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Digital Domain revives Elvis
Digital Domain is creating an Elvis Presley hologram for shows, film, TV and other projects worldwide.
Digital Domain Media Group Inc., the Academy Award-winning studio that created visual effects for the "Transformers" films and "Tron: Legacy," has signed an agreement with
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LOS ANGELES — Elvis is coming back from the dead, thanks to some digital wizardry.
Core Media Group to jointly develop and produce a series of "virtual" Elvis Presley likenesses for a range of entertainment projects, including appearances in shows and film and TV productions.
With studios in Los Angeles; London; Vancouver, Canada; and other cities, Digital Domain created the computer-generated likeness of the late
rap artist Tupac Shakur for Dr. Dre's recent show at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
"Elvis is the most iconic, most recognized performer on the planet, and we are thrilled to have been chosen to bring new performances and original shows where fans can have their own, new experiences of Elvis," said Digital Domain Chief Executive John Textor.
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MUSIC
Anti-semitic Wagner's music denied in Israel
LOS ANGELES — A planned performance of the music of Richard Wagner in Israel has been abruptly canceled following an apparent disagreement between the presenter and Tel Aviv University, which was
supposed to host the event.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports the officials at the university pulled the plug on the performance, contending the Israel Wagner Society concealed the fact it would have featured the music of Wagner, who held anti-semitic views.
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Contestant quits over foul play
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Miss Pennsylvania sheena Monnin rescigned her crown in the Miss Universe Pageant, claiming the contest is rigged, but according to organizers, the beauty queen was upset over the decision to allow transgender contestants to enter.
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PITTSBURGH — The Miss USA pageant representative from Pennsylvania resigned her crown claiming the contest is rigged, but according to organizers the beauty queen was upset over the decision to allow transgender contestants to enter.
A posting on Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin's Facebook page claims another contestant learned the names of the top 5 finishers on Sunday morning — hours before the show was broadcast.
Monnin claims the other contestant told her the names of the top 5 she spotted on a planning sheet for the telecast — and she decided to step down as soon as those same contestants were named during the show.
"In my heart I believe in honesty, fair play, a fair opportunity, and high moral integrity, none of which in my opinion are part of this pageant system any longer," Monnin wrote in one of her Facebook posts.
Monnin, of Cranberry, Butler County, did not immediately respond to a Facebook message from The Associated Press.
Donald Trump, who runs the Miss Universe Organization, called Monni's claims that the pageant was fixed "totally ridiculous" in a live interview Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"We're going to be suing her now," Trump said. "She made a very false charge and she knows it's a false charge."
Pageant organizers confirmed Monniin resigned, but said it wasn't for the reason she claimed.
According to a statement from the Miss Universe Organization, the contestant who Monnin claimed saw the sheet vehemently refuted Monnin's account. The statement includes text from an email from Monnin that cites the decision to allow transgender contestants into the competition as the reason she's resigning.
Miss Rhode Island, the pageant's winner, Olivia Culpo, said Monnin's original resignation was based on her stance on the pageant's policy on transgender contestants and called it "strange" that Monnin is now saying something else.
MUSIC
Minaj nixes concert after host comments
LOS ANGELES — Nicki Minaj was set to headline Hot 97's Summer Jam festival in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday but pulled out shortly before her set.
Minaj nixed her performance at the festival, one of only a few annual hip-hop events of its size, following disparaging remarks from Hot 97 personality Peter Rosenberg, who also hosts MTV's
"Hip-Hop Squares."
Rosenberg, obviously not a fan of Minaj's club-friendly, RedOneproduced jingle, "Starships," told the crowd that the radio station was "all about that real hip-hop."
"I know there are some chicks in here waiting to sing along with 'Starships' later," he chided. "I'm not talking to y'all right now." He then quickly dismissed the song with some rather unprintable language.
That didn't sit well with Minaj
nor with her label head, Lil Wayne, who pulled the plug on all his Young Money artists who were at Summer Jam.
Minaj confirmed the snub on her Twitter feed, telling the station staff they messed up "history" (she just wasn't as nice about it). "The President has spoken," she wrote. "I go above and beyond for my fans. But won't ever go against Wayne's word. What he says, goes."
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