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Senegal's N'dour to stop singing, enter politics
Sat,26 Nov 2011 02:29 PM PST
Reuters -  DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese world music star Youssou N'dour declared Saturday he would cancel concert dates to enter politics from January 2 next year, a month before a tense presidential election in his West African country. The singer did not explicitly say whether he would stand for president himself, as some supporters have urged. He also did not make clear whether he intended a definitive or merely temporary halt to his musical career. ...
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Venezuela youth orchestras flood Caracas metro
Sat,26 Nov 2011 01:27 PM PST
Reuters -  CARACAS (Reuters) - Two thousand children in 23 bands played brass instruments and sang in choirs at metro stations across Caracas on Saturday in the latest endeavor by Venezuela's lauded youth orchestra program. The simultaneous concerts were organized by the subway authorities and the program, known locally as "The System", which teaches classical music to kids from poor families. "Today I got up early and my brother was left playing at home ... ...
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Unseen Jackson film valued at $6-8 million goes unsold
Sat,26 Nov 2011 11:55 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Previously unseen footage of Michael Jackson's 1993 "Dangerous" tour, which had been expected to fetch 4-5 million pounds ($6.2-7.8 million) failed to sell at auction in Britain on Saturday. "At this stage it has not sold," said a spokesman for The Fame Bureau auctioneers, who specialize in pop memorabilia. "We are still talking to people, but online it did not sell." He said he was confident a buyer would be found, although "nothing is a certainty. ...
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New York Times columnist Tom Wicker dies at 85
Fri,25 Nov 2011 05:14 PM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Tom Wicker, the New York Times reporter who covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for the paper before moving on to become the Times' Washington bureau chief and a columnist for 25 years, died at his Rochester, Vermont, home on Friday, the Times reports. According to his wife, Pamela, Wicker died of an apparent heart attack. He was 85. Wicker was in the presidential motorcade on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was shot. His coverage of the assassination catapulted him to prominence in the journalistic field. ... Full Story | Top |
Kutcher, Moore tweet their thanks ... separately
Fri,25 Nov 2011 05:12 PM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have broken their Twitter silence in the spirit of the holiday season. The estranged celebrity power-couple -- who announced their split after six years of marriage earlier this month, amid rumors of infidelity on Kutcher's part -- both reignited their social-media presence in recent days, to reflect on the Thanksgiving holiday. Twitter super-user Kutcher, who has amassed 8. ...
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Piers Morgan welcomes his fourth child
Fri,25 Nov 2011 03:02 PM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television host Piers Morgan became a father for the fourth time on Friday after his wife gave birth to a baby girl, Morgan announced on Twitter. "It's true. I've become a dad for the 4th time, to a baby girl called Elise. She's absurdly beautiful, and utterly adorable," the CNN talk show host posted, adding that the baby arrived after Morgan's favorite soccer team Arsenal won a match. This is the first child for Morgan and second wife Celia Walden, 34, a writer at British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. ...
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"Control Room" director arrested in Egypt protest
Fri,25 Nov 2011 02:53 PM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Jehane Noujaim -- director of "Control Room," a 2004 documentary about Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera -- was arrested and later released after participating in a protest in Egypt, according to multiple reports on Twitter. Noujaim was interviewing a military officer when the arrest took place and was accused of being a spy for Israel and a traitor, according to U.K. newspaper the Guardian. "In solidarity with Jihane Noujaim," wrote journalist Mona Eltahawy, who was also arrested in the protest. "Friends please kick up huge fuss to relesase (sic) her. ... Full Story | Top |
Tilda Swinton dives again into dark emotional waters
Fri,25 Nov 2011 02:52 PM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - By now, it's certainly no surprise that Tilda Swinton has turned in another riveting performance in a dark and difficult movie; from "Orlando" to "I Am Love," that's what she does, with occasional detours to play the white witch in the Narnia films and win an Oscar as a corporate lawyer in "Michael Clayton. ... Full Story | Top |
Ben Whishaw to play Q in new Bond film "Skyfall"
Fri,25 Nov 2011 01:52 PM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British actor Ben Whishaw will reprise the character of high-tech weapons specialist "Q" in the upcoming James Bond film "Skyfall," a role previously played by actors Desmond Llewelyn and John Cleese, media outlets reported on Friday. The BBC said Whishaw's agent confirmed the young actor in the role of Q opposite Daniel Craig's Bond in the upcoming 23rd installment of the franchise, directed by Sam Mendes. ...
