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'He was my monster': Actress Salma Hayek alleges Harvey Weinstein misconduct

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"For quite a long time, he was my beast," Hayek wrote in the sentiment piece in which she included portrayals of inappropriate behavior, tormenting, and dangers. Holly Baird, a representative for Weinstein, issued an announcement for his benefit on Wednesday night debating Hayek's record and calling her claims of sexual unfortunate behavior erroneous. More than 50 ladies have guaranteed that Weinstein sexually badgering or attacked them in the course of recent decades. Weinstein has denied having non-consensual sex with anybody. Reuters has been not able freely to affirm any of the allegations against Weinstein. Hayek's representative had no prompt remark on Wednesday. Police in New York, Los Angeles, Beverly Slopes and London have said they are examining assertions of rape or assault by Weinstein. Hayek wrote in the article that she was roused to share her encounters after other ladies approached. Her record to a great extent based on the time she was included with m...

Luke Bryan's 'What Makes You Country' debuts at No. 1 on Billboard

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As per Nielsen Music information discharged on Monday, Bryan sold more than 107,000 units of the collection amid seven days in which Irish band U2 plunged from a week ago's best spot to the thirteenth place with "Tunes Of Involvement." In seven days of a couple of new discharges, outline top choices Taylor Quick and Ed Sheeran climbed to second and third places, separately, on the Bulletin 200. Quick's "Notoriety," discharged in November, included another 99,000 in deals, while English vocalist Sheeran's Walk discharge "Partition" sold more than 69,000 duplicates for the week. The Bulletin 200 diagram counts units from collection deals, melody deals (10 tunes measure up to one collection) and spilling movement (1,500 streams break even with one collection). Sheeran's affection tune "Culminate" again ruled the advanced melodies diagram, which measures online single deals, because of a recently discharged coordinated effort with Bey...

Lady Gaga heads for Las Vegas concert residency

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Gaga, 31, said on Tuesday she will begin a two-year engagement at the 5,300-situate Stop Theater at the Recreation center MGM resort on the Las Vegas strip in December 2018. "It's the place where there is Elvis, Tony Bennett and Straightforward Sinatra, the Rodent Pack, Elton John, Judy Wreath and Liza Minnelli. It has been a deep-rooted dream of mine to play Las Vegas," the artist said in an announcement. "I am lowered to be a piece of a recorded line-up of entertainers, and to have the pleasure of making another show, not at all like anything Vegas has ever observed earlier," she included. Gaga made her name very nearly 10 years back with infectious pop melodies, capturing move schedules and ludicrous tricks like setting her piano ablaze and wearing a crude meat dress. Woman Gaga performs for the five previous US presidents, Jimmy Carter, George HW Shrub, Bill Clinton, George W Shrubbery, and Barack Obama amid a show at Texas A&M College profiting typhoon ...

Aaron Sorkin finds unlikely feminist heroine in 'Molly's Game'

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"I thought the individual that I would have been meeting was somebody who was taking advantage of their brush with popular individuals, which isn't something I'm a gigantic devotee of," Sorkin said. "In any case, I was dumb and that is not the individual that I met ... This was an unimaginably convincing lady." Sorkin, best known for making the political television arrangement "The West Wing," makes his directorial make a big appearance with "Molly's Amusement," adjusted from Sprout's book of a similar name. The film is out in US theaters on Dec 25. Blossom's book narratives poker recreations she kept running from 2002 to 2011 that drew superstars, for example, Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck and helped her rake in $4 million a year at her pinnacle. Blossom, now 39, was once accused of maintaining an unlawful betting business and was condemned in 2014 to a time of probation and 200 hours of group benefit. Sork...

