Arts

Elizabeth Taylor tweets Jackson grief - 07/18/2009

LOS ANGELES- Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has spoken out about her sadness after Michael Jackson's death, amid tabloid rumors she was hospitalized by grief. "I'm home from the hospital sore, but...

Amazon sends Orwell to 'memory hole' - 07/18/2009

WASHINGTON - Amazon fended off Saturday accusations of Big Brother-like behavior after it quietly erased two George Orwell books from customers' electronic book readers this week. From Thursday,...

World's oldest man, British WWI veteran dies aged 113 - 07/18/2009

LONDON, Robin Millard - Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and World War I veteran who put his longevity down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women", died Saturday at the age of 113....

Australia's 'Big Things' go from kitsch to art - 07/18/2009

DADSWELLS BRIDGE, Neil Sands- Long dismissed as tourist kitsch, Australia's "Big Things" -- giant models of everything from koalas to pineapples -- are now being heritage-listed and recognised as...

As a child, Jackson too fast for his father's belt: brother - 07/18/2009

LONDON - Pop legend Michael Jackson used to escape beatings from his father when he was a child by swiftly dodging and weaving his way to safety, his brother Tito Jackson said Friday. Tito said...

Salzburg Festival feels pinch from global slump: report - 07/18/2009

VIENNA - Salzburg Festival ticket sales are down this year because of the global economic crisis, festival business director Gerbert Schwaighofer said Friday. The festival runs from July 25 until...

New Michael Jackson song leaked to celebrity website - 07/17/2009

LOS ANGELES - A new Michael Jackson song titled "A Place with No Name" was unveiled on the celebrity news website TMZ.com on Thursday, three weeks after the death of the "King of Pop." The...

Architectural photographer Julius Shulman dies at 98 - 07/17/2009

NEW YORK - Photographer Julius Shulman, whose images of modernist architecture thrust the movement into the limelight, has died aged 98, his representative told AFP Thursday. Shulman, whose...

French first lady to sing for Mandela - 07/15/2009

NEW YORK - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will lead a glittering line-up of stars at a concert here to mark Nelson Mandela's birthday, in what will be her first public show since becoming France's first lady....

'Harry Potter' rakes in record midnight magic - 07/15/2009

LOS ANGELES - The sixth Harry Potter film raked in a staggering 22.2 million dollars in its midnight premiere Wednesday, making box-office magic with the biggest such gross of all time, Variety...
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