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A Victor Edelstein midnight blue velvet evening gown, worn by Britain's Princess Diana at the State Dinner at the White House in 1985, when she danced with US actor John Travolta, is pictured at the Kerry Taylor Auction house in south London ahead of its sale. — AFP
Dress Diana wore when she danced with Travolta up for sale
LONDON — A midnight blue velvet gown worn by Princess Diana when she danced with actor John Travolta at the White House is being put up for sale, an auction house said on Monday.She wore the Victor Edelstein dress when she and her then husband Prince Charles attended a state dinner hosted by then president Ronald Reagan on Nov. 9, 1985.It was immortalized when Diana was photographed dancing with Travolta to the song "You Should be Dancing" from his film "Saturday Night Fever".Estimated at £250,000-£350,000 ($324,000-$454,000), the dress is one of three being sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions on Dec. 9.They also include a long-sleeved dress from 1986 by Katherine Cusack, also in midnight-blue velvet, and a Catherine Walker navy wool day dress from around 1989.The...
November 18, 2019

Dress Diana wore when she danced with Travolta up for sale

A member of the Moroccan security forces stands in front of the tribunal of Sale near the capital Rabat on Thursday during the trial of Mohamed Mounir, a Moroccan rapper,  widely known as 'Simo Gnawi', arrested in the beginning of this month for insulting the Moroccan police. — AFP
Morocco rapper faces jail for insulting police
SALE, Morocco — A Moroccan rapper who co-authored a song criticizing the kingdom faces two years in prison after appearing in court on Thursday charged with offending public officials.Mohamed Mounir, widely known as Gnawi, was charged in Sale near Rabat over the publication of a video in which he insulted police.But the lawyer for the 31-year-old singer said the real reason for his client's prosecution was the song he co-wrote with two friends about desperate youth in Morocco, unemployment and corruption.The song "Aach al chaab" — which means long live the people — has been viewed more than 13 million times on YouTube since it was released last month.The lyrics denounce injustice and money-grabbing and crucially attack Morocco's king directly, which according to...
November 15, 2019

Morocco rapper faces jail for insulting police

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Monique
83rd Academy Awards Nomination Announcements, Los Angeles, America - 25 Jan 2011
Last year's Best Supporting Actress MoNique joined Academy President Tom Sherak to announce this year's Oscar nominees ahead of the ceremony on 27th February.

The King's Speech leads the field with a total of 12 nods, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Colin Firth and Best Supporting for Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush.
The Coen brothers' True Grit has 10 nominations, while The Social Network and Inception both have 8.

Also nominated for Best Picture are Black Swan, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, 127 Hours, Toy Story 3 and Winter's Bone.

Best Actor nods also go to Javier Bardem, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeff Bridges and James Franco, while Best Actress sees Natalie Portman, Annette Bening, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence and Michelle Williams battle it out.

Christian Bale, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner are hoping for the Best Supporting Actor gong, while Amy Adams, Melissa Leo and Hailee Steinfeld are gunning for Best Supporting Actress.
Oscar-winner Mo'Nique sues Netflix for pay discrimination
LOS ANGELES — Oscar-winning actress Mo'Nique on Thursday filed a pay discrimination lawsuit against Netflix, alleging the streaming giant offered her less money than it did to white and male performers because she is a black woman.Mo'Nique, also a singer and comedian, said in the lawsuit that a proposed $500,000 fee from Netflix in 2018 to make a stand-up comedy special was a "discriminatory low-ball offer.""I had a choice to make: I could accept what I felt was pay discrimination or I could stand up for those who came before me and those who will come after me," she said in an Instagram post."I chose to stand up."Netflix strongly denied the allegation."We care deeply about inclusion, equity, and diversity and take any accusations of...
November 15, 2019

Oscar-winner Mo'Nique sues Netflix for pay discrimination

Puerto Rican singer Kany Garcia poses in the press room with the awards for
Latin Grammys bring rhythm, glitz and protest
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — An undercurrent of protest streaked through the 20th annual Latin Grammys on Thursday, where Spanish flamenco futurist Rosalia scored Best Album and led the night with five wins.Chilean singer Mon Laferte — who snagged a trophy for Best Alternative Music Album — walked the red carpet in a long black trenchcoat before dropping it to reveal her bare breasts, emblazoned with a message that read "In Chile they torture, rape and kill," referring to the violent anti-government protests that have rocked the South American country for weeks."Chile, your pain hurts me," the balladeer said in accepting her award at the gala in Las Vegas, reading a poem from the Chilean poet La Chinganera.Nicaraguan singer Luis Enrique also seized the moment in scooping...
November 15, 2019

