Influential U.S. film critic Roger Ebert dies at 70
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roger Ebert, who was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize and became an unlikely TV star while hosting a movie review show with fellow critic Gene Siskel, died in Chicago on Thursday, two days after he disclosed his cancer had returned. "It is with a heavy heart we report that legendary film critic Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago) has passed away," the Chicago Sun-Times, the newspaper where Ebert, 70, worked for decades, said on Twitter.
Fierstein, Lauper forge "kinky" show that's safe for Broadway
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Take an obscure British film about a failing shoe factory, hand it over to openly gay actor and writer Harvey Fierstein, add music by pop star Cyndi Lauper and what have you got? It is the new Broadway musical "Kinky Boots," which aims to make drag safe and commercially viable for the masses, while offering life lessons on love and self-acceptance along the way.
Britain's "Bond girl" queen wins honorary film award
LONDON (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth was awarded one of Britain's most prestigious entertainment honors on Thursday for her support for the film and television industry. Actor and director Kenneth Branagh presented the 86-year-old monarch with an honorary BAFTA award - Britain's equivalent of Hollywood's Oscars - for her patronage of many of the country's entertainment organizations since coming to the throne in 1952.
Beyonce, Jay-Z, Lana Del Rey part of eclectic "Great Gatsby" soundtrack
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The setting is still the Roaring Twenties but the soundtrack for Australian film director Baz Luhrmann's take on classic novel "The Great Gatsby" is firmly 21st-century rap, pop and rock. Universal Music on Thursday released the track list for the upcoming movie featuring Beyonce, Lana Del Rey, and Florence + the Machine, as well as a new song, "100$ Bill," by rapper Jay-Z, who is executive producer of the soundtrack.
Media focused on dissident instead of Beyonce, Cuban official laments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The media is too fixated on Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, who is on an 80-day multination tour, and has not focused enough on important news in Cuba like the visit of pop star Beyonce, a Cuban official said on Thursday. Jose Cabanas, the top Cuban diplomat based in the United States, said Sanchez was garnering much more media coverage than necessary after she was granted a passport and set off in February on a journey to more than a dozen countries.
UK rock star cancels Russia gigs over rights groups "crackdown"
MOSCOW (Reuters) - British rock star and founder of the band Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, said on Thursday he had canceled two concerts in Russia due to what he called a crackdown on human rights groups. Russian prosecutors and tax officials searched the offices of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Memorial, Russia's oldest rights group, and other such organizations last month in what Kremlin critics said were raids aimed at stifling criticism of President Vladimir Putin.
Conductor Salonen dashes from Frank Zappa to Stravinsky
LONDON (Reuters) - Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen dislikes musical anniversaries but he is celebrating so many this year he failed to notice one - the 20th anniversary of the death of the anarchic American rock innovator Frank Zappa. It isn't often that "Mothers of Invention" founder Zappa's rock-and-orchestral score for his film "200 Motels" is revived, but Salonen, 54, will conduct it in October with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he served as Music Director from 1992 until 2009, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the orchestra's acoustically exquisite Walt Disney Concert Hall.
New "Arrested Development" season to stream online on May 26
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The anticipated return of cult television series "Arrested Development" will premiere on May 26 with the entire 15-episode new season available to stream online, Netflix said on Thursday, seven years after the show ended on network television. The Emmy-winning series, which was canceled after three seasons by U.S. network Fox in 2006 because of poor ratings, will be streamed online beginning at 12:01 a.m. PST (03.01 EDT), the Internet subscription service said.
Bollywood launches its first zombie films to win back viewers
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bollywood is branching out from its traditional song-and-dance dramas and slapstick comedies with its first zombie films which filmmakers hope will entice younger crowds back to Indian films from Hollywood's living dead. Few horror films are made in Bollywood and those that do make it to the big screen tend to focus on ghosts and the after-life, which are common themes in Hindu mythology.
Actress Jessica Pare finds fame with TV's "Mad Men"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With her coquettish French song "Zou Bisou Bisou" and her sex scenes with new screen husband Don Draper, little-known French-Canadian actress Jessica Pare was the breakout star of TV advertising drama "Mad Men" last season. Pare, 30, returns on Sunday as Megan Draper, the most vibrant of Don Draper's mysterious assets, while her character forges ahead with her new career as an actress in late 1960s New York.
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