Partygoers at a Pink Floyd tribute night have been scolded for shouting abuse at New Jersey police after defying social distancing rules brought in to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Around 30 people gathered to watch an acoustic rendition of the British rock band's greatest hits on the front lawn of a home in Rumson, a seaside community south of New York City, that was also broadcast live over social media.
Police were called to end the revelry, but met a hostile crowd on arrival.
"When we informed everyone that they must leave... we were met with well wishes of 'F-the police' and 'Welcome to Nazi Germany,'" said the town's police department on Facebook late Saturday.
Officers then instructed the band to cut the night short as they were halfway through a performance of Pink Floyd's 1975 anthem "Wish You Were Here" -- fittingly, a song often played as an anthem for absent friends.
"The Rumson Police Department takes no enjoyment in ruining anyone's fun," the police statement ...

We don't need no social distance: US police bust Pink Floyd 'corona party'

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Months after getting back together, Hollywood star Channing Tatum and singer Jessie J have broken up for the second time.
The duo, who reunited in January following a month-long split, have parted ways again.
A source told People magazine that the break-up was "totally amicable".
"They cared enough about each other to try again but realised it was better to move on," the insider added.
The "Domino" singer, 32, and the "Magic Mike" star, 39, got back together in January after splitting in December 2019 after over a year of dating.
Tatum started dating Jessie after his split from Jenna Dewan, his wife of 11 years. The former couple have a six-year-old daughter, Everly.
Jessie was previously in a relationship with singer Luke James.

Channing Tatum and Jessie J call it quits, again

In order to help create a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, pop diva Madonna has pledged to support the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The 61-year-old singer released a statement on her official website on Friday, saying she was "impressed" by the foundation, owned by the business magnate-philanthropist, which is working towards funding seven different research labs to find a cure for COVID-19.
"I'm joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation effort to find a drug that will prevent or treat COVID-19. We need this to protect our health workers, the most vulnerable, and all of our friends and families.
"I'm talking about this: I am so impressed by the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator's urgent efforts to find new or existing drugs that could effectively prevent or treat the disease," Madonna said.
"Harnessing the strength and knowledge of the research community, the Accelerator's critical scientific progress will inform ...

Madonna joins forces with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help create COVID-19 vaccine

Zookeeper Jeff Lowe, who appeared on Netflix's Tiger King, has revealed that the streaming platform will be releasing an extra episode of the hit documentary-series.
Lowe revealed the news in a video shared on Twitter by professional baseball team, Los Angeles Dodgers player Justin Turner.
Netflix is adding one more episode. It will be on next week. They're filming here tomorrow, Lowe said.
Netflix released Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness on March 26.
Penned and directed by Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, the docu-series focuses on the life and crimes of Maldonado-Passage aka Joe Exotic, a former country musician, Oklahoma zookeeper, gun enthusiast and big-cat keeper.
Exotic, 57, owned an animal park and boasted of having the largest number of big cats in the US. He was found guilty in 2019 for paying a hitman USD 3,000 to kill Carole Baskin, who he considered his rival.
Netflix has not made any official announcement on the additional episode yet. It is also unclear if the new 

Netflix to release extra episode of Tiger King'

Singer Katy Perry, who is expecting her first child with actor Orlando Bloom, has revealed that they are set to welcome a baby girl.
The 35-year-old singer shared the news on Instagram on Friday.
"It's a girl," Perry captioned a picture of Bloom, 43, with his face covered in pink icing. It included Beyonce's all-time hit "Girls Run the World" in the post.
The "Firework" hitmaker, who opened the final of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Melbourne last month, had earlier her wish of giving birth to a girl.
"I hope it's a girl," Perry had told the crowd of over 80,000 at the post game performance while singing her hit "Wide Awake".
Bloom already shares nine-year-old son Flynn with his ex-wife, model Miranda Kerr.
Perry is due sometime in summer.
The couple was also set to have a summer wedding, which was delayed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom expecting a girl

Drama series "Blindspot" will return for its fifth and final season on April 30, NBC has announced.
The show, starring Jaimie Alexander and Sullivan Stapleton, will premiere at 10 pm, reported Deadline.
The 13-episode season of thriller drama series will move to its normal 9 pm timeslot the following week on May 7.
It was previously announced that the show would air its final run in summer.
While several series have had to delay or shift their premiere or season finale dates due to the coronavirus pandemic, "Blindspot" remained unaffected as it had already wrapped production on its final season in November.
Alexander stars as a heavily tattooed woman called "Jane Doe" - who emerges from a duffel bag in Times Square with no memory of who she is or how she got there, whereas Stapleton plays an FBI agent whose name is tattooed on Jane Doe's back.
The final chapter begins in the aftermath of the explosion that left Jane watching as a drone strike on the safe house with the rest of the ...

