http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F Philly.com entertainment headlines. en-us Mon, 28 May 2012 17:00:40 GMT 2012-05-28T17:00:40Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154204125&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120528_Ocean_City_NJ_bridge_is_a_massive_marvel_of_concrete.html Along with the usual water ice, greasy pizza, and tubes of sunscreen, the unofficial first weekend of summer was marked by a new arrival this year at the Jersey Shore: 175,000 cubic yards of concrete. It didn’t arrive all at once, of course, but the concrete — the Route 52 causeway bridge — is now a finished product and represents a major feat of engineering. The bridge stretches more than two miles from Somers Point on the mainland to the barrier island of Ocean City, able to accommodate 40,000 cars a day. Mon, 28 May 2012 17:00:40 GMT 8bd0b3881657b367de4f0f7816ad648c 2012-05-28T17:00:40Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154158015&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120528__lsquo_Geek_rsquo__helps_gardeners_find_a_food_bank_for_their_harvest.html Gary Oppenheimer hates waste. And he loves gardening. Mon, 28 May 2012 13:53:01 GMT a6a79dc3a0ee647fd66256d9207e4ec2 2012-05-28T13:53:01Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154944185&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120528_ap_justinbieberwantedforquestioninginscuffle.html Justin Bieber is wanted for questioning by Los Angeles County Sheriff's investigators after a photographer complained of being roughed up by the pop star at a shopping center. Mon, 28 May 2012 13:32:02 GMT 7873d9f3c2987e6189f0becd46b4c0ea 2012-05-28T13:32:02Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154787825&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_A_C__rsquo_s_Revel_resort__Exciting__creamy__plenty_to_like__mdash__and_not_quite_ready_yet.html It’s not cheap. But then, that’s the idea. When I told a colleague I was heading off to the spanking new, high-style Revel resort and casino in Atlantic City to check out the stayover experience, she looked at me with skeptical disdain."For $400 a night," she shot back, "I pretty much expect to have my feet kissed." Mon, 28 May 2012 05:12:14 GMT 30f23b116df4fc891a74999ed62d7ef1 2012-05-28T05:12:14Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154279845&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120528_Monday_rsquo_s_Child__Charming__a_good_student__and_hopes_to_be_president.html "Active, intelligent, and articulate" are words that come to mind when describing Nasir. The 14-year-old has a charming smile that draws people to him. He likes to learn new things and to keep busy. He is involved in a variety of activities including playing basketball and football. He also enjoys testing his skill at video games, and likes to watch action and comedy movies and spend time with his friends.Enrolled in the seventh grade, he attends regular education classes and earns high grades. He gets along well with his teachers and classmates. Nasir is already thinking about his future. He would love to be president when he grows up. He also would like to have the "biggest car." But for now, finding a forever family is his top priority. He wants a family that is "fun, fair, and firm." Nasir has much potential but he cannot achieve it alone. He needs a patient, committed family that will provide a structured environment for him and will guide him in the years ahead. He is close to his siblings and grandmother and the contact should be maintained. Mon, 28 May 2012 05:11:15 GMT aaeaea7397d0f025afac8092e7ed431a 2012-05-28T05:11:15Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154843025&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120528_Pottstown_designer_awaits_Tony_Awards_night.html To create the set for the Broadway smash Newsies, Pottstown resident Tobin Ost served multiple masters: a choreographer who needed space for his performers to dance, a director who envisioned a jungle-gym effect, a writer who moved the action from scene to scene, and producers who worried about the box office.So the scenic designer crafted a tiered, tic-tac-toe metalscape that separates, recedes and rotates. Performers dance up, down, and through it during a musical set in turn-of-the-century New York. For his efforts, Ost has been nominated for a Tony Award. Mon, 28 May 2012 05:10:05 GMT 32844ed0d1e6d1714446ec5a346066ae 2012-05-28T05:10:05Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154221915&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120528_Penn_computer_model_simulates_blood_clotting_and_treatment.html The best way for a patient to understand what happens in a heart attack is not to have one at all, but to have the doctor simulate it on a computer. That is the idea behind new research at the University of Pennsylvania, in which scientists created computer models of the blood of three volunteers and correctly predicted their response to various anticlotting medications. In one case, they were able to determine that a donor’s blood would have no response to aspirin, and indeed that person turned out to have a previously unknown genetic mutation that caused exactly that problem. Mon, 28 May 2012 01:07:25 GMT 3abb64d217b00216264a3f9807b25485 2012-05-28T01:07:25Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154298295&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120526__lsquo_Sideshow_rsquo___Beyonc_eacute__in_A_C__to_resume_performing_post-baby.html "It is exciting. [But] I feel a little nervous," Beyoncé says in a YouTube docu video on the eve of her return to the stage since giving birth to Blue Ivy Carter®. B was set to make her comeback with four shows, Friday through Monday at Revel resort in Atlantic City. "I enjoy being a mother. [Performing] is like going back to my old job. It’s a little strange." With the ObamasFirst lady Michelle Obama tells People she and President Obama have a bedtime "ritual where he tucks me in, because I’m usually in bed before anybody," she says. "He’ll come and turn the lights out and give me a kiss, and we’ll talk. He’s like, ‘Ready to be tucked?’ I’m like, `Yes I am.’ " Mon, 28 May 2012 00:43:29 GMT f8e0a43320c63724f47e3d9bd77575cc 2012-05-28T00:43:29Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154802455&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_Beyonc_eacute__rocks_Revel__Passion__hard_work__and_a_call_for_respect.html Toward the end of the second night of Beyoncé’s four-show Memorial Day weekend stand at the Revel casino and resort in Atlantic City on Saturday, the singer and her 11-member all-female band turned their attention to a feminist club-banger called "Run the World (Girls)."With First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia seated in a box to her left at Revel’s 5,050-person capacity Ovation Hall, the pop and R&B world’s ruling Queen Bee declared herself — and her Sisters — "Smart enough to make these millions, strong enough to bear the children / And get back to business." For Beyoncé, these shows, taking place at the new $2.4 billion resort whose success is thought to be so crucial to Atlantic City’s economic future, were an opportunity to do just that. The 30-year-old singer did not tour behind her 2011 album 4, and these are her first performances — she’s due back on stage Sunday and Monday nights — since giving birth in January to Blue Ivy Carter, her daughter with husband Jay-Z, the other half of the foremost power couple in pop music. Mon, 28 May 2012 00:40:40 GMT 518053fb11eb0a86be41364370631108 2012-05-28T00:40:40Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154834505&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_Cannes_Film_Fest__Avant-garde__garbage__and_a_Philly_frenzy.html CANNES — At the 65th running of the annual Cannes Film Festival, offerings ranged from avant-garde to avant-garbage.The annual fest ended Sunday night, in a shower of Palmes D’Or (the top prize) by a jury presided over by Italian filmmaker and raging artistic bull Nanni Moretti. Among the better (if more conventional) films: Sun, 27 May 2012 21:15:14 GMT 4c2c2efa1d4a4da5c78ae1726a6c1abe 2012-05-27T21:15:14Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154798685&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_ap_denirotalkstobatesgradsgetshonorarydegree.html As he received an honorary doctorate Sunday, Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro told Bates College graduates that despite his own lack of formal education, he made out OK. Sun, 27 May 2012 21:08:02 GMT ae3c6fa7e7afdbf05c65be6bd25ebacf 2012-05-27T21:08:02Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=153724625&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_Hatfields_and_McCoys_blast_away_in_mini-series__an_iconic_feud_come_to_cable.html Cable’s History is pulling out all the stops for this lapidary retelling of one of our country’s most renowned internecine struggles.Hatfields & McCoys gets a fulsome miniseries treatment (showing over three consecutive nights, beginning Memorial Day), star power (Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton play the antagonistic patriarchs), and an unprecedented promotional campaign (on TV, at cineplexes, even at the Floyd Mayweather–Miguel Cotto fight earlier this month). All this for some violent hillbillies who simply could not get along. Because down in their neck of the Appalachians, there really wasn’t much to squabble over except pride. The challenge for History is to give this nasty family feud an epic spin. The result plays out like The Godfather with squirrel rifles. Sun, 27 May 2012 15:57:06 GMT 6d923b8acb073c26290c9061fe1ee8c1 2012-05-27T15:57:06Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154582955&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2FBeyonce-and-Michelle-Obama-at-Revel-in-Atlantic-City.html Beyonce, and Michelle Obama, at Revel in Atlantic City. Sun, 27 May 2012 12:26:54 GMT 6fb6b683e5fe79cf0d6496ae992667bf Dan Deluca 2012-05-27T12:26:54Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=153706865&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_Bissinger_rsquo_s__lsquo_Father_rsquo_s_Day_rsquo___Honest__exalting__frustrating__powerful.html Father’s DayA Journey Into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son By Buzz Bissinger Sun, 27 May 2012 10:46:23 GMT c6b9915b04cb4539d31a599cdeb29b72 2012-05-27T10:46:23Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=153753045&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527__lsquo_The_Intouchables_rsquo__is_a_top_three_film_in_France.html In France, James Cameron’s Titanic stands as the No. 1 movie in box office history. Second is a 2008 Provencal farce, Welcome to the Sticks. Sun, 27 May 2012 10:45:55 GMT 6690f344c3f0b71a3b91ea9bfb3fa58e 2012-05-27T10:45:55Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=153728245&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_Philadelphia_Orchestra_rsquo_s_residency_in_China__What_rsquo_s_the_goal_.html Behind the ceremonial pleased-and-humbled platitudes voiced incessantly on the eve of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 10-day residency in the People’s Republic of China, the question is what, exactly, will the orchestra accomplish? Sun, 27 May 2012 10:45:27 GMT d28792c2349c982e43770ca61407b4ba 2012-05-27T10:45:27Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=152796735&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_What_Albert_C__Barnes_definitely_did_not_want.html It has been said in various bits of commentary and reportage surrounding this month’s opening of the new Barnes Foundation building that Albert Barnes wanted his collection to be shared with the general public. Not so. Sun, 27 May 2012 10:44:54 GMT 8d50972da70369d841941f33d6cbd787 2012-05-27T10:44:54Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=152331185&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_On_the_House__Economic_recovery_remains_elusive.html Economic recovery is just around the corner. How often in the last four years have we read a report touting that eventuality, and the “bottoming out” of prices that the housing industry has been hoping for? Sun, 27 May 2012 01:27:51 GMT ac12dae38102110a954e6cb692e1b68a 2012-05-27T01:27:51Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=154589035&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_Lisa_Scottoline__Dog__meet_toothpaste.html So it turns out that dogs need more than love and food. I learned this when I was talking to Francesca on the phone and she’s brushing Pip’s teeth, which she does every night. She also brushes his fur and trims his nails. Sun, 27 May 2012 00:25:36 GMT 40feaf79410b60819d2ae7b37296d378 2012-05-27T00:25:36Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168041&44=152341365&32=3796&7=195357&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2F20120527_Book_review___lsquo_Redefining_Diva__rsquo__by_Sheryl_Lee_Ralph.html Redefining Diva Life Lessons From the Original Dreamgirl By Sheryl Lee Ralph Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing. 224 pp. $14 Reviewed by Karen E. Quinones Miller Sat, 26 May 2012 23:47:15 GMT 4ec1db0c9f1c13cb00b4450c6f91bc0f 2012-05-26T23:47:15Z