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| Kardashian mom Kris Jenner gets television talk show Monday, Jan 28, 2013 05:12 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kris Jenner, the matriarch of the Kardashian reality television family, is getting her own daytime TV talk show later this year, U.S. broadcast network Fox said on Monday. Jenner's show, which will be called "Kris," will begin a test run in the summer on Fox affiliates in Los Angeles, New York and other cities. If expanded nationwide, the show could catapult Jenner, 57, from manager to lifestyle expert alongside daughters Kim, Kourtney and Khloe who have starred on reality series on U.S. channel E!. ... Full Story | Top |
| Singer Frank Ocean wants Chris Brown charged over brawl Monday, Jan 28, 2013 04:21 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rising R&B artist Frank Ocean wants fellow singer Chris Brown prosecuted following a brawl over a parking space at a Los Angeles-area recording studio, authorities said on Monday. Brown is serving five years probation for assaulting his on-and-off girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 and risks having his probation revoked should charges be filed. In the incident on Sunday, sheriff's deputies responded to a call about a fight involving six men in West Hollywood. The deputies cited witnesses as saying that the Grammy-winning Brown, 23, punched Ocean during the brief altercation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rome Trevi Fountain, symbol of Dolce Vita, to get big facelift Monday, Jan 28, 2013 11:09 AM PST  ROME (Reuters) - Anita Ekberg, who famously waded in Rome's Trevi Fountain with Marcello Mastroianni in the 1960 classic film "La Dolce Vita", would probably say "It's about time, darling!" The fountain, arguably the world's most recognizable, is about to get the most thorough face-lift since it was completed in 1762 and the restoration was presented on Monday by a man who also uses the word darling a lot: fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld is artistic director of Fendi, the Italian luxury fashion house which is picking up the tab for 2.2 million euro ($2.9 million) restoration. ... Full Story | Top |
| Time Warner Cable to carry LA Dodgers baseball channel Monday, Jan 28, 2013 11:02 AM PST  (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc said on Monday it will carry the new Los Angeles Dodgers television channel, outbidding Fox Sports, which held the rights to show Dodgers games for more than a decade. The Dodgers ownership group will control the channel, becoming the latest sports franchise to own all or part of its own regional sports network, ensuring ongoing television profits in addition to the lucrative revenue from cable operators. The channel, to be called SportsNet LA, is scheduled to begin airing Dodgers games at the start of the 2014 baseball season. ... Full Story | Top |
| Barbara Walters, hospitalized after fall, recovering from chicken pox Monday, Jan 28, 2013 10:10 AM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Celebrity newswoman Barbara Walters, who was hospitalized earlier this month after falling and injuring her head, is recovering from chicken pox, her co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Monday on "The View" talk show. Goldberg said Walters, 83, who is in a New York hospital, has been told to rest and is not receiving visitors. "You all know that she fell and cut her head 10 days ago and then was running a temperature," Goldberg said on the show. "But it turns out it is all the result of a delayed childhood. ... Full Story | Top |
| Singer Chris Brown to be questioned over alleged punch: police Monday, Jan 28, 2013 06:09 AM PST  (Reuters) - R&B singer Chris Brown will be questioned as part of an investigation into allegations that he punched a man during a fight over a parking space in West Hollywood, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said on Monday. Deputies responded to a call on Sunday about a fight involving six men on Santa Monica Boulevard, the department said. Witnesses said the Grammy-winning singer had assaulted a man during the brief altercation. No arrests were made. ... Full Story | Top |
| Irish band Boomtown Rats reunites for UK festival Monday, Jan 28, 2013 05:35 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Irish band The Boomtown Rats, best known for No. 1 hits "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays", will reunite for the first time since 1986 at the Isle of Wight Festival in June, organisers said in a statement on Monday. Active in the 1970s and 80s, the group led by charity campaigner Bob Geldof will take the main stage at the festival held off the south coast of England. Headline acts for the four-day event from June 13-16 are British bands The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays and U.S. groups The Killers and Bon Jovi. Dozens of artists will join them, including Paul Weller, Fun. ... Full Story | Top |
| Injured Bolshoi Ballet director forgives attackers Monday, Jan 28, 2013 02:32 AM PST  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet says the attacker who splashed acid in his face was probably driven by ambition or resentment but that he has forgiven them. His head shaven and a bandage around his neck, Sergei Filin told a Russian television station from his hospital room that he was determined to return to work despite his injuries. Filin, 42, suffered severe burns during the attack on his way home from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow late on January 18. Doctors have performed two operations on each eye and hope to save his sight. "I am not going to lie. ... Full Story | Top |
| South Asia turns to home-grown writers to drive publishing growth Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 11:43 PM PST JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - A hunt for home-grown South Asian literary talent is drawing Western publishing houses to India, snapping up a new generation of writing for a local market out-performing the West and with huge growth potential. Twenty years ago, South Asia's place on the literary map was marked by writers such as Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry: authors of South Asian descent writing in the West for predominantly Western readers and Western acclaim. ... Full Story | Top |
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