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  • West End marks 350 years of theatre

    Jersey Boys and Les Miserables have been declared as shows performing free songs to the public, to mark 350 years of West End theatre. West End Live, which is the annual festival of musical and theatre, is now in its ninth year at it will be staged in Trafalgar Square on 22 and 23 June, the BBC reported. Sir Tim Rice's new musical 'From Here to Eternity' will be previewed during the show. The ...

  • 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 ...

  • Rotating stage sends MSOE graduates out into world

    Unlike most commencements, this one involved a seemingly complicated engineering problem: How do you get 427 graduates up six stairways and across a circular stage that does one full rotation every 20 minutes? "The reality is it works well," said Nick Seidler, after the Milwaukee School of Engineering class of 2013 had all received their diplomas. Most of the students traveled up ...

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Beautiful Boy [Blu-Ray]

Beautiful Boy [Blu-Ray]

There is a scene, repeated several times throughout Francis Ford Coppolas paranoid thriller The Conversation (1974), in which a man and a woman walk past an old homeless man sleeping on a park bench and the woman murmurs, Every time I see one of those old guys, I always think t ... ...

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  • Sigi Schmid Its all about as a soccer player at this stage.

    — Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said during a press conference Saturday that the team is hopeful of receiving Robbie Rogers’ international clearance in the next 24 hours. If they do, Arena said Rogers will likely be in the 18-man game-day lineup (most likely on the bench) for Sunday’s night game against the Sounders. * * ...

  • Constitution takes centre stage for Sorry Day

    As Sorry Day events take place, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has pledged to complete the journey for acknowledgement of indigenous Australians in the ...

  • Mixed martial arts-Alexander Emelianenko wins 1st fight after return

    MOSCOW, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - Mixed martial arts fighter Alexander Emelianenko of Russia won his first fight after the return to the ring. He defeated American Bob Sapp by a technical knockout at the "Legend" tournament in Luzhniki, ...

  • NYPD investigating Amanda Bynes allegations of sexual assault

    NEW YORK – Internal Affairs officers 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 alleged during her arraignment on Friday that police illegally entered her ...

  • Cambodian Documentary Wins Cannes Prize for Innovative Cinema

    CANNES -- A documentary using small clay figurines to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at ...

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