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| CA-ENTERTAINMENT Summary Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 11:59 AM PDT New movie '42' shows baseball's Jackie Robinson as man, not icon LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The legend of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke baseball's color barrier more than 60 years ago, gets a human touch in biopic "42," that opens in U.S. movie theaters on Friday. Chadwick Boseman, who stars as Robinson, said he wanted to remake the iconic image of the Hall of Fame baseball player, who has long been seen as a stoic figure with an unshakable will in the face of racial hatred, into an emotionally complex man who privately raged against racist taunting. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-FILM Summary Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 11:59 AM PDT New movie '42' shows baseball's Jackie Robinson as man, not icon LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The legend of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke baseball's color barrier more than 60 years ago, gets a human touch in biopic "42," that opens in U.S. movie theaters on Friday. Chadwick Boseman, who stars as Robinson, said he wanted to remake the iconic image of the Hall of Fame baseball player, who has long been seen as a stoic figure with an unshakable will in the face of racial hatred, into an emotionally complex man who privately raged against racist taunting. ... Full Story | Top |
| New movie '42' shows baseball's Jackie Robinson as man, not icon Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 11:59 AM PDT  By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The legend of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke baseball's color barrier more than 60 years ago, gets a human touch in biopic "42," that opens in U.S. movie theaters on Friday. Chadwick Boseman, who stars as Robinson, said he wanted to remake the iconic image of the Hall of Fame baseball player, who has long been seen as a stoic figure with an unshakable will in the face of racial hatred, into an emotionally complex man who privately raged against racist taunting. "I was able to explore him as a man and not an idea," Boseman told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-ARTS Summary Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 10:21 AM PDT Photographer Salgado captures untouched nature in new UK show LONDON (Reuters) - Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado considers the eight years he spent documenting the world's most dramatic landscapes and indigenous communities a small price to pay for his art. His latest exhibition, "Genesis", which opens at London's on April 11 Natural History Museum features striking monochrome images of lush rainforests, gigantic glaciers and Antarctic penguins alongside indigenous tribes such as the Brazilian Zo'e and Siberian Nenets. ... Full Story | Top |
| Photographer Salgado captures untouched nature in new UK show Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 10:21 AM PDT  By Li-mei Hoang LONDON (Reuters) - Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado considers the eight years he spent documenting the world's most dramatic landscapes and indigenous communities a small price to pay for his art. His latest exhibition, "Genesis", which opens at London's on April 11 Natural History Museum features striking monochrome images of lush rainforests, gigantic glaciers and Antarctic penguins alongside indigenous tribes such as the Brazilian Zo'e and Siberian Nenets. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-PEOPLE Summary Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 10:06 AM PDT FBI asked to probe recording of Senator McConnell's campaign strategy session WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign said on Tuesday it has asked the FBI to investigate how a campaign strategy meeting was recorded in which ways to attack a potential rival, actress Ashley Judd, were reportedly discussed. The magazine, Mother Jones, said it had obtained a recording of the meeting and that McConnell and his aides discussed criticizing Judd "for her past struggles with depression and her religious views. ... Full Story | Top |
| FBI asked to probe recording of Senator McConnell's campaign strategy session Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 10:06 AM PDT  By Steve Holland and David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign said on Tuesday it has asked the FBI to investigate how a campaign strategy meeting was recorded in which ways to attack a potential rival, actress Ashley Judd, were reportedly discussed. The magazine, Mother Jones, said it had obtained a recording of the meeting and that McConnell and his aides discussed criticizing Judd "for her past struggles with depression and her religious views." Judd has since ruled out running against McConnell in 2014. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bolshoi ballet star sues theatre over reprimands Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 08:30 AM PDT By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - A top ballet dancer is asking a Moscow court to annul official reprimands from the Bolshoi Theatre after he accused it of using an acid attack on its artistic director as a pretext for a "witch hunt" against him. The late-night attack that almost blinded Sergei Filin on January 17 has exposed a seething ferment of rivalries at the ballet, perhaps Russia's best-known cultural symbol. Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko and two alleged accomplices are in jail awaiting trial, and the investigation continues. ... Full Story | Top |
| Runaway ballet star turns up in Moscow after fleeing London Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 08:29 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Sergei Polunin, the Royal Ballet prodigy dubbed the bad boy of dance, has turned up in Moscow after fleeing a London performance last week, a spokeswoman for his Russian ballet company said on Tuesday. It was the second vanishing act by the 23-year-old Ukrainian who dramatically quit Britain's Royal Ballet in January last year just a week before he was due to dance in "The Dream". ... Full Story | Top |
| US-TELEVISION Summary Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 03:42 AM PDT Olympic satire races against dramas in top British TV awards LONDON (Reuters) - A television satire that lampooned organizers of the 2012 London Olympics was in a head-to-head race against two dramas as the most nominated shows in Britain's top TV awards on Tuesday. The satire "Twenty Twelve" received four nominations in the British Academy Television Awards as did the Hitchcock drama "The Girl" and romantic series "Last Tango in Halifax". ... Full Story | Top |
