Pop sensation Jay Chou
Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai (蔡依林) bagged two awards at the Chinese-language equivalent of the MTV Awards, held Wednesday night in Hong Kong.
Chou expressed hopes for more camaraderie -- and less unfriendly competition -- among Chinese-speaking pop stars.
``Let the media draw comparisons between us,'' he said. ``We should only measure ourselves by our own yardsticks.''
The singer also won for best singer-songwriter and most popular male singer in Hong Kong and Taiwan. His song Nocturne was named one of last year's top 10 songs.
Tsai was the most popular female singer in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Her Sky was among last year's top 10 songs.
Paparazzi armed with water pistols attacked Australian actor Heath Ledger at the Sydney premiere of his new movie Brokeback Mountain, saying it was payback for his previous bad manners.
The rebel photographers said the unprovoked drenching of Ledger and his co-star and partner Michelle Williams on Friday was a "joke protest" to teach the Hollywood heartthrob to be more polite to them in the future.
Ledger, who stars with Jake Gyllenhaal in the Oscar-tipped gay cowboy drama, was posing for photographs and chatting with reporters on the red carpet at Sydney's Fox Studios when he was hit in the face and chest with the water.
He shielded Williams from the spray before hurrying into the movie theater.
Photographer Peter Carette told Saturday's Daily Telegraph the stunt was designed to encourage Ledger "not to abuse" the press.
"He keeps spitting at us and kicking in car doors," Carette told the paper. "It is just bad manners, real brat pack sort of stuff and we are sick of being treated that way."
But the paper reported that not all the media agreed with the stunt, with several journalists demanding an explanation for the dousing.
Latin crooner Ricky Martin has expressed outrage over controversy that emerged after he told a leading US music magazine he enjoyed "golden showers" -- the act of urinating on another person.
The pop star was particularly upset by statements by conservative leaders in his native Puerto Rico, who said he should give up his charitable foundation that helps deprived children.
"I love giving the golden shower," he told Blender magazine earlier. "I've done it before in the shower. It's like so sexy, you know, the temperature of your body and the shower water is very different."
US rapper Eminem marched back down the aisle and remarried his ex-wife, Kim Mathers, on Saturday, People magazine reported.
The couple -- whose stormy relationship has been the focus of much of Eminem's music -- wed at Meadow Brook Hall on the Oakland University campus, in Rochester Hills, Michigan. They are both natives of Detroit, Michigan.Eminem -- real name Marshall Mathers -- is 33 and Kim Mathers is 31. They first wed in 1999 but divorced two years later, at which time an ugly custody battle erupted over their daughter, now 10.
Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow and her musician husband Chris Martin are expecting their second child, celebrity television program The Insider reported on Friday. The show said Paltrow, who has a daughter with Martin, was at a screening of her movie, Proof, in Los Angeles on Thursday when actor Lou Diamond Phillips introduced her to the audience as a "pregnant woman" and asked her how far along she was.
Babyshambles lead singer Pete Doherty, who had an on-off relationship with supermodel Kate Moss, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to possessing heroin and cocaine. The 26-year-old rocker was greeted by dozens of photographers and reporters and a small number of fans when he arrived more than an hour late at a London courtroom.
Former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff is divorcing wife Pamela Bach after 16 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences, his publicist said on Thursday. Hasselhoff, 53, filed for divorce in Los Angeles on Thursday, and the couple have agreed to an amicable settlement, publicist Judy Katz said.
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
Peter Brighton was amazed when he found the giant jackfruit. He had been watching it grow on his farm in far north Queensland, and when it came time to pick it from the tree, it was so heavy it needed two people to do the job. “I was surprised when we cut it off and felt how heavy it was,” he says. “I grabbed it and my wife cut it — couldn’t do it by myself, it took two of us.” Weighing in at 45 kilograms, it is the heaviest jackfruit that Brighton has ever grown on his tropical fruit farm, located