'Blindspot' season finale sets premiere date

Directors Spike Lee and Pedro Almodovar, Joker composer Hildur Gudnadottir and sound designer Ben Burtt will be collaborating for the inaugural Academy Museum exhibitions.
The museum will open to the public on December 14, eight years after the project was first announced.
We will open the Academy Museum with exhibitions and programs that will illuminate the complex and fascinating world of cinema -- its art, technology, artists, history, and social impact -- through a variety of diverse and engaging voices.
We will tell complete stories of moviemaking  celebratory, educational, and sometimes critical and uncomfortable. Global in outlook and grounded in the unparalleled collections and expertise of the Academy, these first exhibitions will establish this museum as incomparable in the world of cinema, Academy Museum director Bill Kramer said in a statement.
The four collaborators will contribute to the 'Stories of Cinema' galleries located on the second and third floors of the Saban ...

Spike Lee, Pedro Almodovar to curate Academy Museum exhibitions

Veteran musician Elton John has launched a USD 1 million coronavirus emergency fund to protect individuals with HIV.
The 73-year-old singer will be making the donation through his Elton John Aids Foundation.
Today, I'm proud to announce that my Foundation @EJAF is launching a USD 1million COVID-19 Emergency Fund to make sure that our frontline partners can respond to the effects of COVID-19 on HIV care for the most marginalised communities around the world.
Now and always, I'm committed to not leave anyone affected by HIV behind Sending love to all of our Foundation's partners, grantees, supporters, frontline workers and members of our community during this time, John said in a video posted on Twitter.
Earlier this week, the singer also hosted a coronavirus relief concert Fox Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for America.
The event featured Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey, Backstreet Boys, Sam Smith, Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello, Dave Grohl and Alicia Keys performing from their ...

Elton John donates USD 1 million to protect people with HIV from COVID-19

Comedy Central is not bringing the late night show "Lights Out With David Spade" back to the network.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show, featuring the "Grown Ups" star discuss pop culture news with a panel of guests, suspended production from March 12, alongside several other shows in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Though Spade has been putting out short pieces for the network's social media and online portals, the show, unlike other late-night counterparts, has not resumed production.
"Lights Out With David Spade" will, however, will be shopped by the ViacomCBS cable network to other networks.
Spade will continue producing his digital shows for the next few weeks and work with Comedy Central Productions toward finding a new home for the show.
The show did not have a steady start on Comedy Central since its debut in July 2019.

'Lights Out With David Spade' not returning to Comedy Central

Sayani Gupta, Kirti Kulhari and Maanvi Gagroo, the three stars of Amazon Original series Four More Shots Please!, say the show has been a life-altering experience for them and they are glad to take it a notch above with its upcoming season two.
The show, created by Rangita Pritish Nandy, features Sayani, Kirti, Maanvi and VJ-turned-actor Bani J as a quartet of friends and follows their relationships, work-life conflicts, ambitions and anxieties in a male-dominated society.
The first season of the show premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2019 to great reviews from both the audiences and critics.
Sayani, who plays Damini, a journalist and an entrepreneur, said it is overwhelming to see that the show has amassed a cult status among its fans.
This show did exceedingly well as it has a very loyal fan base. To experience that, for all of us, was quite new. It almost became like a cult and it's crazy the kind of love it has received from the people.
That is the biggest takeaway because ...

It's life-changing, say 'Four More Shot Please!' stars on show's success

Singer-actor Marianne Faithfull has been hospitalised in London with coronavirus.
The 74-year-old veteran artiste is currently stable, her management told Rolling Stone magazine.
"Marianne Faithfull's manager Francois Ravard has confirmed that Marianne is being treated for COVID-19 in hospital in London. She is stable and responding to treatment. We all wish her well and a full and speedy recovery," the statement from Faithfull's representative read.
Faithfull checked herself into the hospital on Monday, where she tested positive for COVID-19, and developed pneumonia, her friend Penny Arcade told the publication.
The artiste has had various health issues in the past. She suffered from anorexia in the early 1970s, when she was also addicted to heroin.
In 2006, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent successful surgery. The next year she announced that she has hepatitis C, diagnosed 12 years ago. Faithfull also has arthritis.

