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FBI agent kills man after questioning him in Boston bombing
An unidentified FBI agent shot and killed a man in Orlando,
Fla., early Wednesday after questioning him about his link to the
Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Dave Couvertier, a special agent
and spokesman for the FBI's Tampa field office, told Yahoo News
that the shooting is under investigation. He identified the man as
Ibragim Todashev, [...]
A Minute With: Pitbull on music, Jennifer Lopez and 'Epic'
By Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Pitbull has
taken his blend of American pop music fused with Latin beats from
the clubs of Miami to international pop charts, but he now is
crossing into film with his first acting role as an animated
character in the upcoming movie, "Epic." Pitbull, whose real name
is Armando Perez, has become a staple in the pop music field with
lively dance-floor tracks including recent chart hits "Feel This
Moment" with Christina Aguilera and "Live it Up" with Jennifer
Lopez. ...
'Great Gatsby' director, cast come home with Sydney premiere
By Thuy Ong SYDNEY (Reuters) - Director Baz Luhrmann brought
"The Great Gatsby" home on Wednesday for its Australian premiere,
with box-office success for the Sydney-produced film bolstering
hopes for the resurgence of the local film industry. The film, set
in 1920s New York and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, is
one of several international productions recently lured to
Australia by federal government tax breaks and grants. The
ambitious third adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "great American
novel" debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last week and has so far
raked in $23. ...
Afghan students protest women's rights decree
Portland, Ore., rejecting water fluoridation
Singer Kellie Pickler jives to victory on "Dancing With the Stars"
By Andrea Burzynski NEW YORK (Reuters) - Country singer Kellie
Pickler won the 16th season of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" on
Tuesday night, winning over judges and TV audiences with her
graceful style and high-jumping jives with partner and professional
dancer Derek Hough. Pickler, who first grabbed attention as a
contestant on "American Idol" in 2006, screeched and jumped up and
down when she learned she had won. "This is amazing! Oh, my God!"
she exclaimed, before fellow finalist and NFL player Jacoby Jones
hoisted her on his shoulders to celebrate. ...
Cannes: The Weinstein Co. nearing deal for 'The Young and Prodigious Spivet'
Damon Lindelof admits 'Star Trek' strip down was 'gratuitous,' 'misogynistic' moment
HBO's 'Girls' adds Jennifer Westfeldt for Season 3
TLC brings NBC's 'Who Do You Think You Are?' back from the grave
Netflix will air new Ricky Gervais series in September
CMT orders more 'Dog and Beth'
Melissa McCarthy allegedly fires extra from 'Tammy' set for abusing child
By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Melissa McCarthy
allegedly booted a female extra from the set of her directorial
debut "Tammy" on Monday after catching the woman mistreating, and
possibly even abusing, her child. TMZ reports the unidentified
woman reported to work on the Wilmington, N.C., set with a 4 to 5
year-old child in tow and struggled to control the child's
behavior. McCarthy's reps did not immediately respond to TheWrap's
request for comment. ...
Keanu Reeves, Reese Witherspoon sci-fi romance 'Passengers' acquired by The Weinstein Company
By Lucas Shaw LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Weinstein Company
has acquired the rights to "Passengers," an upcoming sci-fi film
starring Keanu Reeves and Reese Witherspoon, according to multiple
individuals with knowledge of the deal. The movie won't begin
filming for at least a few months, and TWC plans to release it next
year. Reeves will star as a passenger on a spacecraft transporting
thousands of people to a distant planet. Due to a malfunction in a
sleep chamber, he awakens years before anyone else. All alone on
the vessel, he decides to wake up another passenger (Witherspoon).
...
VH1 sets 'Gossip Table' for June 3
'Dancing With the Stars' and 'The Voice' pay respects to Oklahoma City tornado victims
By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Mia Maestro is
moving on from the vampires of "Breaking Dawn" to sink her teeth
into a new role with another bunch of suckers. Maestro, who played
Denali coven member Carmen Denali in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn" films, has been cast as one of the female leads in "The
Strain," Guillermo del Toro's pilot for FX. The pilot, based on del
Toro's trilogy of novels "The Strain," "The Fall" and "The Night
Eternal," will find Maestro in familiar thematic territory. The
novels follow the efforts of Centers for Disease Control employee
Dr. ...
Hollywood's disabled actors protest NBC's 'Ironside' casting - when is it their turn?
'Fast & Furious 6' review: Bypasses logic and drives straight to the pleasure center
By Alonso Duralde LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) -
Neuropsychologists should consider studying "Fast & Furious 6"
(and its equally thrilling predecessor, "Fast Five") for its unique
ability to completely bypass the brain's logic center and go right
to pushing our pleasure buttons over and over again. Countless
action directors aspire to the big, dumb fun that these last few
franchise entries have provided, but whereas most of them only get
"dumb" and maybe "big" right, director Justin Lin and his crew
deliver fun, fun, fun. (And nobody takes anybody's T-Bird away.
...
By Leah Rozen LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Years from now,
doctoral candidates are likely to write entire extended theses on
Alan Garner, the character so memorably and brilliantly played by
Zach Galifianakis in the "Hangover" series. This bearded baby-man -
he's a walking Chia Pet - is pure id, one of the most transgressive
characters to ever pop up in a mainstream movie. He's annoying,
peculiar, perverse, prideful, cuddly and outrageously funny, all
rolled into a single squat, hirsute package. Fortunately for "The
Hangover Part III," much of it is all about Alan. ...
CBS takes key ratings crown for first time in 21 years
Carol Burnett to receive top honor for American comedians
(Reuters) - Actress and comedienne Carol Burnett will be
honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the top award
for American comics, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts said on Tuesday. Burnett, 80, whose Emmy-winning sketch comedy
program "The Carol Burnett Show" was a mainstay on U.S. television
from 1967 to 1978, will receive the award during a ceremony at
Washington's Kennedy Center in October. ...