Thomas Kinkade was America's most prolific and successful popular artist of the last 100 years. Calling himself the "Painter of Light", a term he trademarked, he claimed to have an example of his work in one in 20 of the country's homes. Kinkade turned the production of his sentimentally themed paintings, prints and posters, mugs and calendars into an enterprise, the Media Arts Group, which made him over $50m between 1997 and 2005. Explaining his motivation, he said, "There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art. We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand."
Charity: How to make celebrities do what you want
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Want Larry David to join Twitter? It's just a click away... if you're willing to make a donation. Luke Blackall reports on high-level bribery
Harvard goes Gaga for new human rights star
Thursday 01 March 2012
The hallowed lectern at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre has, over the years, been graced by such speakers as Sir Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Luther King and Mikhail Gorbachev. Yesterday, a very different sort of global opinion-former joined their lofty ranks: Lady Gaga.
Moore seeking help for exhaustion
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Demi Moore is seeking professional help to treat her exhaustion and improve her health.
Marc Maron: Live from the comedy garage
Friday 02 December 2011
In a spider-ridden Los Angeles garage, surrounded by half-read self-help books and the whiff of stale cat's-pee, a stand-up comedian called Marc Maron has for the past two years been taking listeners on a twice-weekly journey behind the red velvet curtains of his profession.
Ashton Kutcher's Two and a Half Men character revealed
Thursday 04 August 2011
Ashton Kutcher will play broken hearted internet billionaire Walden Schmidt on 'Two and a Half Men'.
Hugh Hefner didn't expect split from Crystal
Thursday 16 June 2011
Hugh Hefner "didn't see" the break-up of his relationship with Crystal Harris coming.
Orlando Bloom not allowed toilet break during labour
Thursday 12 May 2011
Orlando Bloom had to "pee in a bottle" when wife Miranda Kerr was in labour.
Larry King: Morgan 'was oversold'
Saturday 19 February 2011
The veteran US chat show host Larry King has given his verdict on his successor, Piers Morgan: the British former tabloid editor "may have been oversold" to the Americans public, he told BBC Radio 4 .
Oprah bets her chat show on an entire TV network
Sunday 02 January 2011
Oprah Winfrey audience taken on holiday
Wednesday 15 September 2010
Oprah Winfrey has surprised the audience at the premiere of the 25th and final season of her talk show with an all-expenses-paid trip to Australia.
Killers (12A)
Friday 18 June 2010
A profoundly silly and boring non-com in which domesticity collides with professional death-dealing, a la Grosse Point Blank.
O'Brien ends 'Tonight Show' stint on a high
Monday 25 January 2010
Early ratings suggest that Conan O'Brien won a hefty audience for his final hour hosting The Tonight Show, which he has been forced to give up to the former host Jay Leno after tumultuous negotiations with the NBC network that have been plastered across the American press.
Presenter gives a new twist to 'Tonight' saga
Wednesday 13 January 2010








