NEW YORK, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Madonna says fellow U.S. pop singer Lady Gaga ripped off her 1989 hit "Express Yourself" to create what Lady Gaga calls the gay anthem "Born This Way."When Lady Gaga performed the song at the MTV Video Music Awards in August, there were already extensive rumblings concerni

BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) _ A glamorous group of A-list stars including Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Sofia Vergara picked their way across the Golden Globes' red carpet on Sunday night. Even the dog from “The Artist” was spotted doing tricks.Clooney, who come to the awards armed with nomi

National Gugak Center’s new director seeks blend of Korean music with other artsIt’s been almost two months since the National Gugak Center’s new director and scholar Lee Tong-bok took office. The position might have been a challenging one for Lee, a professor at Kyungpook National University in Daegu since 1984. Yet he says it’s as if he has returned home.“I was a performing member of the National Gugak Center from 1979 to 1982,” Lee told The Korea Herald at the institution on Wednesday. “So it

PARIS (AFP) ― Veteran Hollywood actress Jane Fonda, returning to the screen in a French film about a band of friends in their 70s, said making the movie was on her “bucket list” of things to do before she dies.Set for release next Wednesday, “Et si on Vivait Tous Ensemble” (Why Don’t we all Live Together?) tells of a group of friends who decide to move in together, to share the joys and challenges of old age.It is Fonda’s first French film since the 1972 release, “Tout Va Bien,” by the New Wave

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Movie and TV studio Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. is creating a Hollywood powerhouse focused on young adult audiences with its purchase of Summit Entertainment, maker of the teen hit “Twilight’’ series, for $412.5 million, which the companies confirmed Friday.The cash and stock deal brings the “Twilight’’ franchise ― which has grossed more than $2.5 billion worldwide since the first movie blew out of the gates in late 2008 ― under the same roof with Lions Gate’s upcoming four

Theater“Park Wan-suh: Read by Actors”: Four of the celebrated late author Park Wan-suh’s literary works are currently being staged as theatrical plays in Daehangno, Seoul. The four featured novellas ― “For Solitude,” “Mother and Daughter Tea Time,” “You and the Eight Hats” and “The Pasqueflower of the Combative Days” ― are recited in their entirety by one actor throughout the show, while the other actors and actresses act out what’s happening in the narrative at the same time. The short stories

I Don’t Know How She Does It (U.S.), Opening Feb. 2Comedy. Directed by Douglas McGrath. Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) is one busy woman. She is a high-earning financial executive at a Boston-based financial management firm, a devoted mother of two young children, and a supportive wife of her out-of-work architect husband Richard (Greg Kinnear). She manages to be on top of her schedule every day, and is used to hearing people say ‘I don’t know how you do it.” Yet things begin to change when s

In this Jan. 11, 2009 file photo, Beyonce, left, is joined by husband Jay-Z, as she arrives at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California (AP)NEW YORK (AP) _ She's not even a week old, but Blue Ivy Carter is already making music history.Billboard says that thanks to her dad, Ja

Hakgojae Gallery presents orchid, bamboo paintings in New Year celebrationsHazy moonlight shimmers on a tranquil bamboo forest. The bamboo, so upright and leafy, seem to be swaying gently in the night breeze, but never losing grip completely. Haegang Gim Gyu-jin’s ten-fold-screen depicts a sentimental yet calm night that invites viewers into a moment of fantasy. Bamboo and orchids were some of the subjects highly favored by Joseon Dynasty artists and scholars, including Gim, to feature in their

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The chimes may have tolled midnight in Paris, but in Hollywood, it’s the dawn of another career revival for Woody Allen after his biggest hit in decades and a new round of awards accolades.How much will the success of “Midnight in Paris’’ change the filmmaker’s career? Not one bit, says Allen.In nearly 45 years of alternating between toast of the town and yesterday’s news, Allen has barely deviated from a simple formula: make a movie a year on an economical budget and avoid th