Singer Madonna suffered several broken bones on Tuesday when she fell off a horse while riding at her English country estate on her 47th birthday, her spokeswoman said. "She sustained three cracked ribs, a broken collar bone and a broken hand," spokeswoman Barbara Charone said of the accident at Madonna's Ashcombe House estate.
Rapper Eminem has canceled a European tour scheduled for September, citing treatment for "exhaustion, complicated by other medical issues," his record label said in a statement on Tuesday. The Anger Management tour, also featuring his protege 50 Cent, was scheduled to run from Sept. 1 in Hamburg to Sept. 17 near Dublin. The trek is not expected to be rescheduled, the statement added. A publicist at Interscope Records declined to elaborate on Eminem's health.
Hollywood siren Demi Moore has spoken publicly for the first time about her celebrated love affair with young showbiz hunk Ashton Kutcher. The 42-year-old mother of three told Harper's Bazaar magazine that when she met Kutcher, 26, at a dinner party two years ago, she felt she had met her "soul mate" and that the couple are now looking forward to having babies together.
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"Talk about meeting your soul mate," said the ex-wife of actor Bruce Willis. "I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn't some lightweight package. I'm, like, the package that didn't just come with luggage - I had trunks."
Moore denied that they planned to get married explaining that they "don't need something formal."
Readers of the celebrity magazine In-Style have named Hollywood's hot pair of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as the world's sexiest actors, the fourth time the estranged husband of Jennifer Aniston has been named as the sexiest leading man.
Nicole Kidman and Orlando Bloom were voted the "sexiest imports" while Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were chosen as the sexiest couple. Beyonce was voted the sexiest singer while Tiger Woods and David Beckham were in a virtual tie for the coveted award of the world's sexiest athlete.
The critics have not been kind to the new musical Lennon, which opened in New York last Sunday night after delays and changed that were meant to improve the show about the late Beatles' life and times.
The Hollywood Reporter recommended that Beatles fans stay home and listen to their records, while the New York Times quoted Liza Minelli as saying at the intermission of the premiere "It's, uh, it's all right, uh -- well, let's talk about it later."
Universal Pictures is jumping on the 9/11 movie bandwagon with a film about the doomed Flight 93 which crashed in Pennsylvania after being taken over by hijackers, Variety reported Tuesday.
Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek have been named on Time magazine's list of the most influential Hispanics in the US.
Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez has already been climbing up the mainstream lists after landing the 19th spot on Fortune magazine's list of the richest people under age 40. Time chose her for her rise from background dancer to chart-topping actress and singer. Her clothing lines and fragrances brought in more than US$300
million in revenue last year.
Salma Hayek was already a superstar in Mexico when she decided to go to Hollywood, at the age of 23, with no support. She went on to star in numerous movies and produce the film Frida which was nominated for six Academy Awards (including Best Actress for Hayek), and won two.
Legendary crooners Barbra Streisand and Bee Gees star Barry Gibb are to reunite for a collaborative album, as a follow-up to their 1980 smash hit Guilty, according to reports.
The album Guilty Pleasures, which is expected to feature the pair's duets Come Tomorrow and Above the Law, is due to be released in September.
Budding Chinese entrepreneurs are set to go head-to-head on domestic television in a new reality programme that reads like a watered-down version of hit US show The Apprentice, starring tycoon Donald Trump. Sixteen contestants will pitch their plans for start-up businesses and the one deemed as having the best idea will win 1 million yuan to turn his or her dreams into reality, the China Daily said yesterday.
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Researchers said on Wednesday the bone, called a surangular, was from a type of ocean-going reptile called an ichthyosaur. Based on its dimensions compared to the same bone in closely related ichthyosaurs, the researchers estimated that the Triassic Period creature, which they named Ichthyotitan severnensis, was between 22-26 meters long. That would make it perhaps the largest-known marine reptile and would