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Daniel Johnston performs during the 2005 South By South West Music Festival March 16, 2005 at The Austin Music Hall in Austin, Texas, in this March 15, 2005 file photo. — AFP
Influential singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston dead at 58
NEW YORK — Daniel Johnston, one of rock's ultimate loners beloved for his earnest if haunting lyricism, died on Wednesday of natural causes. He was 58 years old.The enigmatic singer-songwriter and visual artist had been in and out of the hospital in recent months for issues linked to his kidneys, his brother and manager Dick Johnston said.But the death was "unexpected," his brother said, saying "just yesterday his spirits were great and his ankles were swollen and he was looking and feeling really good."In between stints in psychiatric care for severe manic depression, Johnston gave new meaning to lo-fi with decades' worth of homemade recordings in which he pours out stories of personal pain and unrequited love set to classic, Beatles-inspired pop.In recent...
September 12, 2019

Influential singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston dead at 58

A picture taken on Wednesday shows a mechanical lion that has been recreated 500 years after its invention by Leonardo da Vinci, at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris.  — AFP
Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical lion goes on display in Paris
PARIS — Leonardo da Vinci's famous mechanical lion on Wednesday went on display in Paris for a month, in a tribute to the Renaissance master 500 years after his death.The lion, which is two meters (six feet, seven inches) high and three meters long and made of wood with a metal mechanism, is a reconstruction based on a rudimentary sketch left by da Vinci.The original automaton, long since lost, was designed by da Vinci on a commission from Pope Leo X to amuse French king Francois I.Da Vinci, who died in May 1519, had a legendary obsession with the flight of birds and how understanding the mechanism could lead to the creation of a human flying machine.The lion is on display at the Italian Cultural Institue in Paris. — AFP
September 12, 2019

Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical lion goes on display in Paris

Director Edward Norton poses before a news conference for
Norton tackles corruption, politics in private eye film
TORONTO, Canada — Edward Norton's hard-boiled, jazz-inflected detective movie "Motherless Brooklyn" explores the corrupting influence of power at a time when vulgarity and bullying are being celebrated in politics, the star said on Wednesday.Set in 1950s New York, much of the film's cesspool of corruption and politics centers on the menacing presence of city planning boss Moses Randolph — a thinly veiled Robert Moses, who really did demolish so-called "slums" populated by minorities to build vast highways through Brooklyn.In turn, that character, who at one point insists he is "ahead of" rather than "above" the law, has been likened by critics to a "prefiguring of Donald Trump.""These days it's incredible the degree to...
September 12, 2019

Norton tackles corruption, politics in private eye film

Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez, NFL talking Super Bowl performance
NEW YORK — Jennifer Lopez and the NFL are in talks over the performer taking the stage at the Super Bowl in February 2020.Lopez, who participated in the NFL 100 promo on FOX during Week 1, didn't deny reports that she's been in discussions to anchor the halftime show in Miami on an appearance of "LIVE with Kelly and Ryan" on Wednesday.Co-host Ryan Seacrest asked Lopez a follow-up question after she said "I don't know" to a direct question about whether she had been asked to take the Super Bowl stage."In theory, yes, it would be," Lopez said. "It's something that we talked about for many years. It would be nice. It would be nice. I can't say I wouldn't love it."J.Lo, as she's known in pop culture circles, could be a...
September 12, 2019

Jennifer Lopez, NFL talking Super Bowl performance

Visitors take and pose for
London selfie shop lets Instagram generation strike a pose
LONDON — Posing in a bath of pink balls or throwing up handfuls of multicolored confetti, teenagers and 20-somethings snap away at a purpose-built London mini-studio for social media selfies.The Selfie Factory pop-up at Westfield, one of Europe's biggest shopping centers, has seen thousands pass through the 20-odd themed booths and backdrops for quirky images to upload on social media.The space includes a wall of doughnuts, a big fluffy teddy bear, a giant ball pit, a 1950s diner, a confetti corner and colored ribbons to wander through.Mothers take pictures of their babies sat with a bright-yellow old-style telephone, while teenagers pose in the roll-top bath or goof around with the doughnuts."I love all the different rooms," said Molly Bryant, 19, from Stevenage, north of...
September 12, 2019

