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| CA-ENTERTAINMENT Summary Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:44 PM PDT Psy to turn "Gentleman" in new song, rapper says SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean rapper Psy plans to follow his "Gangnam Style" YouTube megahit with a single called "Gentleman" and a new dance, but is playing coy about everything else ahead of the song's release, which was moved up a day to April 12. The song will be available for Korean fans then, but Psy will perform it in public for the first time at an April 13 concert. ... Full Story | Top |
| Australia lures "20,000 Leagues" Down Under with $22.5 million grant Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:44 PM PDT  SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian government has granted the Walt Disney Studios production of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" a one-off A$21.6 million ($22.50 million) grant to film the remake of the classic film Down Under. Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a statement on Tuesday that securing the shoot was a "huge coup" for the local film industry, which has struggled to attract Hollywood productions in recent years because of the strong Australian dollar. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-MUSIC Summary Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:32 PM PDT Psy to turn "Gentleman" in new song, rapper says SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean rapper Psy plans to follow his "Gangnam Style" YouTube megahit with a single called "Gentleman" and a new dance, but is playing coy about everything else ahead of the song's release, which was moved up a day to April 12. The song will be available for Korean fans then, but Psy will perform it in public for the first time at an April 13 concert. ... Full Story | Top |
| Psy to turn "Gentleman" in new song, rapper says Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:32 PM PDT  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean rapper Psy plans to follow his "Gangnam Style" YouTube megahit with a single called "Gentleman" and a new dance, but is playing coy about everything else ahead of the song's release, which was moved up a day to April 12. The song will be available for Korean fans then, but Psy will perform it in public for the first time at an April 13 concert. "The new song is extremely fun and ... what I can tell you is the song title is 'Gentleman'", Psy told local television late on Monday. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-PEOPLE Summary Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:27 PM PDT Angelina Jolie to sell jewelry line to fund overseas schools LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie has opened another girls school in Afghanistan and plans to fund more from the proceeds of a jewelry line going on sale this week that she helped to design, celebrity website E! News reported on Monday. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, funded the girls-only primary school in an area outside Kabul that has a high refugee population, E! News said in an exclusive report. ... Full Story | Top |
| Angelina Jolie to sell jewelry line to fund overseas schools Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:26 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie has opened another girls school in Afghanistan and plans to fund more from the proceeds of a jewelry line going on sale this week that she helped to design, celebrity website E! News reported on Monday. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, funded the girls-only primary school in an area outside Kabul that has a high refugee population, E! News said in an exclusive report. The school educates 200-300 girls, E! said. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-TELEVISION Summary Monday, Apr 01, 2013 06:05 PM PDT Hannibal Lecter dishes up liver, suspense in new TV series LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Liver and loin are served up gourmet-style, young women are impaled on antlers, mushrooms grow out of decomposing bodies. Hannibal Lecter, one of the world's creepiest fictional villains, is back, and this time he is not locked up but is a respected psychiatrist with an appetite for art, fine clothes, good food and red wine. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bravo's ''Real Housewives of Atlanta'' Finale Caps Off Most-Watched Season Monday, Apr 01, 2013 06:04 PM PDT By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Yet another dramatic sparring between show newbies Kenya Moore and Porsha Stewart attracted big increases for Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." Sunday's episode attracted more than three million total viewers. The Season 5 finale saw a 33 percent increase over last season's finale among the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demo (about 1.9 million viewers). The fifth season, which also saw the departure of original castmember Kim Zolciak, has averaged more than three million viewers an episode, a seven percent increase over last season. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-REVIEW Summary Monday, Apr 01, 2013 04:05 PM PDT ''Big Short'' author Lewis did not defame money manager - judge NEW YORK (Reuters) - Author Michael Lewis did not defame a money manager in his best-selling 2010 book "The Big Short," according to a federal judge in Manhattan. In a lawsuit filed in 2011, Wing Chau, a manager of collateralized debt obligations, and his firm Harding Advisory LLC, accused Lewis of including a series of defamatory statements in a chapter revolving around a 2007 dinner in Las Vegas that included Chau and hedge fund manager Steven Eisman. ... Full Story | Top |
| ''Big Short'' author Lewis did not defame money manager - judge Monday, Apr 01, 2013 04:03 PM PDT  By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Author Michael Lewis did not defame a money manager in his best-selling 2010 book "The Big Short," according to a federal judge in Manhattan. In a lawsuit filed in 2011, Wing Chau, a manager of collateralized debt obligations, and his firm Harding Advisory LLC, accused Lewis of including a series of defamatory statements in a chapter revolving around a 2007 dinner in Las Vegas that included Chau and hedge fund manager Steven Eisman. ... Full Story | Top |