Marianne Faithfull hospitalised with COVID-19

Patricia Bosworth, an actress who once starred alongside Audrey Hepburn and later wrote biographies on several stars including Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, has died due to the coronavirus. She was 86.
Bosworth's stepdaughter, Fia Hatsav, told The New York Times that pneumonia brought on by the virus was the cause of death. Bosworth died on Thursday in New York.
Bosworth played a nun opposite of Hepburn in the 1959 classic The Nun's Story. Along with penning bios for Brando and Clift, she also wrote biographies on actress Jane Fonda and famed photographer Diane Arbus, who photographed Bosworth in a Greyhound bus advertisement.
Her biography on Arbus served as the base for the 2006 film Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, which starred Nicole Kidman.
Under the tutelage of Lee Strasberg, Bosworth studied acting at the Actors Studio alongside Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Fonda. Bosworth worked on Broadway and starred in television shows including Naked City 

Actress-author Patricia Bosworth dies from coronavirus at 86

The Yash Chopra Foundation has pledged to monetarily support to 3,000 daily wage workers from the film industry who have been affected by the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, .
In a letter dated April 3, to Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE), the foundation said they will donate Rs 5000 each to 3,000 beneficiaries from different unions associated with FWICE.
The group will consist of 250 randomly selected members of Mahila Kalakar Sangh, 250 randomly members of Junior Artists Association, and 2,500 randomly members of Film Studios Setting and Allied Mazdoor Union.
"Hope you're keeping safe amidst the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected the entire world and has brought businesses to a standstill affecting millions of lives worldwide.
"This too shall pass, and we will overcome this. During this crisis, the Yash Chopra Foundation is happy to provide relief to 3000 daily wage earners from the film industry. The Foundation will be making a direct ...

COVID-19: Yash Chopra Foundation to provide financial aid to 3,000 daily wage workers

Writer Kanika Dhillion says during the lockdown phase, she is finding it challenging to mentally isolate herself and focus her creative energies on writing.
As a writer, Kanika said, she is no stranger to social distancing as she often do that to find her zone for developing stories.
We do isolation, quarantine, social distancing as writers on a regular basis when we have deadlines. But this is different. The point here is, are we able to do mental isolation?
I am trying to mentally isolate myself from all the chaos and everything. The idea is to keep yourself sane, we need to create our own ways to look at it in a positive manner, Kaniika told PTI in an interview.
The country is witnessing a 21-day lockdown period, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to contain the spread of coronavirus, which has so far claimed the lives of 68 people and infected 2,902 others.
Kanika, known for films such as "Manmarziyaan", "Kedarnath" and Judgementall Hai Kya, said it is hard for her to ..

Writers do social distancing on regular basis but this isolation is different: Kanika Dhillion

Do less, but better has been Sandhya Mridul's philosophy in life, which the actor says has helped her in establishing herself as a versatile performer.
Sandhya, who started her journey as an actor in 1994 with popular TV show Banegi Apni Baat and went to become one of the most acclaimed faces on television with Swabhimaan and Koshish, believes in letting her creativity breath.
When I did TV, I chose the best I could. I didn't do every show that was offered to me. I love acting too much. I don't want to be on a set just to make money or just because I don't know what else to do with my life.
I need to create and that creativity needs to breath. It's possible only by not overcrowding myself with the work I don't want to do, the actor told PTI in an interview.
Sandhya said she joined the profession for the love for her craft and hence cashing in on her success was never an option.
For me it was important to be versatile as a performer. I always believed I had the power in me to be ...

Acting not my work, it's my passion: Sandhya Mridul

Critically-acclaimed filmmaker Wes Anderson's much-anticipated film The French Dispatch will now hit the theatres on October 16 this year.
The Searchlight Pictures film was set to bow out worldwide on July 24 but has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has disrupted the entire Hollywood release calendar.
It was rumoured that the film would have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. But the 2020 edition of the film gala has been cancelled due to the pandemic.
However, the new release date also gives a boost to its prospects at the next year's award season, which culminates with the Academy Awards in February.
The French Dispatch, set in Paris during the 1950s, follows a group of journalists at an American newspaper bureau. The movie features Timothee  Chalamet, Benicio del Toro, Lea Seydoux, Mathieu Amalric and Jeffrey Wright.
Anderson's frequent collaborators -- Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Saorise Ronan, Owen Wilson and Bob .

