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| US-MUSIC Summary Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:45 PM PDT Rolling Stones release low-priced seats ahead of L.A. show LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wild horses couldn't drag many of the most die-hard of Rolling Stones fans to the kick-off of the band's North American tour - at least not at prices of up to a whopping $600 a ticket. Three weeks after tickets went on sale, and a day before the British band take the stage on Friday, the Los Angeles Staples Center was far from sold out for the "50 and Counting" gig. ... Full Story | Top |
| CA-ENTERTAINMENT Summary Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:45 PM PDT Rolling Stones release low-priced seats ahead of L.A. show LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wild horses couldn't drag many of the most die-hard of Rolling Stones fans to the kick-off of the band's North American tour - at least not at prices of up to a whopping $600 a ticket. Three weeks after tickets went on sale, and a day before the British band take the stage on Friday, the Los Angeles Staples Center was far from sold out for the "50 and Counting" gig. 'Exorcist' director Friedkin to get lifetime award in Venice (Reuters) - William Friedkin, the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-FILM Summary Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:45 PM PDT 'Exorcist' director Friedkin to get lifetime award in Venice (Reuters) - William Friedkin, the U.S. film director who scared up a fright with "The Exorcist" and set pulses racing with thriller "The French Connection" in the 1970s, will get a lifetime achievement award from the Venice Film Festival, organizers said on Thursday. Friedkin, 77, will also present a restored version of his initially poorly received but now acclaimed 1977 film "Sorcerer" at the August 28-September 7 festival in the Italian city. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rolling Stones release low-priced seats ahead of L.A. show Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:44 PM PDT  By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wild horses couldn't drag many of the most die-hard of Rolling Stones fans to the kick-off of the band's North American tour - at least not at prices of up to a whopping $600 a ticket. Three weeks after tickets went on sale, and a day before the British band take the stage on Friday, the Los Angeles Staples Center was far from sold out for the "50 and Counting" gig. ... Full Story | Top |
| Where's Lindsay Lohan? Not in rehab, apparently Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:10 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lindsay Lohan appeared to have skipped out on a court-ordered rehab program on Thursday, before doing a disappearing act and possibly violating her probation again. Although her lawyer assured a Los Angeles judge on Thursday that she had checked in to start a 90-day stint imposed for a June 2012 reckless driving case, Lohan was photographed about the same time shopping in a Southern California electronics superstore. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-INDUSTRY Summary Thursday, May 02, 2013 05:18 PM PDT Hungary watchdog fines Bloomberg for erroneous central bank report BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's financial market regulator has fined Bloomberg 10 million forints ($44,000) for publishing an erroneous headline ahead of the central bank's interest rate decision last week, market watchdog PSZAF said on Thursday. PSZAF, in a statement, said Bloomberg had violated a ban on market manipulation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Gamblers get lucky at Genting's Singapore casino Thursday, May 02, 2013 05:16 PM PDT  By Anshuman Daga and Eveline Danubrata SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A stroke of bad luck. That's what casino operator Genting Singapore PLC blamed for reporting a sharply lower-than-expected quarterly profit, while also flagging a cautious outlook due to muted Chinese economic growth. Genting Singapore's Resorts World Sentosa, one of two casinos in the island state that are the envy of the global industry since opening three years ago, said that its 35 percent fall in core earnings simply came down to so-called "premium" gamblers getting lucky. ... Full Story | Top |
| Country music stars come out to bid George Jones a final farewell Thursday, May 02, 2013 05:01 PM PDT  By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Country music legend George Jones' final standing ovation, after a career filled with them, came on Thursday afternoon at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. And the song that brought about 4,000 fans and friends to their feet was Jones' signature song, "He Stopped Loving Her Today," fittingly a tune about both love and death. Alan Jackson, a long-time friend, sang the song, channeling Jones' country traditionalism. ... Full Story | Top |
| Slayer heavy metal guitarist Jeff Hanneman dead at 49 Thursday, May 02, 2013 04:58 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. guitarist Jeff Hanneman, a co-founder of the seminal heavy metal band Slayer, died in Southern California on Thursday, the band said in a statement posted on their website. He was 49. "Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure," the band said. Hanneman founded Slayer with fellow guitarist Kerry King in the early 1980s in suburban Los Angeles. The band was known as one of the "big four" thrash metal groups of the 1980s, along with Anthrax, Megadeth and Metallica. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Gossip Girl' actor Penn Badgley surprises in film role as singer Thursday, May 02, 2013 02:46 PM PDT  By Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Penn Badgley, best known for his role as a hip young New Yorker on television series "Gossip Girl," is now claiming a place in the spotlight by headlining a feature film for the first time and showing off his previously hidden singing talents. Badgley, 26, stars as late U.S. musician Jeff Buckley in the indie film "Greetings From Tim Buckley," opening in limited release in U.S. movie theaters on Friday. The film chronicles Buckley in the days leading up to his first public performance at age 25: a 1991 tribute concert at New York's St. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-REVIEW Summary Thursday, May 02, 2013 02:23 PM PDT Amanda Knox offers her side of sensational murder case in memoir NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amanda Knox, the American student accused of the 2007 murder of her British roommate while both were students in Italy, paints herself in her new memoir as a naive young woman railroaded by a foreign justice system. Knox, 25, spent four years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher while they were exchange students in Perugia, a hilltop Italian university town popular with foreigners. Knox, who became a tabloid sensation in Britain and Italy, was acquitted on appeal in 2011. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'The Hit' soars to top of U.S. bestsellers list Thursday, May 02, 2013 02:23 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - David Baldacci's new book, "The Hit," soared to the top of the U.S. bestsellers list on Thursday. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. "The Hit" by David Baldacci (Grand Central, $27.99) - 2. "Whiskey Beach" by Nora Roberts (Putnam, $27.95) 1 3. "Fly Away" by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's, $27.99) - 4. "Daddy's Gone a Hunting" by Mary Higgins (Simon & Schuster, $26.99) 2 5. "Paris: The Novel" by Edward Rutherfurd (Doubleday, $32.50) - 6. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-ARTS Summary Thursday, May 02, 2013 01:36 PM PDT Russia's new Mariinsky theatre woos the doubters ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Enlisting the drama of Prokofiev and the elegance of Tchaikovsky, St Petersburg's new Mariinsky theatre staged a gala opening on Thursday designed to silence critics of the starkly modernist building erected in the heart of Russia's imperial capital. The $700-million glass and limestone building, which critics have dubbed the "Mariinsky mall", glowed in the night sky, its glass and metal walkways humming with excited voices as the select crowd of 2,000 found their seats. ... Full Story | Top |
| Russia's new Mariinsky theatre woos the doubters Thursday, May 02, 2013 01:36 PM PDT  By Alexei Anishchuk and Liza Dobkina ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Enlisting the drama of Prokofiev and the elegance of Tchaikovsky, St Petersburg's new Mariinsky theatre staged a gala opening on Thursday designed to silence critics of the starkly modernist building erected in the heart of Russia's imperial capital. The $700-million glass and limestone building, which critics have dubbed the "Mariinsky mall", glowed in the night sky, its glass and metal walkways humming with excited voices as the select crowd of 2,000 found their seats. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hungary watchdog fines Bloomberg for erroneous central bank report Thursday, May 02, 2013 01:33 PM PDT BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's financial market regulator has fined Bloomberg 10 million forints ($44,000) for publishing an erroneous headline ahead of the central bank's interest rate decision last week, market watchdog PSZAF said on Thursday. PSZAF, in a statement, said Bloomberg had violated a ban on market manipulation. "Although the news was published due to a technical error, the regulator believes that the news agency failed to apply control mechanisms to prevent false news being published," the statement said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly's death a likely overdose Thursday, May 02, 2013 01:25 PM PDT  ATLANTA (Reuters) - Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross likely died of a drug overdose, police said on Thursday, a day after the 34-year-old was found unconscious at his Atlanta home. Kelly gained fame as a young teen in 1992 with the hit song "Jump" and for the duo's fashion trademark of wearing their clothes backward. "Based on the information at the scene, we are concluding that it was a drug overdose," said Corporal Kay Lester, spokeswoman for the Fulton County Police Department. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Exorcist' director Friedkin to get lifetime award in Venice Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:35 PM PDT  (Reuters) - William Friedkin, the U.S. film director who scared up a fright with "The Exorcist" and set pulses racing with thriller "The French Connection" in the 1970s, will get a lifetime achievement award from the Venice Film Festival, organizers said on Thursday. Friedkin, 77, will also present a restored version of his initially poorly received but now acclaimed 1977 film "Sorcerer" at the August 28-September 7 festival in the Italian city. Venice film festival director Alberto Barbera said that Friedkin had made major contributions to U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lindsay Lohan raises prosecutors ire in last-minute rehab switch Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:44 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan entered a Southern California rehabilitation facility on Thursday as part of a court-ordered plea deal over a car crash last year, her lawyer said, but her last-minute switch of rehab centers left prosecutors fuming. Lohan, 26, initially agreed to complete a 90-day stay in a locked rehab facility in the New York area, but instead caught prosecutors off guard by checking into a facility in Newport Beach, about 40 miles south of Los Angeles. "Your honor, this is very inappropriate," Santa Monica City Deputy Attorney Terry White told the court. ... Full Story | Top |
