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.
March 10 to March 16 Although it failed to become popular, March of the Black Cats (烏貓進行曲) was the first Taiwanese record to have “pop song” printed on the label. Released in March 1929 under Eagle Records, a subsidiary of the Japanese-owned Columbia Records, the Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) lyrics followed the traditional seven characters per verse of Taiwanese opera, but the instrumentation was Western, performed by Eagle’s in-house orchestra. The singer was entertainer Chiu-chan (秋蟾). In fact, a cover of a Xiamen folk song by Chiu-chan released around the same time, Plum Widow Missing Her Husband (雪梅思君), enjoyed more
Last week Elbridge Colby, US President Donald Trump’s nominee for under secretary of defense for policy, a key advisory position, said in his Senate confirmation hearing that Taiwan defense spending should be 10 percent of GDP “at least something in that ballpark, really focused on their defense.” He added: “So we need to properly incentivize them.” Much commentary focused on the 10 percent figure, and rightly so. Colby is not wrong in one respect — Taiwan does need to spend more. But the steady escalation in the proportion of GDP from 3 percent to 5 percent to 10 percent that advocates
A series of dramatic news items dropped last month that shed light on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attitudes towards three candidates for last year’s presidential election: Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) founder Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), Terry Gou (郭台銘), founder of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), also known as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團), and New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). It also revealed deep blue support for Ko and Gou from inside the KMT, how they interacted with the CCP and alleged election interference involving NT$100 million (US$3.05 million) or more raised by the
More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago yesterday in the US firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese capital. The attack, made with conventional bombs, destroyed downtown Tokyo and filled the streets with heaps of charred bodies. The damage was comparable to the atomic bombings a few months later in August 1945, but unlike those attacks, the Japanese government has not provided aid to victims and the events of that day have largely been ignored or forgotten. Elderly survivors are making a last-ditch effort to tell their stories and push for financial assistance and recognition. Some are speaking
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