WESTFIELD, NJ (Reuters) – Bobbi Kristina Brown was buried alongside her mother, Whitney Houston, yesterday, bringing to a close the brief and tragic life of the only child of the singing legend.
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation dominated the US box office over the weekend with an impressive $56 million at 3,956 locations.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Men in Black star Will Smith took the unusual step yesterday of publicly shooting down a report that he and his actress wife of 17 years had decided to divorce.
(Reuters) – Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of late singer Whitney Houston, died today at the age of 22, some six months after suffering irreversible brain damage in an incident at her suburban Atlanta home, her family said in a statement.
(Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby filed legal papers yesterday calling for court sanctions against a woman accusing him of sexual assault, saying she breached their confidentiality agreement in the leak of his full deposition from a 10-year-old civil case to the New York Times.
(Reuters) – E.L. Doctorow, the author of popular novels grounded in American history including “Ragtime” and “Billy Bathgate,” died in New York yesterday at age 84, the New York Times reported.
(Trinidad Express) Calypso King of the World the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco), ORTT, CMT, OBE, celebrated his 80th birthday on Thursday at his Petit Valley home among friends and family in an evening of song.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Actor Omar Sharif, best known for his title role as Doctor Zhivago in the Oscar-winning film, has died, Egyptian state television said.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby testified in 2005 that he had obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving the sedatives to young women in order to have sex with them, according to court documents unsealed on Monday.
(Trinidad Express) MOMENTS before reggae singer Reano “Busy Signal” Gordon was due to perform at Saturday’s “Together As One” concert, he was taken to court for failing to repay over US$37,000 due to a local promoter for the past two years.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Grammy-winning R&B singer Rihanna is the first artist to surpass more than 100 million cumulative digital singles, the Recording Industry Association of America said on Wednesday.
Mumbai’s Prithvi Theatre was filled to brimming with Kapoors from Bollywood’s First Family on May 10 when veteran actor Shashi Kapoor received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest honour in Indian Cinema.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Hollywood A-list couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner on Tuesday announced plans to divorce, a day after their 10th wedding anniversary.
(Reuters) – Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs took a tumble, Janet Jackson made an emotional appearance, and the BET TV network paid tribute on Sunday to campaigners across the United States demanding better police accountability after a troubled year.
(Reuters) – A much-anticipated documentary about the late British singer Amy Winehouse hits cinemas this week amid a dispute between its makers and her father, who has called the film misleading.
(Reuters) – Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of late singer Whitney Houston, has been moved to hospice care, five months after being found unresponsive in a bathtub, her family said in a statement on Wednesday.
Hollywood composer James Horner, who scored the Oscar-winning film “Titanic” and its mega-hit theme song “My Heart Will Go On”, died in a plane crash in southern California yesterday, US media reported.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon at the University of California Los Angeles on Monday, college law enforcement authorities said.
Grenada-born Dt Slinger Francisco, 79, better known as the Mighty Sparrow has been conferred with Order of the British Empire.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – From Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” to “The Lego Movie” and now “Jurassic World,” Chris Pratt is fast becoming Hollywood’s go-to franchise leading man.
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