind has been confirmed as missing - two years after she vanished from her home.

Police in Manchester, New Hampshire are investigating the disappearance of a 7-year-old girl named Harmony Montgomery. The saddest part about this case? She was last seen more than two years ago!

BOSTON -- “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown and his ex-wife have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which she alleged he led a secret life during their marriage that included several affairs.The couple agreed to voluntary dismiss the lawsuit and “any and all claims and counterclaims in this matter," according to court papers filed Monday in a New Hampshire court.“Blythe Brown and Dan Brown have reached an amicable resolution of their disagreements, and will have no further comment,” Blythe Brown's

Selome Hailu editorLifetime greenlit “Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez,” a film based on the real-life kidnapping of 14-year-old Abby Hernandez while walking home from school in North Conway, N.H. in 2013.

Bode Miller’s brood is bigger! The Olympian’s wife, Morgan Beck, announced the birth of their sixth child together, his eighth, on Monday, December 6.

Life With Liz show yesterday (November 24) with the idea to “name as many punk bands as I could before they caught on”.From the less conspicuous (Sick Of It All, Rancid, Misfits and Minor Threat) to the easily identifiable (Blink-182, Reel Big Fish and Fall Out Boy), he managed to sneak in quite a few band names without the New Hampshire show’s hosts catching on.“One of my main problems is… I’m a Republican in a fairly liberal area, sometimes I feel like everyone is just Against Me!,” Dobi told

Cut the criticism. Nearly two months after giving birth, Kaitlynn Carter asked her Instagram followers to stop critiquing her parenting.

J. Kim Murphy administratorGeorge Tyssen Butler, a documentary filmmaker best known for co-directing the 1977 feature “Pumping Iron,” died on Oct.

Documentary filmmaker George Butler, best known for his 1977 film Pumping Iron that raised Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood prominence, died of pneumonia Oct. 21 at home in New Hampshire. He was 78 and his death was confirmed by his son, Desmond Butler, a Washington Post reporter.

Spilling secrets! Nearly two weeks after giving birth to son Rowan, Kaitlynn Carter revealed that she wasn’t the first person to tell ex Brody Jenner about her pregnancy news.

Baring all! Kaitlynn Carter showed her pregnancy progress in a nude photo on Tuesday, September 28.