Spice Girl Victoria Beckham made her solo debut in front of 100,000 rainsoaked people at London's Party in the Park yesterday but fans were no wiser about her singing ability after she mimed her performance.
She later admitted she had been nervous about performing in front of a bigger audience than at any of her concerts with the Spice Girls.
A string of other top performers, including Elton John with the Backstreet Boys, the Corrs, Boyzone star Ronan Keating and stadium rockers Bon Jovi gave live performances at the concert in Hyde Park.
Rock band Travis proved their mettle by playing through the rain and then flying to Scotland to do it all again. The Brit Award winners, whose hit Why Does It Always Rain On Me? could hardly have been more appropriate, flew home to Glasgow by private jet to play at T in the Park on the last day of Scotland's biggest music festival. It was raining there, too.
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Former Disney president Michael Ovitz's Artists Production Group has signed a $1.97 billion deal with the film production arm of Europe's Canal Plus to produce 15 films for the international market over the next three years.
APG already has more than 35 projects in development, including Ed Burns' Sidewalks of New York, Michael Crichton's Timeline and the political thriller The 28th Amendment.
Also set for production this year are Gravity, based on Tess Gerristsen's best seller, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six.
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Detroit city officials pressured promoters to yank a video from the Up in Smoke tour - featuring Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Eminem - because the video shows partially nude women and depicts a liquor store hold-up in which Snoop Dogg holds a robber and asks the audience "Should I shoot ... ?"
City officials viewed the video hours before the show and threatened to cut power to the stage and arrest organisers if the video was shown.
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