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Beyoncé performs at UN for World Humanitarian Day

August 12, 2012/22.38

Beyoncé has performed at the United Nations’ General Assembly Hall in New York, in advance of World Humanitarian Day on August 19. The concert was designed to promote the day, and to get people to pledge that they will do something for another person with mass social network messages through its website, which aims to […]

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The Simpsons’ 500th episode; Beyoncé plans fifth album; Katy Perry’s ‘Part of Me’ references Russell Brand?

February 14, 2012/12.59

The longest-running animated series, The Simpsons, will celebrate its 500-episode landmark on February 19.    Creator Matt Groening recalls how viewers of the Fox network’s The Tracey Ullman Show liked the brief cartoons that filled the gaps in each episode—and The Simpsons was spun off into its own half-hour show in 1989.    For some, […]

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The VMAs 2011: a breath of fresh air

August 29, 2011/23.21

MTV’s Video Music Awards generally serve as a ripe harvesting ground for comedians. Kanye’s outburst in 2009 comes to mind. But this year at the VMAs, the mood was a bit more sombre. In light of Amy Winehouse’s death in July, a moving tribute to the talented singer was paid.    Tony Bennett returned to […]

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Beyoncé Knowles talks 4; Transformers 3 hits Shanghai

July 15, 2011/12.44

Paramount Pictures/Getty Images Beyoncé Knowles talks about her growing up, provides some footage of her performing as a child, and shows some of the behind-the-scenes preparations for her album, 4, in the clip below.    The album is still holding on to its number-one slot for the second week. The name is derived from Knowles’s […]

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley steals the show; Beyoncé energetically closes Glastonbury

June 27, 2011/10.40

Lucian Capellaro/Getty Images Chris Jackson/Getty Images Above Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in a backless dress at the Berlin première of Transformers 3, and in Burberry at the London VIP screening. Beyoncé Knowles, wearing a gold sequinned jacket and black hot pants, closed the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, with husband Jay-Z watching in the crowd. The singer went […]

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Coty announces Beyoncé Pulse fragrance, on shelves September

June 16, 2011/4.51

Peeq Media/PR Newswire Coty has announced a third fragrance in its contract with Beyoncé Knowles. The new fragrance, called Beyoncé Pulse, joins the earlier Heat and Heat Rush collections, and will be available from September 2011.    Coty’s release says that the new fragrance has notes in citrus and orchid. The bluebird orchid in Pulse, […]

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Ria van Dyke is the new Miss Universe New Zealand

June 5, 2010/13.43

Jin Cowan Top Ria van Dyke, Miss New Zealand 2010. Centre Runner-up Danijela Unkovich, Miss East Auckland; Samantha Powell, co-MC and Miss New Zealand 2008; Ria van Dyke, Miss New Zealand 2010; Katie Taylor, Miss New Zealand 2009; second runner-up Caren Freeman, Miss Auckland. Above This year’s contestants after the crowning. Auckland-based Ria van Dyke, […]

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Beyoncé launches her fashion line in to gaming

March 2, 2010/8.38

Nintendo knows how to engage the tech-savvy, as the idea of having an online fashion store as part of a gaming environment steadily becomes mainstream. Those who own its Style Savvy game for the DS can, as of March 1, access fashions from Deréon, the fashion line created by Beyoncé and her mother, Tina Knowles. […]

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Beyoncé, Eva Longoria to début fragrances

December 28, 2009/0.07

Looks like 2010 will begin with more celebrity fragrances.    As revealed earlier this month, Beyoncé Knowles’s Heat, for Coty, will launch in February, with hints of red vanilla orchid, magnolia, neroli and blush peach.    From being a L’Oréal Paris face to having a scent of her own, Eva Longoria-Parker will launch Eva by […]

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