Another Actor Injured In Broadway ‘Spider-Man’ Musical – After an actor performing in the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” was injured during a performance Monday night, the show will postpone its scheduled matinee on Wednesday and resume performances on Wednesday night, according to a statement from a spokesman for the production. The actor, Christopher Tierney, was said to be in serious condition at Bellevue Hospital Center on Tuesday. Blind. [nytimes]
Apple Removes Wikileaks App From App Store – Looks like an unofficial iPhone and iPad app that let you view WikiLeaks site content and follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account on the go has been removed from the App app store. The paid app was selling WikiLeaks content (available for free) for $1.99. This follows the disassociation of some big corporates (like Amazon, PayPal, Mastercard, Visa and Bank of America) from WikiLeaks. [techcrunch]
Royal Wedding Part II – There’s another royal bride headed for the altar — and she’s no Kate Middleton. Blonde, bold and at times brash, 29-year-old Zara Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest granddaughter, is one of Britain’s most accomplished and colorful royals. Buckingham Palace said Tuesday that Phillips, a medal-winning equestrian, and her longtime, live-in boyfriend, Mike Tindall, were engaged. [wwd]
Vince Cable Loses Power After “War On Murdoch” – A humiliated Vince Cable was stripped of some of his key responsibilities as Business Secretary last night after boasting he had “declared war” on media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s bid to take over TV giant BSkyB. A day after declaring in a secret recording that his resignation would “bring the government down”, he was punished with a weakening of his department, following frantic discussions between David Cameron and Nick Clegg. [scotsman]
Six Predictions For Digital Advertising In 2011 – “Likes,” views and followers were all the rage in 2010. Despite the social media community emphasizing engagement instead of reach, media agencies quickly learned that engagement doesn’t scale easily, making it difficult to sell. Enter Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. As consumer use of social media spiked, the leading social networks retooled their advertising products to satisfy the newfound demand from brands. but things are set to change again. [mashable]
Sexy Spy Anna Chapman Appears In Playboy – The red-headed Russian spy is back in the U.S.A. — nude in the pages of Playboy. Anna Chapman, one of several men and women sent back to Moscow for espionage earlier this year, graces the pages of the men’s magazine’s January issue. They are included as part of an article written by John H. Richardson, author of “My Father the Spy.” [nydailynews]
SAA To Operate Special Flights To London – SAA will host two special flights from South Africa to Heathrow Airport in London on Wednesday morning, the airline said. “SA3236 will depart from Johannesburg at 09:00 with SA3220 departing from Cape Town at 08:30,” said SAA spokesperson Fani Zulu in a statement on Tuesday. Sorry, who? [news24]
Ryan Reynolds Told Pals That Scarlett Johansson Treated Him Badly – Ryan Reynolds didn’t feel like such a superhero when the cameras weren’t rolling on the set of Green Lantern, which was shot last spring. An insider on the comic book flick tells the new Us Weekly that its hunky star, 34, was “open on set that he and Scarlett were having problems.” Just a year and half into his marriage with 26-year-old Johansson, Reynolds “would say that she treated him badly,” the insider explains. “It never seemed like she made him a priority.” [usmagazine]
Carnage At London’s Heathrow Airport – As an example of basic strategic policy, you might think that, given its importance, the ability of Heathrow not simply to wreck the holiday travel plans of hundreds of thousands of people but to undermine economies, disrupt international air cargo and, most significantly, to visit disaster on the travel industry, plans would be in place to ensure that it can function after a five-inch snowfall. After all, terrorists would be delighted to have wrought such harm. [dailybeast]
Man Kills Bride, Best Man, Then Himself At Wedding – A bridegroom fatally shot his new wife, his best man and then himself after announcing to horrified guests that he had a “surprise” for them. Witnesses reported that 29-year-old Rogerio Damascena, a sales manager in Camaragibe, outside the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife, did not give any previous indication that anything was wrong at his wedding reception. Nice surprise. [sfgate]
30 Rock’s Tracy Morgan Recovering From Kidney Transplant – Expect a huge void on TGS in March: EW has learned exclusively that Tracy Morgan — aka Tracy Jordan, the star of the show within the show, 30 Rock – will miss at least two episodes of the NBC comedy because he’s recovering from surgery. The comedian underwent a kidney transplant on or around Dec. 10 and though the surgery was successful — he was seen at a Knicks game on Friday – the writers are giving him plenty of time to recover. [entertainmentweekly]
Vatican Clarifies Pope’s Condom Vibe – The Vatican on Tuesday sought to clarify the pope’s controversial comments about condoms and HIV, saying he by no means suggested condom use could be condoned as a means of avoiding pregnancy. “However, those involved in prostitution who are HIV positive and who seek to diminish the risk of contagion by the use of a condom may be taking the first step in respecting the life of another even if the evil of prostitution remains in all its gravity,” the statement said. [washingtonpost]
Heidi Montag Reveals Plastic Surgery Scars And Bald Spots – Heidi Montag was seeking perfection when she famously underwent 10 plastic surgery procedures in November 2009. Now a year later, Heidi reveals her operation-room battle wounds for the first time to Life & Style. “Parts of my body definitely look worse than they did presurgery,” she told Life & Style exclusively at a photo shoot on Dec. 2. “This is not what I signed up for.” [huffpo]
Black Saints, Martyrs And A Wise Man – Over the centuries, European artists depicted a variety of religious figures as African. The most famous examples: Christmas art of the Three Kings, or Magi. Many of these treasures can be found in “The Image of the Black in Western Art,” co-edited by David Bindam and Henry Louis Gates Jr., editor-in-chief of The Root. [theroot]
Plot Thickens Over Airwaves Characters – Massive intrigue now surrounds the Airwaves characters, as rumours circulate about who exactly Candy Apple, Joy Rider and McHugeLarge are. Who are these top secret super-spies and how is a man as small as McHugeLarge able to deploy such hot, powerful women at a moment’s notice? [mchugelarge]
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