Entertainment

(Trinidad Express) – Machel Montano successfully defended his Power Soca Monarch crown with his customary scintillating Fantastic Friday performance.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Reigning stars of the music world, from Beyonce to Tony Bennett to Pharrell Williams, on Tuesday saluted Stevie Wonder, the singer, songwriter and musician they called a genius and inspiration to their careers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Yesterday, Ziggy Marley won the Grammy Award in the Best Reggae category at the 57th Grammy Awards, held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Heartbreak paid off handsomely for British soul singer Sam Smith, a newcomer who won four Grammy awards on Sunday including record and song of the year for his anthem “Stay With Me.”

(Jamaica Gleaner) Just in time for the 70th birthday celebration, a new life-size likeness of the late Robert Nesta Marley will be unveiled at the one-time home of the reggae icon in Trench Town, Kingston.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – From the first scene showing actor Michael Keaton levitating in his underwear, it becomes quite clear that “Birdman” will not unfold in a conventional way.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Nicole Kidman says she loves the desert, which was lucky for her as veteran German director Werner Herzog expected her to spend a lot of time there for his entry for this year’s Berlin film festival competition.

(Trinidad Express) Rikki Jai and Ravi B served up a doubles with plenty pepper that proved too hot for the rest to leave with the sweet taste of victory at the Chutney Soca Monarch finals on Saturday night at Skinner Park, San Fernando.

(Jamaica Gleaner) As the actual birthday of the late reggae legend Bob Marley draws closer, events celebrating the landmark occasion during that week have been finalised.

Reuters) – Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of late pop star Whitney Houston and of singer Bobby Brown, was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her home near Atlanta on Saturday and was taken to hospital where she was breathing, CNN reported.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was arrested for murder today in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed one person near Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Soca artiste Rodney “Benjai” Le Blanc is lucky to be alive sources at the President’s House said yesterday after they confirmed the car in which he was a passenger  was shot at because it was allegedly following the President’s escort along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway,  Aranguez, San Juan, on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Debbie Reynolds, the peppy star of enduring Hollywood musicals like “Singin’ in the Rain,” accepted a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild on Sunday with a few parting words after more than six decades on screen.

(Press Trust of India) NEW DELHI: Indian cinema’s two greatest actors- Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan- were selected yesterday for the Padma Vibhushan while directors Jahnu Barua and Sanjay Leela Bhansali and lyricist Prasoon Joshi are among others who will get Padma awards.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Show business satire “Birdman” took the lead in what promises to be a competitive race for the best picture Oscar by winning the top award from Hollywood producers on Saturday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Oscar-nominated war film “American Sniper” continued to punish the competition at U.S.

(Reuters) – Politicians, writers and Bollywood film-makers linked to the Bharatiya Janata Party have been named to the censorship panel, battling allegations they were hand-picked by a pro-Hindu government with a partisan agenda.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Pop star Rihanna’s victory in a legal case against Topshop over the use of her image has been upheld by Britain’s Court of Appeal, which backed an earlier judgment against the British fashion chain.

DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – A Live Earth music event to demand action on climate change will be held on June 18 across seven continents, including Antarctica, former U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The male-centric universe of the original “Star Wars” gives way to a woman warrior and a female version of Yoda in the much-ballyhooed “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” that will inevitably take the planet – this one – by storm as it opens this week.