BATON ROUGE, LA. —Olivia Jordan of Oklahoma was crowned Miss USA on Sunday, wearing a hot pink strapless dress as she deftly fielded the interview portion of the competition by saying the country needed to improve race relations to beat out 50 other contestants. After weeks of controversy generated by pageant co-owner Donald Trump’s critical comments about […]readmore
Jazz superstar Amy Winehouse rocketed to fame, and disappeared just as suddenly and surprisingly. Her rise and fall is chronicled in a new documentary called simply, Amy, by filmmaker Asif Kapadia. Using anecdotal home videos shot by Winehouse’s friends and producers, concert material, public interviews and recording sessions, Kapadia creates a delightful and haunting portrait of […]readmore
CAIRO—Omar Sharif, the Egyptian-born actor with the dark, soulful eyes who soared to international stardom in movie epics, «Lawrence of Arabia» and «Doctor Zhivago,» died Friday. He was 83. FILE – Sharif arrives for the ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ premiere in Hollywood in 1962. Sharif died of a heart attack in a Cairo hospital, his longtime […]readmore
NEW YORK—«Go Set a Watchman,» the much-anticipated second novel by «To Kill a Mockingbird» author Harper Lee, is the most pre-ordered print title on Amazon.com since the last book in the «Harry Potter» series, Amazon said on Thursday. The online retailer said the novel, to be published on July 14, 55 years after Lee’s classic […]readmore
WASHINGTON—Willie Nelson will receive the national library’s pop music prize this year, the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, as the Library of Congress cited Nelson’s six decades in music Thursday. Nelson will receive the prize in November when he will be feted with a concert and other honors in Washington, the library said. Nelson’s songwriting includes country-music […]readmore
LOS ANGELES—The World Cup-winning U.S. women’s soccer team got a tumultuous welcome in Los Angeles on Tuesday, after its 5-2 victory in a match against Japan in Vancouver, British Columbia. The 23 team members got a rousing welcome at the Staples Center, where fan Karen Mosce came to celebrate the U.S. women’s third World Cup […]readmore
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA—Walt Disney World officials say a bronze statue of Bill Cosby is being removed from the Hollywood Studios theme park. Local news outlets report the statue was being removed after the park closed Tuesday night. Disney offered no other comment. The removal of the statue at Disney’s Academy of Television Arts and […]readmore
Over 20 million has seen him Live. The urban artist with more millions of copies sold, the Big Boss, Daddy Yankee returns in September to Madison Square Garden with the biggest concert in urban latin music. «El Jefe» is back Saturday September 19th, 2015. After a 10 year absence, the boss returns with a […]readmore
In her documentary, From This Day Forward, filmmaker Sharon Shattuck reveals the personal journey of her transgender father, as he told his family that he always felt he was a woman inside and decided to live as one. Shattuck narrates: “I believe it was in middle school when my dad told me ‘Sharon, whenever you get […]readmore
Comedian Bill Cosby admitted in a 2005 deposition that he obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with. He admitted giving the sedative to at least one woman. According to court documents unsealed Monday, the veteran comedian made the admission during his testimony in a civil […]readmore