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Barbara Walters Heart Surgery- Twilight Movie Hung Up By Secondary Actors?- Eat Fire for Adam Lambert- Annie Lennox Slams Simon Cowell Shows- more

05/11/2010
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Barbara Walters said she will have surgery to replace a faulty heart valve later this week and take the summer off from "The View" to recuperate. She said she's known about her condition for a while, and decided with her doctors that this is the best time to have the heart surgery done. more

Smokey Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald and James Brown were among the music legends being honored on the Apollo Theater's new Walk of Fame in New York City. more

The studio behind the "Twilight" feature franchise is working furiously to close the talent deals required to split Stephenie Meyer's fourth novel in the vampire series into two films. Sources say the actors who play the Cullen kids (especially Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene) are trying to sink their teeth into bigger paydays that the studio is so far unwilling to provide. more

What to expect from Adam Lambert's "If I Had You" music video has been revealed. The clip is going to feature fire performers as according to a casting call, his camp are looking for "people who can fire eat, fire breath, fire juggle, fire twirl, etc." "This music video is set in a dark but beautiful forest, where we experience a surreal light show, similar to the Northern Lights of Norway," the video overview read. more

Annie Lennox has hit out at Simon Cowell's TV talent shows. "I think those types of shows are dangerous and cruel - they'll have a long-lasting effect on how people look at music." She tells Britain's Daily Mail, "I understand their appeal, but there's no chance I'd ever be a judge. You have a panel of people basically giving you the thumbs up or down, and there's so much more to music than that." more

Jessica Biel and rising British actor Luke Evans are in final negotiations to star in "Vivaldi," a period tale of forbidden romance. more

Elton John will perform as scheduled at an upcoming music festival in Morocco after organizers defied calls from the country's Islamic politicians to ban the openly-gay star from the event. The "Rocket Man" found himself at the center of controversy on Friday, May 7 when members of the Islamist Justice and Development Party called for the singer to be dropped from the Mawazine festival line-up - because of his sexuality. more

A duet track performed by Jennifer Hudson and Leona Lewis for upcoming movie "Sex and the City 2" has just been revealed. It is titled "Love Is Your Color" and features mid-tempo ballad on the hook. The soundtrack album itself is plotted to be released in the United States on May 25. more


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