It's hard to distinguish one pop diva's ballad from another these days ... hello, Celine, Whitney and Mariah.
But veteran songwriters Seth Swirsky and Warryn Campbell say one of Mariah Carey's hits has gone too far. The duo have filed a lawsuit against Carey for copyright infringement.
Swirsky and Campbell claim Carey's 1999 hit Thank God I Found You, from the album Rainbow, borrows heavily from their tune One of Those Love Songs, which was recorded by Xscape in 1998.
Liam Neeson, on crutches after his July motorcycle collision with a deer, says his biking days are over.
"Another five weeks on the crutches," the star told USA Today, but "motorcycles and I are finished." Wife Natasha Richardson "bought me the motorbike. She was feeling quite guilty."
But he says he will not miss his Harley-Davidson. He went up to only 80 km/h and was at 40 km/h when the deer appeared.
He was wearing a helmet "and a huge motorbike jacket Steven Spielberg sent me a few years ago as a birthday present."
American pop singer Jennifer Lopez, in Rome to promote her new film The Cell, baffled local reporters by referring to her favourite Italian dish as "chicken parmigiana," a typical meal served in restaurants in the Bronx.
Her recipe, a mixture of chicken, mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce, plenty of garlic and a side dish of pasta, was greeted by looks of disgust.
Serving pasta as a side dish is tantamount to blasphemy for Italian gourmets.
A similar "parmigiana" recipe does indeed exist in Italy using egg plants, tomatoes and mozzarella, but it categorically excludes chicken or garlic.
"Nobody is perfect," she replied.
A jacket belonging to the late guitarist Jimi Hendrix was sold at an auction in London yesterday for $NZ120,000. The Chinese-style green silk jacket, embroidered with dragons, pagodas and flowers, was bought by the Hard Rock Cafe for its new outlet in Manchester.
The jacket was expected to fetch only $65,000 at the auction of rock memorabilia at the Sotheby's auction house. It came with a letter confirming it had been given to the vendor by Hendrix, who died in 1970.
Other lots included a Dolce et Gabbana dress worn by Madonna on one of her tours, which fetched $10,000, and the original text of the lyrics from George Michael's No 1 song Faith, which went for $25,000.
For the first time, an Academy Award will be auctioned on-line - the Best Actor statuette that James Cagney won for playing George M. Cohan in the 1942 movie Yankee Doodle Dandy.
- NZPA
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