By Nopporn Wong-Anan
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The world's fourth Universal Studios welcomed its first visitors on Thursday with a lavish ceremony aimed at attracting luck, and repeat business, to the Singapore theme park which hopes to avoid the fate of loss-making Hong Kong Disneyland.
Doors were flung open to the ...More
ZURICH (Reuters) - Portuguese fado singer Mariza treated a sold-out Zurich audience to a show pushing the boundaries of her genre.
The willowy singer with bleached blond hair is at the vanguard of a new generation of young musicians taking fado into new terrain since the 1999 death of Amalia Rodrigues ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lacey Brown was voted off "American Idol" on Wednesday after struggling with nerves for weeks on America's most-watched TV show.
But Tim Urban, whose acoustic reggae version of "Under My Thumb" was judged the most bizarre performance of Rolling Stones-themed week, lived to fight another day ...More
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The Super Bowl is done, the Oscars have been handed out. Now World Wrestling Entertainment is gearing up for its signature event: WrestleMania.
It may not be the enormous moneymaker the Super Bowl is, but the annual main event in pro wrestling has brought WWE and ...More
BEIJING (Reuters) - Male and female golfers will compete for Asia's richest individual prize of $1.28 million at the new Mission Hills Star Trophy, a Celebrity Pro-Am tournament that will debut in Hainan, China in October.
Movie stars Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey will bring some Hollywood glitz to ...More
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - He has become the most famous out-of-work American.
Save for a few weeks of vacation after he signed off January 22 as "Tonight Show" host, Conan O'Brien has stayed in the news. First, he launched a Twitter account, then came the announcement of his 40-city ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - She has been among the First Ladies of rock music since there were ladies playing hard rock, and now Joan Jett is seeing her pioneering days with all-girl band The Runaways playing out on movie screens.
"The Runaways," which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and opens ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock on Wednesday pulled out of the London premiere of her hit movie "The Blind Side" as a U.S. celebrity magazine published a claim that her husband cheated on her.
Bullock, 45, who won her first Oscar last week for "The Blind Side ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When "The Apprentice" returns to U.S. television for a new season, the focus will be more on "You're hired!" than "You're fired!"
NBC said on Wednesday that the next series of the popular reality show will feature Americans who are out of work, recent ...More
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Development Program (UNDP) has named Spanish actor Antonio Banderas as a "Goodwill Ambassador" for the global fight against poverty, the agency announced on Wednesday.
The UNDP said Banderas will use his celebrity status to draw attention to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set ...More
