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Tuesday 30 December 2014
Luise Rainer, first to win consecutive acting Oscars, dies
LONDON (AP) " Luise Rainer, a star of cinema's golden era who won back-to-back Oscars but then walked away from a glittering Hollywood career, has died. She was 104.Rainer's daughter, Francesca Knittel-Bowyer, told The Associated...
Rhythm and Vines' fire-breathing show
A fire-breathing stage stole the show as the three-day Rhythm and Vines music festival kicked off last night.About 17,000 people attended the opening night.They were wowed by the Arcadia Afterburner stage, which travelled to Gisborne...
The year's most pirated films
It is a title no movie wants but the list of the most pirated films of the year has been released. Headed by a film about a corrupt Wall Street stockbroker, and containing a few surprises, the list shows the film industry's war...
The Big Read: Foo Fighters
Dave Grohl has unveiled his most ambitious Foo Fighters project yet, a multi-media musical road trip across the US. But he still has to cook breakfast for his kids. He talks to Chris Schulz. Dave Grohl, one of the world's bigge...
How 'The Interview's' VOD grosses could change the game
LOS ANGELES (AP) " Sony appears to have a win-win with "The Interview." Not only did the studio score a moral victory by releasing the film in the face of terrorist threats, the movie made at least $15 million from more than 2 million...
Monday 29 December 2014
Best of the Blogs: Karl Puschmann: No Friends of mine
Karl Puschmann reminisces on Friends unstoppable twenty year reign of G-rated ubiquity. Twenty years ago, one of the most cheesy, schmaltzy, overrated sitcoms ever to hit television screened for the first time. It was, of cours...
Man charged with drunk driving in crash with JLo
LOS ANGELES (AP) " A Las Vegas man has been charged with drunk driving after he crashed into Jennifer Lopez's Rolls Royce, which she was driving in Malibu, California.Los Angeles County prosecutors said in a statement Monday that...
Jeremy Clarkson pokes fun at racism row in Top Gear special
Jeremy Clarkson has once again become embroiled in controversy after appearing to poke fun at the "slope" racism row on the Top Gear Christmas special.The 54-year-old appeared to mock the decision by the UK broadcasting watchdog...
Man found drunk driving in Jennifer Lopez crash
LOS ANGELES (AP) " A Las Vegas man has been charged with crashing into Jennifer Lopez's Rolls Royce in Malibu, California, while drunk.Los Angeles County prosecutors said in a statement Monday that 53-year-old Robert John Reitz...
Celeb birthdays for the week of Jan. 4-10
Jan. 4: Actress Dyan Cannon is 76. Country singer Kathy Forester of the Forester Sisters is 60. Guitarist Bernard Sumner of New Order (and Joy Division) is 59. Actress Ann Magnuson ("Anything but Love") is 59. Country singer Patty...
What got Tinseltown in a tizzy
January: Justin Bieber arrested Oh how the baby-faced and self-entitled have fallen. Justin Bieber found himself in a spot of bother early this year when he took part in an illegal drag race - in his yellow Lamborghini.When the...
Tattoo you: Pua Magasiva and KJ Apa
Their on-screen characters on Shortland Street do not have much to do with each other, but off-screen Pua Magasiva and KJ Apa like to talk ink.Both proudly wear tattoos inspired by their Samoan roots.Magasiva, who plays Vinnie,...
How do you play a master painter? First: Learn to paint
NEW YORK (AP) " Talk about suffering for your art.Achieving his acclaimed performance as the masterful British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner in "Mr. Turner" took so much out of Timothy Spall, the veteran actor found himself kneeling...
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