Singer Adele hosted a special "Despicable Me 3" private screening for Grenfell Tower survivors.
	The Grammy-winning singer held the screening for some of the tragedy's younger survivors and their families just before the weekend, reported Variety.
	According to a source with The Sun, Adele, 29, sees aiding her community as a full-time job now that her tour 'Adele Live 2017' is over.
	"Being a local Londoner, she's made no secret about how personally affected she was by the Grenfell Tower blaze and wants to help in every way she can," the source said.
	"While she's working hard behind the scenes to raise cash, she wanted to treat residents to a night of fun and help take their minds off what happened and organised a private viewing of the brand new 'Despicable Me 3' movie."
	Dozens of residents joined Adele for the animated movie on Thursday.
	At least 80 people were killed when a fire broke out in the 24-story West London building on June 14.
	Adele previously implored her fans to ...

Adele's special gesture for Grenfell Tower survivors

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"Star Wars" fans across the globe are delighted to know that Princess Leia not only had a PhD, but that she earned it at 19.
	According to The Hollywood Reporter, the revelation was pointed out by Twitter user Becca Harrison, a University of Glasgow professor, who discovered the news in the book "Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation" by Carolyn Cocca.
	According to Cocca, George Lucas said in the 2004 commentary for "A New Hope" that Leia obtained her doctorate - among other accolades - while Luke was a "naive farm boy."
	"She's like a very sophisticated, urbanised ruler, a senator, so she's a politician," said Lucas, according to Cocca's book. "She's accomplished, graduated, got her PhD at 19 and she rules people."
	Carrie Fisher's General Leia Organa will appear in the upcoming franchise installment "The Last Jedi". It will be her final appearance.

Princess Leia has a PhD and she got it at 19

Jo Wood finds Rita Ora "lovely" but says she does not think the singer has time for romance with her son Tyrone Wood at the moment.
	The 26-year-old singer was recently romantically linked with the 33-year-old art gallery owner but his mother believes the "I Will Never Let You Down" hitmaker is too busy for a relationship, Contactmusic.
	"They're friends but she's so busy she doesn't have any time for herself, let alone a relationship.
	"Tyrone says it's not the right time, so maybe when she's quieter. But I'd like it if they were together, I think she is really lovely," Jo says.

Rita Ora is lovely: Jo Wood

Actor Halle Berry has revealed how Malia Obama was as production assistant on her CBS sci-fi drama, "Extant".
	On an appearance on "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen," Berry said that the daughter of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama is a "smart, beautiful young woman," reported People magazine.
	"She was fantastic," Berry said of Malia.
	The 19-year-old will be attending Harvard University this autumn after taking a gap year.
	When Cohen asked if working with the Malia was "kinda wild," Berry admitted that it was and that she is "such a huge fan of hers."
	"Were you like, 'Will you get me a coffee?'" Cohen asked. Berry responded playfully, "Could we call your dad or your mom?"
	The actor added that "everybody couldn't really see (Malia) as a PA" though. "She tried and tried to be one, we just couldn't really see her as one. But to her credit, she tried very hard to be one.

She was fantastic: Halle Berry on Malia Obama as a PA

Actor Emilia Clarke said she and "Game of Thrones" co-star Kit Harington felt weird on the sets of the show when they filmed their first scene together.
	The 30-year-old actor said it was strange for them to finally work side-by-side on the HBO series after knowing each other for seven years, reported Entertainment Weekly.
	"Both of us were going, 'Ah what are you doing on my set!?' This is weird! Usually you start working on a movie and meet (a co-star) for the first time and you develop chemistry on screen over time.
	"Here, you know somebody for seven years and you've watched their character on screen all that time. So it's a unique experience as an actor to come together and know the world is watching," Clarke said.
	The actors, who are popular for their onscreen avatars Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow, recently appeared together for the first time in the third episode, "The Queen's Justice" of "GOT" season seven.

