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| Celebrities tell followers to #GetCovered with Obamacare Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:30 PM PDT  By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - While technical problems slowed the launch of new "Obamacare" websites to sell health insurance on Tuesday, the law's supporters on Twitter had an easier time welcoming the "Affordable Care Cat." Celebrities and community groups took to social media to promote President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, the 2010 law popularly known as Obamacare, that aims to provide health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans beginning next year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Graffiti artist Banksy hits New York streets for October show Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:24 PM PDT (Reuters) - British graffiti artist Banksy revealed Tuesday his first work in what he described as an exhibition on walls throughout New York City this month - a painting of boys disobeying prohibitions on graffiti. Banksy, a pseudonym for the elusive artist who first emerged in the streets of Bristol, England and whose real identity is unknown, announced the "Better Out Than In" show along with new artwork in Manhattan on his website along with a caption saying: "The street is in play. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Raging Bull' copyright fight headed for U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:01 PM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley and Erin Geiger Smith WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Emotionally raw boxing movie "Raging Bull" may have come out 33 years ago, but a copyright fight over an early screenplay has found its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court on Tuesday agreed to take up the case brought by Paula Petrella, daughter of the deceased screenwriter Frank Petrella. She says MGM Holdings Inc and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have infringed the copyright of a 1963 screenplay upon which she alleges 1980 movie was based. ... Full Story | Top |
| Paramount film studio to lay off 110 workers Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 02:32 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paramount Pictures will eliminate 110 positions in areas including finance and marketing as part of a realignment at the film studio owned by Viacom Inc, according to a memo to employees obtained by Reuters. The layoffs will affect about 5 percent of the studio's 2,200 employees that work on the Los Angeles movie lot or in international locations. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lady Gaga, Eminem to headline first YouTube Music Awards Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 10:30 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop singer Lady Gaga and rapper Eminem will be headline performers at the first YouTube Music Awards, the Google Inc-owned online video steaming site said on Tuesday. The November 3 award show in New York, which will be live-streamed, honors the top songs and artists that were viewed on the website in the past year. Nominees will be announced later this month and voting by the public will determine winners, YouTube said. Canadian rock band Arcade Fire will also perform at the awards show. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Mad Men' star Hamm ditches suave for macabre in 'Young Doctor' Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 10:29 AM PDT  By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jon Hamm's new TV role takes him far from the stylish 1960s Madison Avenue setting of "Mad Men" to a dreary, isolated and bloody hospital in a small Russian village during the 1917 revolution. The backdrop for "A Young Doctor's Notebook," a four-episode series that makes its U.S. debut on Wednesday on the Ovation cable network, is not a typical one for television, and the show does not fit neatly into a particular genre. Hamm said he liked the project for both of those reasons. "It's dark, and yet it's quite comic," Hamm told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. government shutdown slows flow of data to a trickle Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 10:15 AM PDT  By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A partial shutdown of the U.S. government began to delay the release of data on the world's largest economy on Tuesday, leaving policymakers and investors in a fog. From crop yields to unemployment figures, many of the nation's most closely watched data will not be published during the shutdown that began at midnight. The Bureau of Economic Analysis, which publishes data on economic growth, shut down its website overnight and failed to issue a report on construction spending that was supposed to be released at 10 a.m. ... Full Story | Top |
| Born to Bollywood royalty, Ranbir Kapoor makes new film a family affair Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 09:47 AM PDT  By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bollywood heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor is one of Indian cinema's most bankable young stars, and his latest film, "Besharam," which also stars his parents, is set to become one of the most widely released Bollywood films worldwide. Kapoor, a member of India's "first family of film" and the grandson of veteran Bollywood director Raj Kapoor, plays a charming but vulgar car thief in the Hindi-language action comedy that opens on Wednesday in 4,700 cinemas internationally, including 210 in the United States. ... Full Story | Top |
| Art, life and fashion for Chanel on Paris Fashion Week runway Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 09:01 AM PDT  By Alexandria Sage PARIS (Reuters) - If art imitates life, then life is an oversized quilted Chanel purse mounted on a wall - at least for some. That was the impression made on Tuesday at Chanel's Spring/Summer 2014 Paris ready-to-wear show, where the runway was decked out as an art gallery filled with contemporary art installations featuring the luxury brand's products and logo. Oversized bottles of Chanel No. ... Full Story | Top |
| Former BBC radio host faces two further sex charges Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 08:02 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain's best-known radio presenters from the 1970s and 1980s, who counted Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi among his fans, was charged with two further sex offences on Tuesday on top of 12 other sex charges. Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis, 68, now stands accused of 13 counts of indecent assault and one sexual assault. The incidents are alleged to have occurred between 1977 and 2007 and involved women and girls, with the youngest aged 15. ... Full Story | Top |
| Novel reimagines sister that O'Casey wrote out of history Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:44 AM PDT By David Cutler LONDON (Reuters) - When the Irish 20th century playwright Sean O'Casey came to write his autobiography, he failed to mention the impoverished last decade of his only sister's life. It was this act of 'literary murder' that prompted Irish writer Mary Morrissy to write "The Rising of Bella Casey", published by O'Brien Press, Ireland's leading children's publisher, in its first foray into adult fiction. Morrissy, a historical novelist who has been described as "Ireland's Hilary Mantel", published her first novel, "Mother of Pearl", in 1995. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Gravity' highlights personal adversity in deep space journey Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:02 AM PDT  By Mary Milliken LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Watching an astronaut tumbling into the void of deep space might make a mere mortal's own adversities seem rather small. But "Gravity," a drama starring Sandra Bullock and showing in U.S. theaters on Friday, was born out of the setbacks suffered by one man in the midst of the last recession: its director and co-writer, Alfonso Cuaron. The Mexican filmmaker had already achieved international success with films like "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" in 2004 and "Children of Men" in 2006. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sex, spies and society scandal in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 05:00 AM PDT  By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) - A new musical from British impresario and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will delve into the sex, spies and politics at the heart of Britain's biggest post-war scandal when it opens in December. "Stephen Ward" charts the rise and fall of a high society osteopath at the centre of the 1963 "Profumo Affair" which embarrassed the British establishment by exposing the decadent lifestyle of the London elite as the sexual revolution began. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bridget Jones fans v. upset at Mr Darcy's death Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 05:00 AM PDT By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) - Fans of fictional everywoman Bridget Jones have taken to social media to express their outrage that novelist Helen Fielding has killed off love interest Mark Darcy in her latest novel. In "Bridget Jones: Mad about The Boy", the 30-something London singleton obsessed with her romantic life, weight and cigarette consumption who captured the zeitgeist of the 1990s, has become a 50-something widowed mother of two with a toy-boy. ... Full Story | Top |
| Vivendi's GVT in pay-TV venture in Brazil Monday, Sep 30, 2013 10:45 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - French media group Vivendi said on Tuesday that its Brazilian GVT subsidiary had started negotiations with satellite group EchoStar Technologies LLC to set up a joint-venture for pay-TV services in Brazil. The venture, which will be managed by GVT, plans to benefit from an expected rise in demand driven by two global sport events, the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016, the statement said. (Reporting by Dominique Vidalon) Full Story | Top |
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