(Reuters) – Journalist Joe McGinniss, an author who got up close to his subjects for revealing books such as The Selling of the President and Fatal Vision, died on Monday at age 71, his friend and attorney said.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican singer Tessanne Chin delivered a scintillating, high-energy performance of Donna Summer’s Last Dance at the White House last night, earning sustained applause from an audience headed by US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” won the Academy Award for best picture yesterday, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry’s highest honor in 86 years of the Oscars.
(Trinidad Express) Defending Power Soca Monarch king Machel Montano retained his title despite getting stiff challenges from Hollice “Mr Kill@” Mapp, Neil Iwer George and Destra Garcia at the 2014 International Soca Monarch competition at the National Stadium in Port of Spain yesterday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Rainy skies did not deter the fashionistas from gathering this week in Paris – with singer Rihanna this season’s front-row “It” girl – as the Fall/Winter ready-to-wear collections promised cold weather looks to warm the iciest of hearts.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Soca star Machel Montano has partnered with New Era, a global lifestyle brand, to launch five exclusive caps that will be sold during 2014 Carnival. A limited-edition collection, only 100 of each design, are available to the public and will be sold at the Machel Montano store in Trinidad’s Piarco International Airport.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – A celebrity hair stylist has accused rapper and former “American Idol” judge Nicki Minaj of stealing his designs for the colorful wigs that helped boost her career, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Friday seeking $30 million in compensation.
(Trinidad Express) Music icon David Rudder says contemporary calypsonians lack the creativity that made calypso a prominent and well-loved art form in earlier decades.
(Trinidad Express) Kris “KI” Persad created history as the youngest artiste to be crowned Chutney Soca Monarch in 2012.
(Jamaica Observer) DANCEHALL deejay Tommy Lee Sparta was yesterday charged for breaches under the Anti-Lottery Act.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Comic showman Sid Caesar, a pioneer of American television sketch comedy as the star and creative force of “Your Show of Shows” during the 1950s, died today at age 91, according to his friend and former collaborator Carl Reiner.
(Reuters) Actress Suchitra Sen, known for several landmark roles in Bengali and Hindi cinema, died in Kolkata recently after prolonged illness.
(Trinidad Express) “CALYPSO King of the World” Slinger Francisco, better known as the “Mighty Sparrow”, yesterday said reigning Soca Monarch Machel Montano is mistaken, and in fact he (Sparrow) is the “happiest man alive”, referring to the title of Montano’s hit song.
CALIFORNIA (Reuters) – Shirley Temple Black, who lifted America’s spirits as a bright-eyed, dimpled child movie star during the Great Depression and later became a US diplomat, died late on Monday evening at the age of 85, her family said in a statement.
(Jamaica Observer) DANCEHALL entertainer Tommy Lee Sparta spent another night in lockup.
BURBANK, Calif., (Reuters) – Comedian Jay Leno said an emotional goodbye to the “Tonight Show” on Thursday with a star-studded farewell led by actor Billy Crystal, after hosting the NBC late night program for more than 20 years and handing the reins over to Jimmy Fallon.
(Trinidad Express) “I WILL NOT DEFEND.” Those were the final words of reigning Chutney Soca Monarch, Raymond Ramnarine, yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Lead singer of the iconic reggae band, Third World, William ‘Bunny Rugs’ Clarke is dead.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won an Academy Award for the film “Capote,” was found dead in his New York City apartment on Sunday in what a police source described as an apparent drug overdose.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British actress Sienna Miller spoke on Friday of her anger that “titillating” information about her affair with James Bond actor Daniel Craig had been made public at the phone-hacking trial of a former Rupert Murdoch tabloid editor.
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