LONDON (Reuters) – British TV presenter Michael Palin is taking up his first acting role in more than 15 years, joining a drama about soldiers producing a newspaper from the battlefields of World War One. Palin, 70, a former member of the Monty Python comedy t... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jennifer Lopez would not have performed a private concert in Turkmenistan at the weekend had she known about charges of human rights violations in the Central Asian nation, her publicist said on Monday. Human rights campaigners, who acc... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Singer and fashion designer Jessica Simpson gave birth to her second child, a boy named Ace Knute, at a Los Angeles hospital on Sunday. Simpson, 32, and her fiance, former football player Eric Johnson, also have a daughter, Maxwell Drew, w... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Bruce Springsteen treated his fans to a complete performance of “Born in the USA”, the 1984 album which shot him to global superstardom, as the centerpiece of a three-hour show in London on Sunday night. The Boss and his E Street Band played... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – After two years as a runner-up, Oprah Winfrey was named the most powerful celebrity on Wednesday by Forbes, heading the six women and four men who make up the top 10. It was the fifth time the former talk show host who runs her own TV netw... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – French actor Gerard Depardieu was involved in a car accident in Moscow on Tuesday when a taxi rammed into a Mercedes carrying him in his adopted homeland of Russia, where he is filming a movie. The 64-year-old star of films such as “Green Ca... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Famous directors, fans and even Darth Vader congratulated “Star Wars” creator George Lucas on Tuesday on his marriage to long-time girlfriend Mellody Hobson at his Skywalker ranch in California. Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, wh... More »
ROME (Reuters) – The body of actor James Gandolfini, who died of a heart attack in Rome last week, was flown out of Italy on Sunday on a flight bound for New York, Rome airport authorities said. Gandolfini, best known for his leading role in the Emmy-winning s... More »
(Warning: contains graphic language.) By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Food Network said on Friday it would drop celebrity chef Paula Deen after the Southern food doyenne was sued for racial discrimination and admitted in a legal deposition to u... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In front of a screaming crowd of fans, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez was honored for her musical accomplishments on Thursday when she received the 2,500th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Lopez, a New York City-native born to Pue... More »
LOS ANGELES/ROME (Reuters) – Doctors at a Rome hospital battled for 40 minutes to try to save the life of James Gandolfini, best known for his Emmy-winning role as a mob boss in the TV series “The Sopranos,” before pronouncing him dead, the emergency room chie... More »
ATLANTA (Reuters) – One of U.S. celebrity chef Paula Deen’s employers said on Thursday it was monitoring the controversy over her admission that she has used a racial slur in the past, while Deen’s own company said the cooking star does not condone racism. In ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Art collector Charles Saatchi has been cautioned by police for assaulting his wife, the celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, after being photographed grabbing her by the throat in an incident that has fueled a debate in Britain about domestic viol... More »
(Reuters) – British folk band Mumford & Sons’ bassist Ted Dwane posted a message on Monday saying he was recovering after brain surgery to remove a blood clot. Dwane posted a picture of himself with a shaved head on the band’s official website with the caption... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch appears to be seeking a quiet divorce, based on the lawyer he has chosen and the absence of incendiary allegations, people with knowledge of the case and experience of high-profile New York divorces said. Divorce papers file... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr put snapshots of his musical and creative life on display in a new exhibit, “Ringo: Peace & Love,” which opened on Tuesday at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. Starr, 72, was on hand at the exhibit, wh... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oscar-winning film star Angelina Jolie revealed on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy after learning she had inherited a high risk of breast cancer and said she hoped her story would inspire other women fighting the life-threat... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer may have stunned fans of the Oscar-winning actress, but doctors say her choice is shared by many other women with a high genetic risk for breast cancer. Jolie, w... More »
MIAMI (Reuters) – New York media mogul Robert F.X. Sillerman is the new entertainment king of Miami Beach after taking over almost all of the famous South Florida island-city’s glitzy, over-the-top nightclubs in a push to consolidate the fast-growing electroni... More »
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Elisabeth Murdoch urged the media industry on Thursday to embrace morality and reject her brother James’s mantra of profit at all costs, in a speech seen as an attempt to distance herself from the scandal that has tarnished the family nam... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Elisabeth Murdoch steps out of the shadows this week to deliver the biggest speech of her career, a chance to show her credentials to take over father Rupert’s empire as her brothers’ claims to lead it out of scandal have faded. While Rupert... More »
(Reuters) – Time magazine and CNN said on Thursday they were reinstating journalist Fareed Zakaria after suspending him last week for plagiarism. Time said in a statement that it believed Zakaria made an “unintentional error” in what was an “isolated incident”... More »
(Reuters) – CNN host and Time magazine contributing editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria was suspended by his employers on Friday after he acknowledged copying material for a recent column he wrote about gun control from another writer. Time said it was suspending Z... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Media mogul Oprah Winfrey is expanding her online empire by teaming up with the Huffington Post for a section dedicated to the chat show host that will engage her audience, the Oprah Winfrey Network said on Wednesday. The Huffington Pos... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch’s tetchy and uncompromising appearance at a British inquiry into phone hacking could come back to haunt him this week when politicians give their verdict on the scandal at his defunct News of the World newspaper. Three days of... More »
(Reuters) – The cool, modernist lines and sober mien of Christian Dior’s new fashion director offer a clean break from the way out shows and wayward behavior of his predecessor, but he faces a challenge to restore the legendary French couturier’s luster. Raf S... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rapper Nicki Minaj shot straight to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday with her sophomore album “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,” usurping the crown from Madonna, who suffered the biggest second week sales drop in chart ... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The green slime flowed so much that even first lady Michelle Obama could not escape it at the Kids’ Choice Awards on Saturday where singers Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift came away big winners. The program is an annual stop for Hollywoo... More »
