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| London fashion shows draw inspiration from painting, sportswear Monday, Feb 17, 2014 03:54 PM PST  By Li-mei Hoang and Brenda Goh LONDON (Reuters) - London's fashion designers looked to painting and sportswear for inspiration as leading fashion editors, models and celebrities flocked to the capital's biggest runway shows on Monday. British heritage brand Burberry sent models down the runway in long flowing dresses and scarves, daubed with brushstroke designs of flowers, leaves and autumnal abstract prints in shades of cornflower blue, lemon yellow and blush pink. The show, which featured a live performance from musicians Paloma Faith, Ed Harcourt and Rhodes, was attended by actors Bradley Cooper and Naomie Harris, as well as U.S. Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Harry Styles from boy band One Direction. Full Story | Top |
| Miami artist charged with smashing $1 million Ai Weiwei museum vase Monday, Feb 17, 2014 03:00 PM PST  By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami police have arrested a local artist who they say destroyed a $1 million vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei to protest that the city's newly opened museum is only displaying international art. Dominican-born Maximo Caminero, 51, was arrested and charged on Sunday with criminal mischief after picking up one of 16 brightly painted vases at the Perez Art Museum Miami and throwing it to the ground when confronted by security, according to a police report. Caminero, reached by telephone, told Reuters he is a painter and lives in Miami. Full Story | Top |
| Colin Farrell's ‘Winter's Tale' Is His Third Box-Office Flop in Row Monday, Feb 17, 2014 12:28 PM PST  By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - With "Winter's Tale" misfiring over the weekend, leading man Colin Farrell has suffered another box-office bummer. The romantic fantasy from Warner Bros. is going to take in less than $10 million over the four-day Presidents Day weekend. That makes three movies in a row in which Farrell has played the leading man that have tanked. Of course, it's not all on Farrell. Full Story | Top |
| UK court sends BSkyB's pay-TV terms back for review Monday, Feb 17, 2014 08:04 AM PST  Britain's Court of Appeal on Monday ruled that a lower court should look again at how pay-TV group BSkyB sells its sports channels to rivals, in the latest twist in a near four-year battle. Market regulator Ofcom ruled in March 2010 that Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB should make its two main sports channels available to rivals such as Virgin Media and BT at a lower price. Sky, which built its business around offering exclusive sports programming, responded by taking the case to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). Full Story | Top |
| Figure skating: Women's final to prove TV ratings winner Monday, Feb 17, 2014 07:28 AM PST  By Keith Weir SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - The women's figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics has a special place in the hearts of viewers and the television executives who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying the rights to the Games. Underlining the importance of the sport, U.S. broadcaster NBC has two separate commentary teams and crews working on it. One handles live programming on its NBCSN subscription channel and the other produces a package of highlights screened in evening prime time on its main network. It's great for NBC, NBCSN, and it's weather proof," said NBC Olympics Executive Producer Jim Bell. Full Story | Top |
| Murdoch's ex-British paper boss Brooks to start phone-hacking defense Monday, Feb 17, 2014 12:21 AM PST  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers, is due to begin her defense on Wednesday against allegations she was complicit in widespread phone-hacking at the now defunct News of the World weekly. The case centers on widespread phone-hacking by journalists at the News of the World Sunday tabloid, which Murdoch closed amid huge public anger in July 2011, and other allegations of crimes by staff on its sister daily paper The Sun. Brooks, who ran News Corp.'s British newspaper arm News International until July 2011 and had previously edited both papers, denies conspiracy to illegally intercept voicemail messages on mobile phones, conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office by authorizing illegal payments to public officials, and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Full Story | Top |
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