TORONTO (AP) Prosecutors said Monday they have dropped an assault charge against Canadian pop star Justin Bieber in connection with an incident involving a Toronto limousine driver.The withdrawn charge stemmed from an early-morning...
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Celeb birthdays for the week of Sept. 14-20
Sept. 14: Actor Walter Koenig is 78. Actor Sam Neill is 67. Singer Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (Sha Na Na) is 67. Rock musician Ed King is 65. Rock musician Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) is 59. Singer Morten Harket (a-ha) is 55. Country singer...
Taika Waititi: 'What the f*** am I doing in this movie?'
He's best known as the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind hits like Flight Of The Conchords and New Zealand's highest-ever grossing film Boy . But Taika Waititi had a brush with mainstream Hollywood fame when he starred alongside...
Michael C. Hall to be 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'
NEW YORK (AP) Michael C. Hall's next step is going to be gender bending one the former "Dexter" star will play the rock chanteuse at the center of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on Broadway.Producers of the Tony Award-winning musical...
Stand Up to Cancer telethon raises $109 million
LOS ANGELES (AP) The star-studded Stand Up to Cancer telethon that aired on broadcast and cable networks in the United States and Canada raised $109 million.Organizers said Monday that's $28 million more than the 2012 telecast...
Keith Richards' latest collaborator: his daughter
NEW YORK (AP) When Keith Richards started writing a children's book about his grandfather, he wanted to keep the project in the family so he hired his daughter.Theodora Dupree Richards provided illustration for "Gus & Me," out...
Neil Patrick Harris gets married in Italy
NEW YORK (AP) Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka have been married in Italy.They had been dating for 10 years and are parents to 3-year-old twins, Gideon and Harper."Yup, we put the 'n' and 'd' in 'husband,'" Harris tweeted...
Spectacle, celebrity mark NY Fashion Week
NEW YORK (AP) As New York Fashion Week passed the midway point, Monday was expected to bring spectacle, celebrity and style.A day before, Edun, the brand founded by Bono and wife Ali Hewson, unveiled a Nigeria-inspired show, while...
'Guardians' lands $10.4 million at box office
"Guardians of the Galaxy" keeps orbiting the top spot at the box office.For the fourth weekend, the cosmic Marvel action-adventure landed in first place, collecting $10.4 million and bringing its total domestic haul to $294.8 million...
Costner goes to bat for 'Black and White'
TORONTO (AP) Most of Kevin Costner's most famous films wouldn't seem to be easy sells. How would it today sound to pitch a studio on a Civil War soldier befriending Sioux Indians on the South Dakota plains? Or on an Iowa farmer who...
Christina Dodd's latest novel has predictable plot
"Virtue Falls" (St. Martin's Press), by Christina DoddChristina Dodd's storytelling skills keep her latest novel, "Virtue Falls," on track as she weaves a tale of a young woman trying to come to terms with her violent family history...
Lancet imbues new novel with vivid sense of Japan
"Tokyo Kill" (Simon & Schuster), by Barry LancetArt, social issues, culture and, yes, war all the things that make or break a society converge in Barry Lancet's exciting second novel about antiques dealer Jim Brodie, who inherited...
Black leather, gold, and lots of celebs at Versace
New York (AP) Talk about your one-stop shopping.If you liked the sexy numbers on the Versus Versace runway Sunday night many of them tight, short, black, and embellished with gold hardware you could purchase them the moment the...
Neil Patrick Harris gets married in Italy
NEW YORK (AP) Kim Kardashian and Kanye West aren't the only ones who tied the knot this year in Italy. So did Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka.The "How I Met Your Mother" star and his actor-chef groom were married Saturday...
CBS names James Corden to replace Craig Ferguson
NEW YORK (AP) British actor James Corden will replace Craig Ferguson as host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS next year, part of a complete overhaul of the network's late-night talk show lineup put in motion by the impending retirement...
Joan Rivers used to audition her surgeons
In the final interview before her death with with The Sunday Times magazine, the late comedienne spoke of the process which she employed to choose those who she deemed suitable to operate on her.Joan - who died last week at the...
Clooney says he'll wed fiancee in romantic Venice
ROME (AP) George Clooney says he will marry his fiancee in Venice, one of the world's most romantic backdrops.The heartthrob actor revealed that he will marry human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in the lagoon city in a couple of...
Taylor Swift admits buying Sir Peter Jackson's NY apartment
Taylor Swift has revealed herself as the mystery buyer that purchased Sir Peter Jackson's multi-million dollar New York apartments earlier this year. The celebrated filmmaker sold his two upmarket apartments in New York City in...
Brangelina taking self defence classes
The couple - who married in France last month - have been practising a form of Israeli self defence called Krav Maga to help them prepare for their upcoming movie By The Sea .Brad, 50 - who has six children, Maddox, 13, Pax, 11,...
Paul Casserly: Lightbox 101
So anyway, I signed up to Lightbox . It's the new Netflix like service from Spark aka Telecom aka The New Zealand Post Office. At first I thought meh, aka, no thanks. For one thi
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