PARK CITY, Utah – When Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the richest man in the United States, came to the Sundance Film Festival here this week, it wasn’t movies on his mind, it was education — your kids’ education.
A new documentary, “Waiting For Superman,” by director Davis Guggenheim (”An Inconvenient Truth”) looks at what Gates and [...]

LOS ANGELES – “The Hurt Locker” scored the top film award from the Producers Guild of America, building new momentum for the Iraq war drama in the expanded Oscar race for best picture.
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The film about a risk-taking bomb disposal technician beat out such celebrated nominees as “Avatar,” “Inglourious Basterds” and “Up in the Air” Sunday [...]

LOS ANGELES – James Cameron’s “Avatar” is on a course to sink “Titanic” at the box office.
No. 1 for the sixth-straight weekend with $36 million, the 20th Century Fox sci-fi spectacle lifted its domestic total to $552.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Avatar” raised its worldwide total to $1.841 billion. That’s $2 million shy [...]

Denzel Washington is astonished by his Hollywood success as he never dreamed he would do so well.
Denzel Washington never set out to be a movie star.
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The American actor – who has been awarded three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards for his work – said he still has to remind himself everyday how lucky he [...]

Jay-Z finds it ”mind-blowing” that US presidents seek out his company because he felt so disrespected by politicians, he never used to vote when he was younger.
Jay-Z finds it “mind-blowing” that he socialises with US presidents.
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The ‘99 Problems’ star – whose real name is Shawn Carter – still can’t get used to the fact former [...]

David Beckham spent £2,000 flying his dog back to Los Angeles from London.
David Beckham spent £2,000 flying his dog back to Los Angeles.
The soccer star was given the British Bulldog puppy by his former Spice Girl wife Victoria as the couple and their three sons celebrated Christmas at their UK home.
But as the family now [...]

HONG KONG: The nation’s first Wimbledon semifinalist, Zheng Jie, is looking forward to facing off against former world tennis No 1 Maria Sharapova at the Hong Kong Tennis Classic today.It’s going to be a tough first match but it’s a great way to open the year and the rest of the lineup will definitely be [...]

SHANGHAI: YY: they don’t mean much right now, but Chinese basketball fans hope these two initials could herald future victories for the national team.
YY” looks certain to be the nickname of Houston Rockets star Yao Ming’s first child, whose imminent arrival was broken on Chinese television on Monday by Miao Lijie, a friend of Yao’s [...]

NEW YORK – Ashleigh McIvor has strolled down the fashion runway in New York and modelled in major advertising campaigns but when it comes to winter sport the Canadian Olympian likes to play rough.
World skicross champion McIvor will get to show off her combativeness and skills on her home snow when her sport joins the [...]

Nearly 90 percent of Beijing flights delayed or cancelled
Unlike thousands of other passengers who were stranded at airports across northern China yesterday due to heavy snow, Zhou Chen had a very lucky day.
After waiting at the Beijing Capital International Airport for nearly eight hours, she finally made it to Ningbo, her hometown, late in the [...]