No rubber gloves. No high-tech instruments. No medical-malpractice lawyers.
Chinese audiences will get to buy inexpensive clothing designed by celebrities on a new reality TV show that seeks to promote fashion and beauty. Han Bingbin reports.
Manjula Stokes has twice sworn off television, once throwing a set off her deck in a fit over an ex-husband's sports obsession. Now she's a devotee of programs like Downton Abbey, Mad Men, Survivor and Masters of Sex.
Sequels drive Hollywood with their proven - and sometimes unproven - formulas for success, Agence France-Presse reports in Los Angeles.
Fahim Fazli's screen career was beginning to take off in the United States, with roles in blockbusters like Iron Man, when the Afghan-born actor decided it was time to give back to the country that had taken him in after he fled Russian occupation a quarter-century earlier.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sliced off $65 million at the weekend box office.
Robin Williams has inspired generations in China with his idealistic roles.
A cinema in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, has started to rate its films according to levels of violent and sexual content, despite no such rating system being in place on a national level.
It was a job that required facing death every day. A job that felt creepy at times. A job that paid little. But former crematory operator Li Nansheng tried to make the most of it, and he explores the meaning of death and life in his fiction My Five Years of Working in the Crematorium. Li, 36, seemed to be destined for the job. Both of his parents were specialized musicians who performed at traditional funerals; they not only sang funeral songs and incantations, but also performed religious rituals. His wife is a mortuary makeup artist. Li himself was born during a funeral session.
He is 86 years old, his eyesight is failing and much of his recent work reads like a man saying goodbye.
A love of San Francisco - its flaws, strengths and eccentricities - permeates Kelli Stanley's intriguing novels about private detective Miranda Corbie. Stanley's novels capture San Francisco - and the United States - in the years just before World War II.
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