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With Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan and Taylor Swift leading the way, country music helped CBS to a dominant week in the television ratings. The Academy of Country Music Awards was seen by just under 16 million viewers, making it the most-watched program in the Nielsen company’s weekly accounting of popular TV shows. Lambert won four awards, Bryan was named top entertainer and Swift accepted an award for her career’s work presented by her mother, who recently announced she was battling cancer. The ACM awards may have won the week, but finished just behind the yearly Country Music Association awards. That show, aired during a busier TV time in November, had 16.25 million viewers last year. Nielsen’s weekly list measures how many people watched a program live or before midnight on…

Ringo Starr was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a little help from one of his famous friends. The mop-topped drummer who kept the beat for the Beatles, Starr was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist on Saturday night during a ceremony jammed with scintillating performances and touching moments. Starr was the last of the Beatles to be inducted for his individual work, getting in after bandmates Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison. He was always the fourth Beatle - John, Paul, George ... and Ringo - but now he’s been immortalized as a frontman. Starr was inducted along with Green Day, underground-icon Lou Reed, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, soul singer-songwriter Bill Withers, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan…

HELPING TO TACKLE PUBLIC AND PERSONAL HEALTH CHALLENGES Few of us would argue that medical studies aren't important - indeed, for many of you reading this, they may be the reason why you are still alive now. This has not prevented difficulties with conducting such research, however, with both inconsistent data collection and small sample sizes having long proved a hindrance. Well, now, one of Apple's latest developments - ResearchKit - may be helping to change that. At the latest major Apple keynote in March, there may have been a lot to get excited about as far as new products from the Cupertino stable were concerned, with a new MacBook being unveiled at the same time as more information was shared about the Apple Watch. However, as so often with events like these, it…

Peter Copping had hoped to work alongside Oscar de la Renta, but it was not to be: Just days after Copping was hired last October as artistic director of the luxury label, the legendary de la Renta passed away from cancer. In February, Copping presented his debut collection at New York Fashion Week, and on Saturday - barely two months later - he showed his first bridal line, a big occasion for a label known for dressing high-profile brides like Amal Clooney. Luckily for Copping, who is British, the New York weather on Saturday was decidedly summery - perfect for brides. His collection retained much of the classic de la Renta glamour - lots of tulle and organza - but added a few more modern-looking silhouettes, some new takes on…

An outbreak of measles that popped up at Disneyland in late December soon spread to six other U.S. states, Mexico and Canada. Health officials suspect an infected traveler, who caught the virus overseas, visited the theme park and exposed others. The outbreak sickened 147 people in the U.S., including 131 in California. No deaths were reported. The California Department of Public Health on Friday declared the outbreak over after no new cases appeared in the last 42 days, or two incubation periods. HOW IT STARTED The identity of the person responsible for spreading measles at Disney theme parks in Southern California will likely forever remain a mystery. Because there haven’t been homegrown measles cases in the U.S. for more than a decade, health experts believe the virus came from abroad…

Prize winners at the Cannes Film Festival will be chosen by a jury that includes American actor Jake Gyllenhaal, Mexican director Guillermo del Toro and Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan. Malian musician Rokia Traore is also on the panel, announced Tuesday, along with British actress Sienna Miller, French performer Sophie Marceau and Spanish actress Rossy de Palma, a frequent performer in the films of Pedro Almodovar. The jury is led by filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. The French Riviera film extravaganza opens May 13 with French director Emmanuelle Bercot’s drama “La Tete Haute” and runs to May 24. New movies by Gus Van Sant, Nanni Moretti, Jia Zhangke and Jacques Audiard are among the films competing for the festival’s top prize, the coveted Palme d’Or.…

“I’ll be back,” the line Arnold Schwarzenegger first uttered more than 30 years ago in that indelible manly monotone, belongs to the Terminator, of course. But it also might as well be the official slogan of the summer movie season. It’s the time of year when Hollywood’s older, reliable brands, with the tenacity of Schwarzenegger’s lethal cyborg, claw their way back onto the big screen in a popcorn parade of big-budget sequels, reboots and re-dos. That’s nothing new, but the extent of the sequel spinning is. The sequel expansion - as headlong as Tom Cruise in the “Mission: Impossible” movies - runs in all directions, stretching into prequels, second-try reboots, spinoffs and franchises that are less linear, roman-numeral progressions than (as in the brimming Marvel world) whole universes of overlapping…

THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE That aren't many people who don't love a good superhero film, and if there's one such film that can't be ignored by anyone seeking a heady dose of world-saving capers this spring, it's Avengers: Age of Ultron. The iconic team of superheroes that first appeared in 1963 is still going strong, and Earth's Mightiest Heroes have quite the assignment on their hands for this latest big screen epic, which will be released on North American shores on May 1. The fact that, at the time of typing, the film has already premiered in Los Angeles on April 13, means that we already know a lot about it - and of course, we'll try not to include any big spoilers here. Nonetheless, fans…

