A memorial service for rhythm and blues legend Luther Vandross, who died last Friday in New Jersey, has been set for tomorrow.
The 54-year-old singer, who sold more than 25 million albums, died from the aftermath of an April 2003 stroke that left him in a coma for nearly two months.
Despite the stroke, he won a Grammy in 2004 for his sentimental song Dance With My Father.
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Actress Angelina Jolie is adopting a newborn Ethiopian girl orphaned by AIDS, People magazine has reported. Jolie, who has toured the world as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations' High Commissioner on Refugees, said the baby would be named Zahara Marley Jolie but would not reveal the child's age, height or weight, People said.
Internet auction site eBay said on Tuesday it had begun removing illegal DVD copies of the Live 8 poverty awareness pop concerts from its Web site, after the record industry complained. Some of the pirate recordings on the site early on Tuesday were on sale within 24 hours of last Saturday's concert ending, and have been attrac-ting bids of up to US$31 each.
Martha Stewart hates house arrest and resents her electronic ankle bracelet, but the lifestyle guru says she has fond memories of the five-month prison term she served for lying about a stock trade. Stewart told Vanity Fair magazine she was known as "M Diddy" at the minimum security prison in Alderson, West Virginia and even has mementos of those days.
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Fifty, or even 150 years ago, long before the advent of PR machines and paparazzi, stars and leaders had the kind of control over their image that today's celebrities could only dream of, a new exhibition shows. The World's Most Photographed at the National Portrait Gallery in London analyzes how 10 famous figures manipulated their image and how that image could in turn be used against them, starting with Queen Victoria and ending with Muhammad Ali.
Get real, moviegoers. With box office receipts down for the year and fans blaming boring remakes and se-quels, three documentaries that are part of a new style of non-fiction films are winning rave reviews for turning real people -- and in one case, penguins -- into movie stars.
Lew Wasserman, the secretive movie mogul who ruled Hollywood with an iron fist for more than half a century, could make men vomit with fear. Three years after his death, he still intimidates people. When filmmaker Barry Avrich was making a documentary about the former boss of Universal Pictures, called The Last Mogul, he found that many people in Hollywood were too scared to talk.
Johnny Depp has persuaded Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards to play a cameo role in the sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean, even though filming will clash with the Stones' US tour.
According to reports, Depp personally convinced Richards to take the role of his father in the sequels, which are being shot back to back by director Gore Verbinski. He also arranged for special filming sessions beginning in February to work around the tour dates.
"It looks like it's going to happen," Depp told reporters at a news conference in Nassau, Bahamas, where the films are shooting.
"But I don't know when. It's all going to depend on where we are and where he is, because he's got a little thing called the Rolling Stones tour to do."
Actress Drew Barrymore is pressing for a third instalment of the hit movie series Charlie's Angels so she can hang out more with her friends and co-stars Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu.
"I know Cameron, Lucy and we would all sign up if there was, but there are no plans in the works," she told Teen Hollywood. "All three of us still hang out all the time anyway, so we might as well be filming it." -- agencies
The canonical shot of an East Asian city is a night skyline studded with towering apartment and office buildings, bright with neon and plastic signage, a landscape of energy and modernity. Another classic image is the same city seen from above, in which identical apartment towers march across the city, spilling out over nearby geography, like stylized soldiers colonizing new territory in a board game. Densely populated dynamic conurbations of money, technological innovation and convenience, it is hard to see the cities of East Asia as what they truly are: necropolises. Why is this? The East Asian development model, with
June 16 to June 22 The following flyer appeared on the streets of Hsinchu on June 12, 1895: “Taipei has already fallen to the Japanese barbarians, who have brought great misery to our land and people. We heard that the Japanese occupiers will tax our gardens, our houses, our bodies, and even our chickens, dogs, cows and pigs. They wear their hair wild, carve their teeth, tattoo their foreheads, wear strange clothes and speak a strange language. How can we be ruled by such people?” Posted by civilian militia leader Wu Tang-hsing (吳湯興), it was a call to arms to retake
Desperate dads meet in car parks to exchange packets; exhausted parents slip it into their kids’ drinks; families wait months for prescriptions buy it “off label.” But is it worth the risk? “The first time I gave him a gummy, I thought, ‘Oh my God, have I killed him?’ He just passed out in front of the TV. That never happens.” Jen remembers giving her son, David, six, melatonin to help him sleep. She got them from a friend, a pediatrician who gave them to her own child. “It was sort of hilarious. She had half a tub of gummies,
The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout in Joseph Kosinski’s F1, a fine-tuned machine of a movie that, in its most riveting racing scenes, approaches a kind of high-speed splendor. Kosinski, who last endeavored to put moviegoers in the seat of a fighter jet in Top Gun: Maverick, has moved to the open cockpits of Formula One with much the same affection, if not outright need, for speed. A lot of the same team is back. Jerry Bruckheimer produces. Ehren Kruger, a co-writer on Maverick, takes sole credit here. Hans Zimmer, a co-composer previously, supplies the thumping
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