LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Woody Allen is to make his next movie in the south of France, starring Britain’s Oscar-winning Colin Firth and U.S. actress Emma Stone, the project’s producers announced Tuesday.The as-yet-untitled film, to be shot this summer, will be the second set in France by the 77-year-old cult director, who scored his biggest commercial hit ever with 2011’s “Midnight in Paris.”Allen has made a series of Europe-based movies in recent years ― “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” in 2008 and 2012’s

The first paramedic on scene at Michael Jackson's home the day he died said Tuesday the singer looked emaciated and like someone at the end of a chronic illness.On the second day of a trial pitting Jackson's mother against tour promoter AEG Live, paramedic Richard Senneff -- the first witness to be called -- said doctor Conrad Murray was "frantic, pale and sweating.""The patient was in pajamas. He looked very pale, very, very underweight," he said, recounting how he was called to the self-styled

"Gentleman," the new hit single by South Korean rapper Psy, has set a Guinness world record as the most-watched online video in a single-day, according to the Guinness Web site.   "Gentleman" became the most-viewed online video in a 24-hour period when it drew 38.4 million hits on YouTube on April 14, the second day of its release, the Web site said in an article posted on Thursday (local time).   "Proving that 'Gangnam Style' was far from a one-hit-wonder, South Korean sensation Psy has secured

SHANGHAI (AFP) ― Shanghai’s contemporary art museum on Sunday opened a show featuring the works of American pop artist Andy Warhol, but without his iconic portraits of former Chinese leader Chairman Mao.The Pittsburgh-based Andy Warhol Museum, which supplied more than 300 pieces for the show, said months in advance that paintings of Mao Zedong would not be shown in keeping with the wishes of the Chinese hosts.“We worked with curators at both institutions in Shanghai and Beijing and there was a l

A former staff member of legendary pop singer Michael Jackson said in a U.K. magazine on Sunday that the late singer “was not a pop hero, but a messed up, depraved junkie, who was manipulative, twisted and demonic.” Adrian McManus, who previously worked for the late Jackson as a personal maid in the 1990s, told the U.K’s Sunday Mirror that he “actually died” twice before from drug overdoses in 1993. “My heart sank as I thought he was dead. I called his name for several minutes. I feared that he