| Olympic satire races against dramas in top British TV awards Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 03:42 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - A television satire that lampooned organizers of the 2012 London Olympics was in a head-to-head race against two dramas as the most nominated shows in Britain's top TV awards on Tuesday. The satire "Twenty Twelve" received four nominations in the British Academy Television Awards as did the Hitchcock drama "The Girl" and romantic series "Last Tango in Halifax". ... Full Story | Top |
| US-MUSIC Summary Monday, Apr 08, 2013 09:06 PM PDT Talk show host Sara Gilbert engaged to singer Linda Perry LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sara Gilbert, host of female chat show "The Talk," announced on Monday that she is engaged to her singer-songwriter Linda Perry. Gilbert, 38, who starred as rebellious daughter Darlene Conner on the 1990s TV comedy "Roseanne," made the announcement on the all-women talk show she created for CBS television. Exclusive: Beyonce, Jay-Z Cuba visit had U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Exclusive: Beyonce, Jay-Z Cuba visit had U.S. Treasury Department OK - source Monday, Apr 08, 2013 09:06 PM PDT  By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - A visit by American pop star Beyonce and rapper husband Jay-Z to Havana last week was a cultural trip that was fully licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department, a source familiar with the itinerary said on Monday. The longstanding U.S. trade embargo against Cuba prevents most Americans from traveling to the communist-led island without a license granted by the U.S. government. ... Full Story | Top |
| Talk show host Sara Gilbert engaged to singer Linda Perry Monday, Apr 08, 2013 05:00 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sara Gilbert, host of female chat show "The Talk," announced on Monday that she is engaged to her singer-songwriter Linda Perry. Gilbert, 38, who starred as rebellious daughter Darlene Conner on the 1990s TV comedy "Roseanne," made the announcement on the all-women talk show she created for CBS television. Gilbert, 38, said Perry proposed while surprising the actress with a serenade by musicians during a picnic. "It's, like, the most amazing proposal ever," Gilbert said on the show. ... Full Story | Top |
| Exclusive : Beyonce, Jay-Z visited Cuba with Treasury Department OK - source Monday, Apr 08, 2013 03:49 PM PDT By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - A visit by American pop star Beyonce and rapper husband Jay-Z to Havana last week was a cultural trip that was fully licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department, a source familiar with the itinerary said on Monday. The longstanding U.S. trade embargo against Cuba prevents most Americans from traveling to the communist-led island without a license granted by the U.S. government. ... Full Story | Top |
| TV watchers multitasking, viewing more online -global poll Monday, Apr 08, 2013 02:33 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumers are multitasking and using other electronic devices such as phones and tablets while they watch television, according to a survey released on Monday. The online poll of 3,501 consumers in France, Brazil, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States showed that an overwhelming majority, 90 percent, said they watched some video content over the Internet, with the tablet seeing the biggest increase. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-INDUSTRY Summary Monday, Apr 08, 2013 02:10 PM PDT Fox threatens to become cable channel amid Aereo dispute LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - News Corp's Fox TV network raised the stakes in its battle with Web startup Aereo Inc on Monday, threatening to remove itself from the free airwaves entirely and become a cable channel if courts do not shut down the online TV service. The comments by News Corp's chief operating officer, Chase Carey, were the strongest sign yet of network industry opposition to Aereo, which offers a cut-rate TV subscription for consumers by capturing broadcast signals over thousands of antennas at one time. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fox threatens to become cable channel amid Aereo dispute Monday, Apr 08, 2013 02:10 PM PDT  By Liana B. Baker LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - News Corp's Fox TV network raised the stakes in its battle with Web startup Aereo Inc on Monday, threatening to remove itself from the free airwaves entirely and become a cable channel if courts do not shut down the online TV service. The comments by News Corp's chief operating officer, Chase Carey, were the strongest sign yet of network industry opposition to Aereo, which offers a cut-rate TV subscription for consumers by capturing broadcast signals over thousands of antennas at one time. Carey's comments at an industry trade show came a week after a U. ... Full Story | Top |
| A Revolutionary New Crowdfunding Plan - will Hollywood Cash Follow? Monday, Apr 08, 2013 02:08 PM PDT By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - David Marlett knows how to ask for money. Over the past two decades, the lawyer has raised more than $100 million for oil companies, gas companies and real-estate developers to fund new projects. Yet while those deals "put bread on the table," he describes them as his "other life." He is now dedicating his life to revolutionizing finance in another area - the movie business. ... Full Story | Top |
| Painter Bacon's portrait of lover to be auctioned in New York Monday, Apr 08, 2013 01:16 PM PDT  By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 1962 painting by artist Francis Bacon of his lover Peter Lacy is expected to sell for as much as $40 million when it is auctioned in New York next month, Sotheby's said on Monday. The oil on canvas "Study for a Portrait of P.L." is considered one of Bacon's most significant works and will be among the highlights of Sotheby's contemporary art evening sale on May 14, the auction said. "He was the great love of Bacon's life," said Oliver Barker, Sotheby's deputy chairman, Europe. ... Full Story | Top |
| Disney child star Annette Funicello dies at age 70 Monday, Apr 08, 2013 01:13 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Annette Funicello, America's girl next door who captured the innocence of the 1950s and 1960s as a Disney Mouseketeer and the star of beach party movies, died on Monday at age 70, the Walt Disney Co. said. Funicello died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, California, from complications of multiple sclerosis, the television and film studio said. Her family told celebrity news television program "Extra" that Funicello had been in a coma. ... Full Story | Top |
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