Australia has granted Mike Tyson a visa one week after he was barred from entering New Zealand due to his 1992 rape conviction.
A spokeswoman from Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship said Wednesday it had granted the former heavyweight boxing champion an entertainment visa to cover the duration of his five-city Australian tour starting next month. She said officials carefully weighed the pros and cons of his visit and of his character given his criminal past.
Full StoryThe Beatles are finally appearing at a Woodstock festival.
A restored version of the Beatles' 1967 made-for-British-TV psychedelic romp "Magical Mystery Tour" will be featured at the annual Woodstock Film Festival kicking off Wednesday. The movie and a new documentary about how it was made will be among 130 narrative and documentary films shown over five days in and around the Hudson Valley arts colony that lent its name to the 1969 music festival.
Full StoryWomen are reshaping the landscape of TV and digital entertainment as more and more female executives clinch top industry jobs around the world, a shift on full display at this week's MIPCOM audiovisual trade fair.
Held each year on the French Riviera at the same site as the Cannes Film Festival, MIPCOM brings together the movers and shakers of the global entertainment business to network, talk shop and buy, sell and finance new content.
Full StoryIf you're in search of an extravagant holiday gift, something like a $1 million fountain, look no further.
Dallas-based luxury retailer Neiman Marcus will be offering up ideas Tuesday when it unveils its annual Christmas Book. The catalog is known for featuring expensive and often outrageous "fantasy gifts."
Full StoryA former teen pageant princess featured in an eyebrow-raising episode of the TV show "Wife Swap" getting spray-tanned by her father and pitying the less attractive will plead not guilty this week to charges of prostitution and drug possession, her lawyer said.
Alicia Guastaferro was arrested at a western New York Thruway travel plaza in August.
Full StoryFrench blockbuster "Les Intouchables" and Austrian Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner "Love" are hot tips for best foreign language Oscar, from a long-list of candidates published Monday.
Hong Kong movie master Johnnie To and China's Chen Kaige -- whose "Farewell my Concubine" won the top Cannes film festival prize in 1993 -- are also among films from 71 countries which could be vying for an Academy statuette.
Full StoryU.S. comic actor Danny DeVito has separated from his wife of 30 years Rhea Perlman, his spokesman said Monday, ending one of the longest marriages in Hollywood.
The diminutive actor, 67, and actress Perlman, 64, married in 1982, 12 years after meeting when she went to see a Broadway show he was acting in, "The Shrinking Bride."
Full StoryRoger Moore and Sean Connery had the same mission when playing British spy James Bond, but the screen legends are split on the issue of Scottish independence, The Times newspaper reported Monday.
Connery is a keen backer of the pro-independence Scottish National Party of First Minister Alex Salmond, while Moore is often cited as the epitome of Englishness.
Full StoryAudra McDonald and Will Swenson have tied the knot, cementing a relationship between two of Broadway's best looking and talented stars.
According to a publicist for the bride, the couple married Saturday at their home in Croton-on-Hudson in New York. The bride's wedding dress was designed by Esosa.
Full StoryLiam Neeson's return as ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills in "Taken 2" easily topped the North American box office on its opening weekend, industry estimates showed Sunday.
The film, whose prequel relaunched Neeson as a Hollywood action star four years ago, took in a healthy $50 million between Friday and Sunday, said movie tracker Exhibitor Relations.
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