What a muddled mess the heavyweight division has become. Four recognized titles. Five, if you count Ring Magazine. Champions. Champions in Recess. Champions Emeritus. Sanctioning bodies manipulating their rankings (have you seen WBA No. 1 contender John Ruiz recently?) just to squeeze out a few extra dollars. And the only cost is the integrity of the sport.
What did you make of the matches on HBO? And how much should we read into the results? One never knows how hard the players are playing, does one? -- Barry, Arizona
For about four years in my mid-twenties, I dated and lived with a guy who was as wrong for me as a double-breasted blazer. He certainly wasn't the only guy I ever got involved with who wasn't Mr. Right, but he's only one I stayed with about three years longer than I should have.
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What a muddled mess the heavyweight division has become. Four recognized titles. Five, if you count Ring Magazine. Champions. Champions in Recess. Champions Emeritus. Sanctioning bodies manipulating their rankings (have you seen WBA No. 1 contender John Ruiz recently?) just to squeeze out a few extra dollars. And the only cost is the integrity of the sport.
What did you make of the matches on HBO? And how much should we read into the results? One never knows how hard the players are playing, does one? -- Barry, Arizona
For about four years in my mid-twenties, I dated and lived with a guy who was as wrong for me as a double-breasted blazer. He certainly wasn't the only guy I ever got involved with who wasn't Mr. Right, but he's only one I stayed with about three years longer than I should have.
Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder are among the performers tipped to appear
Will Ferrell, the man who invented "strategery" and other Bushisms, is taking his spoofs of the 43rd president to Broadway and HBO.
John Costelloe, who played the gay lover of a mobster, was found dead in Brooklyn
Pitting the old-schoolers Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt against Twilight newbie Robert Pattinson, who wins more hearts?
"Mad Men" and "Damages" found themselves on top when the nominations for the 60th Annual Primetime Emmys came out Thursday morning -- but, again, there was no love for HBO's "The Wire."
Can HBO's drama True Blood reinvent the vampire story? We only wish that we could B-positive
There is a 10-foot SAINTS EDGE sign unfurled on the second floor of the Conrad Indianapolis Hotel -- the Saints' headquarters for Week 1 of the NFL season after the team was forced to relocate because of Hurricane Gustav. That's coach Sean Payton's theme for the year; everything the Saints do, they're doing to get an edge on the competition this year. And in a strange, it-can-only-happen-in-sports kind of way, migrating 820 miles north to make final preparations for the season might actually give the Saints an advantage heading into Sunday's season-opener with the visiting Bucs.
In a small independently owned coffee shop on the corner of one of Atlanta's urban pockets, a group of would-be poets come together at open mic night for an evening of poetry and rhymes.
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He brought us baseball in the bush leagues (Bull Durham), the hustle of the blacktop (White Man Can't Jump), the thin line between purgatory and redemption in golf (Tin Cup) and a one-name diamond demon (Cobb). Now, writer-director Ron Shelton is shining his dramatic light on the shadow of steroids.
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Benjamin Wallen, self-proclaimed biggest fan of HBO's "The Wire," thought it was well worth a $300 flight home to watch the highly anticipated series finale of the acclaimed crime drama with his best friends -- and fellow series diehards -- Sunday night.
Welcome to a season of wonderful--wonderful colors, breathtaking gowns, and hemlines for every figure and fantasy. Actress Melissa George, who stars in the new HBO drama "In Treatment," models the season's biggest trends.
Nominees for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, California:
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are already partners on a handful of huge projects – namely Maddox, Shiloh, Zahara and Pax – but now the pair are going into business together.
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Raise your cosmopolitans in a toast: According to a new report, the women of Sex and the City will be reuniting for a film version of the hit TV show.
In the end, it was Tony Soprano, Carmela, Meadow, A.J. - and Journey.
Chris Albrecht, chairman and chief executive of HBO, has agreed to step down from his position, parent company Time Warner announced Wednesday.
HBO's Chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht has been granted a leave of absence from his duties Time Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons announced in a release Tuesday.
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Nominees for the 64th annual Golden Globe Awards announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, California:
Saving the world from assorted terrorists paid off for the cast of "24" at Sunday night's Primetime Emmy Awards.
Nominees in major categories for the 58th annual Primetime Emmy Awards announced Thursday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:
The Army surgeon general is warning that the HBO documentary "Baghdad ER" is so graphic that military personnel watching it could experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Forgive the bad pun, but global warming has become a hot topic in the mass media.
Maureen Stapleton died Monday, eulogized as an Oscar winner and a fine actress. But even though she was known, she wasn't so easily remembered.
As HBO's hit drama "The Sopranos" returns to prime time, several supporting actors want to return to the negotiating table, according to a report Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.
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Here are the motion picture and television nominees for the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards announced Tuesday. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is scheduled to present the awards on January 16 in Beverly Hills, California.
What's the next cool thing on TV? It may prove to be "Big Love," an HBO drama scheduled to debut in June 2006. Like many TV series, it is an intimate look at marriages in the suburbs. Unlike other TV series, each marriage on this show involves the same husband.
With the success of "The Sopranos" and "Sex in the City", HBO has long been the emperor of original programming on cable television.
HBO has decided to give "The Sopranos" a new lease on life in a deal that extends the hit series by another year with eight extra episodes, the cable channel said Friday.
After the hit series "Friends," Lisa Kudrow has to sweat the TV business.
Paul Newman could have long since rested on his laurels.
The nominees for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, presented February 5:
Here is the list of winners at Sunday's 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:
Its ads say "It's not TV, it's HBO," but the cable network certainly dominated television's top awards Sunday night.
So this is the year "The Sopranos" finally wins its Emmy, right?
"Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall is to make her British stage debut -- swapping her role as manhunter Samantha to play the paraplegic victim of a road accident.
Some old favorites received nominations for the 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards -- but the new shows and omissions were more interesting.
Juliette Lewis has movie stardom and a burgeoning career as a rock musician, but what she really wants is to find out what happened to her little dog, Chowie.
Hollywood adores America's mom-and-pop eateries--especially the ones in New York City. The latest entry: Everyday People, a new film by HBO (owned by the same parent firm as FSB), tells the story o...
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Liv Tyler had a front-row seat for the start of the "Bennifer" craze while she and Ben Affleck were filming "Jersey Girl" -- and couldn't believe her eyes.
In "Requiem for a Nun," William Faulkner made the famous observation, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
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A lesson in how not to run a network:
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