Entertainment

As we approach the New Year the Sunday Stabroek caught up with some of the entertainers who from time to time give Guyanese  a ‘bellyful of laughs’ and asked them about their New Year wishes.

(Trinidad Express) CHUTNEY singer Rajin Dhanraj died yesterday at the hospital where he had been warded since September.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Bob Marley figures prominently in Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums, Top 100 Greatest Singers and Top 500 Songs.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s Tessanne Chin appeared on the American show ‘Today’ yesterday morning and shared the advice she received after a stunning duet with her “idol” Celine Dion.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Tessanne Chin is the winner of NBC’s The Voice season five.

(Jamaica Observer) TESSANNE Chin left viewers of The Voice in awe last night after an unbelievable performance of the Whitney Houston classic I Have Nothing that also had her coach, Adam Levine, declaring that she was the winner of the NBC TV talent show.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, one of the last of the leading ladies from Hollywood’s Golden Age whose career was marked by a storied and bitter rivalry with her older sister, Olivia de Havilland, died on Sunday at age 96.

(BBC) A court in the Indian city of Mumbai has ordered a fresh trial in a 10-year-old hit-and-run case involving Bollywood star Salman Khan.

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A small hobbit racked up big sales at movie box offices during the weekend, generating an estimated $205 million at theaters around the world with the debut of highly anticipated sequel “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.”

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Actor Peter O’Toole, who shot to international fame in the film classic “Lawrence of Arabia”, has died aged 81 in London after a long illness, his agent said today.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., (Reuters) – Slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” and 1970s con-artist caper “American Hustle” led the Golden Globe Awards nominations announced on Thursday with seven nods each, fortifying their frontrunner positions in a crowded field ahead of the Oscars.

(Barbados Nation) Outspoken historian Trevor Marshall has lashed out at Barbadians calling their attitude towards international pop star Rihanna “reprehensible”.

(Reuters) – Eleanor Parker, a Hollywood leading lady of the 1940s and 1950s and three-time Oscar nominee who starred alongside big names including Frank Sinatra and Kirk Douglas and later appeared as the baroness in the blockbuster “The Sound of Music,” has died.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rapper Jay Z led all artists with nine Grammy nominations on Friday, but newcomers Lorde, Kendrick Lamar, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis edged out industry heavyweights for nods in the top categories of the annual music awards.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Celebrity cook Nigella Lawson told a court she had taken cocaine several times including when being subjected to “intimate terrorism” by her millionaire ex-husband Charles Saatchi, in the latest dramatic twist in a trial that has gripped Britain.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With only two weeks until a winner is crowned, anxiety was at an all-time high for supporters of Tessanne Chin.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Legendary Jamaican reggae Musician, Junior Murvin, best know for the single ‘Police and Thieves’ is dead.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Paul Walker, best known for his roles in the “Fast and the Furious” action movies, died on Saturday in a car crash in Southern California, his publicist said.

(Trinidad Express) STRIPPED beauty queen Sherrece Villafana broke her silence yesterday to accuse pageant director, Athaliah Samuel, of being a bully who withheld funding from sponsors for the 2013 Miss World Pageant in September.

(Jamaica Observer) TRINIDAD & TOBAGO– Miss Trinidad and Tobago World 2013 Shereece Villafana who represented the twin-island republic in the Miss World pageant a month ago in Bali Indonesia, has been stripped of her crown.