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  • What distracts Taylor Swift on stage

    Singer Taylor Swift says while performing on the stage she is distracted by fans with sign boards and she goes off track. The 23-year-old, known for her songs like "Love story", "Teardrops on my guitar" and "You belong with me", starts reading the signs and forgets her lyrics, reports thesun.co.uk. "It's amazing and adorable, but if there's a really long sign and I'm trying to read it while ...

  • Shaolin temple goes global

    The Shaolin Temple, known as the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is preparing to stage its first cultural festival in the US as part of efforts to expand its global clout. The first North American Shaolin Cultural Festival is scheduled to be held from Oct 8 to 14 in Los Angeles, according to Shi Yongxin, abbot of the Buddhist temple in the city of Dengfeng in central China's Henan province, reported ...

  • Planetariums a new kind of star power for the arts

    Perhaps your last cultural experience in a planetarium involved Pink Floyd and a mind-altering substance. Well, high art under the impressive dome is making a comeback - no lasers required.In Vancouver, a new site-specific work by the Electric Company Theatre ...

  • Theatre review Full Monty an ode to the amateur spirit

    From left, Jordan Ward, Gregory P. Caswell, Brian Christensen, Orville Charles Cameron, James Toupin and David Johnston in The Full Monty, from Two One-Way Tickets To Broadway ...

  • Stunt womans phone hacked to overhear Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie appears June 3 in Berlin. A lawsuit reveals News Corp. learned of her affair with Brad Pitt through hacking the phone of her stunt woman in Mr. & Mrs. Smith. (Associated ...

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Eyes Wide Shut

"Eyes Wide Shut" has been with Stanley Kubrick for a long time. He first purchased the rights to the source material, Viennese author Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella "Traumnovelle" ("Dream Story"), back in 1970, when he first came up with the odd notion of making a hard-core blue movie with two Hollywood mega-stars. ...

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  • Stahl placed on psychiatric hold

    Embattled actor Nick Stahl has been placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold after he was hospitalized in Los Angeles. The Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines star, who has long struggled with drugs and alcohol abuse, was admitted to a medical centre in the early hours of Tuesday, reports TMZ.com. Further details about the 5150 order (involuntary psychiatric hold) had yet to be revealed as ...

  • Etheridge clarifies Jolie surgery remarks

    Melissa Etheridge at the 19th Annual Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards held at the Palm Springs Convention Centre on Feb. 9, 2013. (Dimitri Halkidis/WENN ...

  • Hutchisons teen wife gets boob job

    Actor Doug Hutchison's teenage wife Courtney Stodden has undergone breast augmentation surgery to boost the size of her chest. The aspiring 18-year-old model/actress admits the Lost star, 53, was against the idea of her going under the knife, but she pressed ahead and now boasts a size D cup, up from a C. She tells Eonline.com, "No one encouraged me, it was all me. He (Hutchison) was ...

  • Rihanna most-viewed Youtube artist

    Rihanna has stolen pop star Justin Bieber's crown as the most-viewed artist on YouTube.com. The Umbrella hitmaker passed Bieber's record on video-sharing channel VEVO by about two million views in the early hours of Tuesday. The 19-year-old still ranks higher than South Korean rapper Psy, who boasts 3.1 billion views, thanks to his hit 2012 single Gangnam Style, as well as Eminem, ...

  • Depp talks about split from Paradis

    Johnny Depp at the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures presentation, promoting his film 'The Lone Ranger' at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas April 17, 2013. (Digital ...

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