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This undated picture shows US rock star Elvis Presley. Music legend Elvis Presley, baseball great Babe Ruth and late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia are among seven people who will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. — AFP
Elvis, Babe Ruth, Scalia to receive US Presidential Medal of Freedom
Washington — Music legend Elvis Presley, baseball great Babe Ruth and late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia are among seven people who will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House said Saturday.The award is the country's highest civilian honor, and recognizes "meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors," the White House said in a statement.Three of this year's recipients will receive the award posthumously -- Presley, Ruth and Scalia.The other honorees are; longtime Republican Senator Orrin Hatch; philanthropist and heavyweight political donor Miriam Adelson, the wife of billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson; and...
November 11, 2018

Elvis, Babe Ruth, Scalia to receive US Presidential Medal of Freedom

In this photo taken on Sept. 26, 2018, 33-year-old Japanese man Masaki Kitakoga sings alone in a tiny booth at a karaoke parlor in Tokyo. Kitakoga is part of a growing trend in Japan favoring solo activities that is now so widespread it has its own name:
Going solo: 'Ohitorisama' or the Japanese art of doing it alone
Tokyo — Every so often, 33-year-old Masaki Kitakoga slips into a tiny booth with a desk and a chair and belts out karaoke tunes for 90 minutes -- completely on his own.Kitakoga is part of a growing trend in Japan favoring solo activities that is now so widespread it has its own name: "ohitorisama" or "on your own."Analysts say that Japan's demographic make-up -- more than one third of households contain just one person -- makes it perfect for the solo market, with many also craving "me time" in a fast-paced, interconnected and workaholic society.Karaoke, in many ways the archetypal social activity, is a case in point.Six years ago, the Koshidaka karaoke chain realized that some 30 percent of its customers in certain locations came on their own, so it set...
November 11, 2018

Going solo: 'Ohitorisama' or the Japanese art of doing it alone

Frogs playing cards are pictured at the Frog Museum, a collection of 108 stuffed frogs in scenes portraying everyday life in the 19th-century and made by Francois Perrier, in Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland. — Reuters
In a Swiss town, stuffed frogs enjoy a game of cards
ESTAVAYER-LE-LAC, Switzerland — Six stuffed frogs sit around a table with a bowl of food. Another is positioned holding the reins on the back of a squirrel. Welcome to the unique world of Switzerland's Frog Museum.The museum in the small town Estavayer-le-Lac in the west of the country has arranged 108 stuffed frogs in different poses: writing behind desks, playing cards or enjoying a game of pool.The frogs were created between 1848 and 1860 by Francois Perrier, a Napoleonic officer who wanted to document the daily life of humans at the time, according to the local tourism office.They are on display in one room of the Estavayer-le-Lac Museum, a 15th century stately home, and the amphibians are so popular with tourists and locals that it's become known as the Frog Museum. —...
November 11, 2018

In a Swiss town, stuffed frogs enjoy a game of cards

Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill settle copyright lawsuit
NEW YORK — Ed Sheeran, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have settled a copyright lawsuit claiming that their song “The Rest of Our Life” was a “blatant” rip-off of a song by two Australian songwriters, titled “When I Found You.”A lawyer for the songwriters Sean Carey and Beau Golden said all parties have agreed in principle to settle the case, and have it dismissed in 30 days if all “final issues” are resolved.The settlement was disclosed in a letter filed on Thursday night with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.Sheeran, the English singer and songwriter, had co-written “The Rest of Our Life” for McGraw and Hill, the married U.S. country music stars.The song was released in 2017, two years after “When I Found You,” which was performed and co-written by Australian...
November 10, 2018

Ed Sheeran, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill settle copyright lawsuit

K-pop
Japan TV cancels show of K-pop's BTS over atom bomb t-shirt furor
TOKYO — A Japanese TV station said it had cancelled a Friday television show with South Korean boy band BTS after news one member had worn a t-shirt that sparked anger on social media and was interpreted as commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.The hugely successful group's Japan tour — its first after they reached the top of the Billboard 200 album chart in May — comes as ties between the two nations have frayed due to a diplomatic row over South Koreans forced to work for Japanese firms during World War Two.Social media showed the t-shirt, which bore the words "Patriotism our history Liberation Korea" by a photo of a rising mushroom cloud.Japan became the first nation to suffer an atomic bombing on August 9, 1945, at Hiroshima."We have seen news that a...
November 10, 2018