Miss America CEO, other leaders resign after report of derogatory emails

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Sam Haskell's abdication as official director and CEO of the Miss America Association was joined by the flight of the association's leader, the executive of the load up and a load up part. Haskell had been suspended on Friday, one day after a Huffington Post report about the inward messages. The show has for quite a long time confronted feedback that it externalizes ladies, and the embarrassment over the messages has prompted the restored examination of the yearly occasion in Atlantic City, New Jersey. "This evening, the top managerial staff of the Miss America Association acknowledged the abdication of Official Director and CEO Sam Haskell, as of now," Dan Meyers, between time administrator of the load up, said in an announcement. Lynn Weidner, executive of the 96-year-old association's board, likewise surrendered yet will stay on the block for 90 days to guarantee a smooth change to a new administration, Meyers said. Josh Randle, president, and COO is likewise v...

Box Office: 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' soars to $745 million worldwide

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The North American take has hit $365 million in its initial 10 days as of Sunday with the studio anticipating another $32 million on Christmas Day on Monday - making it the third most astounding residential discharge in 2017 after "Excellence and the Mammoth" with $504 million and "Ponder Lady" at $412 million. "Stars Wars: The Last Jedi" has totaled $380.3 million in the global film industry. It is as of now the best netting film of 2017 in both Denmark and Sweden and the fourth most noteworthy grosser in the general European market. The U.K. is the best market with $67.4 million, trailed by Germany with $40 million, France with $29.3 million and Australia with $26.9 million. Tempest Troopers stroll before fans at the World Debut of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" – Landings – Los Angeles, California, US, Dec 9, 2017. Reuters Tempest Troopers stroll before fans at the World Debut of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" – Entries – Los Angeles, Califo...

Vice Media co-founders apologise for 'boy's club' environment at firm

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Bad habit CEO Shane Smith and fellow benefactor Suroosh Alvi discharged an announcement after the New York Times distributed a story delineating four settlements by the organization including affirmations of inappropriate behavior or maligning against Bad habit representatives. The daily paper additionally announced that more than two dozen ladies had encountered or seen sexual unfortunate behavior in the organization. In the messaged explanation sent to Reuters tending to Bad habit staff, Smith and Alvi said three representatives had been terminated for "inadmissible conduct." Smith and Alvi additionally laid out advances the organization is taking to enhance the work environment for ladies, including employing another HR boss and resolving to break even with pay for men and ladies before the finish of 2018. "Starting from the top, we have bombed as an organization to make a sheltered and comprehensive working environment where everybody, particular ladies, can feel reg...

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb knighted in UK honours list

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Ringo, 77, genuine name Richard Starkey, joined the Beatles as a trade drummer for Pete Best in 1962 and once in a while sang lead vocals, prominently in "Yellow Submarine" and "With a Little Assistance from my Companions." He was accepted into the Stone and Move Lobby of Acclaim as a Beatle in 1988 and again in 2015 for his performance profession after the gathering split up. Gibb, 71, is the English performer who helped to establish the Honeybee Gees with his siblings Robin and Maurice and went ahead to record a string of pop works of art including "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever" from the film "Saturday Night Fever." English creator Morpurgo, 74, is best known for kids' books like "War Steed" and was Kids' Laureate from 2003 to 2005. Barry Gibb. Reuters Document Photograph Barry Gibb. Reuters Record Photograph Bussell, 48, is a previous foremost artist with the Imperial Artful dance and presently one of the fou...

Jay-Z 'confesses' infidelity to Beyonce!

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Jay-Z discharged a music video on Friday that highlights the rapper tending to the torment of unfaithfulness as he shows up in a confession booth stall inverse his better half Beyonce. Set halfway in a congregation and furthermore highlighting the couple's 5-year-old little girl Blue Ivy, the "Family Quarrel" video pays tribute to family ties and female strengthening. "We as a whole lose when the family fights," Jay-Z sings. "A man that doesn't deal with his family can't be rich." The video is the most recent from Jay-Z's hit collection "4:44," in which he reacts to claims of bamboozling uncovered by Beyonce in her 2016 Grammy-winning collection "Lemonade." It quickly demonstrates an unidentified couple engaging in sexual relations, until the point that the lady wounds the man in the back. Within an hour of its discharge, the video was the best inclining thing on Twitter. Jay-Z, 48, affirmed in a New York Times meet in N...

