CANNES, France, (Reuters) – Michael Caine, the British actor sometimes lampooned for playing versions of himself in his six-decade career, says he is unrecognisable in his latest role as a retired orchestra conductor.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Veteran singer, actress and director Barbra Streisand, the top-selling female music artist of all time, will recount her six decades in show business in a memoir due in 2017, publishers Viking said on Wednesday.
CANNES, France, (Reuters) – After a five-year hiatus to embrace motherhood, Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan marked her return to the big screen by taking on one of her most demanding roles, playing a mother whose child is kidnapped in thriller “Jazbaa.”
LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “Pitch Perfect 2” hit all the right notes at the box office, snagging first place on the charts with a smashing $70.3 million debut despite fierce competition from “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
CANNES, France, (Reuters) – Ingrid Bergman died in peace with the United States, the country that chased her out over a scandalous romance in 1950, according to Isabella Rossellini, the daughter of the Swedish film icon.
(Reuters) – Blues legend B.B. King, who took his music from rural juke joints to the mainstream and inspired a generation of guitarists from Eric Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughan, has died in Las Vegas.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Movie director Spike Lee, known for films that deal frankly with racial issues, appeared in Chicago yesterday to defend his planned movie about the city, after its reported title, “Chiraq,” was criticized by local politicians.
CANNES, France (Reuters) – The 68th Cannes film festival unfurled its official poster featuring Ingrid Bergman on Monday, in a tribute to the Hollywood actress on what would have been her 100th birthday this year.
CANNES, France, (Reuters) – “Mad Max: Fury Road” is a movie of singularities.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Julia Staab was known in 19th-century New Mexico as a successful businessman’s wife, but decades after her death she became famous in her own right when people talked about seeing her haunting her former home.
(Reuters) – “American Idol”, the most popular music reality show in U.S.
(BBC) Iconic Bollywood movie Sholay has been finally released in cinemas in Pakistan nearly 40 years after it first took India by storm, writes the BBC’s M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Hot Chocolate lead singer Errol Brown has died at the age of 71 after suffering from liver cancer, his manager said today.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – An Indian court sentenced Bollywood film star Salman Khan on Wednesday to five years in prison for killing a man in a hit-and-run accident, the latest twist in the tumultuous career of one of the country’s biggest box-office draws.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a girl on Saturday, the couple’s second child and a great grand-daughter to Queen Elizabeth.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Two more women, a writer and an actress, on Friday said comedian Bill Cosby had sexually assaulted them decades ago, bringing the list of his accusers to more than 40.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Soul singer Ben E. King, famous for the hit song “Stand by Me” died on Thursday at the age of 76, his representative said today.
LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Nothing, it seems, and certainly not Blake Lively, can get “Furious 7” to slam on the brakes.
CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist last week – the last of the four bandmates to earn the honor in a ceremony in Cleveland celebrating some of the biggest stars of rock music.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Ben Affleck said Tuesday he regretted asking a PBS documentary show profiling his ancestors to not include a relative who was an owner of slaves, saying he was embarrassed by the revelation.
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