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A magazine described as "unabashedly of, for and about Alberta" has taken the top prize at the 32nd annual National Magazine Awards, held in Toronto on Friday evening. AlbertaViews nabbed the coveted...

He became intrigued by the shady, unsavoury characters whom he would once have cast as villains Eric Ambler's exciting, fast-paced spy novels influenced Hitchcock and Graham Greene, and with their leftish take on 1930s European politics rescued the genre from nationalist cliché. Thomas Jones on a consummate thriller writer whose scrutiny of the links between big business and bad governments is all too relevant todayFor Graham Greene he was 'unquestionably our best thriller writer'. John le Carré once called him 'the source on which we all draw'. With the six novels he wrote in the years leading up to the second world war - five of which have just been reissued by Penguin Modern Classics - Eric Ambler revitalised the British thriller, rescuing the genre from the jingoistic clutches of third-rate imitators of John Buchan, and recasting it in a more realist, nuanced and leftishly intelligent - not to mention exciting - mould. His novels were all out of print by the time he d

The self-humiliation has already started in the Big Brother house, with the 16 hopefuls competing to become fully fledged housemates.

A quarter of new Big Brother contestants have passed tasks to be granted official housemate status. Sixteen people entered the Big Brother house as the tenth series began on Thursday night, with none of the group seeming to notice that the living room was bereft of furniture.

Eddie Murphy talks about finding his young co-star, Yara Shahidi, for 'Imagine That.' Eddie Murphy opens up to ET about his new comedy 'Imagine That,' and the funnyman explains that although his young co-star, seven-year-old Yara Shahidi, may be small in size she is definitely big on talent! "You get 3,000 adorable seven-year-olds [auditioning], it's just impossible to pick somebody," Eddie explains about the casting process. "They went through all the process until they got to the best little actors. She was the all-around solid, natural actress that had all the stuff that you can't teach a person." Lest she let her new role go to her head, Eddie made sure she knew who was boss on the set during filming.

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ForbesCan Stallone Save Bollywood?Forbes, NYKambakkht Ishq, a film that will be released later this year, bears many of the hallmarks of a traditional Bollywood flick. It brings together some of Mumbai's biggest stars, Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor, and a storyline that fits the mold -- an ...STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-Eros higher; Evolution repeats "buy" Reuters UKall 6 news articles

La Jolla Playhouse announced today the addition of the world-premiere musical Bonnie & Clyde, to its 2009-10 season, replacing The Big Time. This production features music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel), lyrics by Tony Award-winner Don Black (Sunset Boulevard, Song and Dance), book by Ivan Menchell (The Cemetery Club, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), and direction by Jeff Calhoun (Deaf West's Big River and Pippin, Grease!). Bonnie & Clyde will run November 10 - December 20, 2009 in the Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Theatre.

TV News: Actress reflects on opportunities, aspirations -- Since landing on 'Another World' at 16, Kyra Sedgwick has been a versatile thesp who likes to stay working: a go-to supporting player in big-budget pictures and the recipient of meatier moments in critically acclaimed sleepers.

Legit B.O.: Road Grosses -- The road grosses jumped 5.7% in Week 1 (May 25-31) of the new season, bringing the total gross for the 14-show slate to $13,151,890.