AP-AP Entertainment Digest
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12
BOOKS-BINGE-READING-JD ROBB - What's it like to read 50 books in five months? AP writer Sophia Rosenbaum did just that with the ``In Death'' series by J.D. Robb. Five lessons she learned. By SOPHIA ROSENBAUM. SENT: 1,500 words, photo.
NY FASHION WEEK-VERA WANG – Vera Wang is a big name on red carpets, and in the bridal business. For New York Fashion Week, she wanted to do something totally different, she says. She calls the concept “breaking down evening," and by that she means literally breaking it down, as in deconstructing traditional clothes, to emerge with a new kind of evening wear. By Jocelyn Noveck. SENT: 370 words, photos.
NEW YORK FASHION WEEK - Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors are among the designers showing Wednesday at New York Fashion Week. UPCOMING.
POLAND-JEWISH MUSEUM – A long stalemate over the future independence of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum is building toward a crucial turning point after the former director — who won a competition for a second term but whom Poland's populist government refuses to reinstate — offered to renounce the job. By Vanessa Gera. SENT: 945 words.
GERMANY-OBIT-VILSMAIER - Joseph Vilsmaier, a German filmmaker whose striking portrayal of the Battle of Stalingrad brought home the horrors of war to a new generation, has died. He was 81. SENT: 240 words.
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REVIEWS:
FILM REVIEW- SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. Reviewed by AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy. UPCOMING Thursday at 1 a.m.: 700 words, film stills. Review timing is subject to embargo.
FILM REVIEW-DOWNHILL. Reviewed by AP Film Writer Jake Coyle. UPCOMING Wednesday: 700 words, film stills.
FILM REVIEW-THE LAST THING HE WANTED. Reviewed by AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy. UPCOMING Wednesday: 700 words, film stills.
FILM REVIEW-THE PHOTOGRAPH. Reviewed by AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy. UPCOMING Thursday: 700 words, film stills.
MUSIC REVIEW-PHIL MADEIRA. Reviewed by Steven Wine. SENT Tuesday: 200 words, photo.
MUSIC REVIEW-KHRUANGBIN & LEON BRIDGES. Reviewed by Melanie J. Sims. SENT TUESDAY: 260 words, photo.
BOOK REVIEW-NOBODY DOES IT BETTER BY MARK A. ALTMAN AND EDWARD GROSS. Reviewed by Douglass K. Daniel. SENT Monday: 640 words, photo.
BOOK REVIEW-THE ONLY CHILD BY MI-AE SEA. Reviewed by Oline H. Cogdill. SENT Monday: 300 words, photo.
BOOK REVIEW-IN THE LAND OF MEN BY ADRIENNE MILLER. Reviewed by Lincee Ray. SENT Tuesday: 250 words, photo.
BOOK REVIEW-LOVE UNSCRIPTED BY OWEN NICHOLLS. Reviewed by Lincee Ray. SENT Tuesday: 300 words, photo.
BOOK REVIEW-BEEN THERE, MARRIED THAT BY GIGI LEVANGIE. Reviewed by Samantha Critchell. SENT Tuesday: 360 words, photo.
BOOK REVIEW-ALL THE BEST LIES BY JOANNA SCHAFFHAUSEN. Reviewed by Bruce DeSilva. SENT Tuesday: 390 words, photo.
BOOK REVIEW-THE BURN BY KATHLEEN KENT. Reviewed by Oline H. Cogdill. SENT Tuesday: 350 words, photo.
BOOK REVIEW-DEAD TO HER BY SARAH PINBOROUGH. Reviewed by Oline H. Cogdill. UPCOMING Wednesday: 350 words, photo.