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| Lock of Mick Jagger's hair sells for $6,000 at auction Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 10:57 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - An anonymous buyer snapped up a lock of Mick Jagger's hair for 4,000 pounds ($6,000) after bidders pushed the price to double its pre-sale estimate, auction house Bonhams said. The clump of hair was sold by the Rolling Stone's former girlfriend Chrissie Shrimpton, who is also the sister of 1960s English model Jean Shrimpton and first met Jagger when he was still an unknown student at the London School of Economics. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rolling Stones strut back to 1969 woodland for London gigs Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 09:27 AM PDT  By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones will take a step back in time this weekend by replicating a woodland in London's Hyde Park present for a 1969 show there that became a tribute to band founder Brian Jones. Jones had already left the Stones the last time frontman Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards and drummer Charlie Watts played the royal park 44 years ago for a gig meant to introduce his replacement Mick Taylor. ... Full Story | Top |
| Murdoch belittled British police in secret recording by staff Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 06:22 AM PDT  By Kate Holton and Emmaline Okafor LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch belittled a British police inquiry into bribes allegedly paid by his journalists in a secret recording made by his staff, in sharp contrast to the profuse public apologies he made to defuse anger at news gathering practices. Murdoch told staff at his Sun tabloid in a private meeting in March that he had been wrong to help the police investigation into tactics he said reporters had used for decades, and promised unspecified support to reporters snared by the inquiry. ... Full Story | Top |
| Clooney, Bullock to open Venice Film Festival with 'Gravity' Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 05:30 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The world premiere of Mexican film director Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity", starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, will open the 70th Venice International Film Festival next month. Festival organizers said the 3D thriller starring Bullock and Clooney as astronauts cast adrift in space after disaster strikes their shuttle will kick off the festival on August 28. Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with Clooney as veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky spiraling through the blackness of space. ... Full Story | Top |
| Motorhead cancels summer gigs due to frontman's ill health Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 03:43 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - British metal band Motorhead has canceled its summer festival appearances due to frontman Lemmy's ill health. Lemmy, 67, apologized to fans on Thursday for having to pull out of six concerts in Germany, France and Russia, while playing down his health issues saying he expected to be back in full force later this year. The band had already canceled three concerts in June after Lemmy reportedly suffering a hematoma which is when blood collects outside of a blood vessel. ... Full Story | Top |
| Book Talk: Adam Foulds reflects on fame and his next book Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 02:02 AM PDT By Billy Cheung NEW YORK (Reuters) - Adam Foulds has written three critically acclaimed books and was included by Granta Magazine on a once-a-decade list of the best of young British novelists, but he says he enjoys a non-consuming type of fame. His next book, "In the Wolf's Mouth," is due to be published next year. His earlier novel, "The Quickening Maze," was nominated for the Man Booker Prize in 2009, and his narrative poem, "The Broken Word," won the Costa Book Award for Poetry and Somerset Maugham Award. Foulds, 38, spoke to Reuters during a visit to New York to receive the E.M. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hit spy comedy tackles the tragedy of divided Korea Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 07:48 PM PDT By Michelle Kim and Daum Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - A trio of elite, but bumbling, North Korean spies has won the hearts of southern compatriots in a blockbuster South Korean film that views the tragedy of the divided peninsula through the unusual prism of comedy. The record-breaking success of "Secretly Greatly" - which scored a million viewers in just 36 hours after its release early last month, a first for a domestic film, and will debut in the United States this month - testifies to the fascination the North holds even 60 years after the end of the Korean War. ... Full Story | Top |
| Douglas Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88 Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 07:28 PM PDT By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Douglas Engelbart, a technologist who conceived of the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass market, died on Tuesday night. He was 88. His eldest daughter, Gerda, said by telephone that her father died of kidney failure. Engelbart arrived at his crowning moment relatively early in his career, on a winter afternoon in 1968, when he delivered an hour-long presentation containing so many far-reaching ideas that it would be referred to decades later as the "mother of all demos. ... Full Story | Top |
| 8 Tell-Tale signs that a movie could be a flop Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 05:19 PM PDT  By Brent Lang and Sara Morrison LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "White House Down" landed in theaters this past weekend with a thud. Blowing up much of the Beltway cost $150 million, but the film only eked out a $25.7 million opening despite boasting the triple threat of Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx and "Independence Day" director Roland Emmerich. And this week sees the debut of "The Lone Ranger," which rides into theaters on a flurry of bad reviews and damaging reports about a bursting budget and production snafus. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Amazing Spider-Man 2,' 'RoboCop' heading to Comic-Con with stars In tow Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 05:17 PM PDT By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Sony Pictures is bringing "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," "RoboCop" and "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2" to Comic-Con this year. All three panels will take place July 19 in Hall H. The "Spider-Man" panel will feature director Marc Webb; stars Andrew Garfield, Jamie Foxx and Dane DeHaan, and producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach. Notably absent are Emma Stone and Paul Giamatti. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'The Way, Way Back' tops releases at specialty box office on Friday Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 05:15 PM PDT By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - For moviegoers looking for an alternative to "Despicable Me 2" and "The Lone Ranger" over the July 4 weekend, a handful of independent movies will debut at the specialty box office on Friday. Fox Searchlight's coming-of-age tale "The Way, Way Back" is written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash and stars Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Sam Rockwell and newcomer Liam James. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Orange Is the New Black' creator on getting renewed ahead of debut: 'Netflix Has Balls' Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 05:13 PM PDT (Strong language in last paragraph) By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Netflix just handed out a season renewal to its fourth original series, "Orange Is the New Black," more than a week before it premieres July 11. "Look, it works for me," showrunner Jenji Kohan said on a press call on Tuesday. "I think it's terrific, and I think it shows, at least in my case, that Netflix has balls. They were just like, 'We like it, we believe in it, we're going to pick it up.' I'm just grateful. I think it's awesome. ... Full Story | Top |
