Keita Asari, founder of Japan's best known theater group, dies at 85
Keita Asari, who founded Shiki Theater and produced a number of its long-running musicals including "Cats" and "The Lion King," died Friday at a Tokyo hospital due to malignant lymphoma, the theater troupe said Wednesday. He was 85. A native of Tokyo, Asari formed in 1953 what later became one of ...
Singer Cliff Richard wins BBC privacy case, sparking media alarm
Veteran British pop star Cliff Richard won a privacy case against the BBC on Wednesday after it broadcast live on ...
When filmmaker Marina Zenovich sought to make a documentary about Robin Williams, she found that she could do it largely ...
Arizona State University is awarding its 2018 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. He will receive the award on Oct. 17 in Phoenix from the university's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Cooper says he's honored and humbled ...
Nancy Sinatra Sr., the childhood sweetheart of Frank Sinatra who became the first of his four wives and the mother of his three children, has died. She was 101. Her daughter, Nancy Sinatra Jr., tweeted that her mother died Friday and a posting on her ...
Comedian Sasha Baron Cohen pranks politicians Roy Moore and Joe Arpaio
Some politicians are going through the stages of panic associated with an interview with Sacha Baron Cohen: remorse, damage control, anger and regret for being duped. One of the comedian's latest targets, defeated Senate candidate Roy Moore, is threatening a defamation lawsuit over an upcoming ...
Scarlett Johansson on Friday withdrew from the film "Rub & Tug" after her plans to portray a transgender man prompted a backlash. In a statement to Out.com the same day, Johansson said she's pulling out from the project "in light of recent ethical questions raised ...
France celebrates Japanese culture with huge eight-month festival
France has opened the largest celebration of Japanese culture ever to take place abroad. The eight-month festival Japonismes 2018 features everything from prehistoric art to what the organizers bill as Europe's first virtual reality concert. "It's the largest extravaganza of its kind ever held outside Japan," ...
Prince Harry and Elton John to launch coalition against HIV in men
Britain's Prince Harry and music star Elton John are joining forces to launch a "global coalition" focused on treating HIV infections in men, the singer's AIDS charity said on Thursday. The Elton John AIDS Foundation did not go into details about the plan — but ...
Transgender Miss Universe contender speaks up for trans kids
The first transgender woman to compete in the global Miss Universe pageant wants to make history as a role model for trans children around the globe — no matter whether she wins or not the top beauty title. The 26-year-old Angela Ponce beat 20 other ...
Faith-based producer to turn Thailand cave rescue into Hollywood movie
The mission to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a Thai cave is to get the Hollywood treatment in a movie announced by faith-based production house Pure Flix. Managing partner Michael Scott, who lives in Thailand and was at the rescue site in ...
Original 1926 Winnie-the-Pooh illustrated map breaks auction record at £430,000
The original hand-drawn map of Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Woods has sold at auction for £430,000 ($571,000), a record price for a book illustration. E.H. Shepard's drawing sold at Sotheby's in London on Tuesday for almost three-times its pre-sale estimate. Shepard's 1926 sketch features beloved characters including ...
Actor George Clooney was taken to the hospital in Sardinia and released after his motor scooter and a car crashed on a state road on the Italian island Tuesday, hospital officials said. "He is recovering at his home and will be fine," Clooney spokesman Stan ...
1950s screen heartthrob Tab Hunter, star of 'Damn Yankees' who revealed late he was gay, dies age 86
Tab Hunter, the blond actor and singer who was a heartthrob for millions of teenagers in the 1950s with such films as "Battle Cry" and "Damn Yankees" and received new attention decades later when he revealed that he was gay, has died. He was ...
Weinstein lawyer says emails, witnesses show he's innocent, walks on $1 million bail
Moving beyond rote denials, Harvey Weinstein is playing a leading role in shaping what his lawyer said Monday will be an aggressive defense to sexual assault charges that could put him in prison for the rest of his life. Lawyer Ben Brafman said the movie ...
