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This theater publicity image released by Boneau Bryan Brown shows Rachel Weisz, left, Daniel Craig in a promotional photo from Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," a play about a love triangle and the pain of loss that stars real-life couple Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig. The play opens Oct. 27 at the Barrymore Theatre in New York. (AP Photo/Boneau Bryan Brown, Brigitte Lacombe)

'Betrayal' with Daniel Craig already a hit

The real-life husband-and-wife team Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz helped propel "Betrayal" to a Broadway record — and the show hasn't even officially opened yet. Data released Monday from The Broadway League shows that the first seven previews of the Harold Pinter revival earned $1,100,818, breaking the Barrymore Theater's weekly ...

  • Updated: 5:35 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

'Gravity' launches to top of worldwide box office

"Gravity" soared to the top of the worldwide box office in its debut weekend. The Warner Bros. space drama starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney boasted the biggest October opening ever with $55.78 million in North American ticket sales and more than $27 million overseas. Last week's top film, Sony's ...

  • Updated: 5:36 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Film and theater figure Henry Guettel dies at 85

Henry Guettel, a film executive with both 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures as well as a former head of the Theatre Development Fund, died Monday of pneumonia in Southampton, N.Y., according to his wife, Mary Rodgers Guettel. He was 85. Guettel had been a vice president at 20th Century ...

  • Updated: 5:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Carter: Feds need to invest in affordable housing

Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that if he were back in the White House, he would work with Republicans and Democrats to secure more funding for affordable housing and urge more flexibility in resolving differences involving the critical issue. Carter made the comments at a construction site in Oakland ...

  • Updated: 5:02 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Post-coup Egypt gripped by nationalist fervor

While riots turned the neighborhoods of Cairo into deadly battlegrounds this weekend, Egypt's most powerful man — the head of the armed forces — enjoyed a star-studded show. In a sports stadium, celebrities and pop singers lavished praise on the military in a televised extravaganza complete with dancers and an ...

  • Updated: 4:59 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

ACLU says ATF blocks whistleblower book on scandal

The Obama administration is blocking a federal law enforcement agent from publishing a book about the failed "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling sting operation because of concerns that the book would negatively affect morale, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday. The ACLU charged that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, ...

  • Updated: 4:54 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
FILE - This Feb. 13, 2009 file photo shows actors Tori Spelling, left, and Jennie Garth at the Heart Truth's Red Dress collection during Fashion Week in New York. Former “Beverly Hills, 90210” stars Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling are reuniting. The actresses will co-star and executive produce the new ABC Family series “Mystery Girls.” In the series, Spelling and Garth play Holly and Charlie, who were on a crime-solving series in the 90’s that was the highest-rated show on TV. Spelling’s Holly is looking to reignite her fame and opens a detective agency. She persuades Charlie, now a suburban mom to help. “Mystery Girls” is set to shoot in November. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)

Garth and Spelling to co-star in ABC Family pilot

Former "Beverly Hills, 90210" stars Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling are reuniting. The actresses will co-star and executive produce the new ABC Family series "Mystery Girls." Spelling and Garth will play Holly and Charlie, former co-stars of a popular 90s crime-solving series. Spelling's Holly opens a detective agency and persuades ...

  • Updated: 4:22 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
This undated photo provided by Chrysler shows Will Farrell as the 'Anchorman' character Ron Burgundy as part of the new 2014 Dodge Durango advertisement. The campaign, scheduled to appear on TV until the sequel "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" makes its debut around Christmas, could alienate those didn't see the first movie or those who didn't like it. (AP Photo/Chrysler)

Fictional anchor Ron Burgundy pitches for Chrysler

When you've got the smallest marketing budget of the Detroit Three automakers, you have to take risks to get your TV spots noticed. That's why Olivier Francois, Chrysler's marketing chief, gambles a lot. He's following successful ads featuring rapper Eminem and movie star Clint Eastwood with a pitch from a ...

  • Updated: 4:25 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
In this Oct. 2, 2013 photo, author Rudyard Kipling's Vermont home, which he named Naulakha, is framed by foliage in Dummerston, Vt. Kipling scholars from the United Kingdom and the U.S. will be at Vermont's Marlboro College Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 7 and 8, 2013, for the first-ever meeting of the Kipling Society outside the U.K. (AP Photo/Matthew Cavanaugh)

Scholars visit Vt. birthplace of 'The Jungle Book'

Mention the name Rudyard Kipling, and images of tropical forests, mongooses and cobras come to mind — not the snowy vistas of Vermont. But that's exactly where many of the British writer's best-known tales, including "The Jungle Book," took shape. In honor of his connections to Vermont, a group of ...

  • Updated: 4:17 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Curt Schilling selling items from home

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling — whose video game company collapsed into bankruptcy last year, prompting a high-profile lawsuit in Rhode Island — is selling off furniture, sports collectibles and even artificial plants from his Massachusetts home. An estate sale company has scheduled a sale of items from ...

  • Updated: 4:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
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