http://www.mail.com/in-en/subjects/102-entertainment.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/in-en/subjects/102-entertainment.html http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/music/2098514-publicist-founding-member-doors-dies-74.html 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 Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family, said publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald. She s... Tue, 21 May 2013 01:57:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/music/2098514-publicist-founding-member-doors-dies-74.html 2013-05-21T01:57:05Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2097972-annotated-harry-potter-1st-edition-auction.html LONDON (AP) — A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations is going on sale at a charity auction. The personal annotations from the best-selling author included comments on the process of writing and a section from an early draft of the novel. They also included a n... Mon, 20 May 2013 17:50:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2097972-annotated-harry-potter-1st-edition-auction.html 2013-05-20T17:50:36Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/asia/2098162-cannes-rolls-red-carpet-indian-movies.html CANNES, France (AP) — Indian cinema is being feted in Cannes on its 100th birthday. But amid the celebrations, the B-word — "Bollywood" — remains controversial. The French film festival has rolled out the red carpet for Indian cinema this year, with events including a gala dinner and screening Sunday of "Bombay Talkies," a portmanteau movie with four dire... Mon, 20 May 2013 16:34:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/asia/2098162-cannes-rolls-red-carpet-indian-movies.html 2013-05-20T16:34:58Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2097968-nbc-hires-news-division-chief-britain.html NEW YORK (AP) — NBC has gone out of the company and out of the U.S. to find a president for its news division, naming the first woman to hold the top job at its news division on Monday. Deborah Turness, former editor of ITV News in Britain, replaces Steve Capus, who resigned earlier this year, and will begin her new job in August. Turness will take over a... Mon, 20 May 2013 16:23:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2097968-nbc-hires-news-division-chief-britain.html 2013-05-20T16:23:45Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2096150-heard-cannes-film-festival.html CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: JAMES CAAN GOES BACK TO THE 70S They don't make movies like they used to — which is why James Caan was happy to go back to the 1970s in Guillaume Canet's "Blood Ties." An icon of '70s cinema through his role as Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather," Caan ... Mon, 20 May 2013 16:12:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2096150-heard-cannes-film-festival.html 2013-05-20T16:12:28Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2097566-japans-shield-straw-action-pic-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Director Takashi Miike says shooting an action movie in Japan is a lot harder than it looks. His Cannes Film Festival entry "Shield of Straw" is a robust thriller about a team of police tasked with escorting a child-killer with a billion-yen bounty on his head safely across the country. "It was extremely difficult to shoot all the sc... Mon, 20 May 2013 11:48:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2097566-japans-shield-straw-action-pic-cannes.html 2013-05-20T11:48:25Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2097568-amalric-plays-frenchman-america-jimmy-p.html CANNES, France (AP) — Playing a Freudian analyst helped Mathieu Amalric overcome his fear and loathing of psychotherapy. The French actor depicts a maverick academic counseling Benicio Del Toro's Native American war vet in "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian," director Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes Film Festival contender. Based o... Mon, 20 May 2013 10:39:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2097568-amalric-plays-frenchman-america-jimmy-p.html 2013-05-20T10:39:29Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2096106-coens-folk-revival-llewyn-serenades-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — The Coen brothers' resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village serenaded Cannes with its period music and melancholy tale of a self-destructive, feline-toting musician. "Inside Llewyn Davis" was met rapturously at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered Sunday night. Joel and Ethan Coen said their primary inter... Sun, 19 May 2013 17:57:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2096106-coens-folk-revival-llewyn-serenades-cannes.html 2013-05-19T17:57:04Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2096072-devilish-dutch-drama-borgman-debuts-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — There's something nasty lurking in the woods — and inside the characters' heads — in darkly comic Cannes Film Festival entry "Borgman." In Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam's supernaturally-tinged psychological drama, a mysterious interloper emerges from a forest and knocks on the door of a wealthy family's modernist mansion. Borgman... Sun, 19 May 2013 13:13:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2096072-devilish-dutch-drama-borgman-debuts-cannes.html 2013-05-19T13:13:58Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2096060-dior-presents-cruise-fashions-amid-stars-monaco.html MONACO (AP) — The glittering star power of Cannes migrated up the coast to