Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Entertainment News (Master Feed)
Fans allowed for world championships, but no fancy dress
LONDON (Reuters) - Dressing up as an elf, Elvis Presley or a nun and singing loudly while watching darts at London's Alexandra Palace has become something of a pre-Christmas ritual but things will be ...
Dec 02, 2020
Discovery partners with Verizon to distribute new streaming service
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - Discovery Inc. is launching a new streaming service, called discovery+, and has a U.S. distribution deal with Verizon Communications Inc that will make the service availabl...
Dec 02, 2020
Oscars 2021 to be ‘in-person telecast’, will not be held virtually – Variety
(Reuters) - The Oscars 2021 will not be a virtual event and will be organized traditionally as an "in-person telecast," according to a report from Variety. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scien...
Dec 02, 2020
‘Juno’ actor Elliot Page comes out as transgender
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Oscar-nominated star of "Juno" and "The Umbrella Academy," formerly known as Ellen Page, on Tuesday said he was a transgender person and had changed his first name to Ellio...
Dec 01, 2020
Pennsylvania Supreme Court to hear appeal of Bill Cosby’s 2018 sexual assault conviction
By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a two-pronged appeal of Bill Cosby's 2018 sexual assault conviction, with the disgraced entertainer's law...
Dec 01, 2020
South Korea passes law to allow BTS to postpone military service
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to allow globally recognised K-pop artists such as BTS to postpone their mandatory military service to age 30. All a...
Dec 01, 2020
‘Cinema under the stars’ offers Indonesians safe entertainment amid pandemic
By Heru Asprihanto BANDUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Perched on a hilltop overlooking the Indonesian city of Bandung neat lines of teepee-style tents are set up each evening on a patch of lawn in front o...
Nov 30, 2020
Singer Rita Ora apologises for breaking lockdown rules with party
LONDON (Reuters) - British pop star Rita Ora apologised on Monday after she admitted she had attended a party to celebrate her 30th birthday which broke England's strict COVID-19 lockdown laws. Ora sa...
Nov 30, 2020
BTS ‘Dynamite’ costumes to light up U.S. music charity auction
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The K-pop band members of BTS are offering up their outfits from the music video of their hit single "Dynamite" to the highest bidder in a Beverly Hills, California, charity au...
Nov 30, 2020
Kaavan, Pakistan’s lonesome elephant, starts new life in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Pakistan's lonely elephant Kaavan arrived in Cambodia by cargo plane on Monday to start a new life with fellow pachyderms at a local sanctuary, the culmination of years of campa...
Nov 30, 2020
