Tom Jones canceled his Thursday concert in Singapore due to doctors’ orders, according to the 69-year-old singer’s website. The singer, best known for the hit song “It’s Not Unusual,” also had to cancel Friday and Saturday’s shows in Seoul. Jones began performing a concert last Friday at Singapore’s brand new Resorts World Sentosa casino, but had to leave the stage after just two songs. The singer was suffering from “acute laryngitis,” according to his site, and the canceled performance was rescheduled for tonight. However, according to Jones’ doctors, he “could risk serious permanent damage to his vocals” by performing at this time. Jones’ website did not say if and when the show would be rescheduled.
Archive: April 2010 (121-130 of 131)
Apr 1
2010
06:35 PM ET
Apr 1
2010
05:34 PM ET
Boy killed by Walt Disney World bus
A 10-year-old boy was struck and killed Thursday by a bus on the property of Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., according to the AP. The boy was riding a bicycle when the bus, which was operated by Disney, hit the child near the Fort Wilderness camping resort. The boy was riding with an 11-year-old friend, who had no injuries, and none of the bus’ passengers were hurt.
Apr 1
2010
03:39 PM ET
Noah Baumbach and Ben Stiller in talks for 'Mr Popper's Penguins'
Variety reports that Greenberg‘s Noah Baumbach and Ben Stiller may team up once again for 20th Century Fox’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins. The film, based on the 1938 children’s book of the same name, follows a house painter who receives a penguin from an Arctic pen pal. If Baumbach does sign on, it would be his first time directing a kid’s film. (Baumbach co-wrote Fantastic Mr. Fox.)
Apr 1
2010
03:36 PM ET
Stephen Daldry directing 'Extremely Loud'
The Reader director Stephen Daldry will helm Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s 9/11-centric novel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, which will be produced by Scott Rudin and released by Paramount and Warner Bros., follows a nine-year-old boy who searches NYC for a lock that matches a key left behind by his father, a victim of the 9/11 attacks. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button scribe Eric Roth will pen the screenplay.
Apr 1
2010
01:41 PM ET
John Gotti Jr. to tell his story in doc, feature film, and book
Former Gambino crime family head John Gotti Jr. is ready to turn his life story into a movie, a documentary, and a memoir, Deadline reports.
Junior, the son of one of the Mafia’s most renowned figures, John Gotti Sr., is free by law to share his tale for entertainment purposes after federal prosecutors announced early this year that they would not seek a fifth trial against him for alleged offenses, including murder and racketeering. He previously spent a total of nine years in prison for various other offenses.
“He’s willing to go all the way, revealing as much as possible without hurting anyone who’s still involved in the street life,” says Tony D’Aiuto, Gotti’s former defense attorney and a founder of Triplicity Entertainment, the New York-based production company with which the former crime boss has aligned himself for the documentary film.
Gotti Jr. will also appear in a segment on 60 Minutes on April 11.
Apr 1
2010
12:49 PM ET
Acclaimed jazz guitarist Herb Ellis dies
Herb Ellis, a jazz guitarist a member of Jimmy Dorsey’s big-band orchestra as a young man and later renowned for his work with Ella Fitzgerald and onetime membership in the Oscar Peterson Trio, has passed away at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, from complications associated with Alzheimer’s.
Billie Holiday recorded perhaps the most famous version of the standard “Detour Ahead,” which he originally composed with his two partners in the trio Soft Winds.
Apr 1
2010
12:41 PM ET
Ben Silverman pairs with 'The Cove' makers for documentary on decision-making
Former NBC Universal co-chairman Ben Silverman is joining with actor-producer (and recent Oscar winner for dolphin doc The Cove) Fisher Stevens on a full-length documentary exploring the human decision-making process.
Stevens and Cove writer Mark Monroe will co-direct the film, which will use 20 cameras to follow 20 people across the globe — from a man on death row to a wealthy home-buying couple in Los Angeles — making life-affecting decisions in a single day.
The theatrical release is slated for 2011.
Apr 1
2010
06:00 AM ET
Former 'Brothers & Sisters' showrunners join 'Fringe'
Monica Breen and Alison Schapker, former showrunners of ABC’s Brothers & Sisters, have reunited with their former Alias and Lost boss J.J. Abrams to become co-executive producers on Fox’s Fringe. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the duo will also develop for Warner Bros. TV, the studio behind Fringe.
Apr 1
2010
05:35 AM ET
Jesse James' lawyer says Nazi hat was a gag gift
A lawyer for Jesse James told CNN that James’ Nazi hat — which the TV personality can be seen wearing in a photo that has leaked online — was a gag gift from his Jewish godfather. He also said that James, who is embroiled in a tabloid scandal after allegedly cheating on wife Sandra Bullock, is not anti-semitic and once spent nearly a month living on a kibbutz in Israel.
More Jesse James-Sandra Bullock:
Jesse James checks into treatment facility
Fourth woman emerges in Sandra Bullock-Jesse James cheating scandal
Jesse James issues apology to Sandra Bullock and children
PopWatch: Sandra Bullock’s marriage woes: The end of the fairy tale?
Apr 1
2010
05:35 AM ET
Bryan Cranston joins 'Larry Crowne' cast
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston has been tapped to join Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts in the upcoming dramedy Larry Crowne, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hanks will direct the film, based on a screenplay he wrote with My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos, about a downsized worker (Hanks) who enrolls in college. Cranston will plays the husband of Roberts’ character, a professor. Cranston’s involvement in the project was first rumored on March 26 when Hanks posted a photo of 17 headshots (including Roberts, Cranston, and Cedric the Entertainer) on his Twitter account with the caption “The Larry Crowne Casting Wall (incomplete). Hanx.”
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