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Web Exclusive: Presenter launched the S.F. Black Film Fest -- San Francisco arts publicist and presenter Ave Montague, founder of the S.F. Black Film Festival, died of natural causes Jan.24.

If you've had enough of self-important Nazi films - especially a certain one starring the Cruise missile - relief may come in the form of Dead Snow a slasher movie about zombie SS officers wreaking havoc in the Norwegian countryside. Dead Snow sees a bunch of horny students heading to an isolated mountain cabin where they hope to get drunk and get laid. But their plans come undone when they have to fight undead Nazis instead. Driven away into the mountains by an angry mob in 1945, Colonel Herzog and his evil SS are now peckish for fresh meat. Heads roll, blood flows, guts fly - and if you're a man, this scene may prove particularly painful. Dead Snow (tagline: 'Ein, Zwei, Die') is currently the second most popular movie at the Norwegian box office - ironically behind a very serious second world war movie called Max Manus. It also played at this year's Sundance film festival, where cinemagoers appeared to have lapped up all that gore in the snow. The movie is directed by 29-year-old

Stars head to Utah for annual Sundance film festival.

Aptly named, Chris Robley's third solo LP, Movie Theatre Haiku, swirls together dark, evocative instrumentation and poetic lyrics. Quirky track names and the album's long subtitle, 'a Masque of Backwards Ballads, a Picturesque Burlesque,' provide only a hint of the complexities and eccentricities of Movie Theatre Haiku.

Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, who have fashioned american musical history, are the Honorees of the 28th annual William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, Kansas.Jones and Schmidt-perhaps best known for 'The Fantasticks,' the longest running musical in history-will receive the Inge Festival's Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award during the festival, which runs April 22-25, 2009.

Film News: Trio to release Sundance winner -- Lionsgate has acquired Sundance Film Festival winner "Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire." Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry will team up to help promote the film.

Hillary Clinton has been sworn in as Secretary of State in President Barack Obama's cabinet. Clinton was sworn in Monday afternoon by Vice President Joe Biden during a ceremony in Washington D.C. After the ceremony, which was attended by former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea, the former U.S. senator from New York called the opportunity to serve an "overwhelming honor" and said she would waste no time getting started: "We're hard at work already."

Rosie O'Donnell, the 13-time Emmy Award-winning comedian, television talk show host, author, film, television and stage actress, will kick off Kids' Night on Broadway 'Fan Festival,' which affords young people the opportunity to experience the magic of live theatre and to participate in special activities hosted by the cast and crew of participating Broadway shows, on Tuesday, February 3rd at 2:45 p.m. at Madame Tussauds New York, 234 West 42nd St. (b/w 7th & 8th Aves.), Manhattan.

The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival's 2009 MainStage season will feature William Shakespeare's Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The season marks The Festival's 33rd year operating as a professional theatre company.

Auckland Festival 09 'Venus & Adonis'Theatre Wednesday, 18 March 2009 until Sunday, 22 March 2009Venus & AdonisBell Shakespeare and Malthouse Melbourne (Australia)Shakespeare?s Venus and Adonis is a subversive re-working of Ovid?s original love story: it is vulgar, funny, sexy and whole-hearted. This Venus and Adonis is anequally subversive re-working of Shakespeare.