http://www.mail.com/int/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/int/subjects/102-entertainment.html http://www.mail.com/int/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/int/entertainment/music/2092690-bieber-will-to-pay-german-monkey-business.html 2013-05-17T16:21:14Z http://www.mail.com/int/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... Fri, 17 May 2013 00:15:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2092026-beckham-brought-credibility-visibility-to-mls.html 2013-05-17T00:15:34Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2089790-hot-press-heard-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: REV RUN, KING OF ... DJs? Rev Run is one of hip-hop's legendary rappers, but these days, he's spinning records — and is finding the experience may be even more enjoyable than rapping. "I love the Run-DMC shows: it's big, it's intense," he said in an ... Sat, 18 May 2013 12:17:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2089790-hot-press-heard-cannes.html 2013-05-18T12:17:26Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2091284-coppolas-bling-ring-decadent-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Sofia Coppola was just 8 years old when she first came to the Cannes Film Festival. Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, was there to premiere a work-in-progress cut of a film he had spent years wrestling with: "Apocalypse Now." "I have nice memories of Cannes," Coppola said in an interview Thursday on the roof of the Palais, the festiv... Thu, 16 May 2013 18:49:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2091284-coppolas-bling-ring-decadent-cannes.html 2013-05-16T18:49:54Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2091196-beckham-sports-icon-times.html LONDON (AP) — David Beckham's retirement will bring an end to a footballing career that went far beyond his sport, and turned a gangly teenager from east London into one of the most recognizable faces on the planet. Hugely gifted as a player, though far from ranking with the greats such as Pele, Maradona and Lionel Messi, Beckham's true genius has been hi... Thu, 16 May 2013 18:35:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2091196-beckham-sports-icon-times.html 2013-05-16T18:35:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2090958-coetzee-tells-spain-drop-pro-bullfighting-law.html LONDON (AP) — Nobel Literature laureate J.M. Coetzee has called on Spain to abandon plans to protect bullfighting, making a rare public appeal against what he called "an archaic form of entertainment." In an open letter to Spain's legislature released Thursday, Coetzee called bullfights "a throwback to a time when people took no heed of the feelings of an... Thu, 16 May 2013 17:21:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2090958-coetzee-tells-spain-drop-pro-bullfighting-law.html 2013-05-16T17:21:54Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2090272-beckham-to-retire-football-season.html LONDON (AP) — David Beckham is retiring from soccer, ending a career in which he transcended the sport with forays into fashion and a marriage to a pop star that made him a global celebrity. The 38-year-old former England captain, who recently won a league title in a fourth country with Paris Saint-Germain, said Thursday he will retire after the season. "... Thu, 16 May 2013 17:15:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2090272-beckham-to-retire-football-season.html 2013-05-16T17:15:13Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2090662-cannes-watson-revels-post-potter-freedom.html CANNES, France (AP) — Emma Watson is reveling in her post-"Potter" freedom at the Cannes Film Festival, relishing a Valley Girl role far from her wise-beyond-her-years Hermione. The 23-year-old "Harry Potter" actress stars in Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," which premiered Thursday at the French Riviera festival. The British actress plays a celebrity-ob... Thu, 16 May 2013 16:59:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2090662-cannes-watson-revels-post-potter-freedom.html 2013-05-16T16:59:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2090862-boston-symphony-orchestra-names-music-director.html BOSTON (AP) — Andris Nelsons has been named the Boston Symphony Orchestra's music director. The chairman of the 132-year-old orchestra's trustees made the announcement Thursday. The 34-year-old Nelsons, a Latvia native, said in a statement that he is "deeply honored and touched" by the appointment and plans to make his first appearance in Boston as the or... Thu, 16 May 2013 16:53:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2090862-boston-symphony-orchestra-names-music-director.html 2013-05-16T16:53:03Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2090250-boy-band-direction-world-tour-year.html LONDON (AP) — Hit boy band One Direction has announced plans for an ambitious world tour in 2014. Plans call for the youthful chart-toppers to play major stadiums in Latin America, Britain and Ireland during the first leg of the mega-tour that begins in April. U.S. dates are expected to be announced later. The band a... Thu, 16 May 2013 16:40:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2090250-boy-band-direction-world-tour-year.html 2013-05-16T16:40:44Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2090430-model-actress-marine-vacth-cannes-rising-star.html CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes has been the birthplace of many a star, and the latest candidate to shine is Marine Vacth, who plays a teenager confronting the complexities of adolescent sexuality in Francois Ozon's "Jeune et Jolie" ("Young and Beautiful.") The 23-year-old French model fully lives up to the film's title as Isabelle, a 17-year-old the film fo... Thu, 16 May 2013 15:05:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2090430-model-actress-marine-vacth-cannes-rising-star.html 2013-05-16T15:05:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2090372-julianne-moore-bad-mom-role-antithesis.html CANNES, France (AP) — Julianne Moore sometimes identifies with the characters she plays but when it came to playing a bad mother in "What Maisie Knew," she couldn't relate. In the recently released film, Moore portrays a rock-star mom going through a bitter divorce who's having trouble connecting to her 6-year-old daughter, Maisie. The role couldn't have ... