NEW DELHI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – International charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is taking legal action against the producers of a new Bollywood film, saying its misrepresentation of the medical group could put its aid workers deployed in conflict zones at risk.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Director Spike Lee and actresses Gena Rowlands and Debbie Reynolds will receive honorary Oscars for their filmmaking legacies, the organizers of the world’s most coveted movie awards said Thursday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The piano used to play the glissando that kicks off ABBA’s disco hit “Dancing Queen” will be one of the star attractions at a rock and pop auction at Sotheby’s next month where it is expected to sell for up to 800,000 pounds ($1.24 million).
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A financial dispute between the widow and the children of Oscar winner Robin Williams, who committed suicide last year, has heated up ahead of a deadline for the two sides to resolve their differences, according to court papers.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., (Reuters) – An auction at Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion showed the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll remains as popular in death as he was in life.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Bill Cosby has been ordered to give a sworn deposition in a lawsuit brought by a woman accusing the comedian of plying her with alcohol and sexually abusing her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15 years old.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. was named the world’s top-earning actor on Tuesday by Forbes, taking first place on a list that featured leading men from Bollywood as well as Hollywood for the first time.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has blocked hundreds of adult websites to prevent pornography becoming a social nuisance, a government official said yesterday, sparking a debate about censorship and freedom in the world’s largest democracy.
WESTFIELD, NJ (Reuters) – Bobbi Kristina Brown was buried alongside her mother, Whitney Houston, yesterday, bringing to a close the brief and tragic life of the only child of the singing legend.
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation dominated the US box office over the weekend with an impressive $56 million at 3,956 locations.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Men in Black star Will Smith took the unusual step yesterday of publicly shooting down a report that he and his actress wife of 17 years had decided to divorce.
(Reuters) – Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of late singer Whitney Houston, died today at the age of 22, some six months after suffering irreversible brain damage in an incident at her suburban Atlanta home, her family said in a statement.
(Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby filed legal papers yesterday calling for court sanctions against a woman accusing him of sexual assault, saying she breached their confidentiality agreement in the leak of his full deposition from a 10-year-old civil case to the New York Times.
(Reuters) – E.L. Doctorow, the author of popular novels grounded in American history including “Ragtime” and “Billy Bathgate,” died in New York yesterday at age 84, the New York Times reported.
(Trinidad Express) Calypso King of the World the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco), ORTT, CMT, OBE, celebrated his 80th birthday on Thursday at his Petit Valley home among friends and family in an evening of song.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Actor Omar Sharif, best known for his title role as Doctor Zhivago in the Oscar-winning film, has died, Egyptian state television said.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby testified in 2005 that he had obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving the sedatives to young women in order to have sex with them, according to court documents unsealed on Monday.
(Trinidad Express) MOMENTS before reggae singer Reano “Busy Signal” Gordon was due to perform at Saturday’s “Together As One” concert, he was taken to court for failing to repay over US$37,000 due to a local promoter for the past two years.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Grammy-winning R&B singer Rihanna is the first artist to surpass more than 100 million cumulative digital singles, the Recording Industry Association of America said on Wednesday.
Mumbai’s Prithvi Theatre was filled to brimming with Kapoors from Bollywood’s First Family on May 10 when veteran actor Shashi Kapoor received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest honour in Indian Cinema.
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