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.
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry consumes electricity at rates that would strain most national grids. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) alone accounted for more than 9 percent, or 2,590 megawatts (MW), of the nation’s power demand last year. The factories that produce chips for the world’s phones and servers run around the clock. They cannot tolerate blackouts. Yet Taiwan imports 97 percent of its energy, with liquefied natural gas reserves measured in days. Underground, Taiwan has options. Studies from National Taiwan University estimate recoverable geothermal resources at more than 33,000 MW. Current installed capacity stands below 10 MW. OBSTACLES Despite Taiwan’s significant geothermal potential, the
In our discussions of tourism in Taiwan we often criticize the government’s addiction to promoting food and shopping, while ignoring Taiwan’s underdeveloped trekking and adventure travel opportunities. This discussion, however, is decidedly land-focused. When was the last time a port entered into it? Last week I encountered journalist and travel writer Cameron Dueck, who had sailed to Taiwan in 2023-24, and was full of tales. Like everyone who visits, he and his partner Fiona Ching loved our island nation and had nothing but wonderful experiences on land. But he had little positive to say about the way Taiwan has organized its
The entire Li Zhenxiu (李貞秀) saga has been an ugly, complicated mess. Born in China’s Hunan Province, she moved to work in Shenzhen, where she met her future Taiwanese husband. Most accounts have her arriving in Taiwan and marrying somewhere between 1993 and 1999. She built a successful career in Taiwan in the tech industry before founding her own company. She also served in high-ranking positions on various environmentally-focused tech associations. She says she was inspired by the founding of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) in 2019 by Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), and began volunteering for the party soon after. Ko
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chair Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) returned from her trip to meet People’s Republic of China (PRC) dictator Xi Jinping (習近平) bearing “a gift” for the people of Taiwan: 10 measures the PRC proposed to “facilitate the peaceful development of cross-strait relations.” “China on Sunday unveiled 10 new incentive measures for Taiwan,” wrote Reuters, wrongly. The PRC’s longstanding habit with Taiwan relations is to repackage already extant or once-existing policies and declare that they are “new.” The list forwarded by Cheng reflects that practice. NEW MEASURES? Note the first item: establishing regular communication mechanisms between the Chinese Communist Party
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