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:37:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2090372-julianne-moore-bad-mom-role-antithesis.html 2013-05-16T14:37:57Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2090154-tale-mexican-drug-violence-rattles-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival has had its first shock to the system, in the shape of Mexican director Amat Escalante's unsparingly violent drug war drama "Heli." The story of the devastation wreaked by narco-violence on an ordinary Mexican family, the movie paints such a bleak picture that one journalist told its director Thursday that sh... Thu, 16 May 2013 13:47:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2090154-tale-mexican-drug-violence-rattles-cannes.html 2013-05-16T13:47:26Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2086660-prince-harry-ends-us-visit-with-polo-match.html GREENWICH, Connecticut (AP) — Britain's Prince Harry complimented the American people for their generosity and touted the successes of his charity for African children as he wrapped up a weeklong trip to the U.S. with a polo match in an affluent New York City suburb. The prince's team won 4-3 after he scored a game-tying goal Wednesday afternoon at the Gr... Wed, 15 May 2013 21:09:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2086660-prince-harry-ends-us-visit-with-polo-match.html 2013-05-15T21:09:30Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2086778-dicaprio-spielberg-open-stormy-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival got off to a blockbuster, if stormy start, as Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" opened on a soggy French Riviera. Amid heavy rain, dancing flappers flocked down the Cannes red carpet Wednesday night, bringing a touch of the Jazz Age to the Croisette. "Gatsby" stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey ... Wed, 15 May 2013 18:32:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2086778-dicaprio-spielberg-open-stormy-cannes.html 2013-05-15T18:32:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2088026-space-final-frontier-viewing-movies.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before — to see the new "Star Trek" film. The three astronauts were offered a sneak peak of "Star Trek Into Darkness" days before it opens Thursday on Earth, seeing it not in 3-D, but Zero-G. NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said the movie was beamed up to th... Wed, 15 May 2013 18:16:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2088026-space-final-frontier-viewing-movies.html 2013-05-15T18:16:38Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2087448-oscar-rivals-spielberg-lee-reunited-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Asked about their recent history as Oscar rivals, Steven Spielberg and Ang Lee look at each other hesitantly before Spielberg graciously offers, "After you." The two have come to the Cannes Film Festival just months after facing off as the two favorites for best director at the Academy Awards. In February, Lee won the Oscar many expe... Wed, 15 May 2013 16:39:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2087448-oscar-rivals-spielberg-lee-reunited-cannes.html 2013-05-15T16:39:25Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2087174-dicaprios-gatsby-brings-1920s-glamor-to-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Like millions of others, Leonardo DiCaprio read and loved "The Great Gatsby" as a teenager. But he says he only recently began to understand it. The star of Baz Luhrmann's kaleidoscopic screen adaptation, said reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's book again, he came to believe that it was not the tale of tragic romance he had once believed.... Wed, 15 May 2013 14:27:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2087174-dicaprios-gatsby-brings-1920s-glamor-to-cannes.html 2013-05-15T14:27:30Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2087010-zoe-saldana-brushes-criticism-simone-role.html LONDON (AP) — Zoe Saldana has played an alien and a future space traveler — but taking on the role of an actual famous person proved even harder. The 34-year-old star of "Avatar" and "Star Trek" plays pianist, singer and activist Nina Simone in the forthcoming biopic "Nina." Her casting drew criticism from some, who argued that Saldana bears little resemb... Wed, 15 May 2013 12:20:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2087010-zoe-saldana-brushes-criticism-simone-role.html 2013-05-15T12:20:26Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2086160-bollywood-star-bachchan-hopes-hollywood-roles.html NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood's biggest star, Amitabh Bachchan, is willing to explore more Hollywood movies now that he's done his first. Bachchan says he has never been offered Hollywood films before the 3-D extravaganza "The Great Gatsby," which opens the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. The 71-year-old said that at his age, it is difficult to expect tha... Wed, 15 May 2013 01:37:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2086160-bollywood-star-bachchan-hopes-hollywood-roles.html 2013-05-15T01:37:14Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2083506-prince-harry-tours-storm-damaged-nj-shore.html SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey (AP) — Britain's Prince Harry toured two