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US actor Brad Pitt arrives for the screening of the film
Brad Pitt says space epic 'Ad Astra' his most challenging film
VENICE, Italy — Brad Pitt has fought in wars, pulled off robbery heists and confronted rivals in the boxing ring during his career, but the Hollywood star says his most challenging film yet is playing an astronaut on a life-saving mission in the space epic "Ad Astra."The 55-year-old actor takes audiences to the far reaches of the solar system in his role as Roy McBride after a new threat causing disastrous power surges threatens Earth.McBride sets off to find his pioneering astronaut father, played by Tommy Lee Jones, who went missing more than a decade earlier while on a mission to Neptune.Set in the near future when mankind has set up living stations and research centers on the moon and Mars, the film follows McBride as he makes his way into the vast abyss through spectacular...
August 30, 2019

Brad Pitt says space epic 'Ad Astra' his most challenging film

US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift arrives for the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, in this Aug. 26, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Taylor Swift's 'Lover' album breaks new record in China
NEW YORK — US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's album "Lover" broke a new record for an international artist in China on Friday as it surpassed one million combined total streams, downloads and sales within a week of its release.The combined total makes it China's most-consumed full-length international album ever in such a short space of time."Lover" was released on August 23 and is expected to reach 825,000-850,000 equivalent album sales in its first week in the United States, according to Billboard magazine.The record includes songs "ME!" featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco, and "You Need to Calm Down", which has a music video starring a plethora of celebrities and LGBTQ stars including Katy Perry, Laverne Cox, Ellen Degeneres...
August 30, 2019

Taylor Swift's 'Lover' album breaks new record in China

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar is presented with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement honor at the 76th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Thursday. — Reuters
Almodovar recognized with Venice film festival lifetime award
VENICE — Legendary Spanish director Pedro Almodovar won the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, calling the recognition an "act of poetic justice".Event organizers said Almodovar was the "greatest and most influential Spanish director since Luis Bunuel".It is the first time Almodovar has received an award from a top European festival such as Cannes and Venice.Almodovar has directed 21 feature films, including "Volver", "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" and "High Heels".Almodovar screened his first film in Venice in 1983 but it was his second inclusion at the festival in 1998, with "Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown", that provoked controversy when the jury president suggested it was...
August 30, 2019

Almodovar recognized with Venice film festival lifetime award

US actress Scarlett Johansson, left, poses for selfie photos with fans and signs autographs as she arrives for the screening of the film
Scarlett Johansson tackles painful divorce tale in 'fated' drama 'Marriage Story'
VENICE, Italy — Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver play a couple in crisis in "Marriage Story", an emotional tale of a relationship falling apart and a project the Hollywood actress said she felt was "fated" as it came about as she went through her own divorce.The "Avengers" regular and "Star Wars" actor portray actress Nicole and theater director Charlie, who go their separate ways when the former, feeling unfilled, returns to her native Los Angeles with their son to shoot a television series pilot.While Charlie at first believes Nicole and Henry, 8, will eventually return to New York, he soon realises this will not happen. The couple want an amicable split but it spirals into something nastier when pushy divorce lawyers are called in.The Netflix...
August 30, 2019

Scarlett Johansson tackles painful divorce tale in 'fated' drama 'Marriage Story'

Bon Truong, 55, finally claimed his prize on Wednesday in Edmonton, Alberta.
Canadian wins jackpot, but kept it a secret for 10 months
OTTAWA — A Vietnamese refugee who played the same lottery numbers since resettling in Canada 36 years ago won a Can$60 million jackpot, but kept it secret for 10 months.Bon Truong, 55, finally claimed his prize on Wednesday in Edmonton, Alberta."I started to think about what this win would mean for my family," he told a press conference. "I realized it's going to change a lot of things and I wanted to make sure we were all ready and prepared for those changes."So he signed his name and phone number on the ticket and put it in a safe.Truong told reporters he now planned to use his winnings to pay off his mortgage, take a family vacation and then continue working as a gardener.He also quipped that did not intend to reveal his newfound fortune to his children because...
August 29, 2019

