Ludovic Bource, who composed the score for the Oscar-tipped French silent movie “The Artist,” hopes to set to music the mammoth scientific quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the “God particle.”After scoring four movies for French director Michel Hazanavicius, earning Golden Globe and BAFTA awards and an Oscar nomination for his work on “The Artist,” the 41-year-old composer told AFP he has several projects on the boil.“I can‘t wait to get back to composing. I have a personal project th

NEW YORK (AP) ― Sergio Mendes will attend the Academy Awards on Sunday with mixed feelings.He’s honored that his song “Real in Rio,’’ from the animated movie “Rio,’’ is one of the only two nominated this year, but upset with the show producers’ decision not to present the tunes during the telecast.“I am very frustrated, kind of sad that we will not be able to perform such a lively song,’’ the 71-year-old Brazilian legend said in an interview Monday (Mendes shares the nomination with his countrym

A world-renowned South Korean conductor said on Tuesday that he would conduct a joint performance of the French and North Korean orchestras in Paris on March 14 and he hopes this will pave the way for musicians from the two Koreas to perform together in the near future.“What I wanted the most was to have musicians from North and South Korea perform together, but (we) decided to stage a joint performance of French and North Korean orchestras first, because there are still lingering political prob

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― The Simpsons, the long-running U.S. television animated comedy show, reached its landmark 500th episode Sunday, with an appearance from controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.America’s most famous dysfunctional cartoon family have played out their lives before a worldwide audience for over two decades since the distinctive yellow characters Homer, Maggie and children Bart, Lisa and baby Maggie first burst onto American TV in 1989.The series has become the longest-runn

A Vienna museum launched Monday an unusual contribution to celebrations marking 150 years since Gustav Klimt‘s birth with an online search for the kitschiest objects adorned with the artist’s work.The Wien Museum‘s “Worst of Klimt” campaign invites people to post on its Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/WienMuseum “the most horrible or most absurd Klimt products.”Examples already posted on Monday included cake tins embossed with the Austrian artist’s famous “The Kiss”, a dog blanket, a pair

NEW YORK (AP) ― Chris Brown and Rihanna are back together, musically speaking.Two songs featuring the singers hit the internet on Monday. Brown sings on the remix of Rihanna’s sexually charged song “Birthday Cake,’’ and she’s on the remix of his upbeat tune “Turn Up the Music.’’Brown tweeted a link to the new version of “Turn Up the Music’’ on Monday, and Rihanna later retweeted it. She also tweeted about the remix for “Birthday Cake.’’Brown attacked his then-girlfriend Rihanna at a pre-Grammy A

For producers, the new channels seen as chance to create shows free from major studios’ meddlingCULVER CITY, California (AP) ― YouTube is enlisting Hollywood’s help to reach a generation of viewers more familiar with smartphones than TV remotes.The online video giant is aiming to create 25 hours of programming per day with the help of some of the top names in traditional TV. The Google-owned site is spreading its wealth among producers, directors, and other filmmakers, using a $100 million pot o

Swizz Beatz, a renowned American rapper-producer, said on Monday K-pop is leading a trend for new music and that he wants to play a leading role in introducing Asia to the West through Korean music.“What I found in Korean pop music is a new expression. The world is open for new things and I think right now K-pop in Korea is leading in that area. I’d like to be the one to introduce that to the West,” the musician said during a news conference in Seoul.　The musician, also husband of the famous U.S