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Keith Urban recovering from throat surgery
Fri,25 Nov 2011 12:29 PM PST
Reuters -  NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Country singer Keith Urban underwent successful throat surgery to remove a polyp from his vocal cord earlier this week and is doing fine, the singer's spokesman said on Friday. Urban had the procedure on Tuesday, and he will not be able to speak for three weeks, spokesman Paul Freundlich told Reuters. The singer is recovering at an undisclosed location. One day ahead of the procedure, Urban posted a video on his website thanking fans for their support. "I want to thank you for sending such good wishes for my upcoming surgery," Urban said. ...
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"Happy Feet Two" flop leads to 600 layoffs: report
Fri,25 Nov 2011 11:52 AM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - As a result of the poor box-office performance of "Happy Feet Two," 600 of the 700 employees at the digital production studio behind the animated movie reportedly have received their walking papers. Employees at Dr. D Studios, which is based in Sydney, Australia, have been told they will be laid off in the coming weeks, according to IF.com.au. TheWrap was unable to reach Dr. D for comment. The film, a sequel to 2006's Academy Award-winning "Happy Feet" -- which grossed $384.3 million off a budget of $100 million -- had amassed only an estimated $30. ...
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"A Separation," "Anatolia" win top Asian Pacific Screen Awards
Fri,25 Nov 2011 11:37 AM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Two Oscar foreign-language contenders, Iran's "A Separation" and Turkey's "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," were the big winners at Thursday's Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which took place in Queensland, Australia. "A Separation," directed and written by Asghar Farhadi, was named Best Feature Film. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" won awards for Achievement in Directing and Achievement in Cinematography, as well as receiving the Screen International Jury Grand Prize. ... Full Story | Top |
Miley Cyrus, Adele on board for Bob Dylan cover set
Fri,25 Nov 2011 11:31 AM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - What do Bob Dylan and Miley Cyrus have in common -- besides their perpetually chipper demeanor, of course? They're both doing their part to benefit human rights organization Amnesty International on its 50th anniversary. The human-rights organization is releasing a sprawling, four-CD collection, "Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International," on January 24, with the proceeds going to AI, according to numerous news reports. ...
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Gaga's Thanksgiving special no turkey for ABC
Fri,25 Nov 2011 10:53 AM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "A Very Gaga Thanksgiving" proved plenty bounteous for ABC. Though it failed to grab the ratings crown for the night, the holiday special presided over by the "Alejandro" chanteuse provided a significant boost for the network Thursday night, generating a four-year Thanksgiving best in the timeslot and handily beating last year's Turkey Day music offering, "Beyonce's I Am World Tour." "A Very Gaga Thanksgiving," airing from 9:30 p.m. to 11, averaged a 1. ...
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Lindsay Lohan's father has heart surgery
Fri,25 Nov 2011 10:49 AM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan's father Michael Lohan is undergoing heart surgery on Friday after being rushed to a hospital in Florida with chest pains and high blood pressure, said his spokeswoman. Lohan was hospitalized on Thursday night after complaining of shortness of breath and chest pains. He registered a high blood pressure reading of 200/110, taken by an ambulance crew. The 51-year-old Lohan is at the Gulf Coast Hospital in Fort Myers where he is having a stent inserted and a blood clot removed from his lungs. ...
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In "The Artist," silence is golden
Fri,25 Nov 2011 10:26 AM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Jean Dujardin won this year's best actor award at the Cannes film festival for playing a man who hardly says a word, but not because his character couldn't speak. In fact, he says quite a lot. Dujardin stars in "The Artist," a silent movie made more than 80 years after those films gave way to "talkies," and the movie has Hollywood buzzing with Oscar talk. Directed by Frenchman Michel Hazanavicius, it tells of a silent film star (Dujardin) whose career is cut short by the advent of sound. ... Full Story | Top |
George Michael postpones tour due to pneumonia
Fri,25 Nov 2011 09:25 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - British singer George Michael has been forced to postpone the rest of his European tour due to ongoing treatment for "severe" pneumonia, his spokeswoman said on Friday. But she denied reports that the former Wham! frontman was suffering from serious heart problems and was "slowly improving" in hospital in Vienna. "George Michael is ill with pneumonia and any other speculation regarding his illness is unfounded and untrue," she said in a statement. "He is receiving excellent medical care; he is responding to treatment and slowly improving. ...
