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A new home, seen Wednesday, on Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, has replaced the now razed home in which Sharon Tate and four others were killed by the Manson Family 50 years ago. -AFP
Manson murders grip tourists and Tarantino 50 years on
LOS ANGELES - As a tour guide specializing in notorious Hollywood deaths, Scott Michaels is well aware of America's morbid fascination with the dark side of Tinseltown.But on the 50th anniversary of the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others at the hands of Charles Manson's apocalyptic cult, he has never seen anything like it."It's unprecedented really. I've never seen the attention," he told AFP at his museum in Los Angeles. "I'm running extra tours, two or three extra tours a week. The attention is crazy."Michaels drives his customers up to Cielo Drive, the leafy and winding road above exclusive Beverly Hills where director Roman Polanski's wife Tate -- eight-and-a-half months pregnant -- was stabbed to death in the early hours of...
August 08, 2019

Manson murders grip tourists and Tarantino 50 years on

The 1969 Abbey Road album cover. -Courtesy photo
The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road cover shot 50 years ago today
LONDON - Fifty years ago today The Beatles were photographed crossing a leafy street in north London, creating one of the most famous album covers in music history and an image imitated by countless fans ever since.The picture of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr striding over a zebra crossing on Abbey Road was taken outside the EMI Recording Studios where they made the 1969 album of the same name, and nearly all of their other recordings.Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan took just six shots of the group on the crossing, with the fifth used as the cover of the band's eleventh studio album, released on Sept. 26 1969.'Abbey Road', which was voted the best Beatles album by readers of Rolling Stone in 2009, was the only one of the group's original...
August 08, 2019

The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road cover shot 50 years ago today

Disney to reboot
Disney to reboot 'Home Alone' for new TV streaming service
LOS ANGELES - Disney is rebooting "Home Alone" and "Night at the Museum" for its new TV streaming service, which launches in the US in November and is intended to rival Netflix.The beloved and high-grossing film franchises were acquired by Disney during its takeover of 21st Century Fox.Chief executive Bob Iger said Disney was "focused on leveraging Fox's vast library of great titles... for example reimagining 'Home Alone,' 'Night at the Museum,' 'Cheaper by the Dozen,' and 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' for a new generation on Disney+.""Nothing is more important to us than getting this right," he added in an earnings call Tuesday.He did not clarify whether the new versions would be feature films or television programs.The...
August 08, 2019

Disney to reboot 'Home Alone' for new TV streaming service

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No host for the upcoming TV Emmy Award ceremony
LOS ANGELES - Like the Oscars before it, the upcoming 71st Emmy Awards ceremony will go on without a celebrity host, organizers announced Wednesday.The decision will allow the September ceremony to dedicate more time to the television shows nominated for honors, said Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier."If you have a host and an opening number, that's 15-20 minutes that you don't have to salute the shows," Collier said at a gathering of industry reporters.The last time the Emmys skipped having a host was in 2003. It only happened two other times, in 1975 and 1998.This year's event honoring the best television shows is scheduled for September 22.The decision to go ahead without a host could help shake up a ceremony often considered too slow, which suffered from...
August 08, 2019

No host for the upcoming TV Emmy Award ceremony

Fayoum Summer Program.
Art Jameel’s summer program to revive of traditional craft in Fayoum
CAIRO, Egypt — Art Jameel, an organization that supports heritage, education and the arts, annouced a summer program of workshops that aim to engage the community in the revival of traditional crafts in rural Egypt.Over four weeks, the program will engage children in Fayoum with workshops focusing on the regions' unique heritage. The program includes workshops that focus on Islamic geometry, brasswork, printing, pottery and ceramics with which Fayoum is so closely associated with, in Egypt.The summer program, Art Jameel’s first major project in Egypt, outside Cairo, will be led by members of the Atelier Cairo Art Jameel, Art Jameel’s platform for Egyptian entrepreneurship, artisanship and design, which opened in February 2019.The Atelier includes alumni of the Jameel House of...
July 30, 2019

