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  • Tom Cruise to help David Beckham with acting career

    Actor Tom Cruise has reportedly promised to help soccer ace David Beckham become an actor. "Beckham has always wanted to be an action film star, and Cruise promised him a long time ago he can make those dreams come true," a source told National Enquirer magazine. Beckham, 38, announced he was retiring from football this month after playing the game for more than 20 years, reports ...

  • Boxer Amir Khan to perform Bollywood dance gig at own wedding

    Boxer Amir Khan has been focusing on his dancing skills ahead of his wedding to fiancee, Faryal Makhdoom, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The 26-year-old posted a picture of him and his friends, learning Bollywood dance steps to surprise his guests at next week's five-star wedding in New York City, the Sun reported. The Bolton-born ace tweeted: "I'm now on way to my gym. The boys are practicing ...

  • Mariah Carey bursts out of dress on GMA

    Mariah Carey suffered a wardrobe malfunction when her dress popped open on stage during the 'Good Morning America's' Summer Concert Series in Central Park on Saturday morning. The back of the singer's skin tight pink dress popped open while she was being interviewed by the show's host, Lara Spencer, the New York Post reported. She blurted out "my dress just popped" and quickly placed her hands ...

  • Lady Gaga ready for live gig in August

    Pop star Lady Gaga, who underwent a hip operation earlier this year, is likely to perform on stage at a Beyonce Knowles' show in New York in August. Gaga is said to be planning her live return at the said show. If the news turns out to be true, it will be her first major gig following an operation on her hip in February. The grapevine is abuzz after a reported email sent by concert listings ...

  • Equity At 100 More Than Just A Broadway Baby

    His statue may be a Theater District landmark now, but George M. Cohan caused no small amount of trouble for Actors' Equity early in its history. The union marks its 100th anniversary this ...


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Ong-Bak

Ong-Bak

In Ong-Bak, a bone-rattling, skull-thumping martial arts extravaganza that was a major hit in its native Thailand and is just now getting a belated U.S. theatrical release, newcomer Tony Jaa vies for the coveted position of 21st-century Jackie Chan by pulling off the kinds ... ...

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  • Days of Bulgarian Cinema Begin in Rome

    Bulgaria's caretaker Culture Minister, Vladimir Penev, is opening Saturday the sixth edition of the Days of Bulgarian Cinema in Rome, Italy. The event will take place in the "Cinema Home" - Villa Borghese. The program will start with the showing ...

  • Imagine on Broadway set to seek charter

    FORT WAYNE – In the face of a forced shutdown, Imagine Schools on Broadway held an emergency board meeting Friday to consider avenues for keeping the charter school open this fall, including reapplying for a charter through Ball State University.Ball State, which sponsors charter schools, decided this month not to renew the charters of three Fort Wayne schools – Imagine Schools on ...

  • ArteBA 2013 art fair kicks off in Argentina

    A visitor attends the "ArteBA 2013" art fair, in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, on May 24, 2013. The fair is the most important contemporary art show in Argentina, with 82 galleries from Latin America, the US and Europe displaying 500 artists' works, according to the organizers. (Xinhua/Martin ...

  • Giro dItalia organisers call off 19th stage after heavy snowfall

    Italy Heavy snow forced Giro d'Italia organisers to call off the mountainous 19th stage from Ponte di Legno to Val Martello and the route for the next day's stage was re-designed.Saturday's stage includes far fewer descents to ensure another day of mountain racing is not lost but it will still finish on the Tre Cime di Lavaredo at 2,304 metres above sea level."Descents on ...

  • Making The Mandela Tapes

    It was a fall-off-your chair moment. Verne Harris, head of programming at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, had just said I could use a vast collection of Mandela's audiocassettes for free. Looking back to that moment in February 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa, I am reminded that journalism and filmmaking are 95 per cent grinding and frustration and five per cent breakthrough and ...

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