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NBC apologizes to Bachmann for Fallon show intro song
Fri,25 Nov 2011 09:09 AM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Michele Bachmann can add a broadcast network apology to her Thanksgiving list of things to be thankful for. Doug Vaughan, NBC's senior vice president for special programs, sent a letter of contrition to the conservative firebrand and Republican presidential hopeful on Wednesday. In it, the network executive wrote that the house band for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" was wrong to introduce her on the program with the song "Lyin' Ass Bitch," according to CNN. Representatives of Bachmann and NBC did not immediately respond to TheWrap's requests for comment. ... Full Story | Top |
Scotty McCreery flubs Macy's parade lip synching
Fri,25 Nov 2011 08:51 AM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "American Idol" winner Scotty McCreery committed a lip synching foul during Thursday's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The cherubic singer missed his cue to begin crooning his hit single "The Trouble With Girls" during the festivities. That left McCreery miming vocal work after the song had started to play over the loudspeakers. Perhaps the reigning "Idol" victor isn't cut out for this whole live performing thing. During this year's World Series, McCreery had to restart the National Anthem after his microphone malfunctioned. He then proceeded to flub the lyrics. ... Full Story | Top |
UK inquiry shines light on rough tabloid trade
Fri,25 Nov 2011 06:49 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Stalking children, rummaging through bins, bullying and deceit -- the tricks of the tabloid newspaper trade are being laid bare at a public inquiry that is giving Britons a sobering insight into how their appetite for gossip and scandal is satisfied. Analysts and members of the industry say the revelations are highly damaging and will likely further harm newspaper sales, especially for the popular tabloid titles, and will inevitably lead to tighter regulation of an industry that polices itself. ...
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Michelle Williams talks Marilyn, Matilda and musicals
Fri,25 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michelle Williams takes on the iconic role of Marilyn Monroe in the indie film "My Week with Marilyn." Currently in theaters, the film is based on Colin Clark's book of the same name and chronicles his time spent working with Monroe while she was in England shooting the romantic comedy "The Prince and the Showgirl" in 1956. Williams sat down with Reuters to talk about portraying Monroe, the film, shooting her current role of Glinda the good witch in Sam Raimi's "Oz: The Great and Powerful" and her six-year-old daughter Matilda with late actor Heath Ledger. ...
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Vera Lynn appeals for lost "Monty" brooch
Fri,25 Nov 2011 05:57 AM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - British World War Two forces' sweetheart Vera Lynn has appealed for help in tracing a lost brooch that had been given her by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery more than 35 years ago. The brooch was lost during a Remembrance Day service at the Royal Albert Hall in London earlier this month. The 94-year-old singer, whose wartime classics include "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover," said the brooch was of great sentimental value, the BBC reported. Lynn said she wore it to every military function, along with her medals. ...
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Award-winning poet Ruth Stone dies at 96
Thu,24 Nov 2011 03:48 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Award-winning poet Ruth Stone, who drew imagery and inspiration from the natural sciences, has died at age 96 in Vermont, her daughter said on Thursday. Stone, who won the National Book Award in 2002 for her collection of poems "In the Next Galaxy," died last week in Ripton, Vermont, surrounded by her three daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Phoebe Stone told Reuters. "She died of natural causes, she was 96," said Stone, who is an author of children's books. For 20 years Stone taught creative writing at several U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Judge grants appeal to Telmex in TV dispute: report
Thu,24 Nov 2011 01:21 PM PST
Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A judge has granted tycoon Carlos Slim's Telmex an appeal against a government decision that denied the phone company entry into the television market in Mexico, daily El Universal reported on Thursday. Mexico's Communications and Transport ministry in May rejected Slim's efforts to tap the domestic television market by refusing to change Telmex's concession to allow the new service. ... Full Story | Top |
Sienna Miller tells of hacking paranoia
Thu,24 Nov 2011 12:17 PM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Actress Sienna Miller said on Thursday she had been placed under a "web of surveillance" by a tabloid newspaper which listened into her messages and read emails, prompting her to accuse family and friends of leaking stories to the press. Appearing at the Leveson inquiry into media practices and ethics, the star of movies such as "Layer Cake" and "Alfie" said she had felt violated by the constant coverage of intimate details of her private life in the press. "(There was) this breeding of mistrust amongst all of us. Nobody could understand how this information was coming ...
