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Entertainment Express: Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand, The Walking Dead, Argo, Freddie Mercury

Posted on October 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

 

* The Grammys gave Whitney Houston a final send-off on Thursday night, where stars like Halle Berry, Britney Spears, Jennifer Hudson and Usher shared their memories and performed in tribute to the late singer.

* Barbra Streisand had her Brooklyn homecoming at the Barclay’s Center, pleasing a sold-out crowd of 19 000 fans.

* Season 3 of the hit series The Walking Dead hits the small screen this weekend – and introduces us to the Governor and Michonne, two new pivotal characters.

* Ben Affleck’s Argo, which screened at the Toronto Film Festival, opens on the US cinema circuit this weekend, as Oscar buzz around the film grows.

* Queen guitarist Brian  May has confirmed the Freddie Mercury biopic with Sacha Baron Cohen is due to start filming in Spring and should be released in 2014.

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Entertainment Express: Whitney Houston, Elvis, Pussy Riot, Hollywood’s A-List, Green Day, Hugh Masekela

Posted on August 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

 
* Sparkle, the movie that Whitney Houston was working on before she died, hits the US big screen this weekend. The late singer’s daughter attended the premiere in LA.

* It’s been an important week for Elvis fans – marking the 35th anniversary of his death. The tributes are still as fervent as ever.

* There’s a new A-List in town – well, according to The Hollywood Reporter there is. Our favourite male stripper makes the cut.

* Green Day has debuted the video for their new single, Oh Love, which Billie Joe Armstrong has described as “very lustful”.

* The father-son relationship between South African musician Hugh Masekela and Sal, will be turned into a movie, with Oscar-winning producer Paul Haggis on board.

* The three members making up Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been sentenced to 2 years in prison for their anti-Putin protest in a cathedral.

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Laying Whitney Houston to Rest

Posted on February 18, 2012 | Leave a comment


 
Whitney Houston’s funeral in her hometown of Newark, New Jersey, taking place at the church where she first started singing in the choir at the age of 11, will be a fitting goodbye to the singer. Guests will include Oprah, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and ex-husband Bobby Brown. For fans across the world, the service will be streamed online. Houston’s record company, Arista, has asked asked fans to honour her spirit by changing their Facebook profile pictures to their favourite image of the singer. Instead of flowers or gifts, the family has asked that donations be made to the Whitney Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts – the school the singer attended as a girl, renamed in her honour in 1997.

While authorities investigate Houston’s death, fans here in Los Angeles continue to add more tributes at the site of the iconic popstar’s death – which happened a week ago at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

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Whitney Houston’s funeral will be streamed live on Saturday February 18th at 12pm in New York, 9am in Los Angeles and 7pm in South Africa.

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Valentines for Whitney

Posted on February 14, 2012 | Leave a comment

Below – the scene outside the Beverly Hilton hotel, where Whitney Houston was found dead on Saturday afternoon, on Valentine’s Day, a few days after the pop-star’s death.
 

Unlike with Michael Jackson’s passing where there were a number of sites fans could gather and lay tributes down, there is the only real site people on the West Coast can go. Whitney was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the mid-90s but a dedication date wasn’t set down and so she never got it. Her family home is in Newark, New Jersey, so as many fans here outside the hotel told me, this is the only place they can gather.

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