Monaco for front-row seats at Dior's colorful, sexy cruise fashion show. With the Mediterranean Sea the picturesque backdrop, Dior showcased its 2014 collection on Saturday night. It was a wet, cold and generally miserable outside the white stage, but Raf Simons' designs provided t... Sun, 19 May 2013 12:40:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2096060-dior-presents-cruise-fashions-amid-stars-monaco.html 2013-05-19T12:40:42Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2095156-cannes-helps-actors-bejo-rahim-cross-borders.html CANNES, France (AP) — The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette. But the world's leading film festival can transform careers — something no one knows that better than actors Berenice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, stars of director Asgh... Sun, 19 May 2013 07:06:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2095156-cannes-helps-actors-bejo-rahim-cross-borders.html 2013-05-19T07:06:20Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2094740-denmarks-de-forest-wins-eurovision-song-contest.html MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest 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, hippie-chic 20-year-old for the catchy... Sun, 19 May 2013 00:23:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2094740-denmarks-de-forest-wins-eurovision-song-contest.html 2013-05-19T00:23:12Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2095642-catching-fire-dampened-drowned-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Little could lessen the fever-pitched excitement for "Hunger Games: Catching Fire," but heavy rain nevertheless dampened the film's lavish Cannes party. Stars of the "Hunger Games" sequel, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Sam Clafin, arrived Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. "Catching Fire," perhaps more than any other film ... Sat, 18 May 2013 23:31:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2095642-catching-fire-dampened-drowned-cannes.html 2013-05-18T23:31:15Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/asia/2095486-member-pakistani-cricket-stars-party-killed.html KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Shahid was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehr... Sat, 18 May 2013 20:58:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/asia/2095486-member-pakistani-cricket-stars-party-killed.html 2013-05-18T20:58:34Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2089790-hot-press-heard-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: Will a switched-at-birth Japanese drama tug on Steven Spielberg's heart strings? The Cannes Film Festival was wondering that Saturday, when Kore-eda Hirokazu's elegant and emotional "Like Father, Like Son" premiered. It quickly emerged as an early con... Sat, 18 May 2013 18:48:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2089790-hot-press-heard-cannes.html 2013-05-18T18:48:23Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2095000-native-american-tale-with-international-pedigree.html CANNES, France (AP) — It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen. The film, an English language one from French director Arnaud Desplechin, made its premiere Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it's among 20 movies comp... Sat, 18 May 2013 14:26:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2095000-native-american-tale-with-international-pedigree.html 2013-05-18T14:26:22Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/music/2093498-blinking-skirts-fake-tans-eurovision.html MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Flashy skirts, fake tans, fur and feathers: It's the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. The televised extravaganza, with an audience of 125 million worldwide, is now in its 58th year. Once again without fail, it has produced a mix of bubble-gum pop songs, somber ballads, bagpipes, accordions and bizarrely kitsch musical productions. ... Sat, 18 May 2013 07:49:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/music/2093498-blinking-skirts-fake-tans-eurovision.html 2013-05-18T07:49:15Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/sports/tennis/2092794-top-ranked-djokovic-beaten-berdych-rome.html ROME (AP) — Novak Djokovic can't seem to find any consistency on clay courts. And with the French Open less than 10 days away, he will enter Roland Garros on the back of two early defeats. The top-ranked Serb wasted a chance to serve out the match and was beaten 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 by sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych in the Italian Open quarterfinals Friday. In the s... Fri, 17 May 2013 22:21:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/sports/tennis/2092794-top-ranked-djokovic-beaten-berdych-rome.html 2013-05-17T22:21:02Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2094104-panic-blanks-fired-cannes-tv.html CANNES, France (AP) — A live outdoor television broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival was briefly interrupted Friday when what sounded like gunshots sent crew and spectators scurrying for cover. Actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil were among guests being interviewed on the Canal Plus program "Le Grand Journal" when what sounded like gunfire rang o... Fri, 17 May 2013 21:40:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2094104-panic-blanks-fired-cannes-tv.html 2013-05-17T21:40:37Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2093020-jordan-finally-front-center-fruitvale.html CANNES, France (AP) — Before "Fruitvale Station," Michael B. Jordan was glimpsed