Tag: Stars

By now, everyone has seen the pic of Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry kissing from last month’s “Bangerz” tour stop in Los Angeles.

Imagine that you’re waiting at the bar at your friend’s birthday party, held in a low-key local restaurant, when a striking woman in a hip black jacket slides by next to you. “I love your jacket,” you say, almost automatically.…

Nine personalities including artist Qayyum Chowdhury and Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute have been nominated for Independence Award. The Cabinet announced this in a press release on Sunday. Artist Qayyum Chowdhury is being awarded for his contribution to culture this year.…

Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn has given his wistful debut solo album its first live airing at the inaugural BBC 6 Music Festival in Manchester. Albarn has described the album, titled Everyday Robots, as the most personal of his…

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died of an accidental overdose of a mixture of drugs including heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, and benzodiazepine, officials have said. The Oscar winner, 46, was found dead at his home in New York City on 2 February…

Friends star Lisa Kudrow must pay her former manager $1.6m (£955,000), after a jury agreed she owed him money from earnings received from repeats.

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is to star in To Walk the Clouds, a film adaptation of the documentary Man on Wire, about the man who tightrope-walked between the World Trade Centre towers in 1974.

A baul (Folk) singer was killed and two of his troupe members were injured in an attack by unidentified miscreants at Dumdia village in Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Muktar Hossain, 31,…

Kimora Lee Simmons won’t be blue any longer. The model-turned-mogul stepped out for the first time since she secretly wed her banker boyfriend, Tim Leissner, and was spotted wearing a stunning sapphire bauble on her ring finger as she exited…

The last surviving member of the Trapp Family Singers, the group whose story inspired The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 99, her family say. Maria von Trapp died at her home in Vermont on Tuesday, her…

The Australian television personality and presenter Charlotte Dawson has been found dead at her home in Sydney. Police say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of the 47-year-old, who had a long history of depression. Ms Dawson, a…

I was once a very passionate American Idol watcher.

Rock legend David Bowie has been named best British male at the Brit Awards in London, although he was not there in person to collect his award.

Russian protest group Pussy Riot have been beaten with horsewhips by Cossacks who are helping patrol Sochi during the Winter Olympics.

Two members of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot who were arrested on Monday near the Winter Olympics resort of Sochi have been released.

London – British film queen Helen Mirren on Sunday thanked her former teacher after receiving Bafta’s highest accolade from Prince William at a glittering ceremony in London on Sunday.

ROME (AFP) – Diego Maradona announced Friday he has asked the European Union (EU) to step in as arbitrator amid an ongoing feud with the Italian authorities over an alleged 39m euros in unpaid taxes.

British director Ken Loach has addressed reports that his next film will be his last, as he received a lifetime achievement prize in Germany.

An Isle of Man singer is set to “breathe new life” into the ancient Manx language, once classified as “extinct” by cultural body Unesco.

Actor Ralph Waite, best known for playing John Walton Sr – Papa Walton – in the long-running TV show The Waltons, has died at the age of 85.

Sting’s musical about shipbuilding in the North East of England has found a home on Broadway.

Dhaka – A court here on Thursday sent popular singer Arfin Rumey to jail canceling his bail in a case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act. Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-4 Arifur Rahman passed…

Rock music overtook pop in UK album sales last year, winning a bigger share of the market for the first time in five years.

Actor Samuel L Jackson has scolded a US TV host who mistook him for fellow movie star Laurence Fishburne.

“The Railway Man” brings together two esteemed Oscar winners, Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth, for the first time in their careers. But it’s a film that is well-suited to both of their talents: a period drama based on a true…

Cairo – Egypt’s top satirist returned to television on Friday for the first airing of his show since it was pulled three months ago, and he skewered the public and media for lionizing the army chief widely expected to be…

Wes Anderson’s latest movie The Grand Budapest Hotel has opened the Berlin Film Festival to rave reviews.

US band Blondie are to collect an award for their life’s work at the NME Awards in London later this month.

Austrian actor Maximilian Schell, who won an Oscar for his role in the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg, has died at the age of 83.

Warner Brothers has announced Jesse Eisenberg will play villain Lex Luthor in the upcoming Superman vs Batman film.