Indian singer Jagjit Singh has died at the age of 70, according to the AP. The prolific vocalist, who specialized in the musical form known as “ghazel,” was initially admitted to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital on Sept. 23 after he suffered a brain hemorrhage. Singh released dozens of albums during his career. In a condolence message, India’s minister for information and broadcasting Ambika Soni said Singh’s death left a void that would be difficult to fill.
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Oct 10
2011
10:24 AM ET
Oct 10
2011
09:45 AM ET
Netflix abandons plan to spin-off DVD service
Netflix has reversed its decision to spin-off the company’s DVD delivery option into a new service called Qwikster, according to the New York Times. “Consumers value the simplicity Netflix has always offered and we respect that,” Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings said in a statement. “There is a difference between moving quickly — which Netflix has done very well for years — and moving too fast, which is what we did in this case.”
On September 18, Netflix announced its intention to separate the company’s online streaming and DVD-by-mail services. The plan attracted criticism from users and prompted the price of Netflix stock to slide.
Many Netflix customers had already been disturbed by a recent price increase which raised the cost of having both online streaming and DVD-by-mail delivery from $10 to $16 a month. That increase is unaffected by today’s announcement.
Oct 9
2011
05:28 PM ET
Shirley MacLaine to be awarded AFI Life Achievement Award
The American Film Institute announced today it is honoring Shirley MacLaine with its 40th Life Achievement Award. The actress will receive the award on June 7 in Los Angeles at a gala tribute TV Land is set to broadcast later the same month. Previous recipients of the Life Achievement Award include Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Tom Hanks, and Morgan Freeman.
Oct 9
2011
12:13 PM ET
Paul McCartney weds New York businesswoman Nancy Shevell
Image Credit: Jim Ross/AP Photo
Paul McCartney and New York businesswoman Nancy Shevell were married in a ceremony at the Old Marylebone Town Hall in London today, People reports. The former Beatle, 69, and Shevell, 51, began dating four years ago and got engaged this past May. This is the third marriage for McCartney, who divorced Heather Mills in 2008. His first marriage, to Linda McCartney, lasted 29 years until her death from cancer in 1998. People reports that the groom’s 7-year-old daughter, Beatrice, served as the flower girl, and guests included Ringo Starr and his wife, Barbara Bach; George Harrison’s widow, Olivia; and Shevell’s cousin, Barbara Walters. Today is a date of significance on Beatles fans’ calendar for another reason: It’s the day McCartney’s late bandmate and songwriting partner John Lennon would have turned 71.
Oct 8
2011
03:54 PM ET
Legendary pianist Roger Williams dies at age 87
Virtuoso pianist Roger Williams has died at the age of 87, according to the AP. The Juillard-trained musician scored a massive hit in 1955 with “Autumn Leaves,” which remains the only piano instrumental to reach No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart. His other hits included “Born Free” and “Lara’s Theme from Dr Zhivago.”
In all, the prolific Williams recorded more than 100 albums and became famous in his later years for playing marathon, 12-hour long concerts. He also performed for every commander in chief from Harry Truman to George H.W. Bush, earning the nickname “pianist to the presidents” along the way. He played his last show in March, shortly after announcing that he had cancer.
Oct 7
2011
07:02 PM ET
Jurors hear Michael Jackson doctor detailing treatments
Jurors who have sat facing Dr. Conrad Murray for two weeks listened Friday as the physician detailed in a recorded interview his interactions and treatments on Michael Jackson in the months and hours before the singer’s death. Murray sounded calm on the more-than two hour recording as he spoke of their relationship, efforts to save his life, and the medications he gave Jackson in his efforts to get him to fall asleep. It was the first time Murray’s interview with police detectives had ever been played in public.
The June 27, 2009 interview outside a noisy hotel ballroom gave police their first hint that Jackson’s death was not from natural causes and that he had been given the powerful anesthetic propofol in an effort to cure his extreme insomnia. “He’s not able to sleep naturally,” Murray told the detectives early in the interview. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 7
2011
11:01 AM ET
Billy Bob Thornton's daughter sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter
Amanda Brumfield, otherwise known as the estranged daughter of Billy Bob Thornton, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter of a child, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Brumfield, who was convicted of the charge in May, was given 20 years Thursday.
Back in 2008, Brumfield’s 1-year-old goddaughter, Olivia Madison Garcia, died while she was babysitting. She has claimed that Garcia hit her head while climbing from a playpen. (Brumfield, who was at first charged with murder, was found not guilty in June.) “I miss Olivia just as much as anybody does,” she said before her sentencing.
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Billy Bob Thornton’s daughter found guilty of manslaughter in toddler’s death
Oct 6
2011
01:31 PM ET
Apple stock holds steady after Steve Jobs' death
When Steve Jobs stepped down from his day-to-day role as Apple’s chief in August, the stock price sank more than 5 percent in after-hours trading… but quickly rebounded once the American markets officially opened the next day. In the weeks that followed, the stock prospered as investors decided that the Apple brand was bigger than any one man — even someone as essential as Jobs had been to that brand.
Following the news of Jobs’ passing yesterday, Apple’s stock seemed to be following a similar trajectory. Early trading sent the stock down six points before buyers pushed the price back up. At 1:28 p.m. the stock was sitting at 376.50, just below its closing price yesterday. Most financial experts don’t expect Jobs’ passing to have a huge impact on the stock, as Jobs’ passing was not entirely unexpected and he had left behind what is perceived to be a capable executive team.
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Oct 5
2011
07:50 PM ET
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dies at age 56
Image Credit: Shaun Curry/Getty ImagesSteve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc. and Pixar Studios, and the man behind the launch of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, died today in California at the age of 56, according to Apple. Jobs first revealed he was battling pancreatic cancer in 2004, having surgery later that year. This past January he announced he was taking a medical leave of absence from his position at Apple until the end of June; he resigned his post as CEO of the company on Aug. 24.
Jobs was a visionary, a technical genius, a ruthless dealmaker, a control freak, a cool-packaging fetishist, and a celeb who loved delivering his company’s products to other celebs as a way to network. But most of all, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was a salesman.
Videos of his keynote addresses, those heavily live-blogged events at which he unveiled the latest Apple products and innovations, are archived all over the Internet. They’ll be dissected at business schools for decades, because they demonstrate directly that there’s never been a more galvanizing high-tech celebrant. Whatever he was extolling—the introduction of the iPad, the latest iteration of the iPhone, the newest, most capacious iPod music players—Jobs came on not like a business executive but like an amalgam of high priest and rock star. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 4
2011
02:36 PM ET
Leonardo DiCaprio and Blake Lively call it quits
Leonardo DiCaprio and Blake Lively have ended their fair-weather romance, reports People. The couple, who hooked up at May’s Cannes Film Festival, have been spotted all over the world from the French Riviera to the Sydney Zoo, New York, and Italy. Four and a half months later, they have parted amicably, in part due to distance and DiCaprio’s work schedule, says the magazine’s source.
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