Canadian wins jackpot, but kept it a secret for 10 months

Eight-year-old rapper Waqas Baloch, center, performs in Lyari, one of Pakistan’s most dangerous neighborhoods, in Karachi, in this May 19, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Straight outta Karachi: Pakistan's surprise hip hop hub
KARACHI, Pakistan — Haunted by gang violence and poverty for decades, Lyari was once considered one of Pakistan's most dangerous areas, but those grim realities also inspired a generation of artists and spawned a burgeoning hip hop scene.With its close proximity to the sea and history of smuggling, the largely ethnic Balochi neighborhood in Karachi stands apart for its history of violence and lawlessness — even by Pakistan's standards.When Karachi served as a major transport hub during the Afghan jihad against the Soviets, Lyari was hit hard by the influx of weapons and drugs — and the surge in brutality such black market businesses bring.Heavily armed gangs and political hit squads exerted iron-fisted control over large swathes of Lyari, squashing economic growth while...
August 29, 2019

Straight outta Karachi: Pakistan's surprise hip hop hub

Former BIGBANG boyband member Seungri, center, real name Lee Seung-hyun, speaks to the media as he arrives for police questioning in Seoul on Wednesday. — AFP
K-pop guru questioned by police amid gambling, sex scandals
SEOUL — The music producer behind some of South Korea's biggest K-pop stars was questioned by police on Thursday in connection with an investigation into illegal gambling and prostitution that has rocked the music industry.According to police investigators, a network of pop stars, businessmen and police are alleged to have colluded and enabled tax evasion, bribery, and prostitution at some of the glitziest clubs in Seoul's swanky Gangnam district.Yang Hyun-suk, founder of YG Entertainment which manages top artists such as Big Bang, Blackpink and others, appeared for questioning at a Seoul police station."I will sincerely explain my position to the police," Yang told reporters before entering the station.Police declined to comment on what they said was an ongoing...
August 29, 2019

K-pop guru questioned by police amid gambling, sex scandals

French actress Juliette Binoche, left, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, center and French actress Catherine Deneuve pose during a photo-call for the film
Not lost in translation: Binoche, Deneuve interpret Kore-eda's 'The Truth'
VENICE, Italy — French actress Juliette Binoche on Wednesday described the challenges of being directed through an interpreter in Hirokazu Kore-eda's "The Truth", but said working with the acclaimed Japanese director was a "dream".Kore-eda's spiky family drama, which also stars Catherine Deneuve and Ethan Hawke, opened the 76th Venice film festival and is among the 21 movies in competition for its top prize.It is the director's first foreign film and was shot in two languages that he does not speak — French and English.Shot largely in the confines of a sprawling Paris house, it is about a French cinema star in the autumn of her career whose decision to publish her memoirs prompts a mother-daughter reunion that raises old ghosts.Oscar-winner Binoche, who...
August 29, 2019

Not lost in translation: Binoche, Deneuve interpret Kore-eda's 'The Truth'

US rapper Lil Nas X poses with the Song of the Year Award in the press room during the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, in this Aug. 26, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Rapper Lil Nas X nominated for Country Music Award
NEW YORK — After his ouster from the Hot Country US song charts triggered outrage and catapulted him to overnight fame, genre-bending artist Lil Nas X is up for a Country Music Award.His now-ubiquitous record-breaking megahit "Old Town Road" — which marries twangy banjo with thumping bass — will compete for "Musical Event of the Year" at this year's CMAs, organizers announced on Wednesday.The infectious single by the Atlanta native was famously booted from Billboard's country list, with the industry tracker saying it was not in line with the genre's sound.Its removal sparked anger over perceived white-washing in the country music industry, with many saying the novice musician's hit was pigeonholed as hip hop purely because he is black.Billboard...
August 29, 2019

Rapper Lil Nas X nominated for Country Music Award

Professional racer Jessi Combs speaks at the 'Overhaulin' discussion panel during the Discovery Networks/Velocity portion of the 2012 Summer Television Critics Association tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California, in this Aug. 1, 2012 file photo. — AFP
'Fastest woman' racing driver dies trying to break own record
LOS ANGELES — Racing driver Jessi Combs, considered the "fastest woman on four wheels," was killed in a car accident trying to break her own record, police said on Wednesday.Combs's jet car crashed on Tuesday in the Alvord Desert where she was pronounced dead at the scene, officers in the northwestern US state of Oregon said in a statement.Combs, 39, earned her "fastest woman" title in 2013 when she hit 398 miles (641 km) per hour, and police said the fatal crash occurred while "attempting to break" the record."Jessi Combs was pronounced deceased at the scene," the Harney County Sheriff's Office statement said. "The cause of the crash is unknown at this time and is currently being investigated."Combs, who also appeared on various...
August 29, 2019

'Fastest woman' racing driver dies trying to break own record

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