Have you heard of X-Factor? No, you likely have not, but that will change soon. Like American Idol, X-Factor originally premiered in the U.K., and follows a group of talented contestants through a series of auditions leading to fancy live shows where the fate of the hopeful stars is decided by a public vote.
Working through the five stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance - can be an exhausting, traumatic and frustrating process, but on her second album, 21, Grammy-award winning songstress Adele forgoes the psychiatrist's leather couch in favor of singing through her heartbreak.
Drug use, heavy eye-shadow, hot pink tank tops, daisy dukes and a heavy Boston accent - these were just a few of the things that helped Gossip Girl poster girl Blake Lively break out of her typecast mold in last year's The Town.
With How I Met Your Mother now well into its sixth season, Josh Radnor, who stars as Ted in the series, has experienced the ups and downs of a young adult trying to establish himself in New York. Radnor's new film, happythankyoumoreplease, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and showed this weekend at the Virginia Film Festival, deals with a similar, although more weighty, theme, following several New Yorkers as they try to settle into their new lives as adults. Radnor stopped by the Virginia Film Festival during the showing of happythankyoumoreplease Sunday night, which he directed, wrote and starred in, and spoke with tableau beforehand about the process that went into creating the film as well as what he considered when casting it. tableau: What was your inspiration for the film? Radnor: I wanted to write a great movie to give myself an acting opportunity.
Very few places around the world have as much on-screen character as New York City - as the city that never sleeps, New York has a naturally progressive feeling, which often serves as a background for fictitious characters to drive themselves toward self-fulfillment and better relationships with those around them.
Whether she's walking the halls of the CIA, dealing with a foreign contact in a tense situation or preparing breakfast for her family, Naomi Watts inhabits Fair Game with a cool, steely-eyed demeanor that rarely breaks, even when surrounded by her collection of well-off Washingtonian friends at dinner parties.
It was clear from the start what kind of concert Miranda Lambert was about to put on for the crowd at John Paul Jones Arena last Thursday night.
Set to hit the stage tonight at John Paul Jones Arena, country singer Miranda Lambert spoke with tableau about her current tour, her successes during the past year and life on the road. tableau: By the time you reach Charlottesville, you will have been on tour for about a month - how would you describe the experience, and how has it compared to other tours that you have done? Lambert: Fantastic is the short answer.
When stripped of all the glitz and glamour, barely a handful of popular artists today could hold their own on a colossal stage.
When Tiger Woods, America's most famous and beloved athlete, crashed his car in his driveway last November and subsequently set off a firestorm of tabloid hysteria, his wife all but vanished from the public eye.
