Complete list of 82nd Annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday: 1. Best Picture: "Avatar," "The Blind Side," "District 9," "An Education," "The Hurt Locker," "Inglourious Basterds," "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," "A Serious Man," "Up," "Up in the Air." 2. Actor: Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"; George Clooney ...

Randy Newman is postponing his 18-date European tour. The 64-year-old "I Love L.A" and "I Love to See You Smile" singer-songwriter cited "physical limitations and severe pain caused by stenosis in the lower back and neck," a statement posted Thursday on his Web site said. The European tour was ...

Early in his career, when singer-songwriters were expected to spill their souls, Randy Newman realised that 'if John Updike could have more than one character, so could I'. The jobbing LA songsmith reinvented himself as a drawling Southern storyteller (he spent much of his childhood in New Orleans, his mother's hometown), often casting himself in the roles of unreliable ...