Latin Grammys bring rhythm, glitz and protest

Steve Yoo
Exiled K-pop star backed by court after draft-dodging
SEOUL — A K-pop singer who was deported and barred from South Korea for avoiding conscription by becoming a US citizen should be allowed to return after 17 years in exile, a court ruled on Friday.Steve Yoo was a hugely popular chart-topping singer in the 1990s, but that changed when he became a naturalized American shortly before he was to be called up for military service in 2002, automatically forfeiting his South Korean nationality and with it the obligation to serve.Every able-bodied South Korean man is required to spend nearly two years in the military, often in remote areas along the border with the nuclear-armed North.Service is widely unpopular but regarded as an essential duty, and Yoo's move triggered widespread outrage.He was rapidly deported to the US — he had spent...
November 15, 2019

Exiled K-pop star backed by court after draft-dodging

Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift's former label denies claims of blocking her music
NEW YORK — Taylor Swift's former label on Friday dubbed as "false" the superstar's accusations that it was preventing her from performing her songs on television or releasing a Netflix documentary.Late Thursday, the pop artist had accused the heads of the Nashville-based Big Machine Label Group of "exercising tyrannical control" over her, saying it told her team she's "not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I'm allowed to next year."Earlier this year, Swift began publicly sparring with industry mogul Scooter Braun over his purchase of her former label of more than a decade, which gave him a majority stake in the master recordings of her first six albums.The 29-year-old...
November 15, 2019

Taylor Swift's former label denies claims of blocking her music

Sana, a female white rhino strolls through its enclosure at the La Planete Sauvage zoological park in Port-Saint-Pere, western France, in this Oct. 14, 2017 file photo. — AFP
World's oldest captive white rhino dies in French zoo
RENNES, France — The world's oldest captive white rhino, South African-born Sana, has died at the age of 55, the French zoo that she called home for the last 26 years said on Thursday.Born in 1964 in the Umfolozi National Park in South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, the southern white rhino was transported to Europe seven years later as a zoo attraction.Sana lived in several parks in Germany before arriving in 1993 at Planete Sauvage, a zoo in western France near the city of Nantes that had opened the previous year.The life expectancy of white rhinos in the wild is about 50 years, according to the Save the Rhino advocacy group.Sana required special care in her later years, the park said in a statement.Notably, she was no longer able to roll in the mud, a popular and...
November 14, 2019

World's oldest captive white rhino dies in French zoo

Branko Lustig
Croatia's 'Schindler's List' producer dies aged 87
ZAGREB — Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig, who won Oscars for "Schindler's List" and "Gladiator", died on Thursday in Zagreb aged 87, state-run HINA news agency reported.Lustig was born into a Croatian Jewish family in the eastern town of Osijek in June 1932.He was held as a child in the notorious Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps with the number A3317 tattooed on his arm, and most members of his family died in Nazi camps throughout Europe."It is a long way from Auschwitz to this stage," he said as he accepted an Oscar as producer for Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" in 1993."The dying ones left me the legacy to tell — if I survive — how it was."Lusting studied at a Zagreb acting...
November 14, 2019

Croatia's 'Schindler's List' producer dies aged 87

2019 sensation Lil Nas X, right, along with country music veteran Billy Rae Cyrus nabbed a Country Music Award for
Lil Nas X nabs award at country music gala where women take spotlight
NEW YORK — Overnight sensation Lil Nas X scored a Country Music Award on Wednesday, a milestone for the gala that can sometimes feel like music's whitest night.A little bit country, a little bit southern rap, the Atlanta native's infectious single "Old Town Road" was famously booted from Billboard's country list earlier this year — triggering accusations that the country industry pigeonholed the song as hip hop purely because the novice musician is black.The award for "Musical Event of the Year" was given to Lil Nas X — who this year broke a decades-old record for longest reign over the Billboard Hot 100, music's most closely watched singles chart — along with country veteran Billy Rae Cyrus, who lent vocals for the remix of the hit that received...
November 14, 2019

Lil Nas X nabs award at country music gala where women take spotlight

French composer Jacques Revaux poses during a photo session at the Raphael Hotel in Paris on Nov. 12, 2019. — AFP
Regrets I've had a few, says 'My Way' songwriter
PARIS — He wrote the music for "My Way", one of the world's most popular songs, but Jacques Revaux would like to mention a few of his regrets.For one, "I don't even have a photo with Frank Sinatra," the French songwriter laughed.The legendary American crooner may have made the song a global hit, but not many people know it was actually a French song first.Fewer still — not even in France, where the credit often goes to the singer Claude Francois — are aware that Revaux wrote the original.Yet half a century after he wrote the first draft of the classic, and despite being elbowed into the shadows not just once but twice, the 79-year-old Revaux is still happy he did it his way.The prolific songwriter scribbled down a number about a couple falling out of love...
November 14, 2019

Regrets I've had a few, says 'My Way' songwriter

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