Ringo Starr, Barry Gibb to be knighted

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Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and sole surviving Honey bee Well Barry Gibb were each granted a knighthood in England's conventional New Year Respects, reported late on Friday. The two music legends were joined on the lofty yearly accomplishment list by Brilliant Globe-winning performing artist Hugh Laurie, eminent artist Darcey Bussell and hip-bounce craftsman Wiley. Lesser known beneficiaries incorporate 101-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Mordaunt Cohen, respected for his administrations to World War II instruction, and Lucia Mee, 18, the most youthful individual compensated, for her endeavors to raise organ gift mindfulness. Starr, 77 - genuine name Richard Starkey - turned into an Individual from the Request of the English Domain (MBE) in 1965, however, after 52 years has now been given a knighthood for administrations to music. "It's a respect and a delight to be considered and recognized for my music and my philanthropy work, both of which I adore," he said in a short...

US model pulls out of Victoria’s Secret gala in China

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Top US mould display Gigi Hadid on Friday hauled out of the yearly Victoria's Mystery design appear in Shanghai after an online video demonstrating her evidently making an inclination eyes confront started feedback in China. The declaration is the second obvious tangle to hit the US undergarments producer's A-rundown clothing spectacle set for Monday, following reports that three Russians and one Ukrainian model had neglected to get Chinese visas. Hadid, who was number five on Forbes' rundown of the world's most generously compensated female models a year ago, acquiring $9 million, had enthusiastically reported her investment in the show in August. She gave no purpose behind the inversion. "I'm so mooched I won't have the capacity to make it to China this year," she said on Twitter. "Love my Versus family, and will be with every one of my young ladies in soul!" Hadid's haul out turns away a potential PR calamity for Victoria's Mystery...

French film ‘Los Perros’ adjudged best in KIFF

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French celluloid wanders "Los Perros" coordinated by Marcela Said won the honour for the best film in the Global Rivalry classification of the 23rd Kolkata Worldwide Film Celebration (KIFF) on Friday. The 94-minute film won the Brilliant Illustrious Bengal Tiger Honor for best film that included a handbag of Rs 51 lakh and a trophy, the coordinators declared at the media gathering. The Best Executive honour in a similar class was sacked by Iceland's Asa Helga Hjorleifsdottir for the film "Swan". Hjorleifsdottir's delegates were given the Brilliant Imperial Bengal Tiger Honor that incorporated a check of Rs 21 lakh and a trophy. Veteran on-screen character Biswajit Chatterjee gave over the honours. Iran's "Kupal" coordinated by Kazem Mollie and Poland's "Fowls Are Singing in Kigali" created by Joanna Koskrauze and Krzysztof Krauze were together given The Jury Unique Say Honor on Advancement in Moving Pictures segment. Nepalese crea...

US actor David Cassidy passes away

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American performer and artist David Cassidy, a 1970s teenager icon best known for his part in the melodic sitcom "The Partridge Family," passed on Tuesday. He was 67. Marketing specialist Jo-Ann Geffen disclosed to AFP that Cassidy-who uncovered he had been determined to have dementia recently kicked the bucket of liver disappointment in Florida, days after US media detailed he was hospitalized. "David kicked the bucket encompassed by those he adored, with satisfaction in his heart and free from the torment that had grasped him for so long," his family said in an announcement. "The Partridge Family" was disclosed on ABC from 1970 to 1974, recounting the account of a widowed mother (Cassidy's genuine stepmother at the time, Shirley Jones) and her youngsters as they frame a stone and move band and leave on a melodic vocation. Cassidy, Another Yorker by birth, featured as the lead vocalist and guitarist Keith Partridge, with the band discharging hits, for...

