Scooter knocked Madonna off the top of the British album charts on Sunday with their new album going straight in at number one. The German techno band's first album since 2002, entitled "Jumping All Over The World", ended the US pop queen's reign atop both charts but she remained number one in the singles list with the track "4 Minutes" featuring Justin Timberlake.
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Marvel comics adaptation "Iron Man" kept a steely grip on the top box office slot for a second week as it forges the biggest blockbuster since last year's "Spiderman-3," industry figures showed Sunday. The fast-paced action film, starring Robert Downey Jr as billionaire industrialist Tony Stark who invents an armored suit to help him save the world, raked in an estimated 50.5 million dollars Friday through Sunday, Exhibitor Relations said, for a total US-Canada haul of 177.1 million.
Sipping on a cosmopolitan in the Meatpacking district, tripping through the streets laden with boxes from Soho boutiques: New York is as much the star of "Sex and the City" as its actresses, offering the chance to live just like Carrie and her pals. Since the hugely popular 1998-2004 series spilled onto television screens worldwide, New York has become the city of dreams for millions of women who identify with journalist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), the chronicler of city life; art dealer Charlotte (Kristin Davis), who converted for love to Judaism; Miranda the lawyer and single mother (Cynthia Nixon); and Samantha the man-eater (Kim Catrall).
British author Doris Lessing has said that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature was a "bloody disaster", adding she has now stopped writing, the BBC reported Sunday. Lessing, whose works include "The Golden Notebook" and "The Good Terrorist", said she spends most of her time now being photographed and giving interviews.
A year of revolt the world over, tumultuous 1968 also brought high drama to Cannes, the single time the film festival had to be cut short, with no one taking home a prize and no red-carpet finale. As the film industry's paramount fest opens this week for 12 days of screenings, parties and movie promotion, the May 14-25 festival remembers those events 40 years later. AP
A Chinese movie about an Olympic sprinter who escaped Japanese rule to take part in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics will be released in China in May, a producer said Thursday. Wang Zhebin said the movie, called "One Man's Olympics" in Chinese, will open May 18 and 400-500 prints will be issued. China has more than 3,400 movie screens.
The father of late television star Steve Irwin will receive a retirement package worth more than 1 million Australian dollars (US$932,000; ?588,000) following his split from the family-owned animal park, the zoo said Thursday. The package includes Bob Irwin's new home, a 255-hectare (630-acre) property, two vehicles and a bulldozer, the Australia Zoo said in a statement. He also will receive an annual pension of nearly A$100,000 (US$93,200; ?59,000), it said.
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Scooter knocked Madonna off the top of the British album charts on Sunday with their new album going straight in at number one. The German techno band's first album since 2002, entitled "Jumping All Over The World", ended the US pop queen's reign atop both charts but she remained number one in the singles list with the track "4 Minutes" featuring Justin Timberlake.
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