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Jason Aldean performs at the Country Music Awards in 2023
Jason Aldean: US country star denies new music video is 'pro-lynching'
LOS ANGELES — A US country star has denied claims his new music video is an anti-Black Lives Matter anthem that promotes vigilante gun violence.Jason Aldean's Try That In A Small Town was pulled off air on Monday by Country Music Television, days after its release.On Twitter, Aldean, 46, rejected the criticism, calling it "meritless" and "dangerous".Another country star, Sheryl Crow, accused Aldean of "promoting violence".The song was released in May, but the video came out last Friday and quickly began to draw a backlash.The three-minute production features clips of masked protesters, Molotov cocktails and a burning American flag as well as CCTV of robberies."Well, try that in a small town, see how far ya make it down the road," Aldean...
July 20, 2023

Jason Aldean: US country star denies new music video is 'pro-lynching'

London-born Birkin became world famous alongside here partner, the French musician Serge Gainsbourg.
Singer and actress Jane Birkin dead at 76
LONDON — The singer and actress Jane Birkin has died at the age of 76, according to French media.The English-French star was known for her personal and artistic relationship with songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, and was considered a style icon in the late 1960s and 1970s.She was born in London but found fame singing in French, relocating there in the 1970s.French media reported that she was found dead at her home in Paris.Her personal and artistic relationship with Gainsbourg made her famous around the world following their international hit “Je t’aime... moi non plus”.The duet was recorded in 1968, months after they met on the set of the film Slogan.It was banned on radio in several countries and condemned by the Vatican because of its overtly sexual lyrics but introduced the pair to...
July 16, 2023

Singer and actress Jane Birkin dead at 76

Hayao Miyazaki, in 2015
How Do You Live: Revered Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki releases final film
TOKYO — Friday saw How Do You Live come out in Japanese cinemas - the latest and ostensibly last film from renowned animation director Hayao Miyazaki.It is hard to overstate the influence of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, the animation studio he co-founded with the late director Isao Takahata.Three of Miyazaki's films -- Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle -- all feature in Japan's 10 highest-grossing films, and he has inspired generations of both animation and live-action filmmakers in Japan and around the world.His 2001 film Spirited Away won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards. Miyazaki himself was given the Academy's Honorary Award in 2014.How Do You Live (Kimitachi wa Do...
July 14, 2023

How Do You Live: Revered Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki releases final film

Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of Elvis
Lisa Marie Presley died of complications from weight-loss surgery
LOS ANGELES — Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock 'n' roll legend Elvis, died of a bowel obstruction, the Los Angeles County medical examiner's office has said.Presley, also a singer, died after being rushed to a California hospital on 12 January. She was 54.Her last public appearance was two days before her death, at the Golden Globes. The death has been ruled as natural.The validity of her will was fiercely contested by family members.At the time of Presley's death, local officials said first responders had been dispatched to her home in Calabasas, where they found her in cardiac arrest.The medical examiner's office said on Thursday that the cardiac arrest was caused by a "small bowel obstruction".This occurs when the small intestine is blocked,...
July 14, 2023

Lisa Marie Presley died of complications from weight-loss surgery

The Writers Guild of America has been on strike since May
Hollywood actors start historic walkout
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood actors went on strike, joining a stoppage by screenwriters to usher in the industry's biggest shutdown in more than 60 years.The Screen Actors Guild wants streaming giants to agree to a fairer split of profits and better working conditions.Some 160,000 performers stopped work at midnight.Stars Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt left the premiere of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer in London as the strike began.The stoppage means the vast majority of US film and TV productions will grind to a halt.The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) strike starts at midnight Los Angeles time (08:00 BST). Picketing will begin on Friday morning outside the California headquarters of Netflix, before moving on to Paramount, Warner Bros and Disney.The union is also asking for a...
July 14, 2023