| Disney's 'Lone Ranger' starts box office ride with $2 million Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 05:11 PM PDT  By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's big-budget Western "The Lone Ranger," starring Johnny Depp as Native American sidekick Tonto, rode off with $2 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales during its first shows on Tuesday night, trotting well behind animated "Despicable Me 2." Both films are fighting for audiences heading into the U.S. Independence Day holiday on Thursday, one of the biggest movie going periods of the year. "Despicable Me 2" took in $4.7 million in its Tuesday night preview shows, according to distributor Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast Corp. ... Full Story | Top |
| Frank Darabont's TNT Mobster Drama Casts '24' Actor Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 05:08 PM PDT  By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Louis Lombardi is getting mobbed up for TNT. Lombardi, who played agent Edgar Stiles on "24," has signed on for a recurring role on "Lost Angels," the upcoming TNT crime drama from former "The Walking Dead" showrunner Frank Darabont. Lombardi will play Stucky, a henchman for mob boss Mickey Cohen. Based on the John Buntin book "L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City," "Lost Angels" will chronicle the decades-long feud between the LAPD, led by then-Chief William Parker, and Cohen's West Coast gang. ... Full Story | Top |
| 7 TV show retools that actually worked Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 05:05 PM PDT By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Over the past few days, the news broke that Fox's "Glee" had let go of five original cast members only to promote five newer cast members to series regular status. It's just the newest indication that the musical series is going through yet another retooling. Last season, the musical series made some big changes in storyline, setting and cast. Several new students joined the series and several characters moved on to their lives after McKinley High. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rapper 50 Cent charged with domestic violence in Los Angeles Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 04:14 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Rapper 50 Cent has been charged with domestic violence and vandalism in Los Angeles after an alleged altercation with the mother of his child, the city attorney's office said on Wednesday. The rapper, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, is accused of kicking the woman and destroying $7,100 worth of property in her condominium on June 23 in the Toluca Lake community of Los Angeles. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Big Brother' contestant dropped by modeling agency over racist, homophobic comments Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 03:46 PM PDT (Offensive content in paragraph 4) By Sara Morrison LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Big Brother houseguest Aaryn Gries, the 22-year-old Texan college student who hasn't had anything nice to say about her fellow gay, Asian American, or black houseguests, has been dropped by her modeling agency. Austin-based Zephyr Talent released a statement on its Facebook page saying that it did not condone Gries's "prejudices and other beliefs," which did not represent Zephyr. The company said that Zephyr, "upon much consideration," has "decided to release Aaryn from her contract with Zephyr Talent. ... Full Story | Top |
| George Clooney and Sandra Bullock's 'Gravity' Will Be First 3D Film to Open Venice Film Festival Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 03:43 PM PDT  By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - "Gravity," the new film from "Y tu mama tambien" director Alfonso Cuaron, will hold its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on August 28. Two of Cuaron's last three films, "Y tu mama tambien" and "Children of Men," both screened at the festival in competition and took home awards. Though "Gravity" will not be in competition, it will be the first 3D film to open the festival. Cuaron's deep space thriller stars Sandra Bullock as Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Second Honeymoon' knocks 'Inferno' from top of U.S. best-sellers list Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 01:58 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Second Honeymoon" by James Patterson and Howard Roughan soared to the top of the U.S. best-sellers list on Wednesday, deposing Dan Brown's "Inferno," which had held the top spot for six consecutive weeks. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. "Second Honeymoon" by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown, $28.00) 28 2. "Inferno" by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $29.95) 1 3. "And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $28.95) 4 4. ... Full Story | Top |
| Douglas Engelbart, father of the mouse, dies at 88 Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 01:51 PM PDT By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Douglas C. Engelbart, a technologist who conceived of the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass market, died on Tuesday night. He was 88. Engelbart had suffered from poor health and died peacefully in his sleep, his daughter, Christina, told friends in an email. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rapper Wale knocks Kanye West from atop Billboard album chart Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 01:40 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American rapper Wale grabbed the top spot on Wednesday on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart for the first time with his record "The Gifted," while fellow rapper Kanye West's "Yeezus," last week's No. 1, fell to third place. "The Gifted" sold 158,000 copies in its first week, according to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. Wale's previous album, 2011's "Ambition," sold 164,000 copies in its first week but only reached No. 2 on the weekly album chart. West's "Yeezus" fell to No. ... Full Story | Top |
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