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| Secretary of state chokes up talking about wife's health Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 09:07 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry choked up on Wednesday as he spoke about his wife's illness, his voice quavering as he thanked people for their good wishes and said she is doing better. The display of emotion at talks with Chinese officials, which included wiping his eye, was rare for Kerry, whose wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, 74, was rushed to a Boston hospital on Sunday from their summer home on Massachusetts' Nantucket island with "seizure-like" symptoms. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tribune to separate broadcasting, publishing businesses Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 08:32 AM PDT  By Jennifer Saba (Reuters) - Tribune Co will separate its publishing business from its more-profitable broadcast division, it said on Wednesday, following the path taken by Time Warner Inc and News Corp. Media companies have been shedding their print assets to allow a greater focus on their faster-growing broadcast businesses. Tribune plans a tax-free spinoff of its eight newspapers, which include the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The new company, Tribune Publishing Co, will have its own board and senior management team. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sting to perform 10 concerts to benefit NY's Public Theater Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 08:22 AM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - British pop star Sting will perform songs from his new album, "The Last Ship" at ten concerts later this year that will benefit New York's Public Theater art organization. The singer, who shot to fame in the band the Police, said the concerts will run from September 25 through October 9 at the 260-seat Anspacher Theater at the arts organization in Manhattan. In a statement he described the small venue as "a natural fit" to perform the material from the album. ... Full Story | Top |
| A Minute With: Idris Elba on 'Pacific Rim' and playing Mandela Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 07:22 AM PDT  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British actor Idris Elba may be best known as an enterprising Baltimore drug lord on the HBO series "The Wire," but he has a growing presence in sci-fi films and will play South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela in his first biopic. Elba, who starred in 2011's action-adventure "Thor" and 2012 sci-fi film "Prometheus," will next be seen as a general in Guillermo del Toro's epic sci-fi disaster film "Pacific Rim," out in U.S. theaters on Friday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Universal lures 'Dark Knight' producer Tull from Warner Brothers Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 01:01 AM PDT By Ronald Grover LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBCUniversal, cable giant Comcast's Hollywood unit, has signed Thomas Tull, luring the producer behind big budget blockbusters such as "The Dark Knight" and "Man of Steel" away from Warner Brothers and beating out other studios including Sony and 20th Century Fox. The agreement with NBCUniversal is scheduled to be announced on Wednesday, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction. Financial details are not immediately available. ... Full Story | Top |
| Elisabeth Hasselbeck leaves 'The View' for 'Fox & Friends' Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 05:58 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television commentator Elisabeth Hasselbeck is leaving ABC's daytime talk show "The View" after a decade to join the Fox News Channel as a co-host on morning talk show "Fox & Friends," Fox News said on Tuesday. Hasselbeck, 36, a conservative who often clashed with the show's other presenters, including former co-host and liberal Rosie O'Donnell, will wrap up her 10-year run on Wednesday, ABC said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama claims broccoli is his favorite food Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 03:31 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama likes burgers, hot dogs and such, but when it came time to answer a kid journalist's question about his favorite food, broccoli was the first word that sprang from his lips. This revelation came on Tuesday at a White House event that recognized children who won a healthy recipe contest, as part of first lady Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign. Having fun with the children, Obama agreed to take two questions from the journalists among them. The first asked what was Obama's favorite food. ... Full Story | Top |
| British lawmakers recall Murdoch over phone-hacking evidence Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 03:14 PM PDT  By Michael Holden and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers said on Tuesday they would recall media mogul Rupert Murdoch to clarify evidence he gave to them last year after he was secretly recorded belittling a police inquiry into alleged crimes committed by journalists on his papers. In a meeting with staff on his mass-selling Sun tabloid, Murdoch said he regretted helping a police inquiry into phone-hacking which has grown into a far wider investigation into alleged illegal reporting practices. He suggested the industry had relied on such tactics for decades. "Mr. ... Full Story | Top |
| Television host Meredith Vieira to host daytime talk show Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 02:53 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Meredith Vieira, a former co-host on the "Today" morning news show, will have her own daily, nationally syndicated, daytime talk show in the fall of 2014, the NBC television network said on Tuesday. Emmy-award winner Vieira, 59, will be following in the footsteps of her "Today" predecessor, Katie Couric, who left television news and launched for her own daytime show, "Katie" in 2012. NBCUniversal Domestic TV will produce and distribute "The Meredith Vieira Show," which will be based in New York. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jay Z's 'Magna Carta': promo writ large, but critics hold back Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 02:53 PM PDT  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Jay Z is taking promo to the next level, selling a million copies of his latest album to Samsung for smartphone distribution and going on a six-hour Twitterthon with fans. The American musician holds the title for most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart for a solo artist and "Magna Carta ... Holy Grail," has a good shot of being his 13th record to shoot to No. 1. But not all critics were impressed with the music and at least one ravaged the Samsung deal. ... Full Story | Top |