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Polish Oscar winner makes first film about Lech Walesa
Thu,24 Nov 2011 11:17 AM PST
Reuters -  WARSAW (Reuters) - Lech Walesa will finally see his life made into a movie, more than three decades after the shipyard electrician launched the Solidarity union that helped topple communism in Eastern Europe. On Thursday, Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda began filming the first biopic about Walesa, who remains a respected but controversial figure. ...
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Author JK Rowling says "spiteful" UK press hounded her
Thu,24 Nov 2011 11:12 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling told a public inquiry into British media standards on Thursday she was forced to move house because of tabloid harassment and had been made to feel like a hostage in her home after she gave birth. During two hours of evidence, Rowling revealed a note had been slipped into her young daughter's schoolbag by a journalist and that she had chased a paparazzo photographer down the street when he tried to take a picture of her with her children. ...
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Edinburgh festivals bat eyes at London Olympic fans
Thu,24 Nov 2011 09:34 AM PST
Reuters -  EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The world's biggest annual arts extravaganza is gearing up to lure fans from the London 2012 Olympics up to the Scottish capital for three weeks of comedy, music, art, theater, the skirl of massed pipe bands and fireworks over Edinburgh castle. The Edinburgh festivals slot in neatly through August between the London Olympics and the Paralympics in the British capital. ...
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Robin Gibb says "on road to recovery"
Thu,24 Nov 2011 09:32 AM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees Wednesday said he is on the road to recovery after being "very unwell" in recent days, and he thanked fans for their support in a message posted on his website. "I wish to thank my family, friends and fans and the many thousands of people who do not know me but have enjoyed Bee Gees music and have wished me well," wrote Gibb. "I have been very unwell and am now on the road to recovery, and your prayers and wishes are a great tonic to me," the singer added. ...
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George Michael has pneumonia, postpones gigs
Thu,24 Nov 2011 09:23 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - British singer George Michael has postponed a series of concerts after falling ill with pneumonia, his website said on Wednesday. The 48-year-old former Wham! frontman called off a planned gig in Vienna on Monday and another in Strasbourg on Wednesday, and now his Cardiff dates have been put on hold. "With great regret, George Michael has been forced to postpone his November 26 and 27 shows in Cardiff, Wales, due to his ongoing illness. "George was recently forced to postpone tour dates in Vienna and Strasbourg under doctor's orders after being diagnosed with pneumonia. ...
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Expanded museum gives boost to Tel Aviv art scene
Fri,25 Nov 2011 11:30 AM PST
Reuters -  TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Tel Aviv's recently expanded modern art museum, with its dazzling new building no less an attraction than the art showcased inside, has given a home to hundreds of displaced Israeli works and helped boost the city's cultural scene. The new wing, designed by Massachusetts architect Preston Scott Cohen, has doubled the size of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by 19,000 square meters (200,000 square feet) and lured a growing number of art fans through its new, triangular concrete and glass complex since its November 3 unveiling. ...
