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| Banksy work 'Kissing Coppers' auctioned for $575,000 in Miami Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 05:28 PM PST  By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - A mural created on the side of a building by the elusive British street artist known as "Banksy" sold for $575,000 on Tuesday, along with dozens of other graffiti-style works at a Miami auction being closely watched due to the soaring value of street art. "Kissing Coppers," a black-and-white stencil of two British police officers kissing in close embrace, was purchased by an anonymous telephone buyer, Fine Art Auctions Miami said. The wall is one of several Banksy works removed from their original location and sold to collectors. It was auctioned along with two more Banksy pieces - "Bandaged Heart Balloon" and "Crazy Horse Car Door" - created during the artist's month-long "street residency" in New York City last year. Full Story | Top |
| For Sports Illustrated models, cover makes anything possible Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 05:02 PM PST  By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Models Nina Agdal, Lily Aldridge and Chrissy Teigen were already at the top of their game, but the trio say anything is possible after gracing the cover of the Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary Swimsuit Edition that hit newsstands on Tuesday. They joined an illustrious club of former swimsuit models, including Christie Brinkley, Heidi Klum, Elle Macpherson and Tyra Banks, with their topless cover photo that appears in the most widely read edition of the magazine. Full Story | Top |
| Clooney, Damon to attend White House screening of 'Monuments Men' Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 03:02 PM PST  Actors George Clooney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray will attend a screening of their new movie "The Monuments Men" at the White House on Tuesday night hosted by President Barack Obama. The film, directed by Clooney, is based on the true story of U.S. soldiers in World War Two who rescued art masterpieces from Nazi thieves. A member of the original Monuments Men group, Harry Ettlinger, will also attend the screening, along with Robert Edsel, whose book is the basis for the film, and Sara Bloomfield, director the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Full Story | Top |
| Banksy street art 'Kissing Coppers' up for auction in Miami Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 02:32 PM PST By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Three murals created on the sides of buildings by an elusive British street artist known as "Banksy" will be sold on Tuesday along with millions of dollars in other works at a Miami auction being closely watched due to the soaring value of street graffiti. Fine Art Auctions Miami estimates "Kissing Coppers," a black-and-white stencil of two British police officers kissing in close embrace, is worth between $500,000 and $700,000. The wall is one of several Banksy works removed from their original location and sold to collectors. The auction will also include a sketch by Jean-Michel Basquiat and a Keith Haring watercolor, "Roger in the Flowers." Banksy, whose graffiti and stenciled paintings appear as social commentary in public spaces and private property around the world, emerged in Bristol, England, in the early 1990s. Full Story | Top |
| Guitarist Bob Casale of New Wave band Devo dies of heart failure at 61 Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 01:52 PM PST  Bob Casale, the guitarist and original member of the U.S. New Wave band Devo best known for the 1980 hit "Whip It," died on Monday from heart failure at the age of 61, his brother and bandmate said. "His sudden death from conditions that led to heart failure came as a total shock to us all," Gerald Casale said on the group's website on Tuesday. The band consisted of the Casales and brothers Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh. The group's former drummer, Alan Myers, died of cancer last year. Full Story | Top |
| Jimmy Fallon's 'Tonight Show' debut draws 11.3 million viewers Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 12:50 PM PST  Jimmy Fallon's debut as the host of NBC's "Tonight Show" drew 11.3 million viewers, network NBC said on Tuesday, making it the second most-watched episode of the late-night talk show in the past five years. Fallon's premiere on NBC's flagship late-night program failed to top the farewell episodes of Jay Leno on February 6 and in 2009, but eclipsed the audience that tuned in to watch Conan O'Brien begin his short, ill-fated stint as host. Fallon, 39, welcomed actor Will Smith and Irish band U2 as his first official guests, and the show also featured appearances from the likes of comedian Tina Fey, actresses Lindsay Lohan and Sarah Jessica Parker, and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Full Story | Top |
| Canadian short-story writer Mavis Gallant dies at 91 Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 12:44 PM PST Mavis Gallant, a celebrated Canadian-born fiction writer who spent most of her life and career in Paris, died on Tuesday at her apartment in the French capital, her publisher said. "We are deeply saddened by Mavis Gallant's passing today," McClelland & Stewart publisher Doug Pepper said in a statement. "Mavis was a stunning writer who transformed the short fiction form." Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1922, Gallant worked for a time as a journalist before moving to Paris in 1950 to pursue a career as a fiction writer. She married musician John Gallant in 1942, but they divorced five years later. Full Story | Top |
| London designers celebrate return of grown-up glamour, easy elegance Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 12:40 PM PST  By Li-mei Hoang and Brenda Goh LONDON (Reuters) - Oversized coats, sheer blouses and slinky cocktail dresses heralded the return of grown-up glamour on the catwalk on Tuesday at London Fashion Week, where the city is looking to cement its reputation as a global showcase for emerging talent. Tom Ford, Jasper Conran and Marios Schwab celebrated the female form in their autumn/winter 2014 collections with figure-hugging dresses, sleek pencil skirts and tailored jackets in luxurious fabrics like fur, wool, cashmere and silk. ... Full Story | Top |