It felt weird: Clarke on shooting with Harington for 'GOT'

Actor Dominic Cooper said it was hard for him to believe that he is yet to become a father.
	The 39-year-old actor said his close friends have embraced parenthood and becoming a dad is perhaps what is missing in his life, reported FemaleFirst.
	"All my friends have kids now. All our discussions on WhatsApp revolve around whether you can fit a buggy on an aeroplane.
	"Everyone does things at their own speed, but I'm always quite surprised that I don't have loads of kids. There's probably one last piece of the jigsaw (missing for me). There's definitely something that needs to shift," Cooper told Red magazine.
	The "Preacher" star is currently dating actor Ruth Negga.

Dominic Cooper surprised he hasn't had kids

Actor Jessica Alba said she does not remember raising her children
	The 36-year-old actress, who is pregnant with her third child with her husband Cash Warren, already has daughters Haven, five, and Honor, nine, with her spouse.
	Alba admitted she has forgotten what it feels like to be woken up by a newborn in the early hours of morning to change their nappies or feed them, reported People magazine.
	"I have amnesia about having a baby, which is why I think I allowed this to happen. I don't remember any of it," Alba said on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon".
	The "Mechanic: Resurrection" actor shared that her girls can not wait for their new sibling.
	"(They're) stoked," she said.

I have amnesia about having a baby: Jessica Alba

Actor Ian Ziering said he almost turned down the the original "Sharknado" as he thought the script was horrible.
	The 53-year-old actor admitted that he took up the role of Fin Shephard to support his family as he had a child on the way, reported Digital Spy.
	"I thought it (script) was horrible. There were so many holes in the story that needed to be fixed with visual effects. I couldn't see how it could even be possible.
	"I did it to provide for my family. My pregnant wife said I needed to go to work. I wanted to pass it on, honestly, I just felt like it just wasn't worth it. But I was having a baby and that was a little slap of reality," Ziering said.
	But the TV film franchise went to become a major hit, with the fifth installment, "Sharknado 5: Global Swarming" airing yesterday.

Ian Ziering thought 'Sharknado' script was horrible

Actor Elisabeth Moss said the audience will not be able to guess how the opening scene of "The Handmaid's Tale" season two will turn out to be.
	The 35-year-old actor, who plays Offred on the dystopian drama, said she is ecstatic that the first scene of the Hulu show's upcoming installment does not fall under the category of run-of-the-mill, reported Digital Spy.
	"Don't try to guess what happens in that first scene of episode one in season two.
	"You will never get it, and I mean that objectively as a viewer. You just won't guess, and I love that so much," Moss told TV Guide.
	The show, which is based on author Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, returns to Hulu and Channel 4 in 2018.

Viewers can't guess The Handmaid's Tale S2 scene one:Elisabeth

Actor Sean Pertwee has teased that the upcoming season of "Gotham" will give an insight into the backstory of Alfred Pennyworth.
	The 53-year-old actor said the audience will get to know the reason why Bruce Wayne/ Batman and Wayne family's loyal butler get along so well, reported ContactMusic.
	"I think you're going to find out indirectly about his past, and the person that he was. He's not proud. He has more demons than Bruce has.
	"And that's why they've always inevitably sort of drawn together, and they find each other, and that relationship suffers as the young boy grows. Alfred tries to keep up with him, and he just can't," Pertwee told Cinema Blend.
	The fourth season of the show premieres later this year.

'Gotham' season four to explore Alfred Pennyworth's past

Actors Anna Faris and Chris Pratt today announced that they are parting ways after eight years of marriage.
	In a joint statement, they uploaded on their respective social media accounts, the actors wrote that they are legally separating and requested for privacy.
	"Anna and I are sad to announce we are legally separating. We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed. Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward.
	"We still have love for each other, will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for one another," Pratt, 38, posted on his Facebook page.
	Faris, 40, shared the same message on her Instagram account.
	The duo met in 2007 on the sets of "Take Me Home Tonight". They got married on July 9, 2009, in Bali, Indonesia. Their son, Jack, now four, was born in August 2012. He arrived nine weeks premature and spend a month in the NICU.
 	Faris ...