Backstreet Boy Nick Carter denies 2002 rape allegation

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Backstreet Kid artist Scratch Carter on Wednesday denied an affirmation that he assaulted a high schooler pop artist 15 years prior, saying he was "stunned and disheartened" by the allegation. Melissa Schuman, who was an individual from young lady amass Dream in the late 1990s, asserted in a long blog entry not long ago that Carter constrained her to have oral sex and assaulted her in 2002 when she was 18 and he was 22. Reuters was not able freely to affirm Schuman's charge. "I am stunned and disheartened by Ms Schuman's allegations," Carter, now 37, said in an announcement that was messaged to media outlets. "Melissa never communicated to me while we were as one or whenever since that anything we did was not consensual. "It is in opposition to my tendency and all that I hold dear to deliberately cause somebody uneasiness or damage," he said in the announcement. Schuman couldn't promptly be gone after remark on Carter's announcement. S...

Jackman says goodbye to Wolverine

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"I know Aussies are not known for leaving the gathering at the ideal time, however (following) 17 years, it's an ideal opportunity to leave the gathering," Hugh Jackman joked as he examined his last time playing X-Men superhuman Wolverine in the current year's dirty activity hit "Logan." The Australian performer made his leap forward as the rough, pawed mutant Wolverine in 2000's "X-Men" film and has since played the character eight times on screen. Be that as it may, with the current year's "Logan," Jackman said he and the producers went for broke for his last execution as the mutant legend. "This was not a given moneymaker," Jackman said in a meeting. "Individuals viewed this as the greatest hazard, the silliest hazard at any point taken, and I think individuals expect you're simply doing a spin-off in light of the fact that it's a moneymaker, yet my experience from being inside it is that it's dependa...

Michael Jackson in new art show

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Pop legend Michael Jackson's "enormous effect" on contemporary craftsmanship will be investigated in another display in Paris and London one year from now. The "historic" show claims it will tell the "untold story" of how the lord of pop moved toward becoming "a standout amongst the most powerful figures in a craft of the last 50 years", rousing craftsmen from Andy Warhol to David LaChapelle and Grayson Perry. Works highlighting Jackson by somewhere in the range of 40 specialists including Gary Hume, Maggi Hambling, Catherine Opie and Yan Pei Ming will be united without precedent for "Michael Jackson: On the Divider" at the National Picture Display in London in June, before the show goes to the Terrific Palais in Paris in November. Jackson is credited with helping transform the music video into a fine art, and of advancing the robot and moonwalk move moves. Keeper Dr Nicholas Cullinan, who runs the London exhibition, said the show t...

U2 returns with sloganeering rock

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U2 has infrequently been blamed for the absence of desire, from record-breaking visits to feature snatching human rights crusades, yet following four decades together the band unavoidably has considered how to push ahead. In the event that 2017 has been tumultuous for the world, the year has given crisp significance to U2. The gathering's first collection in three years, "Tunes of Involvement," see Bono and Friends coming back to U2's establishing confidence in the shake as methods for motivation, at a recorded minute when numerous audience members might be preferably arranged to activism over pessimism. US president Donald Trump's shadow drifts over a significant part of the collection, which turns out Friday following a postponement of a year, which U2 said it expected to tweak its message after the conservative investor's stun race triumph. "Try not to accept it without a fight/You got the opportunity to chomp back/The substance of Freedom's beginn...

Leia leads resistance in final 'Star Wars'

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Carrie Fisher's last execution as the adored Leia in "Star Wars" puts the character on the bleeding edges in a dim new section that achieves theatres this month, leaving a galactic gap to fill after the sudden demise of the performer a year prior. Fisher had shot every last bit of her scenes for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," the eighth portion of the blockbuster space adventure, before she passed on of a heart assault in December 2016. "She's basic," Check Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker, told Reuters. "'Star Wars' is about incredible triumphs and extraordinary tragedies, and I can't think about a greater disaster than missing our Leia," Hamill told Reuters. Essayist and executive Rian Johnson said he didn't change Leia's story in "Last Jedi" after her demise. The film makes a big appearance in theatres December 14. It will be up to the creators of 2019 film "Scene IX" to choose a definitive destiny ...