Wes Anderson's French Dispatch' delayed till October

Disney's upcoming live-action movie Artemis Fowl won't be having a theatrical release as the studio has decided to send it directly to its streaming service Disney Plus.
The film was set to open in the theatres worldwide on May 29 but was expected to be postponed as well due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Many Hollywood studios, including Disney, have been forced to alter their release calendar and find new dates for their big-budget movies.
But unlike Mulan, Black Widow and other Disney titles, which have been given new release dates, the studio has decided to premiere "Artemis Fowl" on Disney Plus.
With audiences largely unable to attend theatres in the current environment, we are thrilled to offer the premiere of Artemis Fowl on Disney Plus, Ricky Strauss, president of Content and Marketing at Disney Plus, said in a statement.
Artemis Fowl, directed by Kenneth Branagh from a script by Irish playwright Conor McPherson, is an adaptation of Eoin Colfer's book of the same name.
It ...

Artemis Fowl' will skip theatres and go straight to Disney Plus

Actor Jitendra Kumar doesn't take his internet stardom for granted and says he still gets "anxious" when he starts a project, as becoming confident about one's own craft is self-destructive.
Jitendra, widely known as Jeetu, has featured in severalcomedy sketches and shows of The Viral Fever, including "Permanent Roommates", "TVF Pitchers" and "Kota Factory". He was recently seen opposite Ayushmann Khurrana in "Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan".
The actor says every time he works with a new director, he feels nervous about whether he can live up to the expectations of the people.
"Every new director you work with, brings in something new and has perhaps cast you because your last work was good. So there's that expectation as well. To get rid of that, there is some nervous energy. Unless I work with all the directors and they get comfortable with how I work, my nervousness will stay," Jitendra told PTI.
The actor believes an artiste's growth in career and in his craft is heavily dependent on 

It is self-destructive to become confident about acting:Jitendra Kumar

Days after Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri Khan announced several initiatives to help the central and state government in their fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the superstar has now opened his office for treating Covid-19 patients.
The local municipal body, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), took to social media on Saturday to thank Shah Rukh and Gauri for the help.
We thank @iamsrk & @gaurikhan for offering their 4-storey personal office space to help expand our Quarantine capacity equipped with essentials for quarantined children, women & elderly. Indeed a thoughtful & timely gesture, BMC's official Twitter handle post read.
The 54-year-old superstar on Thursday announced various initiatives to help the country during the crisis.
The actor has taken the help of his companies -- Kolkata Knight Riders, Red Chillies Entertainment, Meer Foundation and Red Chillies VFX -- to provide support to the central and state governments.
SRK along with Gauri and ...

Shah Rukh Khan offers his office for BMC quarantine facility

Five-time Grammy winner musician Christopher Cross has tested positive of novel coronavirus.
The singer-songwriter shared the news in a lengthy Facebook post.
I'm sorry to report that I am among the growing number of Americans who tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Although I am fortunate enough to be cared for at home, this is possibly the worst illness I've ever had, he wrote.
Cross urged his fans to take the global pandemic seriously.
"For those of you who still do not believe the COVID-19 virus is real, or think it is a 'hoax' or part of some conspiracy, my advice to you is to understand right now that this is a deadly illness spreading like wildfire throughout the world. Please make every attempt to stall the spread of the virus, he added.
Since COVID-19 emerged late last year from China's Wuhan city, around 1.1 million people have fallen ill. Almost 60,000 people have died.

Christopher Cross tests coronavirus positive

It makes Paul Schneider happy that his popular sitcom "Parks and Recreation" continues to find new audiences and he now hopes that people watch his Amazon series Tales from the Loop", which uses science-fiction to tell human stories.
Among the avid fans of Parks and Recreation, Schneider is still known for playing Mark Brendanawicz, the colleague of Amy Poehler's Leslie Knope, in the first two seasons of the show.
"Tales from the Loop", created by Nathaniel Halpern of The Killing fame, is based on the critically-acclaimed artwork of Swedish artist Simon Stalenhag, features Jonathan Pryce and Rebecca Hall.
Schnieder believes the sci-fi setting of the show, which started streaming on Amazon Prime Video from Friday, is just a tool to tell stories about humans and what binds them together.
"I feel science fiction is a great vehicle to get us into human stories. As an actor, I don't know a lot about what it's like to be in space or I'm not  a physicist in my real life. I'm not pondering ...

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