Chris Pratt and Anna Faris announce separation

Somalia is rarely described as on the musical vanguard but there was a time, before its turmoil, when the Horn of Africa nation bustled with an electrifying mix of the world's sounds.
	A new album aims to bring a wider audience to the music of Somalia through the restoration of dusty cassette recordings from the 1970s and 1980s, a time when "Swinging Mogadishu" came alive with free-flowing nightclubs that became a crossroads for funk, pop, reggae and Bollywood.
	"Sweet as Broken Dates," which comes out August 25 on two LPs or one CD, took more than a year of exploration led by Vik Sohonie, a former news reporter whose New York-based label Ostinato Records seeks out music from countries whose cultures are often overlooked.
	"As someone who has a degree in history, I always knew that these places had more to offer than what's in the media," Sohonie said.
	Somalia has lacked a functioning government for a quarter-century and its leading musicians have drifted around the world.
	Making ...

Album restores worldly sounds of 'Swinging Mogadishu'

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan and his wife Kiran Rao have contracted swine flu, and both of them are being treated at their residence here, sources said.
	The 52-year-old actor and Kiran were scheduled to attend an event of their NGO Paani Foundation today in Pune.
	"Today, during the video conferencing of Paani foundation he confirmed that he has got it (swine flu). He is getting treated at home," sources close to the actor told PTI.
	At the event, Aamir, 52, said he found out that he has swine flu after blood tests and now won't be attending any events for at least a week.
	"As a result of the infection they (Aamir and Kiran) were not able to be present for the most important day of Paani Foundation, the annual prize distribution," the source added.
	Instead of Aamir, Shah Rukh Khan attended the event.

Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao down with swine flu

In a novel initiative, Scotland Yard is using classical music as its latest weapon to fight crime in London.
	A Metropolitan Police officer was set to pump the tunes of Mozart from a speaker system into a notorious housing estate here in an attempt to calm the atmosphere, relax residents and disperse troublemakers, The Sunday Times reported.
	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, known as Mozart, is regarded as a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.
	Adam Weber, a 23-year-old constable in-charge of law and order on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, was inspired by the idea of classical music as a crime-fighting tool following a pilot scheme to pipe music into 40 London underground stations to reduce anti-social behaviour.
	"Incidents of verbal and physical abuse fell, so I thought let's give this a go," he told the newspaper.
	Relations between police and community at Broadwater Farm have been poor for decades. In 1985, there was a riot that resulted in the murder of a ...

Scotland Yard uses classical music to fight crime

Writer-director James Gunn has confirmed that the script for the third installment of the film franchise "Guardians of the Galaxy" is being penned.
	The 51-year-old filmmaker said he is also helping Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige in tracing the future of the Cinematic Universe's cosmic properties, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
	"Those scripts are already in the works. Kevin and I talk about it all the time; we just had a meeting today. Discussing what is the next iteration of cosmic characters and where are the characters that we've already created going to go in the next batch of films," Gunn told Heat Vision.
	The announcement comes months after the release of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2", which featured actors Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Dave Bautista and Vin Diesel, among others.

'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3' script in works: James Gunn

Her initial years in Bollywood saw her play the bubbly girl in films, but actor Anushka Sharma says she has now progressed in her career and moved beyond the "extrovert kind of roles".
	The 29-year-old actor, who made her Bollywood debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi", says she realised after a while that she could no longer identify with such characters.
	"I remember there was a time in my life when I did a lot of these extrovert kind of roles. But there was this phase when I got really... Maybe because I was changing as a person, I realised I could not relate to these things anymore," Anushka told PTI in an interview.
	The actor says this change confused people around her, who felt she had suddenly become a different person.
	"There were people around me, who had perhaps known me for a while like friends, industry people and journalists, they felt that there was something wrong with me. That suddenly I was different. But that's the natural progression that you go ..

