Amanda Bynes was reportedly taken into custody for raucous behaviour. The 27-year-old former children’s television star has been generating widespread concern due to her bizarre conduct in recent months.
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Amanda Bynes arrested
Amanda Bynes was reportedly taken into custody for raucous behaviour.
Liberace film spotlights gay rights
The relationship between the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover has dazzled at the Cannes film festival and threw the spotlight on gay rights at the movie industry’s largest annual gathering. Director Steven Soderbergh said he struggled five years ago to secure funding for Behind the Candelabra because some financiers thought the film would only appeal to a gay audience and, at a cost of US$25 million (NZ$30.6 million), would be a financial risk
No fair go for Christchurch gym
A Fair Go television item featuring women trying to get out of contracts at temporarily closing gyms in Christchurch has been found to be misleading by the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA). In the Television New Zealand (TVNZ) show’s item, nine “furious” women were interviewed who wanted to cancel their contracts because two gyms were closing or relocating following the February 2011 earthquake
Decortica hit the North Island
Decortica are taking their big riffs around the North Island after a difficult end to 2012. The Auckland group’s critically acclaimed third album 11811 never quite got the push it deserved when their record label EMI got swallowed up by Universal Music Group.
New Jackson abuse claim ‘pathetic’
Australian dancer Wade Robson’s molestation claims against Michael Jackson have been labelled “outrageous and pathetic” by a lawyer representing the former king of pop’s estate.
MJ doctor in ‘dire financial straits’
Michael Jackson’s personal doctor was in financial and legal troubles at the time of the singer’s death, a Los Angeles detective has testified in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Jackson’s family against concert promoters AEG Live.
Michael Jackson ‘scared to death’
Two sides of Michael Jackson have emerged during the start of a trial involving a lawsuit over his death.
DiCaprio film nothing if not stylish
A tour of the set at Sydney’s Fox Studios during production showed Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby will be nothing if not stylish, with a lavishly detailed mansion and the famous pier in the vast sound stages, colourful period cars and beautifully crafted costumes for the cast and hundreds of extras. All suggested the re-creation of 1920s New York will be as impressive as the version of historic Paris in Moulin Rouge, which Luhrmann and his creative partner and wife, designer Catherine Martin, also shot in Sydney
George Lucas to tie the knot
George Lucas will marry longtime girlfriend Mellody Hobson this winter, according to a new report.