Entertainment

(Reuters) – Comedian Tracy Morgan’s health was upgraded to fair condition yesterday as he continued to show signs of improvement after being badly injured in a highway crash earlier this month, a publicist for the star said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Casey Kasem, the U.S. radio personality who counted down pop music hits on his popular weekly radio show and also lent his distinctive voice to hippie sleuth Shaggy in the “Scooby Doo” cartoons, died today.

(Trinidad Express) The Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) is toying with the possibility of new music for the next Carnival season.

NEW YORK  (Reuters) – Legendary stage and screen actress Ruby Dee, who won acclaim on stage, film and television and became a notable figure in the US civil rights movement, died peacefully at home, a friend of the family said today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Few American stages have produced as many music legends as Harlem’s landmark Apollo Theater, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary, and not many people know more about its rich past than its long-time historian Billy Mitchell.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Actress Audra McDonald made Broadway history on Sunday, winning her sixth Tony as Billie Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” and Bryan Cranston and Neil Patrick Harris nabbed the top acting prizes at the 68th annual Tony Awards.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — A British High Court judge on Wednesday dismissed a record company’s claim to the rights to 13 Bob Marley songs, including the 1974 classic No Woman, No Cry.

(Trinidad Express) MUSICIAN and recording artiste Isaac Blackman was beaten and robbed by thieves who stole valuables from his home in Piparo around midday yesterday.

(Reuters) – Comic actress Ann B. Davis, who played the devoted housekeeper Alice on the television sitcom “The Brady Bunch” and won two Emmy awards as the forever-single secretary Schultzy on “The Bob Cummings Show,” died on Sunday at age 88.

(Trinidad Express) The Indo-Trinbagonians contri­buted much to the development and advancement of this nation through their hard work, dedication and achievements in the spheres of business, agriculture, politics and academics.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A college dropout who has gone on to build a $100 million fashion business, NastyGal founder Sophia Amoruso has lifted the lid on her unlikely journey from thief to chief, rags to riches and anti-capitalist to CEO.

(Reuters) – American author and poet Maya Angelou, an eloquent commentator on race and gender best known for her groundbreaking autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” has died at age 86 in North Carolina.

(Trinidad Guardian) The East Indian diaspora must forge a new Caribbean identity says Surujdeo Mangaroo, chairman of the National Commission for Self Help Ltd, speaking at the Indian Arrival Day celebrations at the El Dorado Shiv Mandir last Sunday.

WINSTON-SALEM N.C   (Reuters) – US author and poet Maya Angelou has died at age 86 in North Carolina, local media reported today, citing her agent and a local official.

(Jamaica Observer) REGGAE entertainer Queen Ifrica has been pulled as headliner at Amazura Concert Hall in Queens, New York, tonight, due to mounting pressure from the gay community.

(Trinidad Express) The founders of Universal Concerts Ltd wish to make it clear that their company is in no way whatsoever associated with the Asha Bhosle concert at the Samar Entertainment Centre in Penal on June 18.

CANNES, France, (Reuters) – A film that breaks with Bollywood and delivers an atypical dose of social realism that left its leading actor feeling depressed during shooting is India’s only contender at this season’s Cannes festival.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Michael Jace, known for playing a cop in the cable television drama “The Shield,” was arrested on suspicion of murder on Tuesday after his wife was found shot to death in their Los Angeles home, police said.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reggae artiste and matriarch of the Marley family, Rita Marley, has joined the worldwide campaign to secure the safe return of almost 300 Nigerian girls kidnapped at school on April 15.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Pioneering U.S. journalist Barbara Walters, who paved the way for women in television news and was the first female to co-anchor a network evening news program, retired today after an illustrious 53-year career.