Hollywood actors start historic walkout

Rikkie Valerie Kollé poses with her co-competitors after being crowned Miss Netherlands
History is made as first transgender woman crowned Miss Netherlands
AMSTERDAM — A transgender woman has made history in the Netherlands, winning the country’s beauty pageant for the first time.Model Rikkie Valerie Kollé clinched the top title of Miss Netherlands contest on Sunday 9 July in the town of Leusden.Judges commented that the 22-year-old had impressed them with her "iron strong story" and "clear mission".Hailing from Breda in the south of the Netherlands, Kollé is the first transgender winner in the competition's 94-year history.Following the triumph, she qualified to compete in the Miss Universe competition, to be held in El Salvador in December.Kollé is only the second ever openly transgender competitor in the competition's history, after Spanish model Angela Ponce in 2018.Ahead of her win, Kollé spoke about...
July 11, 2023

History is made as first transgender woman crowned Miss Netherlands

Britney Spears
Britney Spears says she was struck by guard in Las Vegas incident
LAS VEGAS — Britney Spears says she was "backhanded in the face" by a security guard protecting French basketballer Victor Wembanyama in Las Vegas on Wednesday.Las Vegas police confirmed they were called to the scene at the Aria hotel regarding a battery investigation, but no arrests have been made.Spears said in a post on social media the incident was a "traumatic experience" she was unprepared for.Wembanyama said he "didn't see what happened", but that someone was pushed.The 19-year-old NBA top draft pick was in Las Vegas ahead of his first Summer League game when he visited a restaurant at the Aria, on South Las Vegas Boulevard, where Spears said she spotted him."I decided to approach him and congratulate him on his success. It was really loud,...
July 07, 2023

Britney Spears says she was struck by guard in Las Vegas incident

Coco Lee performs on stage during Booey Lehoo Concert at National Indoor Stadium on December 17, 2011 in Beijing.
Disney star and pop singer Coco Lee dies at 48
HONG KONG — Singer Coco Lee, who enjoyed pop stardom in Asia in the 1990s and 2000s, has died at the age of 48.Born in Hong Kong, Lee moved to the US as a child and released albums in Mandarin and English.She also voiced the lead character in the Mandarin version of Disney's hit film Mulan, and performed a song from the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the 2001 Oscars.Her sisters said she had been in a coma since a suicide attempt at the weekend.Lee had been suffering from depression for a few years, older sisters Carol and Nancy wrote in a Facebook post.She tried to take her own life at home on Sunday and was taken to hospital, where she died on Wednesday, they wrote.Lee broke into the Mandopop scene in 1994 with two Mandarin albums. Within the next year, she released...
July 06, 2023

Disney star and pop singer Coco Lee dies at 48

Oscar winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray (left) made a documentary on Mukherjee (right)
Blind Indian painter's forgotten scroll found after 100 years
KOLKATA — A 44 foot-long Japanese style handscroll painted by a famous Indian blind artist nearly 100 years ago has resurfaced and gone on public display for the first time in the city of his birth, Kolkata.Benodebehari Mukherjee, born in 1904, was blind in one eye and severely myopic in the other. He lost his vision entirely at 53. Mukherjee, who died in 1980, created trailblazing works as a painter of landscapes and frescos. He was also a sculptor and muralist and came to define modern art in 20th Century India.In July, the scroll - which is just six inches wide - will travel to Santiniketan, the university town founded in West Bengal a century ago by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, where Mukherjee was a student and later a teacher. The scroll, the longest that the artist created,...
July 03, 2023

Blind Indian painter's forgotten scroll found after 100 years

Psilocybin is a key ingredient in magic mushrooms
MDMA: Australia begins world-first psychedelic therapy
SYDNEY — Earlier this year, researchers raised eyebrows when Australia's traditionally conservative medicines regulator approved the use of psychedelics to assist therapy sessions.The decision will see psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, used for treatment-resistant depression. It will also allow MDMA, known as ecstasy in tablet form, for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).The changes come into effect on Saturday, making Australia the first country to classify psychedelics as medicines at a national level.While initial access to the drugs will be limited and costly, many experts and patients are hailing it as a landmark moment.But major health organizations have also urged caution.'Shining again'Marjane Beaugeois was diagnosed with severe depression in 2017. "Within...
July 01, 2023

MDMA: Australia begins world-first psychedelic therapy

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