By Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Zachary Quinto has transitioned swiftly from a television villain into an unlikely action film star in J.J Abrams’ rebooted “Star Trek” franchise, playing the series’ most recognizable half-Vulcan, Spock. The 35-year-old actor, who gained fame as super-villain Sylar in sci-fi television series “Heroes,” will reprise his role [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rapper Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine have donated $ 70 million to establish an entrepreneurial undergraduate program at the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles school said on Wednesday. The gift will create a new degree pulling faculty members from the university’s business, fine arts, music and engineering [...]
(Reuters) – Diamond jewelry belonging to Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida sold for more than 4.74 million Swiss francs ($ 4.9 million) on Tuesday in Geneva and set a record for pearl earrings, auctioneer Sotheby’s said. Lollobrigida, a leading sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s, said she was selling the jewelry to raise money for [...]
By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn spoke out on Tuesday about her decade-long struggle with bulimia and alcohol abuse after her mother’s death from breast cancer. “It was such a challenging time, and it was a time where everything was just bad,” Quinn, the speaker of the [...]
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Christie’s auction house raised nearly $ 32 million for environmental causes on Monday at a charity art auction. DiCaprio, the star of the new film “The Great Gatsby,” organized the so-called The 11th Hour Auction along with his foundation and Christie’s to protect the [...]
BOSTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the release of previously sealed documents in the criminal hacking case against deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz. Swartz committed suicide in January before going to trial for allegedly stealing millions of academic articles from a private database using a computer network at the Massachusetts Institute of [...]
(Reuters) – Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie said on Tuesday that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after finding out she had a gene mutation that leads to a sharply higher risk of both breast and ovarian cancer. Jolie, writing in the New York Times, said her mother’s death from cancer at 56 and the [...]
May 13 (Reuters) – Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $ 5,849,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $ 3,388,064 3. Kevin Streelman $ 2,572,989 4. Billy Horschel $ 2,567,891 5. Matt Kuchar $ 2,493,387 6. Phil Mickelson $ 2,220,280 7. Adam Scott (Australia) $ 2,207,683 8. D.A. Points [...]
(Reuters) – Pioneering journalist Barbara Walters, the first woman to co-anchor a U.S. evening news program, plans to announce her retirement on “The View” on Monday, the host network ABC said. In an entertainment blog posting on Sunday, the network said Walters, 83, would announce on Monday on “The View,” the all-women talk show she [...]
By David Jones NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) – A federal judge has temporarily blocked an auction house from selling basketball great Kobe Bryant‘s jerseys, championship rings and other memorabilia worth up to $ 1 million in a case stemming from a dispute between the Los Angeles Laker and his mother. The All-Star guard has asked [...]
