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Actor and director Jim Cummings celebrates after winning the Grand Prize at the 44th Deauville American Film Festival in Deauville, north western France, on Sunday. - AFP
Tragicomedy about Texas single dad wins Deauville film fest
DEAUVILLE, France - First-time director Jim Cummings on Sunday scooped the Grand Prize at France's Deauville American Film Festival for "Thunder Road", a tragicomedy about a Texas single father.President of the jury actress Sandrine Kiberlain praised 31-year-old Cummings' film in which he also stars as "offbeat and so inventive, written, acted and directed by an outstanding young man", adding that it was a work "unlike any other"."What a joy to witness the birth of an artist, the arrival of a comet," she said.The jury unusually awarded two Jury Prizes to "Night Comes On", a first film by Jordana Spiro and "American Animals" also a first film by Bart Layton.The Deauville festival in the Normandy seaside resort was launched...
September 09, 2018

Tragicomedy about Texas single dad wins Deauville film fest

Eminem
Eminem claims UK album chart record in 'Kamikaze' strike
LONDON - Eminem overtook ABBA and Led Zeppelin on Sunday to claim the record for the most consecutive chart-topping albums in Britain, with the release of "Kamikaze".It is the US rapper's ninth straight album release to hit number one, said the UK Official Charts Company."Does this mean I get to call myself Sir Eminem?", asked the 45-year-old, real name Marshall Mathers III.Alas, the Detroit rapper would have to receive a knighthood - and become one of Queen Elizabeth II's subjects - to get the honorific sir prefix.He shared the previous UK record of eight straight number one albums with Swedish pop quartet ABBA and Led Zeppelin.The British rockers achieved the landmark in 1979, ABBA equaled the feat in 1982 and Eminem joined them in December last year.His last...
September 09, 2018

Eminem claims UK album chart record in 'Kamikaze' strike

Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn
Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn leave 'Project Runway' for new Amazon series
LOS ANGELES - Longtime "Project Runway" stars Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are leaving the show for a new Amazon series.The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the 45-year-old model and 65-year-old fashion consultant will not return when "Project Runway" returns to Bravo for its 17th season.Klum and Gunn will instead develop, produce and star in a new fashion reality show for Amazon Prime Video. Details are being kept under wraps, although Deadline said the series aims "to make fashion accessible to a wide audience.""After 16 incredible seasons, I am saying 'Auf Wiedersehen' to 'Project Runway', a show that I was honored to host and help create," Klum said. "I am incredible proud of the show, and it will always have a special place in my...
September 09, 2018

Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn leave 'Project Runway' for new Amazon series

Nicki Minaj
Brief, angry confrontation in New York pits Nicki Minaj against Cardi B
NEW YORK - Two of America's most prominent rap and hip-hop artists, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, nearly came to blows in a brief but explosive confrontation during New York's Fashion Week.Videos on Twitter and YouTube showed the two women, who were on a second-floor balcony above a red carpet event late Saturday, being separated by their security guards as Cardi B curses her rival before throwing a shoe at her.Minaj was reportedly not hurt. But a photo taken immediately afterward shows Cardi B with a large bump just above her left eye. The Variety website said one of Minaj's guards elbowed her during the melee.It was not immediately known what touched off the dispute, but gossip site TMZ said Cardi B, the first female rapper to have had multiple No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100...
September 09, 2018

Brief, angry confrontation in New York pits Nicki Minaj against Cardi B

Feather, a greyhound rescue, jumps over a hurdle as owner Samantha Valle cheers her on in this undated photo.
Woman's rescue dogs jump into Guinness book
BALTIMORE - A Maryland woman's rescue dogs have both made their way into the Guinness Book of World Records for their jumping skills. Samantha Valle's greyhound, Feather, was honored by Guinness after her 75.5-inch high jump was determined to be the highest jump by a dog. Valle's other dog, a border collie named Geronimo, earned records for most skips by a dog in one minute, 91, as well as most double dutch skips by a dog in one minute, 128. Valle said both animals were rescue pets. Geronimo's "name was actually Cricket when I got her," Valle said. "Little black and white, tan-grey puppy she was so cute. On the way home on the drive from the pound, she tried to jump out the window and that's how she got her name Geronimo." She said Feather also...
September 09, 2018