| Country singer Randy Travis in critical condition after heart procedure Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 02:25 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ailing U.S. country singer Randy Travis has undergone a procedure to place a device in his heart that will help it pump on its own, his publicist said on Tuesday, as the singer remained in critical condition in a Texas hospital. Travis, who was admitted to the hospital on Sunday because of complications from viral cardiomyopathy, had the device installed in a ventricle of his heart to help stabilize the muscle before moving to another hospital, publicist Kirt Webster said in a statement. Such devices are typically installed through a catheter in the groin. ... Full Story | Top |
| Major YouTube Network Fullscreen launches platform to make artists more money Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 02:22 PM PDT By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Fullscreen, the second largest YouTube network in the United States, has launched a new service offering the thousands of artists in its network several tools to build their audience and make more money from the world's largest online video site. The Creator Platform, as Fullscreen has named it, offers a series of apps that enable artists to plan when their videos will post to YouTube hours in advance, profit from talking up products or covering songs and push videos out on social networks like Facebook. ... Full Story | Top |
| Striking 'Fashion Police' writers bash Joan Rivers in video Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 02:19 PM PDT By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Striking "Fashion Police" writers on Tuesday released a video taking the show's host Joan Rivers to task for not standing up for them in their battle to join the Writers Guild. The two-minute, 35-second video is titled "Dear Joan: Can we Tallk?" and features several of the nine writers telling of their good relationship with Rivers prior to the dispute, and how disappointed they are that she hasn't backed them in their dispute with the E! Network. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sexual exploitation of underage girls rampant on primetime, Parents Television Council says Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 02:18 PM PDT By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Exploitation of underage girls is rampant on primetime, a new study by the Parents Television Council concludes. The advocacy group's research monitored more than 200 episodes of broadcast television shows during two-week network sweeps periods in 2011 and in 2012 and found that 63 percent of those episodes contained sexual content involving women. The group claims that 33 percent of that content involved sexual exploitation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Starz's 'Outlander' casts its lead with BBC soap star Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 02:17 PM PDT By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Outlander," the upcoming series from "Battlestar Galactica" executive producer Ronald D. Moore, has found its main man. Sam Heughan, whose credits include the BBC soap opera "Doctors" and "A Very British Sex Scandal," has been cast as chivalrous Scottish warrior Jamie Fraser. The series, adapted from Diana Gabaldon's book series, will begin filming this fall for a 2014 premiere. It follows Fraser as he embarks on a love affair with married World War II-era combat nurse Claire Randall, who's mysteriously transported back to 1743. ... Full Story | Top |
| Condition of Kerry's wife improves; stroke, brain tumor ruled out Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 01:37 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Teresa Heinz Kerry's condition continues to improve and doctors have ruled out a heart attack, stroke or brain tumor as causing the "seizure-like" symptoms suffered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's wife, the State Department said on Tuesday. Heinz Kerry, 74, was taken to a hospital on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket on Sunday and then flown in her own plane to be treated at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, where she remains. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rob Lowe heading back to 'Californication' Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 01:11 PM PDT By Tin Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Californication" will experience another Lowe point with its upcoming seventh season. Rob Lowe has signed on to reprise his role as eccentric film star Eddie Nero on the Showtime series, which is filming its upcoming season in Los Angeles. Lowe, who's played Nero on a handful of episodes of the David Duchovny series, will bring Nero back for an episode of the season, Showtime said Tuesday. Nero will re-emerge as a guest star on "Santa Monica Cop," the television series based on the film by lecherous writer Hank Moody (Duchovny). ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Big Brother' host Julie Chen says she's 'stung' by racist and homophobic comments Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 01:07 PM PDT By Tin Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - A day after "Big Brother" aired controversial statements with racist and homophobic overtones made by the show's contestants, the show's host, Julie Chen, declared herself "stung" by the comments, saying, "I took it personally." She added that she was most struck by the anti-Asian comments, directed toward a contestant named Helen. Chen used her other CBS show, "The Talk," as a platform to discuss the comments made by contestant Aaryn Gries. ... Full Story | Top |
| Brad Furman Tagged to Direct James Patterson's 'Private' TV Series Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 01:04 PM PDT By Tony Maglio LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Lincoln Lawyer" director Brad Furman will direct the pilot of "Private," a series based on James Patterson's series of the same name. The two-part pillot, executive produced by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro of Tribeca Productions, is written by "Black Swan" screenwriter John McLaughlin. "Brad Furman is a singular talent whose star is rapidly ascending," said Steve Bowen, president of James Patterson Entertainment. ... Full Story | Top |
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