Arts & Culture
Ben Gazzara, Broadway and film actor, died at 81 in New York
Film and Broadway actor Ben Gazzara has died on Friday in New York at the age of 81. Ben Gazzara was best known for playing...
Fidel Castro Launched His Memoirs, “Guerrilla of Time”
Fidel Castro, the former Cuban president has made a rare public appearance to launch his memoirs. The book, “Guerrilla of Time”, is almost 1,000 pages...
David Peaston, the American gospel and R&B singer, dies at 54
David Peaston, R&B and gospel singer, best known for the tracks Two Wrongs (Don't Make it Right) and Can I?, has died at 54. David...
“Tastes from Nelson Mandela’s Kitchen” introduces statesman’s favorite meals
Nelson Mandela's personal chef presents some of the statesman's favorite meals in a cookbook she has launched in South Africa. Xoliswa Ndoyiya's book includes more than 62...
The earliest replica of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa discovered at Madrid’s Prado Museum
An artwork thought to be the earliest replica of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been discovered at Madrid's Prado Museum. Prado Museum said it...
Camilla Williams, the first black opera singer in leading roles in US, died at 92
Opera singer Camilla Williams, the first black woman to appear in a leading role with a major US opera company, has died in Indiana...
Scotty Bowers, former rent boy, reveals threesome with Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson and other A-list Hollywood stars
Scotty Bowers, a former Marine turned rent boy for some of Hollywood's biggest names in the 1940s, claims to have had threesomes with the...
SAG Awards 2012 winners full list
Here is the full list of SAG Awards 2012 winners: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture "Bridesmaids" "The Artist" "The Descendants" "The Help" "Midnight in Paris" Outstanding Performance...
SAG Awards 2012: Mary Tyler Moore won Life Achievement Award
The 18th edition of SAG Awards was held at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium on Sunday evening, January 29. Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Actor statuette...
2012 Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships came to the end this morning
2012 International Snow Sculpture Competition, which is held in Breckenridge, Colorado, each year, came to a close this morning. Fifteen teams of five sculptors each...
Oscar 2012: Martin Scorsese’s Hugo leads the charge with 11 nominations
Hugo, the 3D epic adventure film directed by Martin Scorsese, leads the charge at 2012 Academy Awards with 11 nominations, including best film and...
Oscars 2012: Nominees Full List
BEST PICTURE War Horse The Tree of Life The Artist Moneyball The Descendants Midnight in Paris The Help Hugo Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close BEST DIRECTOR Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist Alexander Payne - The Descendants Martin...
King Juan Carlos is a serial womanizer who made a pass at Princess Diana, says Pilar Eyre’s book
Juan Carlos, the King of Spain, is a serial womanizer who once made a pass at Princess Diana while she was on holiday with...
Etta James has died at 73
Etta James, the US soul singer best known for the tracks At Last and for I'd Rather Go Blind, has died aged 73. It was...
Sundance Film Festival 2012: “Independent film is the theme”
Sundance Film Festival 2012 started on Thursday night, January 19, in Park City ski resort, Utah. It will run until January 29, and it...
USPS worker tossing antique cuckoo clock over fence
Michael Oreb is a clock collector who was eagerly awaiting the delivery of an antique cuckoo timepiece from Pennsylvania, tracking each step of its...
RoseMarie Terenzio, JFK Jr’s assistant, reveals she urged Carolyn Bessette to board that ill-fated flight
RoseMarie Terenzio, John F. Kennedy Jr.’s assistant, has revealed how she talked his wife Carolyn Bessette into taking the flight the couple perished on...
Your Film Festival: $500,000 for Grand Prize Winner
New filmmaking talents are expected to submit their short films (up to 15 minutes in length) between February 2 and March 31 for YouTube's...
Golden Globes 2012 Winners
Sunday night's ceremony of Golden Globes 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel built momentum for some actors on the Oscar trail. Hollywood celebrated a foreign...
Alan Gilbert, the New York Philharmonica conductor, cut the orchestra after cell phone interruption
Alan Gilbert, the New York Philharmonic orchestra music director, stopped the orchestra in its tracks when a mobile phone went off during a performance. Alan...
Pope Benedict XVI: “Gay marriage is a threat to the future of humanity itself”
Pope Benedict XVI warned yesterday that gay marriage is one of several threats to the traditional family unit that undermines “the future of humanity...
Picasso’s Woman’s Head stolen from Athens National Gallery
Picasso's Woman's Head, given to the Athens National Gallery by the artist himself, was stolen on Monday along with two other valuable works of...
Poet John Tottenham launches campaign against the word “awesome” in LA
John Tottenham, a British original poet, has launched a campaign to stamp out the word “awesome” claiming that it is “bogus”. John Tottenham has created...
2012 Palm Springs Film Festival Annual Awards
Just one week before the Golden Globes and seven weeks before the Oscars, Hollywood began polishing its acceptance speeches Saturday night at the Palm...
Elder Efraim: ‘I am led into custody without any justification’
This is what Elder Efrem said to the monks who met him to take his blessing according to agioritikovima.gr. ‘I am a monk and I...
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