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Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift uses music muscle to seek higher payouts for others
LOS ANGELES — Pop music titan Taylor Swift on Monday announced a new record deal with Universal Music Group that will give her greater control over her own music and could boost future payouts to artists for music played on streaming service Spotify.Swift, who with best-selling albums like "1989" and "Reputation" is one of pop music's wealthiest and most influential artists, said the deal with Universal Music Group (UMG) included an agreement that any potential sale of UMG's shares in Spotify "result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable.""They have generously agreed to this, at what they believe will be much better terms and paid out previously by other major labels," the "Fearless" singer told her 113...
November 20, 2018

Taylor Swift uses music muscle to seek higher payouts for others

Rapper Snoop Dogg receives his star on the
As he gets Hollywood Walk of Fame star, Snoop Dogg thanks ... himself
LOS ANGELES — California rapper Snoop Dogg received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, and celebrated by giving himself a big thank you.The musician and star of an unlikely television pairing with lifestyle guru Martha Stewart - "Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner" - was awarded the honor on the 25th anniversary of his debut album "Doggystyle.""I want to thank me for believing in me, I want to thank me for doing all this hard work, I want to thank me for having no days off, I want to thank me for never quitting, I want to thank me for always being a giver, and trying to give more than I receive, I want to thank me for doing more right than wrong, I want to thank me for being me at all times," the "Drop It Like It's Hot" singer...
November 20, 2018

As he gets Hollywood Walk of Fame star, Snoop Dogg thanks ... himself

Rhinestone pigeon
What a fabulous bird!
Arizona — A lot of us look at pigeons less than fondly, but clearly not all of us. A bird shelter in Arizona, USA, is looking for the owner of a pigeon found wearing a rhinestone-covered vest. The bird, now nicknamed 'rhinestone bird' and 'Liberace', was given to the Fallen Feathers rescue and rehabilitation facility for birds in Phoenix.According to local reports, the pigeon was found by a woman in Glendale, wearing a blingy flight suit.The woman said he wouldn't fly away and she was afraid an animal would eat him, so she turned in the bedazzled bird to Judy Kieran - the founder of Fallen Feathers.The bedazzled bird received instant online fame once Judy shared his picture on Facebook a week ago, in hopes of tracing his owner. Comments quickly flooded in, ranging...
November 20, 2018

What a fabulous bird!




Kathleen Kennedy accepts the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. — Reuters
‘Star Wars’ producer Kennedy wants new movie voices ‘to bring world to its senses’
LOS ANGELES — “Star Wars” producer Kathleen Kennedy on Sunday accepted a lifetime achievement award from the organizers of the Oscars and said she hoped it would open the door for new voices in the movie industry who “might bring the world back to its senses.”Honored with her producer husband Frank Marshall, Kennedy was the first woman to receive the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Irving. G. Thalberg award.In 2012, Kennedy became president of LucasFilm, reviving the sci-fi saga and producing multi-billion dollar movies “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” that have made her one of the most powerful executives in Hollywood.“I am very proud to be the first woman to accept this award. But I am also not the first to deserve it...
November 19, 2018

‘Star Wars’ producer Kennedy wants new movie voices ‘to bring world to its senses’

Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe’s Golden Globe sells for record $250,000 at auction
Los Angeles, California — Marilyn Monroe’s Golden Globe Award sold for a record-breaking $250,000 at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, auction officials said late Saturday.The 1961 award statue for World Film Favorite Female from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made history as the highest selling Golden Globe sold at auction.Monroe’s raven black two-seater, 1956 Ford Thunderbird, which was auctioned for the first time, fetched $490,000 at Icons & Idols: Hollywood, which took place Friday and Saturday.Monroe, one of the most collectible celebrities, was pictured driving in the car with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, shortly after their June 1956 wedding. The movie star owned the vehicle for six years until shortly before her death in 1962.Darren Julien,...
November 19, 2018

