National Entertainment

1. “Ready Player Two” by Ernest Cline (Ballantine) 2. “Deadly Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 3. “The Awakening” by Nora Roberts (St. Martin's Press) 4. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 5.

NEW YORK — There's theatre on Broadway. You just have to adjust your sights. More than a hundred blocks north of Manhattan's shuttered theatre district but on that same famed thoroughfare, an actor recently read his lines from a huge stage.

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1. “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama (Crown) 2. “Ready Player Two” by Ernest Cline (Ballantine) 3. ”Diary of A Wimpy Kid: The Deep End” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) 4. “Deadly Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 5.

LOS ANGELES — Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, are forming a film production company that they say will tell the stories of people whose voices are often overlooked.

American scholar and author Camilla Townsend has won a US$75,000 history book prize from McGill University. The professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey received the Cundill History Prize on Thursday for "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs.

TORONTO — One of the first things Alexandher Brandy wanted to do after reading Elliot Page's coming out letter was break into a dance. The urge to celebrate the Oscar-nominated performer's announcement was undeniable.

NEW YORK — Former J. Crew President Jenna Lyons knows a thing or two about building a brand, but now she’s ditched corporate life to build her own. Lyons started working as a J.

LOS ANGELES — MTV Entertainment Group says it's making a $250 million commitment to spur reality production over the next three years by companies owned and operated by women and people of colour .

NEW DELHI — Indian movie superstar Rajinikanth said Thursday he plans to launch his own political party in southern India in January, ending years of speculation by millions of his fans on his political future.