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Actor Tony Shalhoub poses with his award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for
"The Band's Visit" sweeps Tony Awards as "Harry Potter" wins best play
NEW YORK - "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" won the Tony for best play on Monday while "The Band's Visit" swept the musical categories with 10 wins, including the top award best musical at Broadway's annual honors for the best in theater.Glenda Jackson and Andrew Garfield took home acting prizes and rocker Bruce Springsteen received a special Tony, while a revival of the AIDS drama "Angels in America" was named best play revival and "Once On This Island" won best musical revival.But the biggest surprise of the night came when Robert De Niro, appearing on stage to introduce Springsteen, used the "F-bomb" against US President Donald Trump.De Niro's comments brought the cheering crowd at Radio City Music Hall to its feet but...
June 11, 2018

"The Band's Visit" sweeps Tony Awards as "Harry Potter" wins best play

Kanye West
Kanye ties number one streak with new album
NEW YORK - Headline-grabbing rapper Kanye West has tied the record for the longest streak of albums to hit number one on the US chart with his latest release, "Ye."The album debuted at the top on the benchmark Billboard 200 chart announced Monday, marking his eighth straight release to reach number one - tying West with The Beatles in their heyday as well as fellow rapper Eminem."Ye" sold 208,000 albums or the equivalent in downloads and streaming in the week through Thursday, tracking service Nielsen Music said, easily topping the chart's number two, rapper Post Malone's "beerbongs and bentleys."West released "Ye" after going silent for a year due to mental health issues. He returned by making characteristic waves on social media, notably by...
June 11, 2018

Kanye ties number one streak with new album

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The women of 'Ocean's 8' steal a big lead at the box office
LOS ANGELES - The women of "Ocean's 8" proved this weekend that they know how to steal the show - and much more - as the new heist flick took in an estimated $41.5 million in North American theaters.With an all-star cast led by ever-popular Sandra Bullock and supported by Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling and Rihanna, the Warner Bros. film was Hollywood's latest experiment - after "Ghostbusters" - in replacing an all-male cast with female stars.The result: One of the top 10 openings of the year so far, which also best three earlier "Ocean's" editions.The film stars Bullock as Debbie Ocean, sister of Danny Ocean (originally played by George Clooney), as she assembles a gang of talented women to plan a seemingly...
June 11, 2018

The women of 'Ocean's 8' steal a big lead at the box office

Youths sing and bang on improvised drums as they walk around their neighborhood to wake up residents for Sahoor before the start of the fasting day in Jakarta, Indonesia. - AFP
Waking up the neighbors: Indonesia's Ramadan alarm clocks
JAKARTA - Most of Jakarta is fast asleep at 2 a.m. but for Fajar Ramadin and his pint-sized comrades it's time to wake up the neighborhood.The motley group of children yell and bang on tambourines and drums as they roam the quiet streets of Indonesia's capital on a mission to stir sleeping residents for the predawn Sahoor meal."Sahoor! Sahoor! Please wake up sir, madam!" hollers the 20-strong group of kids, aged seven to 15.It's music to the ears of dozens of other children who stream out of their houses to join in, adding the thump of empty paint cans and water jugs to the ensemble."This tradition has been around for a long time - every kid is happy to do it," said 13-year-old Ramadin."I like it because this not only entertains people, but also helps...
June 10, 2018

Waking up the neighbors: Indonesia's Ramadan alarm clocks

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HBO orders 'Game of Thrones' spinoff pilot
LOS ANGELES - Fans of "Game of Thrones" could be treated to a prequel series set thousands of years before the hit fantasy saga, network HBO announced.According to a statement released to US media Sunday, HBO has ordered a pilot episode of the spinoff - one of five such projects in the works - created by the author of the original book series George R.R. Martin along with British screenwriter Jane Goldman.The statement added that the prequel, if picked up, will give viewers the chance to see "the world's descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour."No "Game of Thrones" spinoffs, however, will be broadcast until after the much-anticipated eighth and final season of the phenomenally popular show, expected in 2019.Martin has said that fans...
June 10, 2018

