TAIPEI – ACTOR Li Yapeng has denied tabloid stories that his wife, pop queen Faye Wong, has a gynaecological ailment and is dangerously thin. ‘We have been staying in Hong Kong lately. She is as happy as a bird every day,’ he told the Taiwanese press on Monday. ‘Her health has never been better. She [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Faye’s ‘Not Ill’
Eight Mile Style Sues Apple
DETROIT – EMINEM’S music publisher wants a bigger slice from Apple. Interpret contracts IF THE case isn’t settled, the trial before US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor will center on how to interpret contracts. Eight Mile agreed in 1998 and 2003 that ‘Eminem would create master sound recordings embodying compositions, and that Aftermath would own [...]
Zeta-Jones In Stage Musical
NEW YORK – THERE will be more than a little star power in the upcoming Broadway revival of A Little Night Music, the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury will share top billing in the production which begins preview performances Nov 24 and opens Dec 13 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Zeta-Jones [...]
Smith Given Deadly Drug Combo
LOS ANGELES – A PHARMACIST asked to provide powerful medications for late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith described the combination of drugs as a prescription for ‘pharmaceutical suicide’ and refused to fill the order, according to court documents released on Tuesday. The Los Angeles pharmacist’s account of the incident gives a glimpse into how Smith [...]
Travolta’s Extortion Trial
NASSAU (Bahamas) – PROSECUTORS said on Tuesday that a paramedic who treated John Travolta’s son shortly before he died in the Bahamas threatened to release private information unless the movie star paid US$25 million (S$35 million). Travolta was among those expected to take the stand during the trial, but he was not in the courtroom [...]