Momentum swings to 'Beauty'
LOS ANGELES - A month ago the race for Oscars was wide open, but heading into Sunday night's star-packed Academy Awards, an offbeat drama about family dysfunction has grabbed the momentum.
Madonna with second child
LONDON - Pop superstar Madonna announced on Monday she is three months pregnant with her second child.
Drive-in movies make a comeback
LOS ANGELES - Spring is just around the corner and Tim Thompson's thoughts are turning to Saturday nights at the movies under warm, starry skies.
'Star Trek' series faces final frontier
LOS ANGELES - Science fiction series "Star Trek: Voyager" will face its final season next year on the UPN television network, but talks have already begun for a new series based on the classic 1960s TV show "Star Trek," network officials said on Monday. "Voyager" helped launch the fledgling network in January 1995 and has remained a cornerstone of its programming ever since. It remains popular, but UPN and the show's producers figured that after next season, its seventh, "Voyager" will have ventured to all the strange and exotic places on fringes of space that it can. Tom Noonan, who heads UPN's programming division, promised advertisers "a surprising conclusion" and a "smashing finale" for the show at a special meeting on the Paramount Pictures movie studio lot to preview the network's 2000/2001 season. Network chief Dean Valentine said UPN was already talking to the show's producers about a new "Star Trek" series to take its place, but he remained mum on any details. "Voyager" is the fourth series in the long-running and wildly profitable franchise of programmes and movies originating with the adventures of James T. Kirk and the crew of the spaceship Enterprise on the frontiers of space. "Star Trek" first rocketed onto US airwaves in 1966, but it was panned by critics and generally unwatched by audiences. After just three years, NBC yanked the show from its schedule. In reruns during the 1970s, the show found a core audience of mainly young men. (Agencies via Xinhua)
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