sporadically in supporting roles on TV shows like "The Wire" and "Friday Night Lights," and in films like "Chronicle" and "Red Tails." That changes emphatically with "Fruitvale Station," a Sundance hit that premiered Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival. In the film, he... Fri, 17 May 2013 21:28:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2093020-jordan-finally-front-center-fruitvale.html 2013-05-17T21:28:33Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2093774-weinstein-showcases-grace-kelly-mandela-flicks.html CANNES, France (AP) — The Weinstein Company's fall slate of awards contenders will feature a glamorous Grace Kelly, a brawny Nelson Mandela and a mysterious J.D. Salinger. Harvey Weinstein previewed some of his company's most anticipated upcoming releases at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. He's made a habit of such previews, doing the same in 2012 for... Fri, 17 May 2013 20:57:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2093774-weinstein-showcases-grace-kelly-mandela-flicks.html 2013-05-17T20:57:09Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2093780-irans-farhadi-chinas-jia-cannes-splash.html CANNES, France (AP) — Two directors from countries with tough film censorship brought bold and probing movies to the Cannes Film Festival on Friday — one exploring China's social problems, the other delving into the mysteries of the human heart. Jia Zhangke's "A Touch of Sin" depicts facets of fast-changing China the government prefers to avoid: corruptio... Fri, 17 May 2013 20:14:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/2093780-irans-farhadi-chinas-jia-cannes-splash.html 2013-05-17T20:14:58Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2092984-1-jewelry-stolen-cannes-film-fest.html PARIS (AP) — Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials said Friday. The apparently well-planned robbery at the Novotel... Fri, 17 May 2013 18:12:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2092984-1-jewelry-stolen-cannes-film-fest.html 2013-05-17T18:12:04Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2093590-retirement-tests-beckham-built-lasting-brand.html PARIS (AP) — David Beckham's pecs are at least as much a part of his brand as his kick; his brand of shoes ultimately more lucrative than the game he's giving up. Listed as the world's highest-earning athlete for 2013, Beckham's retirement from play still leaves him with valuable endorsements and unparalleled celebrity. The question is whether he can maintain it. ... Fri, 17 May 2013 17:54:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2093590-retirement-tests-beckham-built-lasting-brand.html 2013-05-17T17:54:34Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2093564-the-audience-to-us-nursing.html NEW YORK (AP) — A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage next month in London in the play "The Audience" — some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing home. The live cinema event company BY Experience said Friday it will show a live performance of Peter Morgan's play with residents of the The Lillian Booth Actors Home in New... Fri, 17 May 2013 17:45:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2093564-the-audience-to-us-nursing.html 2013-05-17T17:45:09Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/music/2092690-bieber-will-to-pay-german-monkey-business.html BERLIN (AP) — Justin Bieber will face a bill for thousands of euros (dollars) for his pet monkey's two-month stay at an animal shelter since it was seized by German customs, officials said Friday as a deadline expired for him to reclaim the animal. A spokesman for Munich's customs office said the teenage singer had until midnight Friday to contact them, o... Fri, 17 May 2013 16:21:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/music/2092690-bieber-will-to-pay-german-monkey-business.html 2013-05-17T16:21:14Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2092970-george-michael-injured-car-crash.html LONDON (AP) — George Michael was being treated at a hospital Friday for what his publicist called minor injuries after being a passenger in a car crash near London. A statement released Friday said the singer was in an accident on Thursday night and suffered "superficial cuts and bruises." The statement from publicist Connie Filippello said no other vehic... Fri, 17 May 2013 15:18:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/celebrity/2092970-george-michael-injured-car-crash.html 2013-05-17T15:18:18Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/asia/2092526-indian-circuses-struggle-to-adapt-court-bans.html MUMBAI, India (AP) — In the early morning heat and dust, daily practice at the Rambo Circus is in full swing. A trapeze creaks as two performers perfect their throws. A Colombian daredevil shouts to his colleagues scrambling atop a giant set of spinning wheels called the Ring of Death. Looking on with worry is circus manager John Matthew. For 38 years, he... Fri, 17 May 2013 09:05:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/asia/2092526-indian-circuses-struggle-to-adapt-court-bans.html 2013-05-17T09:05:57Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/sports/soccer/2092026-beckham-brought-credibility-visibility-to-mls.html Ask someone in Asia or Europe a decade ago what they knew about the Galaxy, and odds are the answer would have been limited to planets or stars. Nowadays, it's likely to include a reference to "Beckham's team," the Major League Soccer franchise in Los Angeles. By making the growth of football in the United States his pet project, David Beckham put the spo... 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