http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment_and_arts/ The latest stories from the Entertainment & Arts section of the BBC News web site. en-gb Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:41:56 GMT Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/rss/4498287.stm for terms and conditions of reuse. http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/ 15 Two-thirds of people agree with the government stance on cutting arts funding and relying more on private cash, a survey suggests. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11162816 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11162816 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:16:59 GMT Tony Blair's memoirs, based on his time as the prime minister, break sales records, booksellers say. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11168080 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11168080 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:50:01 GMT A former Britain's Got Talent hopeful who claimed she was discriminated against at an audition fails to get her case taken to an employment tribunal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11165712 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11165712 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:40:46 GMT Some of musician Bob Dylan's artwork, never seen before by the public, is to be displayed at Denmark's National Gallery. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11169530 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11169530 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:28:37 GMT British singer-songwriter Sami Yusuf, billed as "Islam's biggest rock star", is donating profits from his latest single to help flood victims in Pakistan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11168106 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11168106 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:43:40 GMT The UK's first talent show to make music available for download immediately propels a little known act called Pepper and Piano into the charts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/newsbeat/11162318 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11162318 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:03:35 GMT Coronation Street is to broadcast a live episode as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, soap bosses confirm. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11164737 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11164737 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:36:04 GMT Channel 4 dramatises the rise of Labour party leadership candidates David and Ed Miliband, it is announced. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11163615 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11163615 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:04:43 GMT Pop star Youssou N'dour officially launches his own television station in Senegal after a two-year struggle with the authorities. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-11164577 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11164577 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:11:24 GMT Rapper TI and his wife Tameka Cottle are arrested in Hollywood for drug possession, police confirm. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11165196 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11165196 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:14:35 GMT Natalie Portman attends the opening of the Venice Film Festival, which launched with her film Black Swan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11162415 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11162415 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:25:40 GMT Ex-This Morning host Richard Madeley presents the first five minutes of the show while Eamonn Holmes is stuck in traffic. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11164476 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11164476 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:32:11 GMT Guns N' Roses have walked off stage at a gig in Dublin after being booed and having bottles thrown at them by the crowd. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/newsbeat/11163085 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11163085 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:31:27 GMT A south London museum that closed for three years is officially reopened after philanthropists pledged £2m to save it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-london-11157250 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11157250 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:10:09 GMT A metal detecting enthusiast finds what is believed to be the only intact Roman lantern made out of bronze ever discovered in Britain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-suffolk-11161686 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-11161686 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:20:11 GMT The revamped Shakespeare company theatres are to have a low-key reopening, the RSC says. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-11154376 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-11154376 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:46:05 GMT Catherine Zeta Jones reveals she is "furious" that doctors failed to detect husband Michael Douglas' throat cancer earlier. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11162442 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11162442 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:07:37 GMT Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche hits back at the "violence" of criticism by fellow French actor Gerard Depardieu. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11150263 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11150263 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:47:58 GMT Movie comedy Grown Ups, starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, goes straight to the top of the UK and Ireland box office chart. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11150558 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11150558 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:59:59 GMT Apple launches a music-based social network called Ping as part of its latest upgrade to the iTunes music software. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-11152605 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11152605 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:48:35 GMT Sony has unveiled its own music and video download in an announcement timed to coincide with an Apple media event. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-11151844 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11151844 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:33:35 GMT Glastonbury Festival 2011 tickets will be on sale from Sunday 3 October http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/newsbeat/11150650 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11150650 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:54:23 GMT Olympic medallist James Cracknell is expected home later this week, after fracturing his skull in a bike accident in the US. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11161826 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11161826 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:21:05 GMT Police shoot dead a gunman who took three hostages at the Discovery Communications HQ near Washington and free his prisoners. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-us-canada-11159256 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11159256 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:53:14 GMT The BBC loses a legal fight in the High Court to stop publication of a book which claims to reveal the identity of Top Gear's driver The Stig. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11151777 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11151777 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:44:49 GMT In the latest in the BBC News Meet The Author interviews, Sir Terry Pratchett discusses I Shall Wear Midnight, the latest in his best-selling Discworld series. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11170374 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11170374 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:01:01 GMT The 67th Venice Film Festival has opened with the premiere of three films, including the thriller Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11161596 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11161596 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:10:34 GMT In a bid to go beyond the confines of the auditorium, the Old Vic company - run by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey - is putting on a season of work in a tunnel. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/local/london/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8963000/8963939.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8963000/8963939.stm Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:41:32 GMT Writer Sophie Kinsella has described how she missed the main character of her best-selling ''Shopaholic'' series and how she seemed ''real'' to her. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11163927 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11163927 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:48:27 GMT We get the dirt from the dancefloor from Alesha Dixon as she confirms she will still be a panellist in the new series of Strictly. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11164617 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11164617 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:26:05 GMT Catherine Zeta Jones says she's "furious" over her husband's cancer, Natalie Portman's Black Swan opens Venice and the rest of the day's showbiz news http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/10317943 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10317943 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:53:54 GMT The BBC speaks to Anthony Bourdain who returns with his long awaited sequel Medium Raw, taking stock of the changes in his life and in the culinary world. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11162563 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11162563 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:22:13 GMT James May mischievously reveals to Richard Bacon that he also held the position of The Stig for five years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11156902 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11156902 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:52:25 GMT Nick Franglen is using London Bridge and its human traffic to create a 24-hour piece of music http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11165700 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11165700 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:35:15 GMT Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan re-launch their book club http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11155037 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11155037 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:48:57 GMT Canada provides backdrop for Kerouac's On The Road http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11143300 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11143300 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:10:53 GMT A profile of Ben Collins, the man in the mask http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-11162227 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11162227 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:28:28 GMT Seven questions on Roland, Lizzie and morning sofas http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/magazine-11164647 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11164647 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:40:23 GMT A glimpse at works coming to London for the first time http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11143971 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11143971 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:17:09 GMT