London selfie shop lets Instagram generation strike a pose

Barbados' singer Rihanna poses during a promotional event of her brand Fenty in Paris in this May 22, 2019 file photo. — AFP
No phones please: Rihanna stages fashion show for exclusive Amazon release
NEW YORK/PARIS — Luxury brands and retailers are increasingly collaborating with celebrities, including style bloggers and Instagram stars, to help design collections and jazz up their wares.The latest example of this is Rihanna, who is set to stage her designer lingerie show for New York Fashion Week on Tuesday to an audience where phones and cameras have been banned.That is because the highly anticipated "Savage X Fenty" fashion show unveiling her fall/winter 2019 latest looks will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video to more than 200 countries beginning Sept. 20, ten days later.Known for her daring, colorful looks on the red carpet, the Barbadian singer has become an increasingly influential force in the fashion world, and especially so since pairing up with luxury group...
September 10, 2019

No phones please: Rihanna stages fashion show for exclusive Amazon release

US actress and director Geena Davis takes part in the unveiling of her dedicated beach locker room on the Promenade des Planches at the 45th Deauville US Film Festival, in Deauville, western France, on Tuesday. — AFP
Lack of female directors in Hollywood an 'embarrassment': Geena Davis
DEAUVILLE, France — The #MeToo movement has not changed the fortunes of female directors in the United States, "Thelma and Louise" star Geena Davis told the Deauville American Film Festival on Tuesday, calling Hollywood an "embarrassment"."Things have profoundly not gotten better for female directors. You just have to look at the figures, down every year," said Davis, who was in the French seaside town to promote a documentary she produced on gender inequality in the film industry.Davis cited figures published by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, which showed women making up only four percent of film-makers working on the top 250 films of 2018."It's a global embarrassment," she said."I mean, come on, how long is...
September 10, 2019

Lack of female directors in Hollywood an 'embarrassment': Geena Davis

British actor Jim Carter, left, and British actor Imelda Staunton, right, pose on the red carpet upon arrival for the world premiere of the film
Silver spoon hits silver screen: Downton Abbey makes cinematic debut
LONDON — The English aristocratic family immortalized in the television hit "Downton Abbey" made their big-screen debut at a premier in London Monday night — but to mixed reviews in the press.The Crawley family make their return after the series drew to a close in 2015 following nine successful years.The films open with them awaiting the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Downton."I didn't particularly want to see a movie when we finished the show... then there was this kind of a groundswell asking for a movie and it became real," Julian Fellowes, creator and scriptwriter of the show and film, said before the screening.The entire cast of the series is reunited, including Maggie Smith as the acid-tongued dowager countess, despite her initial refusal to slip...
September 10, 2019

Silver spoon hits silver screen: Downton Abbey makes cinematic debut

A person looks at rare Robert Frank photographs from his book  Robert Frank, a pioneering documentary photographer whose raw style placed him among the 20th century's greats, has died, according to The New York Times on Tuesday. — AFP
Robert Frank, photography titan, dead at 94
NEW YORK — Robert Frank, a pioneering documentary photographer whose raw style placed him among the 20th century's greats, has died, according to The New York Times. He was 94 years old.The Swiss-born photographer rose to fame with the publication of his landmark book "The Americans," an unflinching look at US society that proved hugely influential.Born on Nov. 9, 1924 in Zurich, Switzerland, he grew up in a family of German Jewish industrialists, and became passionate about photography at the age of 12. He trained as a photo assistant in Zurich and Basel from 1940 to 1942.After World War II, Frank moved to the United States, doing fashion and reporting photography for magazines that included Fortune, Life, Look and Harper's Bazaar.But he grew "tired of...
September 10, 2019

Robert Frank, photography titan, dead at 94

Canadian author Margaret Atwood poses during a photo-call following the release of her new book 'The Testaments' a sequel to the award-winning 1985 novel
Atwood says 'Handmaid's Tale' got much closer to reality, prompting sequel
LONDON — Canadian author Margaret Atwood said a deterioration in women's rights in some parts of the world including in the United States prompted her to write a sequel to her best-selling 1985 novel "The Handmaid's Tale".The novel, made into an award-winning television series in 2017, presents a totalitarian future in the state of Gilead, where the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude as "handmaids" to repopulate a world facing environmental disaster."For years and years people were saying will there be a sequel, please write a sequel, tell us what happened, and I always said I can't do that," Atwood told British broadcaster the BBC in an interview."But then a couple of things happened. Instead of going away from...
September 10, 2019

Atwood says 'Handmaid's Tale' got much closer to reality, prompting sequel

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