I realised I couldn't relate to bubbly roles anymore: Anushka

Veteran actor Dilip Kumar is doing better now after being admitted to a hospital for kidney- related ailments five days ago, the doctor said today.
	Dr Jalil Parkar said Kumar's kidneys are functioning and he is not on dialysis.
	The 94-year-old actor was admitted to the city-based Lilavati Hospital in suburban Bandra on Wednesday morning for treatment of dehydration and a urinary tract infection.
	"He is better today. He is not on dialysis, not on ventilator. His kidney functions are improving," Dr Jalil Parkar told PTI.
	A family friend, Faisal Farooqui, also shared an update about Kumar's health on the actor's official Twitter page.
	"Dilip Saab is doing much better now. Please remember him in your prayers. -FF," he posted.
	"The excellent team of doctors and staff of Lilavati Hospital along with Saira Baaji are caring for Dilip Saab 24x7. -FF."
	Hospital officials had earlier said because of his age, Kumar would be under observation and remain in the ICU for the next two or three .

Dilip Kumar doing much better, not on dialysis: Doctor

Bhumi Pednekar says she will not let go of a good role due to the fear of being typecast.
	The 28-year-old actor made her debut with 2015 film "Dum Laga Ke Haisha", where she played a small-town girl who battles patriarchy.
	In her upcoming projects, "Toilet: Ek Prem Katha" and "Shubh Mangal Saavdhan", Bhumi appears to be portraying similar characters.
	"I have thought about getting stereotyped. But I am not going to miss out on a role because I am scared that people will only see me as a small-town girl," the actor tells PTI.
	Bhumi says she has worked hard at making her characters stand apart and hopes the audiences appreciate her effort.
	"It's a bigger challenge for me to make every character different. They belong to the same economic stratum and are courageous... This is the only similarity.
	"I really hope people don't feel the characters are same because I've tried recreating myself in all these films by staying true to my character."
	Bhumi says watching diverse cinema has ...

Won't reject a film due to fear of being stereotyped: Bhumi

Imtiaz Ali's films have an unmistakable Sufi influence in them, with Persian poet Rumi's writings finding a special mention in his cinema.
	The director, however, says he is credited with a lot more understanding of the faith than he actually has.
	"Rockstar" was the first film where the director touched upon Rumi's poetry. His lines, "Yahaan se bahut door, ghalat aur sahi ke paar, ek maidan hai. Main wahaan milunga tujhe (Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there...)" echoed throughout the film.
	And now his latest release "Jab Harry Met Sejal" has a tagline - "What you seek is seeking you".
	"It is coincidental, particularly about Maulana Rumi, because a lot of things that he has written, they have found relevance to what I was doing at various stages of my life," Ali told PTI in an interview.
	"I am given more credit about understanding it than I have."
	Recalling the background of the "Rockstar" song "Nadaan parindey", the director says ...

Touch of Sufism in my films coincidental: Imtiaz Ali

Veteran actor Dilip Kumar is recovering after being admitted to a hospital for kidney- related ailments five days ago, a close family friend said today.
	The 94-year-old actor was admitted to the city-based Lilavati Hospital in suburban Bandra on Wednesday morning for treatment of dehydration and a urinary tract infection.
	The family friend, Faisal Farooqui, shared an update about Kumar's health on the actor's official Twitter page.
	"Dilip Saab is doing much better now. Please remember him in your prayers. -FF," he posted.
	"The excellent team of doctors and staff of Lilavati Hospital along with Saira Baaji are caring for Dilip Saab 24x7. -FF."
	Hospital officials had earlier said because of his age, Kumar would be under observation and remain in the ICU for the next two or three days, depending on how his body responds to treatment.

Dilip Kumar doing much better: family friend

Veteran actor-comic Whoopi Goldberg is all set to make a comeback on the 21st season of "The View".
	It will be the 61-year-old actor's 10th anniversary as the moderator for the show, reported Variety.
	Goldberg's re-entry on the ABC programme is a major boost for the network as her presence is said to have kept the show up-and-running after creator Barbara Walters hung up her boots in 2014.
	A spokesperson for ABC, however, declined to comment.
	Goldberg joined "The View" in the late summer of 2007. Season 21 starts in early September.

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