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BBC NEWS: British actor Andrew Garfield is to play comic book superhero Spider-Man in the next outing of the film series, it has been announced.

The 26-year-old, raised in the UK but born in California, will begin work on the new movie in December.

His previous credits include last year’s The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus alongside the late Heath Ledger.

Former Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi departed the franchise after making three films.

‘Rare combination’

The new instalment, to be shot in 3D, will focus on the formative years of Peter Parker, the unremarkable youth who – after being bitten by a radioactive spider, is transformed into the superhero.

The movie has yet to be named. Read the rest of this entry »

BBC News: US officials have shut down nine websites accused of offering free access to films, including Toy Story 3.

The crackdown, which included seizing assets from 15 bank accounts, involved police, customs and the movie industry.

The closure of the sites, which had 6.7m visitors combined each month, was described as the “largest takedown of illegal movie and TV websites in a single action” by the government.

Some films were available hours after their release in US cinemas.

Previous crackdowns on film piracy have focused on illegally copied DVDs.

The latest action is the first of its scale to target websites which profit – by selling advertising or taking donations – from offering pirated films for free. Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK – From those to whom much is given, much is expected.

That even applies to the seemingly shortchanged 15-year-old RJ Berger, who sizes himself up for the audience as “scrawny and weird-looking, awkward and pale.”

The hero of the new MTV scripted comedy “The Hard Times of RJ Berger,” he follows in a rich TV tradition of winsome misfit adolescents — kids with smarts, creativity and spunk lurking just beneath the surface of their systematic victim hood.

But RJ comes with a bonus tucked away in his boxer shorts: He’s extremely well-endowed.

Thus does “Hard Times” raise issues that consume males from their early adolescence onward: How much is big enough? Why don’t I have more? Why is life so unfair? A show aimed at teen and twenty something guys (plus girls with their own interest in the subject), “Hard Times” portrays the ultimate wish fulfillment of its primary audience, while reminding the viewer that no blessing comes without a cost.

Here is a young man whose gift (never witnessed by viewers, of course, and thus enhanced even more in the mind’s eye) is plenty big enough, and then some. Read the rest of this entry »

In an April 30, 1981 file photo, singer Lena Horne is shown in a Broadway production 'Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music' in New York.

AP: Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress known for her plaintive, signature song Stormy Weather and for her triumph over the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not to socialise with them, has died. She was 92.

Horne died Sunday at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, said hospital spokeswoman Gloria Chin, who would not release details.

Quincy Jones, a longtime friend and collaborator, was among those mourning her death Monday. He called her a “pioneering groundbreaker”.

“Our friendship dated back more than 50 years and continued up until the last moment, her inner and outer beauty immediately bonding us forever,” said Jones, who noted that they worked together on the film The Wiz and a Grammy-winning live album. Read the rest of this entry »

SANTA MONICA, California (AP) – Chaz Bono is officially a man and has his new name.

A judge on Thursday granted a request to change the name and gender of the 41-year-old writer, activist and reality TV star.

Chaz Bono was born a girl, named Chastity, to Sonny Bono and Cher and underwent a gender-change operation last year.

Bono was represented in court by attorney Kristina Wertz of the Transgender Law Center. Wertz says the judge’s order is an important step in Chaz Bono’s transition and will allow him to reflect his new identity on a variety of official documents.

Wertz says in a statement, “Chaz couldn’t be happier.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Having already caused a fuss this spring with the depiction of the prophet Muhammad on South Park, Comedy Central said Thursday that it has a cartoon series about Jesus Christ in the works.

JC is one of 23 potential series the network said it has in development. It depicts Christ as a “regular guy” who moves to New York to “escape his father’s enormous shadow”.

His father is presented as an apathetic man who would rather play video games than listen to his son talk about his new life, according to Comedy Central’s thumbnail sketch of the idea. Reveille, the production company behind The Office, Ugly Betty and The Biggest Loser, is making JC.

It wouldn’t be the first time Jesus Christ has been on a Comedy Central cartoon; he’s a recurring character on the long-running South Park.

Comedy Central was the target last month of an Internet threat for a South Park episode that supposedly showed Islam’s prophet in a bear costume.

Whenever South Park features Muhammad in an episode, Comedy Central obscures the character with a black box; Muslims consider any physical representation of their prophet to be blasphemous. Following the Internet threat, Comedy Central angered South Park producers by editing out a character’s speech about intimidation in a subsequent episode. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Ralston Barrett

Popular radio personality DJ Sunshine is getting ready to make her local television debut, as the host of a brand new television show called Reggaelution 20. The first episode of Reggaelution 20 will be aired on CVM television Thursday March 18, 2010 at 5:30pm. This new top 20 countdown show is designed to promote good Jamaican music both locally and overseas. The show is also scheduled to begin airing on the renowned Caribbean television station Tempo in the near future.

DJ Sun Shine is a graduate of St. Andrew High School for Girls and the Miami Dade Community College; she also has degree in architecture. Sunshine has had a craving for music since she was in high school; she would rush home from school in the evenings to listen to the radio and record the latest tunes on cassette tapes. She would play back these tunes and practice mixing them on the family stereo set. Read the rest of this entry »

Undercover Boss Episode 2 Hooters Inc Coby G. Brooks – Undercover Boss episode 2 called Hooters was broadcast on CBS last night.In the second installment Hooters, Inc ,President & CEO Coby G. Brooks went undercover in several of his restaurants to better comprehend the journeys of his employees and opened up about filling his late father’s shoes.

On day 1: He tried to be a busboy but was rapidly fired by former Marine/cop Dave.

On day 2: He met Ashley and Brittney on the streets of Dallas who were doing promotions and heard many terrible things about the Hooters girls.

On day 3: Brooks met disgraced store manager Jimbo who held a contest called ‘reindeer games’ where the girls had to eat beans with no hands with the winner getting the chance of leaving early.

Brooks watched on felling embarrassed and saying:

“The things I saw today,were inappropriate. They were wrong and I don’t want any part of it… the way he approached the girls was not acceptable.” Read the rest of this entry »