| Reese Witherspoon admits saying "crazy things" before arrest Thursday, May 02, 2013 09:37 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon said she panicked and told police "crazy things" after her husband was arrested last month for suspected drunken driving, behavior she apologized for on Thursday in her first interview about the incident. The 37-year-old known for a squeaky-clean image told "Good Morning America" that she and talent agent husband James Toth showed "poor judgment" by driving after "one too many glasses of wine" at dinner in Atlanta, where she is filming a movie. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lyrics of unpublished Bob Dylan anti-nuclear song up for sale Thursday, May 02, 2013 08:53 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - The unpublished lyrics of an anti-nuclear protest song written by Bob Dylan 50 years ago are to be sold in London next month after being found in a drawer in Sweden. Auction house Christie's said the song - "Go Away You Bomb" - was written for an unpublished book of protest songs when Dylan was working on his second album, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", which helped to propel him to global fame. Dylan's early years were dominated by poetic, anti-war songs, including the folk classic "Blowin' In The Wind". ... Full Story | Top |
| BBC star admits sex abuse as Britain wonders who's next Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:01 AM PDT  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall pleaded guilty to sex offences on Thursday, the latest British TV star from the 1970s and 1980s to be embroiled in abuse allegations. Hall, 83, who was best known for hosting the family TV show "It's a Knockout" and was still working for the BBC as a soccer radio commentator until recently, admitted 14 counts of indecent offences against young girls over two decades, with the youngest victim aged just nine. ... Full Story | Top |
| Seeds of Indian cinema grew from one photographer's obsession Thursday, May 02, 2013 04:13 AM PDT  By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) - Male actors dressed as women and scenes were projected on a white sheet for a gamble that almost bankrupted one Indian photographer, whose obsession with creating a "moving picture" sowed the seeds for the world's largest film industry. On Friday, Indian cinema marks 100 years since Dhundiraj Govind Phalke's black-and-white silent film "Raja Harishchandra" (King Harishchandra) held audiences spellbound at its first public screening on May 3, 1913, in Mumbai. ... Full Story | Top |
| A Minute With: India director Dibakar Banerjee on "Bombay Talkies" Thursday, May 02, 2013 03:25 AM PDT  By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian director Dibakar Banerjee has marked 100 years of Indian cinema with a short film inspired by a story written by Oscar-winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Banerjee has adapted the story "Patol Babu, Film Star", about a middle-aged man getting his moment of fame playing a bit role in a movie, as part of a Bollywood project by four Indian directors to show what the movies have meant to them. ... Full Story | Top |
| Viva was not forever for Spice Girls as London musical closes Thursday, May 02, 2013 03:21 AM PDT  By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - A musical based on the meteoric rise of British pop band The Spice Girls that was mauled by the critics is closing six months after its premiere in London, the show's producer said on Thursday. The brainchild of "Mamma Mia!" creator Judy Craymer, "Viva Forever" was loosely based on the story of The Spice Girls, with a wannabe girl band making the finals of a TV singing contest resembling "The X Factor". But the show, written by British comedienne Jennifer Saunders, struggled after receiving appalling reviews. ... Full Story | Top |
| BSkyB adds 550 jobs to meet strong demand Wednesday, May 01, 2013 11:46 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - BSkyB said it would create 550 new jobs to meet strong demand for its television and broadband products, as it reported third quarter results showing profits racing ahead. Britain's dominant pay-TV group, which is 39-percent-owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, provides fixed-line telephony, TV and broadband. It said it had signed up an extra 70,000 new households, in line with forecasts, taking the total retail subscriber base to 10.8 million. ... Full Story | Top |
| Book Talk: Story of the twin sister left behind in Iran Wednesday, May 01, 2013 11:17 PM PDT By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Mystery shadows "A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea", a novel about a girl growing up in rural post-revolutionary Iran while dreaming about her identical twin sister and the wonderful life she must be leading in the United States - if she is alive at all. Crowded security lines at Tehran's airport, shouting, a girl chasing her twin as a woman in a long coat holds her hand. That is the memory Saba Hafezi clings to after her mother and sister vanish in a haunting tale by Dina Nayeri. Nayeri left Iran at the age of ten for the United States. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-PEOPLE Summary Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:58 PM PDT Bono's one-time Sydney holiday home sells for record $55.4 million SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Sydney harborfront mansion has been sold for a record-setting A$54 million ($55.4 million) to a Chinese-born businessman, reinforcing the city's growing status as a hot property destination, newspapers said on Thursday. On the market for six years, the luxurious eight-bedroom "Altona" in exclusive Point Piper was bought in a secret deal with the businessman who currently lives in Melbourne, the newspapers reported. Beyonce, J. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bono's one-time Sydney holiday home sells for record $55.4 million Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:58 PM PDT  SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Sydney harborfront mansion has been sold for a record-setting A$54 million ($55.4 million) to a Chinese-born businessman, reinforcing the city's growing status as a hot property destination, newspapers said on Thursday. On the market for six years, the luxurious eight-bedroom "Altona" in exclusive Point Piper was bought in a secret deal with the businessman who currently lives in Melbourne, the newspapers reported. The property and its heated waterside pool and boathouse, rented by U2 rock star Bono in 2006 for a family holiday, was last sold in 2002 for A$28 million. ... Full Story | Top |
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