Marilyn Monroe’s Golden Globe sells for record $250,000 at auction




Visitors hold up their tickets as they wait in line to see Mickey Mouse during an event commemorating the 90th birthday of the Disney character, in Tokyo Disneyland, Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. — Reuters
Mickey Mouse, the icon of an animation empire, turns 90
NEW YORK — It was the Roaring ‘20s. Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, the New York Yankees had just won their third World Series title and Mickey Mouse made his debut on the silver screen.On Sunday, Mickey Mouse, the brainchild of cartoonist Walt Disney that eventually came to symbolize a global entertainment empire, celebrated his 90th birthday.The iconic rodent, whose easily recognizable silhouette consists simply of a big circle and two little ones for ears, launched his celluloid career in “Steamboat Willie,” at New York’s Colony Theater on Nov. 18, 1928.In the eight-minute-long, black-and-white cartoon, Mickey pilots a steamboat and entertains his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on board, according to IMDB.com.Mickey Mouse,...
November 19, 2018

Mickey Mouse, the icon of an animation empire, turns 90

A scene from the movie
'Eighth Grade,' 'Beale Street' land Indie Spirit nominations
LOS ANGELES — Coming-of-age movie "Eighth Grade" and family drama "If Beale Street Could Talk" scored best feature nominations on Friday for the Independent Spirit Awards, the annual honors given to Hollywood's lower-budget movies."We the Animals," a film about three biracial brothers, led all movies with five nods, including one for best first feature from director Jeremiah Zagar."Eighth Grade" was in the running for the top prize alongside "First Reformed," "Beale Street," "Leave No Trace" and "You Were Never Really Here."The best female lead category included nominations for Glenn Close for "The Wife" and Toni Collette for "Hereditary." Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for best male...
November 18, 2018

'Eighth Grade,' 'Beale Street' land Indie Spirit nominations

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin
Justin Bieber confirms marriage to Hailey Baldwin
LOS ANGELES — Pop singer Justin Bieber has confirmed his marriage to model Hailey Baldwin, posting the ultimate status update on social media two months after it was reported the couple had obtained a marriage license."My wife is awesome," Bieber wrote on his Instagram account, next to a picture of himself and Baldwin walking and holding hands.The Canadian singer is one of the world's biggest-selling musical acts. Since releasing his last studio album in 2015, he has been featured on hits by other artists, including Major Lazer's "Cold Water" and a remix of Luis Fonsi's global sensation "Despacito," in which Bieber sang in Spanish.This summer, it was reported that Bieber was engaged to Baldwin, 21, the daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin, and in...
November 18, 2018

Justin Bieber confirms marriage to Hailey Baldwin

Actor Ezra Miller attends the British premiere of 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald' movie in London. — Reuters
Dark, new 'Fantastic Beasts' movie grounded in real world
LOS ANGELES — Albus Dumbeldore is a young professor at Hogwarts School; the charismatic but evil Gellert Grindelwald is determined to manipulate the world for his own ends; and Newt Scamander, with his magical suitcase of strange creatures, is trying to stop him.The wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling returns to the big screen this week with "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," and its dark themes are grounded firmly in the real world.Set in 1927, some 70 years before Rowling's best-selling "Harry Potter" books and movies, "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" is the second in a spinoff movie series that explores the fight between good and evil, and between tolerance and acceptance."The thing that has always been extraordinary...
November 17, 2018

Dark, new 'Fantastic Beasts' movie grounded in real world

Stormzy
Grime star Stormzy announced as Glastonbury's first headline act
LONDON — British grime star Stormzy has been confirmed as the first headline act at Glastonbury next year, organizers have said, as the green-field music festival returns from a year off.Held annually on a dairy farm in Somerset, southwest England, Glastonbury took a so-called fallow year in 2018 to give the land and local residents a break. It will take place from June 26-30, with a host of big names expected to take to the stage, entertaining thousands of revelers.In a post on the festival website on Thursday, organizers said Stormzy, who has performed twice at Glastonbury, would return to the stage, this time as a headline act."He's one of the most exciting British artists to come along in years and after seeing him play here in 2017 we knew next time he had to come back and...
November 17, 2018

Grime star Stormzy announced as Glastonbury's first headline act

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