Daniel Day-Lewis agrees to be honored by Santa Barbara Film Festival

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has landed one of the top prizes of awards season, announcing on Tuesday that it will host the celebrated but elusive "Lincoln" star Daniel Day-Lewis with a tribute at its festival in the coastal town north of Los Angeles.Day-Lewis has been dominating critics' awards with his performance as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's...

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"Game of Thrones" gets expanded episodes for Season 3

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - As the drama grows on "Game of Thrones," so do the episodes.HBO's hit fantasy series will air expanded episodes for its third season, a spokeswoman for HBO told TheWrap on Tuesday, with each of the episodes running slightly longer."Thrones" co-creator and co-showrunner Dan Weiss told EW.com that nearly an hour of extra material will be included over the course of the season."There's...

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Tom Hooper, Mychael Danna join crowded slate of Palm Springs honorees

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Les Miserables" director Tom Hooper and "Life of Pi" composer Mychael Danna are the latest awards-season hopefuls to be added to the slate of honorees at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, PSIFF organizers announced on Tuesday.The two will join a list of honorees that in recent days has expanded to include Helen Mirren, Richard Gere, Bradley Cooper and Sally...

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"Zero Dark Thirty" review: Like a really good "Law & Order" - with waterboarding

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It's always a challenge to tell a story where the audience knows the ending. The trick comes in offering a new perspective on familiar events or at least generating suspense in a way that makes us nervous that Apollo 13 might not land safely, even when history tells us otherwise."Argo" and "Lincoln" are two films that successfully tread these waters, and now comes "Zero...

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Kelsey Grammer to host DGA awards again

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Boss" star Kelsey Grammer will host the 65th Annual DGA Awards, DGA president Taylor Hackford and 65th Annual DGA Awards Dinner Chair Michael Stevens said Tuesday.This will mark the second consecutive year that Grammer has hosted the ceremony."We're so pleased to welcome Kelsey Grammer back as host of the DGA Awards for the second year in a row," Hackford said. "Last year,...

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Tattooist gives nipples, new life, to US cancer survivors

Few tattoo artists tell their clients they could win a wet T-shirt contest.Then again, few tattoo artists are quite like Vincent "Vinnie" Myers.In his shop in a modest strip mall in Finksburg, a half-hour drive from Baltimore, Myers specializes in tattooing nipples and areolas onto women who have undergone breast cancer surgery.Using precisely mixed pigments, he creates a perfect 3-D illusion of...

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Spring/Summer hair trends: five new looks to try

Spring/Summer hair doesn't just have to mean tousled waves or blonde highlights, so take inspiration from the Spring/Summer 2012 catwalk shows and experiment with candy color or victory rolls.Slicked backGet the hair gel at the ready because slicked-back styles were all over the Spring/Summer 2012 runways, with everyone from Victoria Beckham to Mugler embracing the mullet-influenced style. Labels...

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The Baby Boomer Number Game

There are 75 million baby boomers  who are on the verge of retirement. For the next twenty years, an average of 10,000 people each day will reach age 65, which has historically been the retirement phase of life.Between 2000 and 2010, the number of people age 65 to 84 in the U.S. grew by 3.3 million. While 13 percent of Americans are currently age 65 or older, that proportion will jump to 18...

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The arduous art of the chocolate taster

First study the colour, then the nose, the structure and taste: as for any good wine, tasting chocolate is both a treat and a serious art, requiring regular practice to fine-tune the senses. And who better to offer a lesson in chocolate tasting than Pierre Herme, the French master pastry chef? "You start by looking at the texture," he explained at a recent tasting organised in Paris by the...

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Should Seniors Live Alone or With Family?

Put Grandma in the garage? Yes. But a garage transformed into a well-appointed studio apartment with skylights and a patio for morning coffee.Home remodeling for those who can afford it is one answer to a growing issue: How do you take care of family members in their late-retirement and twilight years? And then, a tougher question: When a home solution won't work, what assisted-living or nursing...

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