Saturday, July 4, 2009
![]() | A massive public memorial for Michael Jackson is to take place Tuesday at the Staples Centre in downtown Los Angeles, his concert promoter Randy Phillips said Thursday. |
A 30-second snippet of Michael Jackson rehearsing two days before his death was released Thursday, part of more than 100 hours of footage that could be turned into live albums, a movie and a pay-per-view special, the promoter said. |
Angelina Jolie was Hollywood's top-earning actress over the last year, earning an estimated US$27 million between June 2008 and June 2009, according to Forbes annual Celebrity 100 list released Thursday. |
The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize — a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. |
Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese operatic soprano who along with his French lover was convicted of espionage and whose complicated affair inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway play “M. Butterfly” and movie of the same title, died June 30 in Paris. |
Do Blackberry-wielding, number-crunching 21st century readers still have patience and perseverance enough to wade through a leviathan of a novel, over 1000 pages in length? | ![]() |
Detective Cassie Maddox is called to a murder case: A young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. | ![]() |