Woman's rescue dogs jump into Guinness book

Ghiath Ayoub, left, and Saeed Al Batal pose for a picture during the final day of the 73rd Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. - AP
Syrian war documentary wins top Venice prizes
VENICE - A film that follows two friends through four nightmarish years of the Syrian civil war has lifted some of the top prizes at the Venice film festival, which ended Saturday."Still Recording", a documentary by Ghiath Ayoub and Saeed Al Batal, records what happened to two idealistic art students after they were swept up in the fervor of the Syrian revolution.It picked up two awards at Venice Critics' Week.Friends Saeed and Milad leave Damascus and go to Douma in 2011, a suburb under rebel control, to set up a radio station and recording studio.There they struggle to keep a flicker of hope and creativity alive as they endure fighting, siege and famine.Ayoub and Al Batal, who shot 500 hours of footage, said that with so little reporting coming out of Syria it was important...
September 08, 2018

Syrian war documentary wins top Venice prizes

Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne returns after near-death Lyme illness
NEW YORK - Pop punk heroine Avril Lavigne on Saturday announced her first song in five years as she revealed that was so ill with Lyme disease that she feared death.The Canadian singer and guitarist, who became an international star in the 2000s as one of the most successful women in the hard-charging world of skater rock, said she would release the first song off her upcoming album on Sept. 19.Lavigne, in a letter to fans on her website, said that the song, "Head Above Water," reflected her struggle and that she wrote it as she lay incapacitated on her couch."I had accepted death and could feel my body shutting down. I felt like I was drowning. Like I was going under water and I just needed to come up for air. Like I was in a river being pulled in a current," she...
September 08, 2018

Avril Lavigne returns after near-death Lyme illness

Mac Miller
Rapper Mac Miller dies in Los Angeles at age 26
LOS ANGELES - Mac Miller, a rapper from Pittsburgh whose debut album topped the charts in 2011 after his upbeat style gained a following online and who previously dated singer Ariana Grande, died on Saturday in Los Angeles at age 26, officials said.He was found unresponsive at his home in the Studio City neighborhood and pronounced dead there, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said in a statement.Celebrity website TMZ reported that Miller died of an apparent drug overdose. Reuters could not confirm that. Miller, whose real name was Malcolm McCormick, had discussed his use of drugs, particularly the misuse of prescription cough syrup, in media interviews and rap lyrics.The coroner's office did not release the cause of death, saying an autopsy was pending.Miller's family in...
September 08, 2018

Rapper Mac Miller dies in Los Angeles at age 26

Burt Reynolds
'Deliverance,' 'Boogie Nights' star Burt Reynolds dies
LOS ANGELES - Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed heart-throb of 1970s cinema who won acclaim in "Deliverance" and a host of awards later in his career for "Boogie Nights," died on Friday, his family announced.The famously suave 82-year-old, a huge box office draw at his peak who had a reputation as a hard-drinking playboy, reportedly suffered a heart attack and died at a hospital in Florida."It is with a broken heart that I said goodbye to my uncle today," the actor's niece Nancy Lee Hess, said in a statement sent. "My uncle was not just a movie icon; he was a generous, passionate and sensitive man, who was dedicated to his family, friends, fans and acting students."Reynolds, whose career spanned six decades, earned a Golden Globe, Oscar nomination...
September 08, 2018

'Deliverance,' 'Boogie Nights' star Burt Reynolds dies

A sign tribute to soul music icon Aretha Franklin sits on a hearse outside Greater Grace Temple during her funeral in Detroit, Michigan, in this Aug. 31, 2018 file photo. — AFP
Aretha Franklin dresses going on auction
NEW YORK — Weeks after Aretha Franklin’s death, an auction house on Friday announced the sale of more than 30 dresses worn by the Queen of Soul.Julien’s Auctions said the outfits would go on sale along with items from other musical icons on Nov. 9 and 10 in New York.Franklin’s outfits, expected to fetch up to $4,000 each, include a red sequined dress designed by Arnold Scaasi, the late designer best known for dressing US first ladies, which Franklin wore at a 1991 performance at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.Other highlights include a knit jacket by luxury brand St. John that Franklin sported when she was presented the National Medal of the Arts in 1999 by President Bill Clinton.Julien’s Auction did not reveal the owners of the outfits.Franklin, who grew up singing in her...
September 07, 2018

Aretha Franklin dresses going on auction

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