| A Minute With: Rapper T.I. dips into comedy in "Identity Thief" Posted: 30 Jan 2013 06:46 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Tip "T.I." Harris has seen and done it all - three Grammy Awards, a novel, time in jail, a fashion line, TV reality show, businessman and several movies. Now the Atlanta-based singer is dipping into comedy, appearing in the film "Identity Thief" as an armed enforcer on the trail of a character played by Melissa McCarthy who is on the run from many of those she's swindled. T.I., 32, sat down with Reuters ahead of the movie's February 8 release to talk about the film, what's left on his to-do list, and his personal views on gun control. ...
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| First black South African billionaire donates fortune to poor Posted: 30 Jan 2013 06:45 AM PST  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's first black billionaire, Patrice Motsepe, on Wednesday said he has signed up for the Giving Pledge, becoming the first African to join some of the world's wealthiest people in donating vast sums of personal wealth to the poor. Mining magnate Motsepe, with assets estimated by Forbes magazine of $2.65 billion, said he is making the pledge to benefit the millions of South Africans who have seen little gain in their personal fortunes since white-minority rule ended in 1994. The Giving Pledge is a philanthropic initiative started by U.S. ...
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| Singer Frank Ocean wants Chris Brown charged over brawl Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:21 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rising R&B artist Frank Ocean wants fellow singer Chris Brown prosecuted following a brawl over a parking space at a Los Angeles-area recording studio, authorities said on Monday. Brown is serving five years probation for assaulting his on-and-off girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 and risks having his probation revoked should charges be filed. In the incident on Sunday, sheriff's deputies responded to a call about a fight involving six men in West Hollywood. The deputies cited witnesses as saying that the Grammy-winning Brown, 23, punched Ocean during the brief altercation. ...
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| Actor Burt Reynolds released from hospital after flu bout Posted: 29 Jan 2013 10:09 AM PST  (Reuters) - American actor Burt Reynolds has left a Florida hospital after a battle with the flu, a representative for the "Smokey and the Bandit" star said on Tuesday. "Burt has been released from the hospital," said Reynolds' manager, Erik Kritzer. Reynolds, 76, was admitted to an unidentified hospital last week with dehydration and was later placed in intensive care. Reynolds is best known for his roles in 1970s films such as "Deliverance" and "The Longest Yard." He won a Golden Globe award and scored an Oscar nomination for his role as a porn king in the 1997 film "Boogie Nights. ...
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| Romani artist and Holocaust documenter Stojka dies Posted: 29 Jan 2013 10:50 AM PST VIENNA (Reuters) - Romani artist Ceija Stojka, whose work helped expose the Nazis' persecution of the Romani people, died in a Vienna hospital on Monday aged 79, her publisher told the Austria Press Agency on Tuesday. Holocaust survivor Stojka wrote one of the first Romani autobiographical accounts of Nazi persecution, the 1988 book "We Live in Seclusion: The Memories of a Romani", and dedicated decades to telling her people's story through music and art. The Romani people, like the Jews, were sent to concentration camps by Germany's Nazis during the Second World War. Up to 1. ... |
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