After anonymously buying Elvis’ first-ever recording at a January auction, Jack White is offering a limited-run vinyl re-release of “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin” at his Third Man Records in Nashville. The 10-inch, 78-rpm facsimile of the 1953 recording was digitally transferred from the original acetate onto new vinyl discs with no cleanup - pops, crackles and all. “It’s exactly what came off the grooves,” Third Man’s Ben Blackwell said. The record is being sold in a plain paper sleeve because that’s “what Elvis would have walked out of Sun with a record in,” Blackwell said. “Sun” is, of course, Sun Records, the legendary Memphis label operated by Sam Phillips. Presley paid $4 for the recording. Six decades later, White paid $300,000. Super-fans camped out in front…

Paddington The classic children’s book character Paddington Bear finally makes his debut on the big screen, and he couldn’t be more adorable in this live-action caper. The chatty and amiable animal - voiced by Ben Whishaw - turns up in London and meets the kindly Brown family, but also faces danger from a museum taxidermist (Nicole Kidman) who wants to add him to her collection. FIVE FACTS: Beyond the Reach This adventure drama thriller centers on a high-rolling corporate shark, Madec (Michael Douglas), who recruits a young guide to take him into the Mojave Desert to hunt big game. However, when Madec ends up shooting and killing an innocent man, the guide’s refusal to be drawn into a cover-up leads to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. FIVE FACTS:…

It matters where you watch a movie, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America stressed Tuesday at the opening of an annual gathering of theater owners in Las Vegas. Chris Dodd, chairman and CEO of the association, also said piracy and illegal downloading remain top concerns for the industry, especially with 2015 expected to be a record-breaking year at the worldwide box office. At stake, Dodd said, are the jobs of 1.9 million American workers who depend on the success of the film and television industry. Those workers are the ones whose “faces we will never see on a movie screen, who will never walk a red carpet.” he said. Dodd used the opportunity to promote the newly launched website http://www.wheretowatch.com , a search platform presented by the…

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is about a generational transfer in more ways than one. Set 30 years after the events in “Return of the Jedi” and coming to theaters just over 30 years after the film first debuted, that idea remained top of mind for the film’s brand new production design team, fans learned at Star Wars Celebration on Saturday. In other words, they didn’t have to reinvent the wheel. They just had to update it a bit. Rick Carter, an Academy Award winner for “Lincoln” and “Avatar,” was joined on stage by his co-production designer Darren Gilford (“TRON: Legacy”), Doug Chiang (“Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace”), and Industrial Light + Magic Art Director Christian Alzmann (“A.I. Artificial Intelligence”) to discuss their work together on the…

A daylong Earth Day concert had R&B star Usher dancing on crutches Saturday on the National Mall to rally thousands for political action to confront climate change and poverty. Usher, Mary J. Blige, Gwen Stefani, Common, Fall Out Boy and Train all performed during the free Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day rally hosted by will.i.am and Soledad O’Brien. After suffering a fracture in his foot, Usher was in a cast but drew big cheers when he got his dance on anyway. He sang his hits, including “Yeah!” and “OMG” and also teamed up with Common to sing the beginning of “Glory,” the Oscar-winning song from the movie “Selma.” “To end poverty, it starts, in my opinion, with an education about it,” Usher told the crowd. “I want you to go…

The 2015 Academy of Country Music Awards jam-packed more than three hours of music, from classic country stars such as George Strait and Alan Jackson to contemporary favorites Miranda Lambert and Luke Bryan and pop and rock stars Taylor Swift and Steven Tyler. Even A-list celebrities and a football star took part as the awards show celebrated its 50th anniversary in a new location, the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Here’s a breakdown of the top moments from Sunday night’s show, which featured 23 performances. PRINCESS MIRANDA Miranda Lambert is like the perennial winner actor Meryl Streep of country: She took home four Country Music Association Awards last year and the Grammy Award for best country album for “Platinum” this year. And at Sunday’s ACM Awards, the native Texan…

Love Somebody McEntire The Queen of Country follows up her number one hit single on the Country iTunes Charts, “Going Out Like That”, with the associated album. McEntire’s first studio album since 2010’s All the Women I Am and the 27th of her career, Love Somebody was produced by the Chockie, Oklahoma native herself, alongside Tony Brown, James Stroud and Doug Sisemore. FIVE FACTS: Handwritten (Deluxe) Shawn Mendes It has been a rapid rise to prominence for the 16-year old Canadian, who only began posting song covers on the popular video sharing platform, Vine, two years ago. Now with two successful singles - “Life of the Party” and “Something Big” - under his belt, he follows up his debut EP, The Shawn Mendes EP, with this promising first studio album.…

Newcomers “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” and “Unfriended” were still no match for “Furious 7” in its third week in release. Universal’s high-octane movie took in $29.2 million, bringing its domestic total to a stunning $294.5 million. With $1.15 billion in worldwide receipts, “Furious 7” has become the seventh highest-grossing film of all time, behind “Iron Man 3.” Despite lackluster reviews, Sony’s “Paul Blart” sequel opened stronger than expected with $23.8 million on a $30 million budget, while Universal and Blumhouse’s micro-budget horror film “Unfriended” well surpassed its $1 million production budget, taking in $15.8 million in its first week in release. Lionsgate’s “Child 44,” starring Tom Hardy, did not fare so well. The R-rated thriller opened to a disappointing $621,812 from 510 locations. The top 20 movies at U.S.…