| Russian radio station axes CEO, critics cite Kremlin pressure Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 10:07 AM PST By Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW (Reuters) - Owners of a Russian radio station that often criticizes the government replaced its CEO on Tuesday, drawing accusations from its chief editor that they were bending to pressure from the Kremlin. Critics including former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov said the removal of Yuri Fedutinov from the helm of Ekho Moskvy was part of a campaign by the Kremlin to bring independent Russian media under its thumb. Ekho Moskvy's owner, Gazprom-Media, announced Yekaterina Pavlova as the new CEO of the station, which has a strong Internet presence. Pavlova has held senior posts at state-run media outlets and is married to a Kremlin official. Full Story | Top |
| Mulberry launches Cara Delevingne bag range Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 09:43 AM PST  Luxury fashion group Mulberry has unveiled a new collection of bags in collaboration with British model Cara Delevingne, hoping to improve its fortunes after a profit warning and problems overseas. The made-in-England Cara Delevingne Collection, which features three sizes in three different finishes, was launched by Mulberry in London on Sunday. She has also been the face of two recent Mulberry campaigns. Under its boss Bruno Guillon, Mulberry has increased prices to take its brand more upmarket from a traditional position of "affordable luxury" and moved to raise the company's profile overseas, targeting affluent Asian shoppers with new stores in key tourist spots. Full Story | Top |
| Welcome to Utopia, coming to a screen near you Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 09:34 AM PST By Thomas Escritt LAREN, The Netherlands (Reuters) - In a windswept enclosure southeast of Amsterdam, shivering volunteers are building a home for themselves from scratch, under the constant gaze of television cameras relaying their struggles to the outside world. They are contestants in "Utopia", the latest reality show from John De Mol, the man behind "Big Brother" and many other shows that have made the Netherlands synonymous with reality television. And if "Big Brother", launched some 15 years ago, presaged a later world of social media, with its proposition that private lives are better widely shared, De Mol thinks "Utopia" reflects the concerns of today's audiences. So we said: 'Why don't we let them build the world they've always wanted, a Utopia for themselves'?" Perhaps the original brainwave behind reality television came more easily in a country where people rarely close their curtains on long winter evenings, giving passers-by on the chilly streets of Amsterdam's 17th-century canal district a view into peoples' living rooms. Full Story | Top |
| Cape Town plugs in to avant garde dance music Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 08:59 AM PST By Yumna Mohammed CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Famous for decades for its jazz scene, Cape Town is starting to stand out for its electronic music as lovers of the aural avant-garde establish the southern tip of Africa as a centre of innovation, pushing the boundaries of popular sound. "We've always had the short end of the cultural stick because we're perceived as ravers, but people are starting to see the festival for its intentions. Full Story | Top |
| David O. Russell weaves Oscar pattern from his own reinvention Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 05:12 AM PST  By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the aspiring actor and actress who sits at home during awards season fantasizing that they too could be feted as an Oscar nominee or Golden Globe winner there is a simple recipe: get cast in a film by David O. Russell. The director of romance "Silver Linings Playbook" and boxing drama "The Fighter" has helped the likes of Jennifer Lawrence and Christian Bale score some of Hollywood's biggest prizes, and this year has coaxed performances worthy of four Oscar nods from the stars of his crime caper "American Hustle." If an "American Hustle" actor - which could be Lawrence, Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper - takes home a statuette on March 2, it would be the third consecutive Russell film to have an actor win Hollywood's top honors. Full Story | Top |
| Mugabe in Singapore for eye operation ahead of 90th birthday Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 12:36 AM PST  By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for an eye operation ahead of his 90th birthday on Friday, a spokesman said, maintaining a government denial that Zimbabwe's long-serving ruler is suffering from prostate cancer. George Charamba said Mugabe, Africa's oldest president, left Harare on Monday and would be back in the country for birthday celebrations on Saturday. "This is a routine check-up, a routine cataract operation for his left eye whose date was set down more than a year ago and the president has gone out to fulfill that appointment," Charamba told Reuters on Tuesday. "He had a right eye operation a couple of years ago and he is going to have the other attended to now." A June 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks said Mugabe had prostate cancer that had spread to other organs. Full Story | Top |
| Jimmy Fallon takes helm of 'Tonight Show', brings it back to New York Monday, Feb 17, 2014 09:39 PM PST  By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jimmy Fallon took the reins of the long-running "Tonight Show" on Monday, bringing NBC's late night talk show flagship back to Manhattan after an absence of more than 40 years, being welcomed on set by a host of top stars, including Robert De Niro, Mike Tyson and Lady Gaga. The surprise appearances, also made by Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Mariah Carey, Lindsay Lohan, Joan Rivers, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Sarah Jessica Parker, Joe Namath and Stephen Colbert, were among the highlights of Fallon's "Tonight Show" debut, following the departure this month of long-serving host Jay Leno. Full Story | Top |
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