New Jersey shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy, shaking hands with emergency personnel and construction workers before spending Tuesday afternoon in New York City at events promoting tourism, entrepreneurism and philanthropy. He even got a chance to play a little baseball. I... Tue, 14 May 2013 23:57:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2083506-prince-harry-tours-storm-damaged-nj-shore.html 2013-05-14T23:57:21Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2084598-baz-luhrmann-cannes-birthplace.html CANNES, France (AP) — Baz Luhrmann might never have gone on to direct "The Great Gatsby" — or anything else, for that matter — if not for the Cannes Film Festival. "No Cannes, no me sitting here with you," Luhrmann said in a recent interview. When Luhrmann opens the 66th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday with the international premiere of "The Great Gatsb... Tue, 14 May 2013 18:22:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2084598-baz-luhrmann-cannes-birthplace.html 2013-05-14T18:22:15Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2083894-angelina-jolies-double-mastectomy-qa.html Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie disclosed Tuesday that she had a preventive mastectomy after learning she had a gene mutation that significantly raised her risk of breast cancer. A look at the procedure: Q: What kind of surgery did Jolie have? A: Jolie had a preventive double mastectomy, meaning she chose to have both her breasts removed even though ... Tue, 14 May 2013 17:15:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2083894-angelina-jolies-double-mastectomy-qa.html 2013-05-14T17:15:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2084674-beyonce-cancels-belgium-under-doctors-orders.html NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce is canceling her Tuesday concert in Belgium because of dehydration and exhaustion. In an email to The Associated Press, the singer's publicist says Beyonce has been advised by her doctors to rest. She was scheduled to perform at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp. The show will be rescheduled and tickets can be used at that show. ... Tue, 14 May 2013 15:51:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2084674-beyonce-cancels-belgium-under-doctors-orders.html 2013-05-14T15:51:26Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2084558-4th-season-downton-abbey-will-air-january.html NEW YORK (AP) — PBS says the fourth season of "Downton Abbey" will begin in January and run for eight weeks. The series is the highest-rated drama in public TV's history. The costume drama about the family and servants in a stately English home stars Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith and Michelle Dockery. ... Tue, 14 May 2013 15:13:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2084558-4th-season-downton-abbey-will-air-january.html 2013-05-14T15:13:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2084510-cannes-festival-chief-talks-sex-spielberg.html CANNES, France (AP) — It's the big Cannes question — what will catch Steven Spielberg's eye? The king of Hollywood heads the jury that will decide who wins the Palme d'Or and other prizes at the French Riviera film fest, and artistic director Thierry Fremaux can't wait to find out what takes his fancy. "We know (Spielberg) the director... Tue, 14 May 2013 15:08:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2084510-cannes-festival-chief-talks-sex-spielberg.html 2013-05-14T15:08:13Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2084478-the-office-shutting-us-8-years.html NEW YORK (AP) — As "The Office" airs its series finale after eight years on NBC, the time feels right to salute the show that spawned it. I'm talking, of course, about the BBC-produced, British version of "The Office," starring a previously unknown scamp named Ricky Gervais, who also served as its co-creator, -writer and -director. For viewers who stumble... Tue, 14 May 2013 14:49:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2084478-the-office-shutting-us-8-years.html 2013-05-14T14:49:53Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2083572-royal-infant-way-housing-unclear.html LONDON (AP) — Is it a boy? A girl? Prince William and the former Kate Middleton aren't telling, and palace officials are not revealing where the royal baby will spend its first few months, since renovation of their future home at Kensington Palace is taking longer than expected. William's tour of duty as a search-and-rescue pilot in Wales is scheduled to ... Tue, 14 May 2013 13:40:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2083572-royal-infant-way-housing-unclear.html 2013-05-14T13:40:42Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2083326-3-man-space-crew-returns-safely-to-earth.html MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule with a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, American Thomas Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko landed as planned southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan at 8:31 a.m. local time Tuesday ... Tue, 14 May 2013 08:32:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2083326-3-man-space-crew-returns-safely-to-earth.html 2013-05-14T08:32:15Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2083378-filipino-director-takes-bataan-march.html MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A film that weaves together stories of the anguish and desperation of American and Filipino soldiers during the notorious Bataan Death March could have been shot on location in a large-scale production. Filipino director Borinaga Alix Jr. instead chose to film "Death March" in black-and-white and almost entirely inside a studio ... Tue, 14 May 2013 04:46:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2083378-filipino-director-takes-bataan-march.html 2013-05-14T04:46:50Z