Art Jameel’s summer program to revive of traditional craft in Fayoum

GEA to initiate action against ‘Project X’ event organizers
JEDDAH — The General Entertainment Authority (GEA) has opened an immediate investigation into video clips that went viral on social media on Wednesday on an event in Jeddah.The event held by Project X was in contravention of the legal and regulatory procedures in force and it was not licensed by GEA.Originally, the license was for holding another event, but its organizer took advantage of the Authority’s license and extended the holding of the event until Shawwal 11, 1440H, hence, committing a grave and unacceptable violation.GEA said organizers of the event will be referred to the pertinent authorities.
June 14, 2019

GEA to initiate action against ‘Project X’ event organizers

High school student poets listen to a poem about climate change in the New School auditorium as they prepare for final auditions for
US teen poets find no rhyme or reason to climate peril
By Sebastien MaloNEW YORK — "The ice caps are melting to blue — but don't you know that affects us too?" recited Jordan Sanchez, rehearsing her lines outside the New York City auditorium where she would deliver them on stage later that day."I see myself holding my daughter named Love and I see her first breaths being contaminated with pollutants," declaimed Otaniyuwa Ehue, 18, another participant in the climate change-inspired poetry competition. "Maybe I won't have a daughter."Like Sanchez and Ehue, scores of teenagers have been writing poems about global warming in a bid to perform them this June in one of New York City's legendary venues, The Apollo Theater.In a process mildly evocative of the American Idol TV singing competition, the 20...
May 24, 2019

US teen poets find no rhyme or reason to climate peril

British children's writer and illustrator Judith Kerr chats as she sits in her kitchen at her home in west London on Sept. 30, 2015. — Reuters
'Tiger Who Came to Tea' author Judith Kerr dies aged 95
LONDON — Author Judith Kerr, whose Jewish family fled from the Nazis when she was a young girl and whose story "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" enchanted a generation of children, has died at the age of 95.Her death was announced by her publisher, Harper Collins, which said that Kerr had died after a short illness. It did not specify a cause."It is with great sadness that we announce that Judith Kerr OBE, author and illustrator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Mog the Forgetful Cat and many other classic children’s books, died at home yesterday aged 95 following a short illness," HarperCollins said."The Tiger Who Came to Tea" tells the story of a little girl and her mother who are having tea at home when a friendly tiger arrives...
May 23, 2019

'Tiger Who Came to Tea' author Judith Kerr dies aged 95

The characters in The Big Bang Theory were
As 'Big Bang Theory' ends, will Sheldon get his Nobel Prize?
By Jill SerjeantLOS ANGELES —Will Sheldon and Amy win a Nobel Prize? Who will make a surprise cameo? And will the elevator finally be fixed?"The Big Bang Theory," the show about four brilliant but socially inept scientists that made geeks and comic book nerds pop culture cool, airs its final two episodes on Thursday, bringing to a conclusion the most-watched comedy on US television."It’s really a very sweet finale. It pulls at your heartstrings," Kaley Cuoco, who plays Penny, told reporters after the final episode was taped last month.In the run-up to the finale, fans have seen theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) and his neurobiologist wife Amy (Mayim Bialik) hoping to win a Nobel Prize; experimental physicist Leonard (Johnny Galecki) have a...
May 16, 2019

As 'Big Bang Theory' ends, will Sheldon get his Nobel Prize?

Cannes rocks! Tsunami of pop stars make film festival splash
By FIACHRA GIBBONSCANNES, FRANCE - Bono, Elton John, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits... The red carpet at Cannes is shaping up to look like a dream rock festival line-up.Not to mention Rihanna and a couple of the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, who may yet put in an appearance at the world’s biggest film festival, which starts Tuesday.The opening movie alone, the tongue-in-cheek zombie flick “The Dead Don’t Die”, is chock full of A-lister musicians.As well as Waits and Iggy Pop - who plays a rampaging member of the undead - it also stars singer Selena Gomez and rapper and Wu-Tang Clan guru RZA.Its director Jim Jarmusch is a composer in his spare time and leads Bill Murray and Adam Driver are both musical, with the “Groundhog Day” actor touring North America as a singer with a chamber...
May 13, 2019

Cannes rocks! Tsunami of pop stars make film festival splash

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