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  • What distracts Taylor Swift on stage

    Singer Taylor Swift says while performing on the stage she is distracted by fans with sign boards and she goes off track. The 23-year-old, known for her songs like "Love story", "Teardrops on my guitar" and "You belong with me", starts reading the signs and forgets her lyrics, reports thesun.co.uk. "It's amazing and adorable, but if there's a really long sign and I'm trying to read it while ...

  • Shaolin temple goes global

    The Shaolin Temple, known as the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is preparing to stage its first cultural festival in the US as part of efforts to expand its global clout. The first North American Shaolin Cultural Festival is scheduled to be held from Oct 8 to 14 in Los Angeles, according to Shi Yongxin, abbot of the Buddhist temple in the city of Dengfeng in central China's Henan province, reported ...

  • Danielle Bradbery wins The Voice

    The Voice contestants, from left to right, brothers Zach and Colton Swon, Danielle Bradbery and Michelle Chamuel stand on stage during the season finale of the show. (NBC ...

  • Obama’s Second-Term G-8 Dance Card Judo With Putin Trade and Syria

    . Europeans also see a free-trader pressuring the French to bow before the altar of low tariffs in pursuit of a U.S. and European trade pact. Just last week, White House officials feared they wouldn't even be able to announce the beginning of trade talks at the G-8 Summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Northern Ireland. Under sustained pressure from British Prime Minister David Cameron, ...

  • Langley City opts for 16 months of acting mayors to save the $45000 cost of a byelection

    The Arbutus Ridge condos will stand in a spot that has long been familiar to Vancouverites. It's here, at Arbutus and West 16 Avenue, where the Ridge theatre and bowling lanes made their home for ...


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Michael Collins

It took Irish director Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game," "Interview With the Vampire") twelve years to get his romantic biopic "Michael Collins" to the screen. It went through a number of other hands, but through persistence and a bit of luck, Jordan finally secured $28 million from producer mogul David Geffen. Geffen allowed him complete artistic freedom to paint his own portrait of this mythical ... ...

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  • Man of Steel star almost shot stuntman

    Actor Christopher Meloni almost shot his stunt double on the set of new movie Man of Steel after his gun misfired during filming. The former Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star plays Colonel Nathan Hardy in the latest Superman reboot and he spent weeks undergoing weapons training for the project - however Meloni admits he almost caused a fatal injury. He tells New York Magazine, ...

  • Mary J. Blige sued over axed gig

    Soul icon Mary J. Blige has been hit with a lawsuit over a cancelled 2012 concert. The No More Drama hitmaker is accused of reneging on a deal to perform in Dallas, Texas on December 9 just days before she was set to hit the stage. Bosses at promotions company Vision Entertainment Worldwide claim Blige was paid a $145,000 deposit to secure the gig, but she never handed back the money when the ...

  • California judge irked by accused killer acting as own lawyer

    SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) - An accused California serial killer representing himself at his own murder trial drew a series of rebukes from the judge on the first day of testimony and was warned to obey procedural rules in court or risk losing the right to serve as his own ...

  • Theater Review A Comedy of Errors Unfolds in the 40s With Fedoras

    By the time the gun-toting nuns make an appearance, you may find that ...

  • Two world opera stars to appear in concert on Red Square

    MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Anna Netrebko and Dmitry Khvorostovsky, the Russian operatic stars of global renown are expected to give the first ever joint concert in Moscow Wednesday. Performing arts and show biz analysts expect a capacity crowd of spectators at the concert. Tuesday, the two singers faced a capacity crowd of reporters at a news conference that brought together representatives ...

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