Hello all you coffee-lovers, here are the entertainment news stories that have been on my radar today… * The New York Film Festival continues, and, much to the disappointment of many, the secret screening on Sunday night wasn’t Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Actually, it wasn’t really a disappointment – those who did have tickets still got to see the delightful While We’re Young, in which Ben Stiller plays an aging hipster. Until Interstellar lands, there is the online game for a little time-passing. * Sticking with film festivals, the San Diego Film Festival this past weekend awarded best feature to Where the Road Runs Out. It’s billed as the first major…
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Jay Z, No Doubt, fun. and The Roots Play the Global Citizen Festival
Jay-Z headlining the Global Citizen Festival was always going to be a major drawcard. So too, the prospect of seeing No Doubt together again on stage, joined for a track by Sting. Adding Carrie Underwood, The Roots and Tiesto to the mix made Saturday’s line-up appealing enough to take on the Global Poverty Project’s initiatives to win tickets to their concert in Central Park. Beyond, of course, the aim itself of ending extreme poverty by 2030. It made sense that Jay would have started his set with Empire State of Mind – as he did, after opening with a mash of Gil Scott-Heron’s NY You’re Bringing Me Down, Billy Joel’s New York…
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Entertainment Express: Exodus, JK Rowling, Emma Watson, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Global Citizen Festival
Hello from Los Angeles, where I’m here to talk to Cameron Diaz and Jason Segal about a little Sex Tape they made… * Christian Bale plays Moses in Ridley Scott’s upcoming epic, Exodus: Gods and Kings, and we get to see a glimpse of him in this biblical role in the trailer that’s just been released. Bale stars alongside an almost unrecognizable Joel Edgerton as they battle it out over the releasing of slaves. The film is due out in December, while Scott has said he’s going to tackle another Bible story again soon – this time, David and Goliath. * While we were sleeping/running/watching Orange is the New Black JK Rowling wrote a…
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