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PARIS, France (AFP) — The first draft of music Mozart wrote for the last act of his opera “The Marriage of Figaro” is expected to sell for half a million euros ($578,000) when it goes under the hammer in Paris. The “exceptional” manuscript from 1786 which will be auctioned on Wednesday in the French capital comes from the peak of the composer’s career in Vienna, the auction house Ader Nordmann said. Called “Scena con Rondo”, Mozart […]
NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — Former United States President Bill Clinton is working with best-selling suspense writer James Patterson on a novel called “The President is Missing,” which will be published in June 2018, the publishers said on Monday (May 8). The book will be “a unique amalgam of intrigue, suspense and behind-the-scenes global drama from the highest corridors of power,” publishers Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and Hachette Book Group said in a statement. Clinton […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles on Friday released a ballad with touches of 1970s glam rock as he became the latest member of the boy band to go solo. “Sign of the Times” is the first solo single by the 23-year-old English singer who is expected to put out a full album at a later date. The song starts with a dark chord progression on a piano before quickly […]
by Frankie TAGGART Agence France-Presse HOLLYWOOD, United States (AFP) — Buddy cop comedy “Zootopia” bagged the Oscar for best animated feature film on Sunday, crowning what turned into a record 2016 for Disney. The movie centers on the intrepid rabbit police officer Judy Hopps who, along with a fox, solves a crime in a metropolis inhabited by a diverse population of animals. “Zootopia,” the clear frontrunner going into the Academy Awards, bested another Disney film, […]
(Reuters) — Writers for the films “Moonlight” and “Arrival” won top Writers Guild of America awards on Sunday (February 19), boosting the films’ chances in the upcoming Academy Awards, Hollywood’s biggest honors. Barry Jenkins and Tarell McCraney won the original screenplay award for “Moonlight,” a drama about a young black Miami man’s life and struggle to forge an identity. Eric Heisserer took the Writers Guild of America’s prize for adapted screenplay for the science fiction film […]
