LOS ANGELES | Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:35pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country-pop star Taylor Swift will co-host the Grammy nominations live on television from Nashville, the capital of country music, the Recording Academy said on Monday. Swift, 22, who has won six Grammy awards, will join rapper-actor LL Cool J to announce nominees in some of the major cate...

NEW YORK | Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:15pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Green Day said on Monday they are canceling their fall club tour and postponing early 2013 dates as frontman Billie Joe Armstrong continues treatment for substance abuse. "Obviously the timing for this isn't ideal, but Billie Joe's well-being is our main concern," band member Mike Dirnt said in ...

MUMBAI | Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:46pm EDT MUMBAI (Reuters) - Despite the slick special effects, creation of a fake tiger and shooting underwater, the toughest part of making "Life of Pi" was telling the story, director Ang Lee said Monday. The Academy Award-winning director who is in Mumbai to promote his latest project, based on the bestselling novel of the ...

LONDON | Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:15am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - "Skyfall" set the record for the biggest UK weekend box office takings of any James Bond film, its producers said on Monday. The 23rd official cinematic adventure of the suave, but brutal 007, earned 20.1 million pounds ($32.36 million) after opening last Friday at 587 cinemas across the United Kin...

LOS ANGELES | Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:46pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Acclaimed Iran hostage thriller "Argo" brought home its first box-office win over a quiet weekend, leading movie charts with $12.4 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales as would-be moviegoers hunkered down for Hurricane Sandy. The tally for "Argo," directed by and starring Ben Affleck,...

By Alessandra Rizzo LONDON | Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:17pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested convicted sex offender and former pop star Gary Glitter on Sunday as part of an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, media said. Glitter was released on bail some 10 hours later. But the arrest -...

By Alessandra Rizzo LONDON | Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:04am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - One-time British pop star Gary Glitter was arrested on Sunday as part of an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, the BBC said. It was the first arrest to be reported in a scandal that has already damaged the reputation ...

Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:21pm EDT (Reuters) - Natina Reed, a member of the R&B singing trio Blaque, was struck and killed by a car as she walked in a major roadway in Georgia, police said on Saturday. Reed, who also appeared in the cheerleader movie "Bring It On" in 2000, would have turned 33 on Sunday.She was struck by a car at about 10:30 p.m. Friday on a state ...

Evanescence will perform live in Costa Rica for the first time. The amazing voice of Amy Lee accompanied by the sound of the Evanescence band will rock Estadio Ricardo Saprissa in Tibás. Evanescence is an American rock band founded back in 1995 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The group consisted singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After many single releases, Evanescence released t...

Finca Luna Nueva will be hosting its second “Slow Food in the Rainforest” luncheon in celebration of Terra Madre Day on December 9, 2012. It will be a fun and exciting day at our eco-lodge in the rainforest. The event will start between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. with an introductory gathering in Casa Luna where we will serve fresh juice, coffee or tea, and galletas, after which the group will spli...

By Alessandra Rizzo LONDON | Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:16am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - The family of the BBC presenter at the center of a sex abuse scandal that has rocked the broadcaster offered its "deepest sympathy" to the late Jimmy Savile's victims on Saturday, saying it felt "despair and sadness". The statement came as the Roman Catholic Church in En...

LOS ANGELES | Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:56pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The one-time confidante of Britney Spears said he crushed up drugs in the pop singer's food to help her sleep and disabled her phone lines during the height of her meltdown five years ago, Spears' mother testified on Friday. Lynne Spears told the Los Angeles jury in a civil trial that Sam ...

LOS ANGELES | Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:34pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Arnold Schwarzenegger is reprising one of his most famous movie roles - Conan the Barbarian - for an upcoming sequel, Universal Pictures said on Friday. Schwarzenegger, 65, will play the sword-swinging hero in "The Legend of Conan," 30 years after the film that launched the Austrian body-b...

LOS ANGELES | Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:22pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Justin Timberlake apologized on Friday for what he called a "distasteful" video that features homeless people in Los Angeles congratulating him and new wife Jessica Biel on their wedding. The video was made by a friend of Timberlake's and intended as a humorous gift for the couple's...

By Christine Kearney NEW YORK | Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:13pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tori Amos has been performing in bars and clubs since the age of 13, but the pianist-singer-songwriter's new tour and album mark 20 years since her breakthrough solo debut album "Little Earthquakes". Throughout October, Amos, 49, has been touring with songs from her ...

By Dominique Vidalon and Johnny Cotton PARIS | Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:37am EDT PARIS (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones will perform a short warm-up gig in Paris later on Thursday for a few hundred fans and announced on Twitter that they were selling tickets for 15 euros ($19.45) each at a music store in the centre of the city. Fans queued from the earl...

By Jeff Mason BURBANK, California | Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:46pm EDT BURBANK, California (Reuters) - President Barack Obama suspended the levity during an interview with late-night TV talk show host Jay Leno on Wednesday to address a Republican Senate candidate's assertion that pregnancies resulting f...

Copenhagen-based Bacon has filmed in Costa Rica and found room for a George Clooney cameo, in a new spot for DNB Bank. The Treasure starts with a pirate chase and ends with a flash-forward to Clooney and his new wife finding the riches on a beach holiday. "The main part of the commercial was shot in Costa Rica in a small town called Puerto Viejo on the east coast." Mari Grundnes Paus, Produ...

Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:00pm EDT (Reuters) - In line with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise, posters from every Bond movie in the series are hitting the auction block in December, along with stills, lobby cards, scripts and other 007 ephemera. Auctioneer Profiles in History said the Bond poster collection is expected to take in well over $200,000, led b...