Japan TV cancels show of K-pop's BTS over atom bomb t-shirt furor

Kim Kardashian
Kardashians, del Toro among celebrities fleeing as Malibu burns
LOS ANGELES — Kim Kardashian, Alyssa Milano and Melissa Etheridge were among thousands fleeing from their homes in and around Malibu on Friday, as a fast-moving wildfire forced evacuations from the celebrity-packed area.Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro tweeted that he had abandoned his vast "Bleak House" museum collection of fantasy and horror memorabilia, while singer Etheridge said she had moved into a hotel due to the fire.The entire 12,000 population of Malibu, which stretches 27 miles (43.5 km) along the Pacific Ocean in Southern California and up into the Santa Monica mountains, was placed under mandatory evacuation on Friday as the Woolsey fire exploded overnight and jumped a freeway, fire officials said.Kardashian, and her sister Kourtney, said they had left...
November 10, 2018

Kardashians, del Toro among celebrities fleeing as Malibu burns

US First Lady Michelle Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in this Oct. 27, 2016 file photo. — AFP
Michelle Obama slams Trump in new book
WASHINGTON — Former US first lady Michelle Obama says she can “never forgive” Donald Trump for questioning her husband’s American citizenship, saying the president and other “birthers” put her family at risk, in her hotly anticipated new memoir.Obama also says she was surprised that so many American women voted for the “misogynist” Trump over Hillary Clinton, “an exceptionally qualified female candidate,” in the 2016 election.The book, “Becoming,” hits stores on Tuesday. Obama, 54, will head out on a multi-city arena tour to promote the memoir, with celebrity friends like Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon tapped to moderate the events.It is one of the most awaited books about US politics in years, and Obama does not mince words about her husband’s successor —...
November 09, 2018

Michelle Obama slams Trump in new book

Actress Claire Foy attends ‘The Girl In The Spider’s Web’ New York screening at Henry Luce Theater in New York City in this Nov. 4, 2018 file photo. — AFP
From Elizabeth to Lisbeth — Claire Foy’s transformation
LOS ANGELES — When director Fede Alvarez chose Claire Foy to star in the latest film in the “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” series, he had no doubt the 34-year-old actress would easily transform herself into the intrepid cold-as-ice hacker Lisbeth Salander.After all, the British actress has experience playing a fearless woman with ice running through her veins when needed — Queen Elizabeth II.“I saw ‘The Crown’ one day and I was like, ‘That’s it, this is all Lisbeth,’ because as crazy as that sounds, there is so much in common with the challenges of playing someone like Lisbeth or Elizabeth,” Alvarez said in a recent telephone interview from Rome.Fresh off her Emmy-winning turn as the British monarch on Netflix’s popular drama, Foy is tackling one of the heroines of...
November 08, 2018

From Elizabeth to Lisbeth — Claire Foy’s transformation

Prince Charles discusses with a mother at the Sarius Palmetum, Abuja Botanical Garden, on the third day of his visit to Nigeria on Thursday. — AFP
Prince Charles says: I won’t meddle when I am king
LONDON —Britain’s Prince Charles said he will stop meddling in issues he feels strongly about when he eventually becomes king, saying he is “not that stupid”.The heir to the British throne has long been outspoken on issues ranging from climate change and architecture to alternative medicine, and critics have warned that if he continued as sovereign he would put the monarchy at risk.Speaking ahead of his 70th birthday next week, the eldest son of 92-year-old Queen Elizabeth said the role of monarch was completely different from his position as Prince of Wales.“The idea, somehow, that I’m going to go on in exactly the same way, if I have to succeed, is complete nonsense because the two — the two situations — are completely different,” he told the BBC.Asked whether his...
November 08, 2018

Prince Charles says: I won’t meddle when I am king

The original handwritten first draft script for the film ‘The Wizard of Oz’ going up for auction, is seen in this image released by Profiles in History in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday. — Reuters
‘Wizard of Oz’ draft scripts head for auction block
LOS ANGELES — A collection of draft scripts for “The Wizard of Oz” and other material from the archives of the 1939 film are going up for auction in December and could fetch up to $1.2 million.Los Angeles auctioneers Profiles in History said on Thursday four handwritten draft screenplays by Noel Langley were being sold.Langley, who died in 1980, was one of about a dozen screenwriters who worked on the big screen adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s children’s book that catapulted Judy Garland to fame and became an enduring movie classic.Langley’s first three original drafts, dated between April 5 and May 14, 1938, are being sold alongside a fourth draft of the screenplay, written by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, and a fifth draft from August 1938 by Langley.“It is the...
November 08, 2018

‘Wizard of Oz’ draft scripts head for auction block

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