| San Francisco Symphony musicians reach accord to end strike Monday, Apr 01, 2013 03:56 PM PDT By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco Symphony musicians who went on strike nearly three weeks ago, forcing the cancellation of an East Coast tour, have reached a tentative labor deal with management of their Grammy-winning orchestra, the two sides said on Monday. No details of the settlement, reached on Sunday, were divulged. The agreement on a 26-month contract must be ratified in a vote by all 103 union musicians, who went on strike March 13 in a dispute over wages and benefits. ... Full Story | Top |
| FCC seeks public comment in review of TV, radio decency policy Monday, Apr 01, 2013 03:54 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Regulators on Monday launched a review of policy governing the way it enforces broadcasts of nudity and profanity on radio and television and asked for public comment on whether its current approach should be amended. The Federal Communications Commission issued a public notice inviting comment on whether it should focus its efforts on pursuing only the "most egregious" cases in which rules are broken, or focus on isolated cases of nudity and expletives uttered on radio and TV shows. ... Full Story | Top |
| Appeals court denies broadcaster request to shut Aereo Monday, Apr 01, 2013 01:08 PM PDT  By Erin Geiger Smith and Ronald Grover (Reuters) - An appeals court on Monday declined to temporarily shut down Aereo Inc, an online television venture backed by billionaire Barry Diller that broadcasters say is infringing their copyrights. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with the broadcasters, including Walt Disney Co's ABC and Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal, that Aereo should discontinue its service until litigation between the companies is resolved. The television industry is closely watching the case to see whether it could disrupt the traditional TV model. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hannibal Lecter dishes up liver, suspense in new TV series Monday, Apr 01, 2013 12:50 PM PDT  By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Liver and loin are served up gourmet-style, young women are impaled on antlers, mushrooms grow out of decomposing bodies. Hannibal Lecter, one of the world's creepiest fictional villains, is back, and this time he is not locked up but is a respected psychiatrist with an appetite for art, fine clothes, good food and red wine. And he is hiding a very dark secret. "Hannibal," which debuts on NBC on Thursday, is the first U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Capitol wins digital records lawsuit vs ReDigi start-up Monday, Apr 01, 2013 12:44 PM PDT  By Jonathan Stempel and Alistair Barr (Reuters) - In a major lawsuit testing the legitimacy of music downloads, Capitol Records LLC has won a court ruling that the start-up ReDigi Inc has infringed its music copyrights. U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan said ReDigi was not authorized to allow listeners to use its platform to buy and sell "used" digital music tracks originally bought from Apple Inc's iTunes website. ... Full Story | Top |
| Shain Gandee of MTV's ''Buckwild'' found dead in West Virginia Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:47 AM PDT  (Reuters) - A cast member of MTV reality show "Buckwild" was found dead in rural West Virginia on Monday after being reported missing by family members following a late-night session in a local bar. Shain Gandee, 21, was found dead in a car along with two other men including his uncle David on Monday morning in Sissonville, Kanawha County, a spokeswoman for County Commissioner Kent Carper told Reuters. "This is a very sad and tragic event. We live in a very small community. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gandee family," Carper said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-INDUSTRY Summary Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:15 AM PDT Greek court rules deliberations in suit against Reuters invalid ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek court has ruled deliberations in a lawsuit by Piraeus Bank against Reuters over a story it published were inadmissible on technical grounds. The ruling, obtained by Reuters on Thursday, also postponed deliberations against a second defendant in the case - reporter Stephen Grey who wrote the article. ... Full Story | Top |
| TBS extends Conan O'Brien's 'Conan' talk show into 2015 Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:15 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show has been extended through November 2015, U.S. cable network TBS said on Monday. "Conan" debuted in November 2010 following O'Brien's acrimonious split with broadcaster NBC after his brief stint as host of the network's flagship "The Tonight Show." O'Brien's show gets about 900,000 viewers per episode - well below those of rivals Jay Leno, David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel - but it has a younger median audience age than the other U.S. late-night talk shows, TBS noted. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Glee" star Cory Monteith enters addiction treatment facility Monday, Apr 01, 2013 09:39 AM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Glee" star Cory Monteith has entered a rehabilitation facility where he is being treated for an unspecified substance addiction, his publicist said on Monday. Monteith, who plays Finn on the popular Fox television series, "asks for your respect and privacy as he takes the necessary steps towards recovery," the publicist's statement said. The statement said Monteith's decision to seek treatment at the facility was voluntary. It offered no details on the nature of the addiction other than that it was a "substance addiction. ... Full Story | Top |
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