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• Prisons scramble to make digital TV switch
Federal inmates are allowed limited viewing in common rooms with some restrictions — for instance, they can't watch R-rated movies. In Pennsylvania, inmates received notices telling them they'd have to pay for converter boxes for the TVs they are ...
• Peanuts’ animator Bill Melendez dies at 91
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other “Peanuts” characters in scores of movies and TV specials, has died. He was 91. Melendez died Tuesday at St. John’s Hospital, according to ...
• Comcast appeals FCC Web-blocking decision
... that beginning Oct. 1, it would institute a broadband usage cap of 250 gigabytes per month for all residential customers. Comcast says to exceed that limit a customer would have to send 50 million e-mails or download 125 standard-definition movies.
• Big stars, big films in Toronto Festival lineup
TORONTO - Sundance is about new talent and small, personal films. Cannes is about highbrow cinema and celebrity-watching. The Toronto International Film Festival is about movies, from splashy studio releases and potential Oscar contenders to obscure ...
• Tupac Shakur tops ‘overrated’ music list
Shakur, a “gangsta” rapper who showed his sensitive side in movies, was killed during an unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. More than a dozen albums have been released in the ensuing years, and his image is almost as ubiquitous as ...