'Coco' rules US box office

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The energized Disney and Pixar hit "Coco" ruled at the North American box workplaces for a moment week, makes sense of Sunday appeared, demolishing superheroes, dramatizations and Christmas comedies. The film recounts the account of a 12-year-old Mexican, Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), who yearns to end up plainly an artist, however, faces an ages-old family restriction on music. It got an expected $26 million for the long weekend and $109 million since it opened over the Thanksgiving Day occasion, Exhibitor Relations said. "Coco," which takes Miguel into the enchanted Place that is known for the Dead, where cheat Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal) encourages him to unwind a profound family mystery, got an uncommon A+ rating from groups of onlookers overviewed by CinemaScore. In second place again this end of the week was Warner Brothers. film "Equity Association," with a three-day take of $16.6 million in its third week out. The superhuman elite player gives of Lady...

Shashi Kapoor no more

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Bollywood symbol Shashi Kapoor - a star of 1970s Indian silver screen and an individual from the Hindi film industry's celebrated Kapoor family - passed on Monday matured 79 after a long disease, his family said. Kapoor passed on at a healing centre in Mumbai on Monday evening, his nephew Randhir Kapoor told the Press Trust of India news office. Another relative affirmed the demise of AFP. "Truly, he has passed away. He had kidney issue for quite a long while," Kapoor told PTI. Shashi - the most youthful child of Prithviraj Kapoor, a pioneer of Hindi film and theatre - was conceived in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata in 1938. He started his vocation early, aiding his dad's voyaging theatre organization and showing up in front of an audience in a generation of "Shakuntala", a great Hindu romantic tale, at six years old. His Bollywood vocation likewise started in adolescence and he developed into an early show icon, showing up in more than 150 movies and pr...

Taylor Swift spends 3rd week atop Billboard chart

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Taylor Quick clutched her position of royalty on the week by week US Bulletin 200 collection outline for a third successive week on Monday. Quick's "Notoriety" record sold another 147,000 collection units in the week finishing 30 Nov, as per figures from Nielsen Music. At No. 2 this week is Acappella assemble Pentatonix's bubbly collection "A Pentatonix Christmas," while English vocalist Sam Smith's most recent collection "The Excite of everything" held enduring at No. 3. The main new passage in the best 10 of the Bulletin 200 diagram this week was a shared collection by rappers Jadakiss and Fabolous, "Friday on Elm Road," opening at No. 10. The Board 200 graph counts units from collection deals, melody deals (10 tunes break even with one collection) and spilling action (1,500 streams approach one collection). On the Computerized Melodies outline, which measures online single deals, Ed Sheeran's adoration tune "Consummate...

Bollywood bids Shashi Kapoor goodbye

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Bollywood stars paid their last regards to screen legend Shashi Kapoor at his memorial service Tuesday as tributes poured in for the various honour winning on-screen character who kicked the bucket after a long ailment. Veteran Indian silver screen symbol Amitabh Bachchan, who featured close by Kapoor in a few hit Hindi movies of the 1970s, and performer Shah Rukh Khan were among grievers at the function in Mumbai, the home of Bollywood. Kapoor showed up in more than 150 movies and was an individual from Indian silver screen's most well known acting line. He kicked the bucket on Monday matured 79 following a years-in length fight with the kidney ailment. Indian Bollywood on-screen characters Sanjay Dutt (L) and Anil Kapoor (R) go to the burial service of Indian veteran Bollywood on-screen character Shashi Kapoor in Mumbai on 5 December 2017. Photograph: AFPActors and executives from over the Hindi motion picture industry paid tribute to Kapoor who was one of the main Indian perform...