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| Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' wins record of the year Grammy Award Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 08:06 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Daft Punk's song "Get Lucky," featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, won the record of the year Grammy Award on Sunday, one of the annual award show's top honors. "Honestly, I bet France is really proud of these guys right now," said Williams, speaking for the French DJ duo who wear masked helmets and do not speak as part of their act. The award, handed out by the Recording Academy in a televised ceremony from Los Angeles, honors the total production of a song, which includes the artist, producer, sound engineers, sound mixers and mastering engineers. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lorde's 'Royals' wins song of the year Grammy Award Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 07:48 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New Zealand teenager Lorde's "Royals" won the song of the year Grammy Award on Sunday, one of the annual award show's top prizes. "Thank you to everyone who has let this song explode because it has been mental," Lorde said when accepting the award. The prize handed out by the Recording Academy in a televised ceremony from Los Angeles honors the writers of the song - Lorde, whose real name is Ella Yelich O'Connor, and Joel Little. (Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Sandra Maler) Full Story | Top |
| Beatles come together at Grammys, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis lead wins Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 07:34 PM PST  By Mary Milliken and Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, came together at the Grammy Awards on Sunday for a rare joint performance coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the British group's breakthrough on American television. While the music industry celebrated some of the biggest stars of the past, it anointed newcomer rapper-producer duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with the Grammy for best new artist and gave them the opportunity to preside over a mass wedding to celebrate same-sex equality later in the show. The 56th Grammy Awards, the music industry's top honors handed out by the Recording Academy across 82 categories, may be remembered more for its performances and unscripted moments than the awards that are bestowed. John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, and son Sean Lennon were in the crowd dancing along on Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| Cuaron wins directors award as 'Gravity' gathers speed to Oscars Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 12:31 PM PST  By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron won the top prize at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) on Sunday for the movie "Gravity" as the outer space drama gathers momentum, alongside "American Hustle" and "12 Years a Slave", for the Oscars. The best director award is Cuaron's first from the DGA and is considered a strong predictor of Oscar success in six weeks. The DGA top honor has correctly predicted the best picture Oscar winner for nine of the past 10 years. "Gravity" stars Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone on her first space mission and George Clooney as veteran astronaut Lt. Matt Kowalski, who tries to save Stone's life. Full Story | Top |
| Grammy Awards to feature live on-air mass marriage ceremony: NYT Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 11:57 AM PST  Dozens of couples will marry on air during Sunday night's live broadcast of the music industry's annual Grammy Awards as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform their nominated song "Same Love," which has become an anthem in the campaign for legal gay marriage, the New York Times reported. Queen Latifah will officiate at the nuptials, with pop diva Madonna performing the song with the hip hop duo and featured vocalist Mary Lambert, the Times said. "We're serious about this," the Times quoted Ken Ehrlich, the longtime producer of the Grammys, as saying. Addressing the potential for controversy, Neil Portnow, the president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, said "I expect that people with all kinds of opinions might voice them, and that's healthy," the Times said. Full Story | Top |
| 'Ride Along' cruises to a second win at U.S. box office Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 09:51 AM PST  By Ronald Grover and Chris Michaud LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Ride Along," a buddy cop comedy starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, raced to the top of the weekend box office charts for the second week in a row, collecting $21.2 million in ticket sales. The Afghanistan war tale "Lone Survivor" took the No. 2 spot with ticket sales of $12.6 million. Mark Wahlberg plays the role of the only one of four U.S. SEALs to return from a vicious fire fight with Taliban fighters. The animated film "The Nut Job," featuring the voices of Will Arnett and Katherine Heigl, was third with $12.3 million in sales at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio figures provided by Rentrak. Full Story | Top |
| 'The Boss' rocks against rising global income gap Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 09:23 AM PST  Rising income inequality in the United States and South Africa threatens to tear their societies apart, rocker Bruce Springsteen said on Sunday before his first performance in Africa for almost three decades. "There is a tremendous problem with income inequality in the States right now and it's been increasing and increasing," Springsteen said a few hours before his opening night performance in South Africa's tourist capital Cape Town. A journalist had asked him whether things had got worse since 1988 when Springsteen famously compared "the systematic apartheid of South Africa" to "the economic apartheid of my own country," during an appearance in neighboring Zimbabwe. Full Story | Top |
| 'Whiplash,' 'Rich Hill' win top honors at Sundance Film Festival Saturday, Jan 25, 2014 09:29 PM PST  By Piya Sinha-Roy (Reuters) - Musical drama "Whiplash" and documentary "Rich Hill," about inhabitants of a poverty-stricken rural U.S. town, took top honors at the Sundance Film Festival awards on Saturday, a key accolade for independent films to find a wider audience. The film won both the audience and grand jury awards in the U.S. drama competition. The awards were a big win for 28-year-old writer-director Damien Chazelle, who won the U.S. fiction short film grand jury prize last year at Sundance with a short version of "Whiplash," which he then made into a feature film for this year. "I remember my first time here was with a short, and the whole reason we made a short was because of my experiences as a drummer," Chazelle said. Full Story | Top |
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