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- 'Kinky' musical snaps up Tonys
- Jefferson Airplane drummer Covington dies at 67
- Judge wants probe into Paris Jackson suicide attempt
| 'Kinky' musical snaps up Tonys Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:53 AM PDT NEW YORK: With lots of big stars on hand showing Hollywood can do Broadway, '80s rocker turned musical-maker Cyndi Lauper won her first Tony for "Kinky Boots" at the 67th Tony Awards. "I can't say I wasn't practicing in front of the shower curtain for a couple days for this speech," Lauper said Sunday, picking up one of six gongs for the show, for best original score. "All right, I gotta thank my mom for sharing all that wonderful music. I wrecked all her Broadway musicals when I was a kid, the cast albums. That's how I learned how to sing, and I want to thank her for sharing the music with me," Lauper added. The show, which was nominated 13 times, also won best musical and best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical, as well as three other categories. Based on a British movie, "Kinky Boots" tells the story of the unlikely reincarnation of a near bankrupt shoe factory. Lauper -- famous for her song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" -- wrote the music and lyrics. Another top winner for the night was Broadway stalwart "Pippin," which won in four out of its 10 nominations: best revival of a musical, best actress in leading and featured roles in a musical, and best direction of a musical. Television actor Neil Patrick Harris, hosting in New York, welcomed presenters and performers like Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Kendrick, Martha Plimpton, Sigourney Weaver, Zachary Quinto and Sally Field. Hanks, better known for his work on the big screen, was considered a favorite for the best actor prize for his performance in "Lucky Guy," a Nora Ephron play about the ups and downs of controversial New York journalist Mike McAlary. But Hanks was passed over in a surprise upset when the award went to playwright and actor Tracy Letts for his performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Letts had won a Tony previously for his writing. Veteran actress Cicely Tyson, whose stage and screen credits date back to the 1950s, won best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for her role in "The Trip to Bountiful." It was the first time the Tyson, who has won an Oscar and numerous Emmys, had been nominated for a Tony. "Matilda," the adaptation of the beloved children's book by Roald Dahl, was another favorite of the night, with 12 nominations. The musical won four awards, including best book of a musical and best performance by an actor in a featured role. "Matilda," which recounts an exceptionally -- and supernaturally -- gifted girl's determination to make something of her life, has enjoyed rave reviews and is produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The nominations list snubbed some major stars, including Johansson in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and Al Pacino in the intense real estate salesmen drama "Glengarry Glen Ross." - AFP |
| Jefferson Airplane drummer Covington dies at 67 Posted: 10 Jun 2013 01:24 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Joey Covington, former drummer with 1960s US psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane, has died in a car crash in California, officials say. He was 67. Covington, who lived in Palm Springs, was driving alone when his car veered off a curve and smashed head-on into a wall Tuesday, said the Riverside County Coroner's office east of Los Angeles. He was a member of Jefferson Airplane, led by charismatic vocalist Grace Slick, from 1969 to 1972, as well as of blues-rock band Hot Tuna, formed with Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Cassady. The drummer subsequently launched a solo career, and played in the the 1980s and 1990s on the San Francisco Allstars. He was known for playing locally around Palm Springs in later years. Jefferson Airplane, which debuted in 1965, had hit singles with White Rabbit and Somebody To Love from the album Surrealistic Pillow and played at such celebrated 1960s festivals as Woodstock and Altamont in 1969. A friend of Covington, Keith McCormick, told the Desert Sun newspaper that the drummer's wife suspected that a stroke or a heart attack had led to the crash. Police said they did not believe drugs or alcohol were involved. |
| Judge wants probe into Paris Jackson suicide attempt Posted: 09 Jun 2013 11:56 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered a probate court investigator to make recommendations about the "health, education and welfare" of Paris Jackson, teenage daughter of late singer Michael Jackson, after an apparent suicide attempt this week, according to court documents. Judge Mitchell Beckloff ordered the investigator to "address the status of the minor child, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, and recent media reports concerning her welfare," court documents filed on Thursday said. The teenager was rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital on Wednesday after attempting suicide, her biological mother Deborah Rowe told the TV program Entertainment Tonight. Paris' grandmother, Katherine Jackson, said a statement distributed on Wednesday by her attorney, Perry Sanders, noted that "Paris is physically fine and is getting appropriate medical attention." "Being a sensitive 15-year-old is difficult no matter who you are," Katherine Jackson said in her statement. "It is especially difficult when you lose the person closest to you." Celebrity news website TMZ first reported the apparent suicide attempt, and said Paris was under psychiatric evaluation. Pop singer Jackson died in 2009 at age 50 from a lethal dose of surgical anesthetic propofol in Los Angeles while preparing for his This Is It series of concerts in London. Paris and her two brothers Prince Michael and Prince Michael II, also known as Blanket, live under the joint custody of their 83-year-old grandmother Katherine and their cousin T.J. Jackson, son of Jackson's older brother Tito. Rowe, who was married to Jackson from 1996 to 1999 and had two children with him, turned over custody of the children to Jackson as part of their divorce, but she had recently rekindled her relationship with Paris. |
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