Arts

Cat Stevens announces comeback tour, musical - 09/18/2009

LONDON - Yusuf Islam, the musician formerly known as Cat Stevens, is to return to the stage for his first tour since 1976, he said Thursday. The British singer-songwriter is to pick up his...

Boy's films confront Down's syndrome stigma in Serbia - 09/18/2009

ALEKSANDROVAC, Suzana Markovic - Like many boys his age, 14-year-old Aksentije wanted to become a secret agent, at least on the big screen like his idol Antonio Banderas. Despite a gloomy...

Trailer for Jackson concert movie released - 09/17/2009

LOS ANGELES- A trailer for the upcoming movie about Michael Jackson's final days was officially released here Wednesday, showing tantalizing glimpses of the singer preparing for his doomed comeback....

Larry Hagman resumes role of millionaire on Spanish TV series - 09/16/2009

MADRID- US actor Larry Hagman, best known for his role as J.R. Ewing, the unscrupulous heir to a Texas oil fortune in "Dallas", plays a millionaire again in a new Spanish television series which...

Russia opens Bolshoi theatre corruption probe - 09/15/2009

MOSCOW - Russian investigators are probing allegations that millions of dollars (euros) were embezzled in the costly and long-running renovation of the legendary Bolshoi Theatre, officials said on...

'Basketball Diaries' poet, punk rocker Jim Carroll dead: report - 09/15/2009

WASHINGTON - Poet-musician Jim Carroll, who chronicled his teenage bouts with drugs in "The Basketball Diaries" and became a star figure in New York's punk world, has died at age 60, his former wife...

Music world slams Kanye West over awards outburst - 09/15/2009

LOS ANGELES - Pop stars slammed Kanye West on Monday after the rapper shocked the MTV Video Music Awards by crashing the stage during teen star Taylor Swift's acceptance speech. West stunned...

After Klimt, Vienna museum fears restitution of stolen Vermeer - 09/14/2009

VIENNA, Philippe Schwab - Three years after a Vienna museum had to restore five Klimt paintings stolen by the Nazis to their Jewish owners, the city's art museum is fearing the same fate for a piece...

Oprah says she saw herself in dark film 'Precious' - 09/14/2009

TORONTO- US talk show host Oprah Winfrey saw herself in the lead character of the film "Precious" about an overweight, illiterate and abused Harlem teen determined to improve her life, she said...

Tyler Perry's 'I Can Do Bad' does good at box office - 09/14/2009

LOS ANGELES- The dramedy "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself" shot to number one at the North American box office Sunday, trouncing sci-fi and slasher epics and burnishing the reputation of a...
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