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| Washington Post headquarters building sold for $159 million Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 06:30 PM PST  The headquarters of the Washington Post is being sold to Carr Properties, a real estate investment company, for about $159 million, the newspaper's former owner said on Wednesday. Graham Holdings Co, which sold the Post to Amazon founder Jeffrey Bezos for $250 million in August, said in a statement the sale of the headquarters in downtown Washington was scheduled to be completed in March and included land next to the building. The Post will rent its newsroom from the building's new owner while it looks for a new headquarters. Graham Holdings, owned by Donald Graham and his family, former owners of the paper, operates businesses including Kaplan education services, and online, print and television news. Full Story | Top |
| 'Oldboy' serves up gritty revenge for Thanksgiving audience Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 04:33 PM PST  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Holiday movies are often filled with feel-good messages and festive cheer, but as the United States whets its appetite for the Thanksgiving weekend, psychological drama "Oldboy" attempts to serve up a platter of old-fashioned revenge. "Oldboy," based on Korean director Park Chan-wook's 2003 film of the same name, tells the story of Joe Doucett, an alcoholic washout who is kidnapped and held in a small motel room for 20 years, then released back into society. The theme of revenge is what director Spike Lee said enticed him to re-imagine Park's dark, twisted art house film that featured extreme violence, torture and incest. "That's why the revenge genre (in film) has always been a staple, because you can live off your revenge through somebody else." The film, released in U.S. theaters on Wednesday, stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley and serves up a paranoid-filled cinematic alternative over the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend. Full Story | Top |
| Actors Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore finalize divorce Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 03:53 PM PST  Actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have finalized their divorce two years after separating, bringing official closure for one of Hollywood's most prominent couples. The end to the eight-year marriage was made final on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, with both actors agreeing not to pay spousal support. In March, Moore, 51, had asked the court to grant her financial support from Kutcher, an unusual move for one of the top-earning women in Hollywood during the 1990s. Kutcher, the star of CBS television comedy "Two and a Half Men," filed for divorce from Moore in December 2012 after more than a year of separation. Full Story | Top |
| Eminem ousts Lady Gaga to reclaim top spot on Billboard 200 chart Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 01:13 PM PST  Rapper Eminem climbed back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday after ousting last week's chart-topper Lady Gaga. Eminem's "The Marshall Mathers LP 2" reclaimed the top spot on the weekly album chart with sales of 120,000, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. The record had debuted at No. 1 following its release on November 5 with sales of 792,000 copies, the second-largest opening week this year behind Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience," which opened with 968,000 copies in March. Lady Gaga's latest effort "ARTPOP" debuted at No. 1 last week with 258,000 copies, but sales dropped by 82 percent in its second week, as the record fell to No. 8 in the chart with 46,000 units sold. Full Story | Top |
| Incoming Time Warner Cable CEO could exit with $50 million-plus after deal Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 11:12 AM PST  Time Warner Cable Inc, being circled by potential buyers, could pay out more than $50 million to incoming Chief Executive Robert Marcus as part of his contract, if the company is bought while he is CEO and he gets replaced. For Marcus to receive the money upon his departure, Time Warner Cable would have to see a change in control from "an applicable merger, acquisition, sale or other agreement," once he is CEO, according to an employment agreement outlined in a regulatory filing. Based on Time Warner Cable's closing price of $136.56 on Tuesday, Marcus would be able to cash out of roughly $37 million in stock, according to a proxy filing. A change-in-control agreement is common in employment contracts for CEOs, according to Daniel Laddin, a partner at Compensation Advisory Partners, which consults on executive compensation. Full Story | Top |
| A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 08:16 AM PST  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - James Franco has played a wizard, a doctor, a gangster rapper, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and himself, all in the past year. In addition to acting, Franco is a teacher, a spokesman for the Italian fashion brand Gucci, a published author, artist and director. In 2013, Franco appeared in big budget films such as "Oz The Great and Powerful" and "This is The End" and smaller independent movies including "Spring Breakers" and his directorial film "As I Lay Dying." In his latest project, the Oscar-nominated actor plays an ambitious small-town Southern methamphetamine dealer in the action film "Homefront," out in U.S. theaters on Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| Malian music by moonlight seems far from country's woes Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 03:27 AM PST  By Emma Farge LOMPOUL, Senegal (Reuters) - Encircled by moon-lit sand dunes, desert blues band Tamikrest from Mali's northern city of Kidal was the headline act at a Sahel music festival this weekend, held seemingly light years away from unrest in the group's native country. "Are you sleeping out there?," joked 28-year-old lead singer Ousmane Ag Mossa, his 6-inch (15-cm) tall afro silhouetted against the stage, before switching to more upbeat songs like "Aratan N Tinariwen" that had the bulk of the 1,500-person audience dancing on the sand and crying out for more. The Tuareg blues band and a West African "griot" storyteller were among the top acts at the fourth Sahel music festival which has gathered momentum as security concerns knocked a Timbuktu event off the calendar for the second year. Musically rich Mali, which is still struggling to find normality nearly two years after a coup which plunged the country into chaos, was not forgotten by the artists who came to perform in the Lompoul desert in neighbouring Senegal. Full Story | Top |
| A Minute With: The Arctic Monkeys, on America, old songs and synths Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 03:22 AM PST  By Carlos Ruano and Daniel Ruiz MADRID (Reuters) - They have recorded in America and frontman Alex Turner lives in Los Angeles and affects an Elvis look in their latest stage show, but the Arctic Monkeys remain a British rock-and-roll phenomenon. On stage on their current tour to promote new album "AM", Turner sports an Elvis Presley-style pompadour and swivels his hips. While other rock groups of their generation have morphed into more electronic or synthesized sound - following the dance-floor trends of the day - the Arctic Monkeys have gone the other way, with more distorted guitar, powerful bass lines and Matt Helders's signature percussion. Full Story | Top |
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