Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
April 30, 2016 | 12:00 AM
Salman Khan
April 30, 2016 | 12:00 AM
Last Updated: April 30, 2016 | 12:00 AM
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ResizeDrake returns with his new album Views (formerly titled Views From the 6). It’s now available to stream and purchase exclusively through Apple Music.
Bollywood bats for Salman Khan as Rio Olympics Goodwill Ambassador. Bollywood celebs including actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, actor-politician Kirron Kher and filmmaker Sooraj Barjatya have defended the decision of the Indian Olympic Association to appoint actor Salman Khan as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian contingent for the Rio Olympics.”It is a very good decision. I am very proud of Salman Khan. All people who are trying to say that only a sportsman should be appointed as an ambassador, I would like to differ from them,” Kirron Kher said at the Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Awards.
Late singer Prince’s Paisley Park estate will become a museum.The home of the Purple Rain hitmaker, who died at the age of 57 at Minnesota compound on April 21, is set to be turned into a lasting memorial for his fans to remember the music legend, reports etonline.com.File photo of prince. APFile photo of prince. AP”We will turn Paisley Park into a museum in Prince’s memory. It would be for the fans. He was all about the fans, this would remember his music, which is his legacy. Prince was always private but would have wanted his music remembered,” The Sun newspaper quoted Prince’s brother-in-law Maurice Phillips as saying.
Bollywood director Kabir Khan was heckled at Karachi airport on April 27 for making ‘anti-Pakistan’ films. The director of Phantom, Ek Tha Tiger and Bajrangi Bhaijaan was in the city on day-long visit to attend a marketing conference and was heading to Lahore, the city he admires.On his way back to Lahore when the director arrived at the Jinnah International airport, a few people encircled him and started shouting slogans ‘Shame Shame’. One of the protestors tried to hurl a shoe at Kabir Khan.A viral video on social media shows demonstrators shouting anti-India slogans mobbed the Bollywood director, loudly asking him why he did not make movies depicting the role played by the Indian intelligence agency RAW in Pakistan.
This week, Desiigner’s “Panda” became the first New York rap song to top the Billboard Hot 100 since Mims managed the feat in 2007 with “This Is Why I’m Hot.”
The state of Jay Z’s marriage to Beyonce has been under scrutiny again following the singer’s explosive lyrics about a cheating partner in new album Lemonade.Despite widespread speculation alleging the rapper has had affairs with Rita Ora and Rachel Roy, it looks like Jay Z didn’t have a care in the world as he relaxed in Miami on Tuesday.The hip-hop mogul, 46, was spotted puffing away on a cigar as he chatted to a friend in a hotel in Miami ahead of Beyonce’s Formation world tour, which kicks off on Wednesday.
Game of Thrones fans have been sent into a frenzy of wild conspiracy theories over a mysterious pool of blood surrounding the body of Jon Snow. Snow, played by British heartthrob Kit Harrington, had been stabbed to death by traitorous brothers in black at the end of season five. The first episode of the new season, which aired on HBO on Sunday, opens on him lying dead as his blood turns the snow around him red. The theories focused on the strange pattern the blood made in the snow, with some comparing the shape that of a direwolf - the sigil of the Stark house.
Current theories abound that Snow may return through his direwolf Ghost as prophecies maintain that even when a skinchanger dies, part of them lives on through his animal.
Indian athletics legend Milkha Singh on Tuesday hit back at Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan by saying that the movie industry hasn’t done any favours by making a film on him.Milkha Singh. Screen grab from YouTubeMilkha Singh. Screen grab from YouTubeSalim has tried to defend his son’s appointment as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian contingent for the Rio Olympic Games.
Compiled by Mariam Nihal