Actor Matt Damon, star of The Bourne Identity and the current political drama Syriana, has married his girlfriend, Luciana Barroso, in New York, a spokeswoman for the actor said on Friday. Damon and Barroso, who is three months pregnant with the couple's first child, were wed in New York and were "thrilled," said his Los Angeles-based spokeswoman. She declined to give further details about how they might celebrate or a honeymoon ahead.
British supermodel Kate Moss underlined her durability in the fickle world of fashion on Friday with a commercial for phone operator Virgin just three months after a cocaine scandal threatened her career. The 31-year-old was dropped by several fashion houses after pictures allegedly showing her using cocaine appeared in a tabloid in September, but since leaving a drug rehabilitation clinic the following month she has launched a comeback.
Steven Spielberg faces fierce debate over his film about Israel's retaliation for the Palestinian attack on its team at the Munich Olympics, but the director has at least one fan: the widow of a slain athlete. Ilana Romano, whose weightlifter husband Yosef was the first Israeli sportsman gunned down during the 1972 guerrilla raid, said she attended an exclusive courtesy screening of Munich in Tel Aviv this week along with fellow widow Ankie Spitzer.
British pop star Robbie Williams has won an injunction in a German court against a woman who has been stalking him for months, the judge in the case said on Friday. The woman had repeatedly tried to warn Williams that he was in danger of being abducted by aliens, local and national German newspapers reported.
Former Friends star David Schwimmer will tread the boards on Broadway for the first time next year in a revival of Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, the producers of the play said on Thursday. The actor best known as lovelorn geek Ross Geller will play Lieute-nant Barney Greenwald, a role originally played by Henry Fonda in the 1954 Broadway production of the courtroom drama about a mutiny on a US Navy ship during World War II.
Status Quo rocker Rick Parfitt is to have urgent tests for suspected throat cancer, British newspapers reported last week.
The 57-year-old guitarist, a heavy smoker, was told he probably had a malignant tumor after complaining about a painful throat condition.
The hardworking Status Quo, one of the classic enduring British rock and roll bands, have scrapped all the remaining dates on their British tour.
The band's manager Simon Porter said: "Everyone is devastated and is hoping the best for Rick.
"They stuck a camera down his throat and there was a growth. We fear it is probably malignant," he told the Daily Mirror.
The blond-maned Parfitt had a quadruple heart bypass eight years ago.
The Quo are often ribbed for their unwavering brand of three-chord hits.
However, Guinness World Records said they have had more hit singles than any other band in British chart history, the Daily Express reported.
Hawaiian crooner Don Ho is recovering in a Thai hospital after undergoing an experimental stem-cell treatment yet to be approved in the US. Ho, the 75-year-old singer of standards such as Tiny Bubbles and I'll Remember You, suffered from an ailing heart that made it difficult for him to do normal things such as climbing stairs, his doctor, Kitipan Visudharom, said on Friday.
Emmy-winning actress Christina Applegate and her husband, actor Johnathon Schaech, have filed for divorce after four years of marriage, their publicists said on Tuesday. "The decision is mutual," publicists Ame Van Iden and Chuck James said in a joint written statement. No further details were released.
Reality TV star Nicole Richie and her fiancee, club disc jockey Adam Goldstein, have called off their wedding, her publicist said. "They've broken off their engagement," publicist Cindy Guagenti said, adding that the decision was mutual.
Comeback queen Mariah Carey, rapper Kanye West and newcomer John Legend led the field with eight nominations each for the Grammy Awards when the contenders were unveiled in New York on Thursday. Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi was nominated for best album of the year, while the ballad We Belong Together made the grade for best record of the year -- a triumph for a woman whose career was all but written off just a few years ago.
Water management is one of the most powerful forces shaping modern Taiwan’s landscapes and politics. Many of Taiwan’s township and county boundaries are defined by watersheds. The current course of the mighty Jhuoshuei River (濁水溪) was largely established by Japanese embankment building during the 1918-1923 period. Taoyuan is dotted with ponds constructed by settlers from China during the Qing period. Countless local civic actions have been driven by opposition to water projects. Last week something like 2,600mm of rain fell on southern Taiwan in seven days, peaking at over 2,800mm in Duona (多納) in Kaohsiung’s Maolin District (茂林), according to
It’s Aug. 8, Father’s Day in Taiwan. I asked a Chinese chatbot a simple question: “How is Father’s Day celebrated in Taiwan and China?” The answer was as ideological as it was unexpected. The AI said Taiwan is “a region” (地區) and “a province of China” (中國的省份). It then adopted the collective pronoun “we” to praise the holiday in the voice of the “Chinese government,” saying Father’s Day aligns with “core socialist values” of the “Chinese nation.” The chatbot was DeepSeek, the fastest growing app ever to reach 100 million users (in seven days!) and one of the world’s most advanced and
The latest edition of the Japan-Taiwan Fruit Festival took place in Kaohsiung on July 26 and 27. During the weekend, the dockside in front of the iconic Music Center was full of food stalls, and a stage welcomed performers. After the French-themed festival earlier in the summer, this is another example of Kaohsiung’s efforts to make the city more international. The event was originally initiated by the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association in 2022. The goal was “to commemorate [the association’s] 50th anniversary and further strengthen the longstanding friendship between Japan and Taiwan,” says Kaohsiung Director-General of International Affairs Chang Yen-ching (張硯卿). “The first two editions
It was Christmas Eve 2024 and 19-year-old Chloe Cheung was lying in bed at home in Leeds when she found out the Chinese authorities had put a bounty on her head. As she scrolled through Instagram looking at festive songs, a stream of messages from old school friends started coming into her phone. Look at the news, they told her. Media outlets across east Asia were reporting that Cheung, who had just finished her A-levels, had been declared a threat to national security by officials in Hong Kong. There was an offer of HK$1m (NT$3.81 million) to anyone who could assist
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