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Fans of Apache Indian, a.k.a. Steven Kapur, are in for a double treat this weekend when the British Punjabi singer headlines DesiFest with son Kelvin.
Kapur – who burst onto the music scene in 1993 with the hit single “Arranged Marriage” from his album No Reservations – is all grown up, with a 22-year-old son to [...]

MILAN, April 3 (Reuters) - Activist fund Algebris filed a
formal complaint with stock market regulator Consob on Thursday
against a rival list for auditors at insurer Generali (GASI.MI: Quote, Profile, Research)
that had been submitted by Edizione Holding.
Algebris, whose criticism of corporate governance and
performance at Generali last October triggered expectations [...]

By Bernie Woodall
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning U.S. actor Charlton Heston, whose chiseled features and commanding presence won him epic roles from Moses to Michelangelo and became the face of American gun rights, died on Saturday night at age 84.
Heston died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, with wife Lydia [...]

JACKIE WARNER, the lesbian fitness trainer whose seesaw love life is chronicled in the Bravo reality series %26#8220;Work Out,” is maneuvering though a dark, half-built gym in Hollywood. Already a minor celebrity thanks to her show, Ms. Warner has plans to renovate this equipment-strewn space and offer affordable group fitness classes.The studios are silent [...]

ALICE TERRELL opens the door to Miss Hargrove%26#8217;s first grade at Blessed Sacrament School, where nine children sit attentively at desks arranged like pieces on a checkerboard. The room is huge and they are tiny, but the 92-year-old school was built when Catholic education was flourishing and a typical classroom held 40 [...]

Those Europeans. They’re so sophisticated. Even their family and children’s films show more worldliness, artfulness and greater appeal for young audiences than most of what’s made this side of the pond. There are aspects of some of the movies screening tomorrow through April 18 at Sprockets, the Toronto International Film Festival for Children, that [...]

By Bernie Woodall
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning U.S. actor Charlton Heston, whose chiseled features and commanding presence won him epic roles from Moses to Michelangelo and became the face of American gun rights, died on Saturday night at age 84.
Heston died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, with wife Lydia [...]

By Bernie Woodall
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning U.S. actor Charlton Heston, whose chiseled features and commanding presence won him epic roles from Moses to Michelangelo and became the face of American gun rights, died on Saturday night at age 84.
Heston died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, with wife Lydia [...]

Selected home-video releases:
“There Will Be Blood”
Daniel Day-Lewis drank Paul Dano’s milkshake and earned another Academy Award as a flamboyant, acquisitive and more than a little crazy oil pioneer in Paul Thomas Anderson’s saga of early 20th-century greed and corruption. Day-Lewis won the best-actor prize for his towering performance as Daniel Plainview, whose single-minded determination to [...]

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - It’s a wrap for New Line
Cinema.
The struggling studio behind the blockbuster “Lord of the
Rings” trilogy, will be absorbed into Warner Bros. Pictures,
their Time Warner Inc parent said Thursday.
The cost-cutting move will lead to the layoffs of an
undetermined number of New Line’s 600 staffers. [...]