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New York, Jan. 30 — The famous woman Amber Lee Ettinger, who became famous for a viral video named “I Got A Crush…on obama,” on Thursday made it clear that she has lost the feel of love for the former junior senator from Illinois.
To Sean Hannity on Fox News she said, “If I [...]
The estate of deceased singer Michael Jackson is now being sued thanks to a videotape that was shown on the television show “Michael Jackson’s Private Home Movies.”
In the video, Jackson sings and dances along to R. Kelly’s “Ignition” while sitting in a car with movie director Brett Ratner while in [...]
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The 44-year-old actor
Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says he was taken to county jail and released at about 8:30 a.m. [...]
STOCKTON, Calif. – Actor Kiefer Sutherland was among cattle customers roped into an alleged scam that netted more than a million dollars.
Prosecutors say Michael Wayne Carr of Linden had agreements to buy steers in Mexico for his customers and sell them for profit in the United States. Carr allegedly took $869,000 from Sutherland, star of [...]
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Diddy was on a mission to throw his son Justin Dior the ultimate Sweet Sixteen on Saturday night, and no one was going to stop him.
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NEW YORK — Grammy-winning pianist Earl Wild, who learned his craft from students of Liszt and Ravel and became one of America’s masters of the keyboard, has died at age 94. Wild died of congestive heart disease Saturday at his home in Palm Springs, Calif., publicist Mary Lou Falcone said Monday. Despite his advanced age, Wild continued to teach until last week – he listened to a pupil play his “Porgy and Bess Fantasy,” said Michael Rolland Davis, his companion of 38 years and sole survivor. Wild’s last public performance was at age 92 at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, where he was presented with the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences’ Presidential Merit Award. In 2005, he gave a robust recital at Carnegie Hall to celebrate his 90th birthday, displaying great elegance with his thick white hair and nimble fingers. At that concert, which came months after a quadruple bypass and two eye operations, the 6-foot-1 Wild walked slowly to the piano before settling into a 90-minute performance. He played eight works by memory, never losing his way. Months earlier, his 57th album – “Living History” – was released. In all, Wild recorded more than 35 piano concertos and 700 solo pieces. His other awards include being named Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year in 2005. He won his Grammy in 1996 for best instrumental soloist performance for his album “The Romantic Master,” which included works by Saint-Saens and Handel. Born in Pittsburgh, Wild started playing the piano at age 3 and studied with teachers who were taught by Ravel, Ignace Jan Paderewski and Ferruccio Busoni. Two of his other teachers studied with pupils of Liszt. His earliest musical memories dated to 1918, when his mother brought home a recording of the opera “Norma.” “It starts with a G minor chord, just three notes,” Wild recalled during a 2005 interview with The Associated Press. “I was a little thing and I reached up on the piano and played it. So they knew I was musical.” He said he started taking lessons and liked to practice to drown out the quarreling between his parents. “Practice was a refuge,” he said. In 1937, he joined the NBC Symphony as a staff pianist, performing under Arturo Toscanini. During an NBC broadcast two years later, he became the first pianist to give a solo recital on American television. Wild went on to perform in countless orchestras, including those led by Fritz Reiner and Otto Klemperer. He also played and wrote music for comedian Sid Caesar for three years and performed for six American presidents, from Herbert Hoover to Lyndon Johnson. During the 2005 interview, Wild vowed never to stop being active. “When people are alive and they are able to do something, they should do something even if it’s basket weaving, because to not do something is to give up. … So never give up.” His memoirs will be published soon by Carnegie Mellon Press, according to his Web site. No memorial service is planned, Falcone said. “He said he didn’t want one,” she said. — On the Net: http://www.earlwild.com
LOS ANGELES — There is happiness to be found in late-night TV these days. Just ask Jimmy Kimmel, who is celebrating the seventh anniversary of his ABC show Tuesday with guest Harrison Ford. Ford is set to deliver a “very special” gift to the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host to mark the occasion, ABC said Monday. “People often ask me if I ever imagined we’d be on the air this long,” Kimmel said. “It’s a weird compliment wrapped in an insult, but I’ll take it.” He added that he feels lucky to work “for a network that showed enough patience to allow us to grow and, more importantly, pays almost no attention to what goes on after midnight.” Kimmel’s milestone comes just days after Conan O’Brien ended his seven-month tenure as “Tonight” host, with Jay Leno set to reclaim the job he left last year. O’Brien’s exit was preceded by a bitter public battle with NBC over its plan to shift him to a post-midnight slot. “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” airs at 12:05 a.m. EST weeknights on ABC. Also appearing on the anniversary show Tuesday are Kristen Bell and the Silversun Pickups band. Among the highlights of Kimmel’s run: a pair of comic films that went on to become Internet sensations, one in which Matt Damon and Kimmel’s on-again, off-again girlfriend Sarah Silverman sing of their faux hot love affair, and the other with Kimmel striking back by claiming a romance with Damon’s pal Ben Affleck. — On the Net: ABC, http://www.abc.go.com
LOS ANGELES — “The Hurt Locker” scored the top film award from the Producers Guild of America, building new momentum for the Iraq war drama in the expanded Oscar race for best picture. The film about a risk-taking bomb disposal technician beat out such celebrated nominees as “Avatar,” “Inglourious Basterds” and “Up in the Air.” “The Hurt Locker,” starring Jeremy Renner and directed by Kathryn Bigelow, also bested the films “Star Trek,” “District 9,” “An Education,” “Invictus,” “Up” and “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire” at Sunday’s Producers Guild Awards at the Hollywood Palladium, the latest kudofest in the run-up to the Academy Awards in March. Assuming “The Hurt Locker” earns an Oscar best-picture nomination Feb. 2, it will have just as much competition as it did at the PGAs, which followed Oscar organizers lead and doubled the best-picture category to 10 nominees, aiming to bring a broader range of movies into the fold, which means a blockbuster could take the top category. In other PGA film categories, “Up” won for animated feature and “The Cove” was lauded for documentary. The Harlem drama “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire” was honored with the Stanley Kramer Award, a prize named after the late director that recognizes work which explores and addresses provocative social issues. Four television shows were repeat winners from last year: AMC’s “Madmen” for drama TV; NBC’s “30 Rock” for comedy TV; Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” for live entertainment and competition TV; and CBS’ “60 Minutes” for nonfiction TV. The HBO TV film “Grey Gardens” snagged the prize in the long-form TV category. Career achievement awards were bestowed on Sony Pictures chairman Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal; Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios chief creative officer John Lasseter; and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Dollhouse” mastermind Joss Whedon. — On the Net: http://www.producersguild.org/
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