By Emily Flitter NEW YORK | Wed Oct 24, 2012 3:26pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Washington-based filmmaker is taking a hard look at how the U.S. stock market evolved from a crowded, noisy trading space into a quiet one dominated by machines in her new film, "Ghost Exchange." The feature-length documentary film portrays the market as a system in ne...

LOS ANGELES | Wed Oct 24, 2012 2:45pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tom Cruise filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against magazines that claimed he had abandoned his daughter, Suri, following his divorce from actress Katie Holmes. The "Mission: Impossible" star filed the lawsuit in U.S. court in Los Angeles against the publishers of celebr...

By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES | Wed Oct 24, 2012 2:04pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country singer Jason Aldean drove straight to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday with his latest album "Night Train," while country-pop darling Taylor Swift's new release is already storming its way to a high debut. Aldean's fifth studio album n...

NEW YORK | Wed Oct 24, 2012 1:13pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Elizabeth Taylor surpassed Michael Jackson as the highest-earning dead celebrity in the past year, with her estate pulling in $210 million, much of it from the auction of her jewels, costumes and artwork, Forbes said on Wednesday. Jackson, who died in 2009, dropped into second place wi...

By Chris Francescani Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:36am EDT (Reuters) - Rhythm and blues star Bobby Brown, ex-husband of the late Whitney Houston, was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, Los Angeles police said on Wednesday. Brown was stopped by police at the intersection of Corbin Avenue and Ventura Boulevard, north of T...

LOS ANGELES | Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:21am EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The number of American TV viewers who watched the last debate between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney fell sharply on a night when football and baseball competed with politics for eyeballs. Final Nielsen ratings data on Tuesday showed that 59.2 million Ame...

By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK | Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:55pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - For anyone who craves one more hug from a grandma long gone, one more of her chocolate turtle cookies or another whiff of her apple strudel baking in the oven, there is "Oma & Bella". Scenes from the new documentary about two octogenarian friends living together ...

UNITED NATIONS | Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:29pm EDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - It's not all war and peace at the United Nations. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon added pop music and supersonic skydiving to his agenda on Tuesday when he met with "Gangnam Style" South Korean singer Psy and Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner. Psy's song "Gangnam Style," which mocks the co...

By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES | Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:36pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Making a TV reality show may not be the most obvious way to cope with the sudden death of a loved one, but most families don't count an icon like Whitney Houston among their relatives. Less than a year after the "I Will Always Love You" singer drowned accidentally ...

Halloween with Little Theatre Group (LTG) will be happening this year at the Tin Jo Restaurant on Saturday November 3rd 2012. Starting at 8pm, the talented actors of LTG will be providing suitably scary entertainment for your enjoyment. Under the management of our favourite ghoul (Kevin Huey), LTG will be offering its members a very special night of horror.  Scary stories, silly skits, 'Name that ...

By Jane Chung YANGPYEONG, South Korea | Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:03am EDT YANGPYEONG, South Korea (Reuters) - The near-death of an actress in an accident while filming nearly ended director Kim Ki-duk's career four years ago, but after making "Pieta," which took best picture at this year's Venice film festival, he is now South Korea's most feted auteur...

By Christine Kearney NEW YORK | Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:57am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Makers of the new James Bond movie "Skyfall" have striven to combine the old-school values that made 007 such a success over the last 50 years with enough modern mores to keep the silver screen's favorite super spy relevant in a post-Cold War world. The 23rd official...

By Mike Collett-White LONDON | Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:36am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Paparazzi favorite Pippa Middleton is already a global celebrity. Now the 29-year-old sister of the future British queen is aiming to become a global brand. The woman whose appearance at the spectacular 2011 wedding between Kate Middleton and Prince William caused as mu...

By Mike Collett-White LONDON | Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:13am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Two Ethiopians who take to the London stage on Monday evening are living proof that dance really can change lives. Addisu Demissie, 30, and Junaid Jemal Sendi, 28, will perform in "A Holding Space", a dance collaboration which explores their extraordinary journey from t...

WASHINGTON | Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:44am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ellen DeGeneres, an American entertainer and prominent gay rights advocate, received the highest U.S. award for achievement in comedy on Monday. Receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center, the national showcase for arts, DeGeneres was praised as a pioneering fem...

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES | Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:52pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Filmmaker Tony Scott had an anti-depressant and sleep aid in his bloodstream when he leapt to his death from a suspension bridge in August, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office said on Monday. Preliminary autopsy results confirmed that Scott's death, which baffle...

Recently The Costa Rica Star published an article on a breakfast smoothie recipe, the one below involves liquor. Congratulations to Adrian Vega, head bartender at the Costa Rica Marriott San Jose, for winning 1st place at the Costa Rica National World Class bartender competition by Diageo. Find his winning drink recipes below: “Magma Fusion” -1 ½ oz Tanqueray Ten (gin)...

By Brandon Lowrey LOS ANGELES | Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:47pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The man suing Britney Spears for a large amount of money claiming he was her manager for several months was in fact a "gofer" who performed menial tasks, one of the world's top music executives testified in court on Monday. Sam Lutfi, one of Spears' closest friend...

LONDON | Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:43pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - British singer Adele has given birth to a baby boy, British media reported. There was no statement on her official website and her spokesman said "no comment" on Monday in reply to a request for confirmation. The 24-year-old, whose album "21" topped chart...

By Keith Coffman Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:19pm EDT (Reuters) - Native American activist-turned-actor Russell Means died on Monday at his home in South Dakota, his family said in a statement. He was 72. "Our dad and husband now walks among our ancestors," the statement said.The firebrand former leader of the American Indian Movement and onetime Libertarian Party...

By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya MOSCOW | Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:56pm EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two female members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot convicted of protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a cathedral have been sent to prisons far from Moscow despite requesting to serve out their terms in the capital, a lawyer said on Monday. Maria Alyokhi...