Newsletter signup

People

  • Slim Whitman dies
    The country singer's high-pitched yodel sold millions of records and saved the world in “Mars Attacks!"
  • Best-selling author Vince Flynn dies at 47
     ST. PAUL, Minn. – Vince Flynn, a best-selling author of political thriller novels, has died at age 47 after a two-year battle with prostate cancer.
  • Bieber hits paparazzo with car
    Video shows Justin Bieber running into a photographer with his white Ferrari in Hollywood, but police say there was no crime and the injuries aren’t life-threatening. Lt.
Advertisement
People

More acts to sing at Grammys

Trevino

Grammy nominees Jack White, Carrie Underwood and the Lumineers will hit the Grammys stage next month.

The Recording Academy announced Thursday that those acts will join previously announced performers including fun., the Black Keys and Taylor Swift at the Feb. 10 awards show in Los Angeles.

White is nominated for album of the year and the Lumineers are up for best new artist.

U.K. newcomer Ed Sheeran and Elton John will perform together.

Headed to Broadway

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will team up on Broadway this fall in two of the most iconic plays of the 20th century.

Producers announced Thursday that Stewart and McKellen will star in Harold Pinter’s “No Man’s Land” and Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” which will play in repertoire under the direction of Sean Mathias.

The Broadway theater and dateswill be announced later.

Happy birthday

Among celebrity birthdays today: Singer Claude Gray is 81. Actress Leigh Taylor-Young is 68. Actress Jenifer Lewis is 56. Actress Dinah Manoff is 55. Actress Ana Ortiz is 42. Singer Alicia Keys is 32. Actor Michael Trevino is 28.

Advertisement