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Book Talk: Frazier returns to home state for third novel
Thu,24 Nov 2011 03:45 AM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charles Frazier's novel "Cold Mountain" was a bestselling and critical phenomenon in 1996 and later became an Academy Award-winning movie, which is not bad considering it was the 46-year-old's debut. Ten years later, the North Carolina native returned to his home state and the 19th century with "Thirteen Moons," another best-seller. His latest novel, "Nightwoods," takes readers to early 1960s North Carolina, where Luce, a backwoods recluse, takes in her mute, pyromaniac twin niece and nephew after their stepdad murders their mother. ... Full Story | Top |
Prosecutors seek four years in jail for Jackson doctor
Wed,23 Nov 2011 04:47 PM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to sentence Michael Jackson's former doctor to the maximum four years in prison for his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the singer's 2009 death. In a separate court filing, defense attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray, 58, sought to convince Los Angeles trial judge Michael Pastor to sentence their client to probation. The dueling legal papers come in advance of a hearing on Tuesday at which Pastor will issue his sentence for Murray, who is currently in jail awaiting that court date. ...
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Imogen Heap to weave Asian sounds into new album
Wed,23 Nov 2011 04:38 PM PST
Reuters -  PUNE, India (Reuters) - What started as a little girl's dream to travel around the globe in her own plane with her own classical orchestra has led to a Grammy award and three critically acclaimed albums for Imogen Heap, who will use sounds embodying Asia for her next album. A skilled player of several instruments, the 33-year-old English singer is breaking down her upcoming fourth album into several projects with themes set in different parts of the world, she told Reuters at the recent Bacardi NH7 Weekender music festival in Pune, a city outside of Mumbai. ...
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Creditors back expedited Dodgers' TV rights sale
Wed,23 Nov 2011 04:28 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - The committee of unsecured creditors for the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers threw its support behind the team's effort to sell TV broadcast rights earlier than expected, riling News Corp's Fox Sports. In a document filed in Delaware bankruptcy court on Wednesday, the committee said it believed the expedited sale of the telecast rights would help facilitate the team's exit from bankruptcy and maximize the team's value. This week, bankruptcy judge Kevin Gross appointed retired federal judge Joseph Farnan Jr. ... Full Story | Top |
Crew member dies on set of "G.I. Joe 2"
Wed,23 Nov 2011 04:17 PM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A crew member has died on the set of the movie "G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation" in an "unusual accident," the studio said on Wednesday. The studio did not provide details on the death of crew member Mike Huber, which according to media reports occurred on Tuesday in New Orleans. "Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the Huber family at this time," Paramount Pictures spokeswoman Virginia Lam said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
Gaga launches holiday workshop at Barney's
Wed,23 Nov 2011 03:32 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Move over, Santa, there's a new colorful dresser in town. Barneys has gone gaga, as in Lady Gaga, this holiday season with an in-store boutique, a website and several of its famous store windows all given over to the pop star phenomenon. The tony retailer launched a "12 Days of Gaga" promotion, with different limited-edition items ranging from jewelry to candy to toys available each day on gagasworkshop.com, in advance of this week's opening of its in-store boutique. ...
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Nicki Minaj named Billboard's "Rising Star"
Wed,23 Nov 2011 03:26 PM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer and rapper Nicki Minaj was named Billboard's 2011 Rising Star on Wednesday, following her international success this year with her album, "Pink Friday." Minaj, 28, who is signed to Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment, took the opportunity of Billboard's announcement to confirm her next album on Twitter. Set for release on February 14, Valentine's day next year, Minaj's second album will be called "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded," after the rapper's alter ego, Roman Zolanski. ...
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Disney offers movie rentals on YouTube
Wed,23 Nov 2011 03:23 PM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - From "Alice in Wonderland" to "Cars," hundreds of Disney movies are now available for rent on YouTube, the Google-owned site announced on Wednesday. It's not quite a Netflix killer yet, but the video site now boasts four major studios among its rolls: Sony, Universal and Warner Bros., as well as Lionsgate. It is all part of YouTube's ongoing effort to integrate high-quality movies and television shows into a site best known for cat videos and other user-generated content. ...
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Faye Dunaway vacates rent-stabilized New York apartment
Wed,23 Nov 2011 03:08 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - She didn't go easily, but Faye Dunaway has agreed to vacate her rent-stabilized apartment on the Upper East Side following an eviction action by her landlord, court documents showed. The 70-year-old actress signed court papers on November 15 agreeing to clear out of the one-bedroom apartment at 314 East 78th Street for which she paid a monthly rent of $1,048. She had lived in the apartment since 1994. The property's landlord, Henry Moses of 7 of 8 Realty Co. ...
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