Canadian pop crooner cancels show for terror scare
Canadian pop crooner cancels show for terror scare
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Buble cancels show due to terror scare
JAKARTA: Due to its perception of a renewed terror threat in the
country, the management of Canadian pop crooner Michael Buble has
decided to call off the singer's one-date concert in Jakarta,
originally slated for Oct. 16.
The show's local promoter Nepathya said in a statement made
available to The Jakarta Post on Monday that Buble's management
was concerned at worsening security conditions in the country
after the Oct. 1 Bali bombings that killed 23 people and injured
dozens of others.
Nepathya said it failed to convince the artist and his
management about the possibility of going ahead with the concert
here despite the terror scare.
"We have done our best to persuade Michael Buble and his
management to do a concert here to the point where we asked a
favor from the Canadian Embassy here, but to no avail," Juanita
Rustandi of Nepathya said.
Nepathya said that fans who had purchased tickets for the show
could obtain a refund at designated spots.
In his early 20s, Buble has sung songs that have a semblance
to tunes from Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin and Motown legend Stevie
Wonder.
His strong live performance was highlighted in his debut Come
Fly With Me while his sophomore album It's Time has been a chart-
topper in Canada and shot to No. 1 in the U.S. Jazz chart. -- JP
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Britain-Michael Jackson
Fans turn out to see Michael Jackson attend London show
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Fans turn out to see Michael Jackson attend London show AP Photos
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Jackson fans turn out for London show
LONDON: Hundreds of Michael Jackson fans turned up outside a
London theater on Saturday to catch a glimpse of the pop star as
he arrived to see the stage version of hit movie Billy Elliot.
Security staff forced a path for Jackson, 47, through a crowd
of admirers and photographers standing outside the Victoria
Palace theater so he could reach the front door. But the singer
fell to the ground in the commotion.
Jackson's children accompanied him to the show but had their
faces covered by clothing as they entered the theater.
Jackson was staying at the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane. His
fans had gathered outside the luxury hotel in hope of seeing him
before heading to the theater.
"We were outside his hotel and there was a rumor that he was
coming here, so we came down," said admirer Phillip Goldstone,
22, from east London.
During the performance interval, Jackson mingled with other
spectators, chatting and signing autographs.
"He talked to us, saying hello and there were a lot of people
around him," said Roxanne Wisenberg, 47, from San Diego,
California. "He was very nice and his children were with him."
Jackson was in London to work on recording a song to benefit
Hurricane Katrina victims. The visit to Britain was believed to
be his first since his acquittal in June of child molestation
charges. He has spent much of his time in Bahrain since. -- AP
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US-People-Ashlee Simpson
Back to the scene, Ashlee Simpson makes it through "SNL" song
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Back to the scene, Ashlee Simpson makes it through "SNL" song
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Simpson gets through 'SNL' song OK
NEW YORK: Ashlee Simpson sang -- really, she did -- without
incident on Saturday Night Live in her return to the scene of
last year's lip-synch fiasco.
"I wrote this song after my last Saturday Night Live
appearance," she said, introducing the mournful Catch Me When I
Fall.
She belted out the song with gusto, the only boost seeming to
come with a brief echo effect on her vocal in the chorus. When
she was done, Simpson smiled and hopped in relief.
It was nearly a year after Simpson's embarrassing appearance
on the same stage, where her voice was heard singing the wrong
song when she held her microphone at her waist. She danced an
awkward jig and then walked off the stage.
The fakery made her a laughingstock and Simpson was booed
lustily when she appeared at the Orange Bowl a few months later.
Leading up to this week's appearance, Saturday Night Live
executive producer Lorne Michaels promised it would be her
singing - not some tapes - when she went on the air.
Who will be the one to save me from myself? Simpson sang in
the ballad. Who's going to catch me when I fall?
Later in the show she came back for a peppier number,
Boyfriend, where her vocal was augmented by a backup singer.
"Thank you so much!" she said at the end, blowing a kiss to
the audience. -- AP
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US-People-Nathan Lane
U.S. actor Nathan Lane broke finger days before the Broadway
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U.S. actor Nathan Lane broke finger days before the Broadway
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Lane broke finger before Broadway show
NEW YORK: Actor Nathan Lane got an unwanted accessory days before
the much anticipated Broadway revival of The Odd Couple began for
previews: a broken finger swathed in a huge white bandage.
Lane, who teams again with The Producers costar Matthew
Broderick in the comedy, accidentally slammed his right index
finger in a door and required 14 stitches, Time magazine
reported. Lane said he would take off the splint and bandage for
the performance.
"I'm not going to wear this in the show," Lane said, quipping:
"Have you met my finger puppet Melvin?"
Broderick asked, "Is it, like, throbbing?"
"Yes, it's throbbing," Lane said. "And I mean that in the
nicest possible way."
Lane plays Oscar and Broderick is Felix in the show opening
Oct. 27. The entire run is already sold out, Time reported, with
an advance box office of US$21.5 million -- the most of any play
in the history of Broadway.
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