PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ A painting forcibly auctioned by Germany's Nazi government should remain with the estate of a late Jewish art dealer who lost it when his gallery was liquidated, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston blocks an attempt by German baroness...

NEW YORK (AP) _ The opening date and Broadway theater have been set for the world premiere of "Impressionism," a play by Michael Jacobs starring Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen. The story of a photojournalist and a New York gallery owner will open March 12 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Preview performances begin Feb. 28. Jack...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Irving Brecher, who wrote vaudeville one-liners for Milton Berle and scripted Marx Brothers movies, the TV and radio hit "The Life of Riley" and the Oscar-nominated musical "Meet Me in St. Louis," has died. He was 94. Brecher died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to his wife, Norma....

NEW YORK (AP) _ Clive Barnes, longtime theater and dance critic for the New York Post, has died. Barnes died Wednesday of cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital, the Post announced. He was 81. The London-born Barnes had a long run as a critic covering the arts scene in New York and abroad. He arrived in 1965 from England to...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Hugh Jackman says wife Deborra-Lee Furness teased him after finding out he'd been named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive." Recalling Furness' reaction, Jackman says: "God bless her, she said, 'I could've told them that years ago! And then she said, 'Obviously Brad (Pitt) wasn't available this year.' And I said,...