HBO orders 'Game of Thrones' spinoff pilot

Priyanka Chopra
Bollywood star Chopra apologizes over 'Quantico' Hindu terror plot
NEW DELHI - Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra apologized Sunday after a furor over a US TV series that showed her uncovering a terror plot hatched by Indian Hindu nationalists.The episode of spy thriller "Quantico" showed Chopra's character, an FBI agent named Alex Parrish, thwarting the plan and noticing one of the terrorists wearing a Hindu rosary.The terrorists had tried to frame Pakistanis for the attack planned ahead of a summit on Kashmir, a disputed Himalayan territory that arch-rivals India and Pakistan claim as their own.Kashmir has been a source of historical tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors who have fought two wars over it.The episode, aired on June 1, triggered outrage in India with many fans taking to social media to "shame" the Indian-born...
June 10, 2018

Bollywood star Chopra apologizes over 'Quantico' Hindu terror plot

 Kid Cudi, left and Kanye West
Another week, another Kanye - this time, darker
NEW YORK - The omnipresent Kanye West returned Saturday with his second album in as many weeks, this time a darker take on life's anxieties with his protege Kid Cudi.After a year of silence in which he sought treatment for mental health, West roared back in April with typical headline-grabbing antics as he became a rare African American celebrity to support President Donald Trump.West on June 1 returned with his eighth studio album, "Ye," in which he turned introspective about his insecurities but, with a hasty seven tracks, showed himself to be less ambitious than when he put out sprawling opuses a decade ago.The rap superstar made good on the schedule promised over his Twitter feed as he released another seven-track album on Saturday, a collaboration with Kid Cudi called...
June 09, 2018

Another week, another Kanye - this time, darker

John Lasseter
Disney exec quits amid scandal over 'unwanted hugs'
LOS ANGELES - Disney animation chief John Lasseter said Saturday he is quitting, six months after acknowledging in an internal memo that he had made staff feel "disrespected or uncomfortable" with unwanted hugs.The 61-year-old executive, best known for transforming Pixar from a small graphics department at Lucasfilm into the world's most successful animation studio, was the pioneering director of "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2".Lasseter apologized last November to "anyone who has ever been on the receiving end of an unwanted hug or any other gesture they felt crossed the line" and promptly went on sabbatical."The last six months have provided an opportunity to reflect on my life, career and personal priorities," the executive said in a...
June 09, 2018

Disney exec quits amid scandal over 'unwanted hugs'

Pope Francis receives an astronaut suit from Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli during a private meeting with crew members of the ISS 53 space mission at the Vatican on Saturday. - Reuters
Astronauts give pope personalized space suit, add white cape
VATICAN CITY - Astronauts from the International Space Station gave Pope Francis his own blue jump suit on Saturday but to distinguish him from ordinary planetary pilgrims like themselves they added a white cape. "Since clothes make the man, we thought we'd have a flight suit like ours made for you," Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli told the pope at a meeting in the Vatican also attended by four other Space Station veterans - three Americans and one Russian. "OK, and you will plan my trip," joked the 81-year-old pontiff, clearly enjoying the exchange. Nespoli said the suit was identical to theirs and made of the same material. It bore the pope's name at birth, Jorge Bergoglio, and the flag of his native country, Argentina. "Then we decided that the outfit...
June 09, 2018

Astronauts give pope personalized space suit, add white cape

Priyanka Chopra
ABC apologizes for Hindu terror plot in Quantico after online backlash
MUMBAI - US television studio ABC has apologized to Indian fans of its crime drama "Quantico" after an episode featuring Indian nationalists trying to frame Pakistan in a terrorist plot sparked online outrage against Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who plays a lead role in the show."The episode has stirred a lot of emotion, much of which is unfairly aimed at Priyanka Chopra, who didn't create the show, nor does she write or direct it," said Walt Disney-owned ABC in its statement.Chopra, 35, is a revered Bollywood star in India, admired for her ability to cross over and achieve success in Hollywood, which has been rare for Indian actors.After the recent Quantico episode, Chopra has faced online attacks at home, and even some calls to boycott her work and the...
June 09, 2018

ABC apologizes for Hindu terror plot in Quantico after online backlash

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