Susan Boyle got an early Christmas present yesterday, when her album The Gift shot to the top of the charts.
Her second No 1 album confirms the Britain’s Got Talent star as one of music’s most lucrative brands.
The Gift sold 102,993 copies in its first week, almost double the total of nearest contender Bon Jovi’s Greatest Hits collection.
Oscar-winning Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis, who brought to the big screen nearly 500 films including “Serpico,” “Three Days of the Condor” and “King Kong,” has died in Los Angeles aged 91, Italian media has reported.
De Laurentiis produced several Italian classics in collaboration, including Federico Fellini’s “La Strada,” for which he won an Oscar in 1957.
Eleven years ago, I was in the last throes of despair with my ex-wife. I didn’t much like her, nor she me. Within a year, we would be divorced. She was the kind who slept in another room — sometimes another room in a nearby city. Me, I gleefully flew off to Scotland on a moment’s notice. It was like that. We tolerated one another, and no more.
Dori Media Group announced that it has sold its interactive cross platform reality format “uMan”to Mega; the number one Free-to-Air TV channel in Greece. Dori Media Group is an international media company that focuses on production, distribution, broadcasting and merchandising of Telenovela and Cellcom Israel, the leading cellular operator in Israel. Mega television channel was the first private television station in Greece and was launched in 1989. The network airs comedies, dramas, news, current affairs and entertainment shows. The station has also successfully aired reality TV shows. Mega will extend the format’s length so that it follows the show’s participants for 45 days, 7 days a week and over 24 hours a day. Viewers will also be able to catch up events of the day through a daily TV show dedicated to “uMan” on the Mega channel. “uMan” which has won multiple Accolade Awards has now been sold to 15 countries in only 12 months.
There is a rumor that a war is raging over the remains of legendary Hollywood actor Marlon Brando — ashes that are allegedly being held hostage by a woman who used to date Marlon’s son.
The ashes are currently in the possession of a woman named Donna Lopez Geon — who was in a relationship with Marlon’s son Christian Brando … until Christian passed away in 2008.
After Christian’s death, Donna took possession of several items that belonged to Christian — including “a portion of the cremated remains of Marlon Brando.”
