Entertainment

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – For the third consecutive year, Colombian actress Sofia Vergara, one of the stars of the hit ABC comedy “Modern Family,” is the highest paid actress on U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor-filmmaker George Clooney will direct a movie about the phone hacking scandal that ensnared some of Britain’s biggest media figures and politicians, studio Sony Pictures Entertainment said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Celebrity representatives and security experts used the online posting of intimate photos of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and other female entertainers to sound new warnings on Tuesday about the dangers of storing data on the Internet.

(Trinidad Express) Well-known pan arranger Eddie Quarless, 60, died yesterday in New York, USA where he had gone for medical treatment.

(Reuters) – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the glamorous Hollywood couple dubbed “Brangelina” in tabloid headlines, were married in France, according to a family statement on Thursday.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – The main event at fight night in Kingston, a popular boxing showcase, was hours away, but the crowd at the National Stadium’s indoor arena, from the young and hip to the elderly, was already pumped.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British actor and film director Richard Attenborough died yesterday at the age of 90, the BBC reported, citing his son.

(BBC) The move to ban a controversial film on the October 1984 assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has a sense of deja vu about it.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British actor and film director Richard Attenborough died today at the age of 90, the BBC reported, citing his son.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A new musical based on the life of seven-time Grammy winning singer Gloria Estefan and her husband, Emilio, a music, television and film producer, will debut on Broadway next year, producers of the show said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Police searched the apartment of Cliff Richard, one of Britain’s best-known entertainers, today in relation to allegations of a historical sexual offence involving an underage boy.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Superstar Canadian singer Celine Dion said today she has put her show business career on hold indefinitely, canceling her Las Vegas show and a planned fall tour of Asia, to focus on the health of both her husband and herself.

(Reuters) – Lauren Bacall, the sultry actress with the heavy-lidded eyes and husky voice who captured Humphrey Bogart’s heart both on and off the movie screen, died today at the age of 89.

(Reuters) – Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams was found dead on Monday from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California, Marin County Sheriff’s Office said.

(Jamaica Observer) After dismal first month sales, Tessanne Chin’s Count On My Love has been named in yahoo.com’s

(Trinidad Express) MANY people showed up for the Reggae By The Park concert featuring two popular Jamaican artistes at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre, on Thursday, only to find out the show was cancelled.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – At first Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer thought she was seeing early concert footage of James Brown but then was told it was a screen test by Chadwick Boseman to play the “Godfather of Soul” in the new biopic “Get On Up.”

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, an unwavering moralist who became one of the most powerful voices against the injustice of apartheid, has died at the age of 90, her family said on Monday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor James Garner, best known for his prime-time television roles as the wisecracking frontier gambler on ““Maverick” and as an ex-con turned private eye on ““The Rockford Files”, has died at age 86, Los Angeles police confirmed early today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sparrow turned 79 on Wednesday but also turned back the hands of time with a riveting performance when his milestone was celebrated with a concert at De Nu Pub (The Mas Camp) in Woodbrook.