Entertainment May 27, 2013

Cannes jury prize goes to Koreeda's 'Like Father, Like Son'

The Japanese film “Like Father, Like Son (Soshite Chichi ni Naru)” directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, received the Prix du Jury at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival on Sunday. It is the first Japanese film to receive an award in the competition division since ...

Entertainment May 27, 2013

Actress alleges sex assault by cops after arrest on marijuana charges

Investigators on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged with heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment. The 27-year-old former child star first ...

Entertainment May 22, 2013

Miike’s gore-filled flick panned at Cannes

Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.

Entertainment May 21, 2013

X Japan waxes lyrical at Madame Tussauds debut

by Mike Sunda

This Monday, members of the seminal metal band X Japan were in Odaiba rubbing shoulders with the likes of Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and AKB48′s Yuko Oshima. The catch? They were all made out of wax. The life-size representations were just five of the ...

Entertainment May 21, 2013

Founding Doors member Manzarek dies at 74

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison’s gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock’s most enduring songs, has died. He was 74. Manzarek died Monday in ...

Entertainment May 20, 2013

Koreeda's 'Like Father, Like Son' makes splash at Cannes

Audiences at the Cannes Film Festival give a warm reception to director Hirokazu Koreeda's drama about two families caught up in a baby swap.

Entertainment May 20, 2013

Danish singer wins Eurovision

Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...

Entertainment May 18, 2013

Chinese director tests limits with 'Touch of Sin'

Disgusted by corrupt local leaders, an angry miner picks up a shotgun. A migrant worker returning home looks to armed robbery to escape a life of relentless bleakness. A pretty receptionist at a sauna is driven to the limit when a gangster tries to ...

Entertainment | OBITUARY May 15, 2013

Dr. Joyce Brothers, TV psychologist, dies at 85

Dr. Joyce Brothers, 85, who held a Ph.D. in psychology and was one of the most prominent and widely known of those who provided the American public with personal counseling through the mass media, died Monday in New York City. Her longtime publicist reported ...

Entertainment May 9, 2013

U.S. fan revolt threatens Stones tour

Could it be the tour too far for the Rolling Stones? Insiders are predicting that the band will have to renegotiate the huge guaranteed fees for their American tour, which opened on May 3, as ticket prices are radically reduced in light of poor ...

Entertainment Apr 17, 2013

Psy 'Gentleman' video smashes YouTube daily record

“Gangnam Style” star Psy’s new music video had received more than 50 million views on YouTube by Monday, rewriting the video-sharing site’s records for single-day hits. The dance video to “Gentleman,” the South Korean singer’s long-awaited follow up to “Gangnam Style,” was only posted ...

Entertainment Apr 13, 2013

How keeping it real took Matt Damon to the top

by Tim Lewis

In 1987, when Bruce Springsteen wrote the song “Ain’t Got You,” he was the biggest rock star in the world. He had vast estates in New Jersey and Beverly Hills, and he had not long returned from a honeymoon at Gianni Versace’s villa in ...