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Oh, the Norwegians. Is there anything they haven’t given us? Okay, so I don’t really know what the Norwegians have given us in the past, but at least now we can add model Jani Askevold to that ever-growing list of, er, one? Anyways, Jani Askevold is a model, and a lingerie model at that. Here [...]

With the long lines at the TKTS booth in Times Square, it's pretty easy to spot that discount opportunity. (By the way, no matter how long that line looks, your wait time is 30 to 40 minutes. A small price to save 45 percent or so on a couple of Broadway tickets.) But there are less obvious discounts at most Broadway theater box offices. The list of box office discounts includes $25 lottery tickets to shows, less-than-$40 general rush tickets, student rush tickets and standing room only tickets. Not every show has them, The Lion King for instance, is a roaring success and doesn't offer any discounts. But even mega-hits like Billy Elliot and Jersey Boys offer fans a way to get cheaper seats. My list is updated with all the Broadway musicals now, and I'll have the plays updated soon. Check it out.

Film News: Project among first from Gertz's Lime Orchard -- James Mangold is attached to direct an adaptation of the memoir 'Three Little Words,' which is among the first projects to come from Lime Orchard Prods., the shingle recently launched by thesp Jami Gertz.

'Amid growing rumors about the Prince Music Theater's ability to continue operating - and a remark from its stage Monday night that indicated it would be closing - its producing director, Marjorie Samoff, says that the Center City theater plans a 2009-10 season that includes its annual renters plus at least three productions the Prince will mount.'...

Amid growing rumors about the Prince Music Theater's ability to continue operating - and a remark from its stage Monday night that indicated it would be closing - its producing director, Marjorie Samoff, says that the Center City theater plans a 2009-10 season that includes its annual renters plus at least three productions the Prince will mount.

President Barack Obama's administration began holding private meetings with health industry executives at the White House a few weeks after Obama took office.

Cody/Reitman film and White Stripes doc to get world premieres at festival

Cody/Reitman film and White Stripes doc to get world premieres at festival

The trailer for Creation makes Charles Darwin sexy, but will that be enough to pull in the punters, asks Anna Pickard. Maybe they should have turned him into an action heroThere are so many plusses to the idea of Creation: The Movie. For a start, it brings Darwin to life as a fully-rounded person. More than that, by getting Paul Bettany to play him, Darwin is also very sexy. And making Darwin sexy is, for a generation who are used to thinking of him as old and with a ginormous beard, a very exciting step. But then, there's also the opportunity to plug into both sides of a social, academic and religious argument that gets more and more heated by the day. Could they have made a perfect trailer that would attract both sides of the argument to see the film?Well, maybe. Because clearly, the best way to market this film would be to appeal to both the ready market of people who want to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of the Species and the other side: peopl

'300' star Gerard Butler faces perhaps his toughest opponent yet -- Katherine Heigl -- in the new comedy 'The Ugly Truth,' in theaters Friday, and he dispenses a little perspective on the opposite sex, his own relationships -- and his sex-symbol status! "I think if there's been any evolution it's probably been on the part of women," says Butler with a laugh, adding that despite his sex-symbol status, "I pretty much screw every relationship up." The single 39-year-old star wonders how women could ever figure him out since he can't seem to figure himself out. He jokes to ET's Mark Steines, "I'm a weird one. . I don't know how the hell women are supposed to work me out, because I certainly can't."