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Katy Perry makes Twitter history with 100 million followers

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Pop superstar Katy Perry has made history by becoming the first user to garner 100 million followers on Twitter, the social media platform announced. “Today we #WITNESS history,” Twitter said Friday in a tweet, referencing the title of Perry’s recently released fifth album. “Congratulations @katyperry, the first to reach 100 million followers! #LoveKaty.” The 32-year-old singer recently livestreamed her life for 96 hours, inviting fans to watch as she slept, […]

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John Avildsen, director of ‘Rocky’, dies at 81

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — John Avildsen, the Oscar-winning director whose blockbuster films like “Rocky” and “The Karate Kid” championed the ascent of underdogs, has died. He was 81 years old. The filmmaker died of pancreatic cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times, citing Avildsen’s eldest son. The 1976 hit “Rocky” — an adrenaline-pumping story that captures the rise of a down-and-out boxer from working-class Philadelphia — […]

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Los Angeles lights Bat-Signal for late actor Adam West

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) –The late actor Adam West was honored by the city of Los Angeles on Thursday with a ceremonial lighting of the iconic Bat-Signal onto the City Hall building. Hundreds of fans thronged downtown Los Angeles, some dressed in comic character costume, to witness the event and pay respects to the 88-year-old actor who earned a place in American pop culture history with his campy portrayal of the title character in […]

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Sting, Wayne Shorter win 2017 Polar Music Prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuters) — British rock star Sting and American jazz musician Wayne Shorter received Sweden’s Polar Music Prize at a royal ceremony on Thursday (June 15). The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by ABBA manager Stig Andersson and the winners each receive 1 million Swedish crowns. In awarding the prize to Sting, who found fame with The Police in the late 1970s, the committee said that as a composer Sting had “combined […]

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Ed Sheeran and Babyface pick up honors at the Songwriters Hall of Fame

NEW YORK CITY, United States (AFP) — Motown founder Berry Gordy, R&B producing duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and pop star Ed Sheeran were honored at the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York on Thursday (June 15) night. Babyface, known for both his solo career and work with stars including Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton and Boyz II Men, was also inducted and called the honor the highlight of his career. Sheeran was presented […]

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Adele visits London’s Grenfell Tower following fire

LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — British singer Adele visited Grenfell Tower in London on Thursday (June 15) during the early hours. The Grammy winner musician was at the place of the disaster around midnight (local time) according to an eyewitness. The 29-year-old singer was near the cordoned-off area, the eyewitness said. The death toll in a fire disaster that destroyed a 24-storey block of flats in London was expected to rise on Thursday (June 15), […]

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Hollywood’s Rebel Wilson wins defamation case

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson on Thursday won a lengthy defamation case against an Australian publisher that portrayed her as a serial liar, which she said cost her lucrative movie roles. The 37-year-old “Pitch Perfect” star sued Bauer Media over eight articles in Woman’s Day, Australian Women’s Weekly and OK Magazine in 2015, which her defense said “tore down an Australian star to sell magazines.” The stories claimed the Sydney-born actor lied […]

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Israel’s David Grossman wins Man Booker International Prize

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Israeli author David Grossman won the Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday, sharing the £50,000 ($64,000, 57,000 euros) award with translator Jessica Cohen. Grossman, the first Israeli writer to win the prize, is now expected to enjoy a spike in international sales for “A Horse Walks Into a Bar.” The book unfolds over the course of a stand-up show during which comedian Dovelah Gee exposes a wound he has been […]

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Anita Pallenberg, actress and Stones muse, dead at 73

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Anita Pallenberg, the globe-trotting actress and model who was best known as part of a love triangle within The Rolling Stones, has died, friends said Wednesday. She was 73. Pallenberg, who long struggled with drugs and alcohol, died Wednesday of unspecific causes, actress and friend Stella Schnabel announced on Instagram. Born in Rome to ethnically German parents, Pallenberg had an itinerant youth as she moved to New York to […]

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Oscar-winner Stone brings Putin to US television

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Oliver Stone, the Hollywood director and triple Oscar winner, puts Russian President Vladimir Putin in United States living rooms on Monday by broadcasting interviews with a leader who fascinates and repels many Americans in equal measure. “The Putin Interviews” is the product of 12 conversations between the Russian leader and Stone between July 2015 and February 2017, cut into four one-hour programs shown from Monday to Thursday on cable […]

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Diddy tops Forbes list of celebrity high earners

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Rapper-turned-businessman Diddy was the world’s top-paid celebrity in the past year, edging out closest competitor Beyonce, Forbes said in its annual list Monday. Diddy earned $130 million in the past 12 months, of which $70 million came from selling a one-third stake in his Sean John clothing line. Diddy — whose real name is Sean Combs and earlier in his career was known as Puff Daddy — is estimated by […]

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Disney Pixar’s ‘Cars’ threequel gets a Disneyland premiere

ANAHEIM, United States (Reuters) – The cast and crew of “Cars 3” turned out for the film’s premiere in Anaheim on Saturday (June 10). Owen Wilson, Armie Hammer and Kerry Washington were joined by Larry The Cable Guy, Cristela Alonzo, Nathan Fillion, John Ratzenberger as well as executive producer John Lassiter and the film’s director, Brian Fee. Although this is his first time in the director’s chair, the threequel is not the first Disney-Pixar film […]

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