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Rupert Murdoch Expected to Hand Reins of 21st Century Fox to Son James

Rupert Murdoch, the 84-year-old chief executive of 21st Century Fox, is planning to hand over the reins of the media conglomerate to his son James, two people briefed on the plans said on Thursday. James Murdoch is expected to take over as chief executive, and the elder Mr. Murdoch will remain at the company as executive chairman. Another son, Lachlan, is moving from Australia to Los Angeles to become co-executive chairman, the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. The exact timing for the changes is unclear, but it is said to be part of Mr. Murdoch’s long-term succession planning with the board. The changes are expected to be discussed at a board meeting next week, one person said.

As part of the reorganization, Chase Carey will step down from his role as chief operating officer at Fox and work as an adviser to the company. Mr. Carey, widely respected on Wall Street, is said to have played an integral role in the succession plans and has built flexibility into his contract with Fox to ease the transition, one person said.

“The matter of succession is on the agenda at our upcoming, regularly scheduled board meeting,” Nathaniel Brown, a Fox spokesman, said in a statement.

The appointment to chief executive reflects a remarkable recovery for James Murdoch, 42, who was battered by the phone hacking scandal that engulfed the company while he oversaw the British businesses. Along with his father, he was called before Parliament to answer grueling questions and discuss embarrassing emails related to the hacking. James soon departed London for New York in an effort, those close to him said, to distance himself from the fallout and rebuild his reputation. The elder Mr. Murdoch put the succession plan in place in March 2014 when he named the two sons to senior positions in his companies. James was appointed co-chief operating officer at 21st Century Fox, and Lachlan, 43, became nonexecutive co-chairman of News Corporation and 21st Century Fox, returning to his father’s side after a nine-year absence. The new development first was reported by CNBC.

The elder Mr. Murdoch is expected to continue to provide broad strategic oversight for the company and come into the office regularly, one person said. He is not ill, and he still appears to be energized, this person added. The succession plans for Mr. Murdoch’s media empire have long been the subject of fevered speculation, with Lachlan Murdoch, James Murdoch and their sister Elizabeth considered by various people at various moments as the leading choice.

Rupert and James Murdoch will be based in New York. Lachlan Murdoch will be based in Los Angeles.

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James Horner, Film Composer for 'Titanic' and 'Braveheart,' Dies in Plane Crash

 
The two-time Oscar winner, 61, worked on three James Cameron films, two 'Star Trek' movies and classics like 'A Beautiful Mind,' 'Field of Dreams' and 'Apollo 13.'
 
James Horner, the consummate film composer known for his heart-tugging scores for Field of Dreams, Braveheart and Titanic, for which he won two Academy Awards, died Monday in a plane crash near Santa Barbara. He was 61.
 
His death was confirmed by Sylvia Patrycja, who is identified on Horner's film music page as his assistant. 
 
"We have lost an amazing person with a huge heart and unbelievable talent," Patrycja wrote on Facebook on Monday. "He died doing what he loved. Thank you for all your support and love and see you down the road."
 
Horner was piloting the small aircraft when it crashed into a remote area about 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, officials said. An earlier report noted that the plane, which was registered to the composer, had gone down, but the pilot had not been identified.
 
Horner's agency, Gorfaine/Schwartz, released the following statement: "Although we are all awaiting official confirmation that our dear friend and client James Horner was in fact the pilot, we are shocked and deeply saddened to learn that his single-engine aircraft was involved in a fatal crash yesterday morning in northern Ventura County. Our thoughts and prayers remain with James’ family at this difficult time. We can offer no further comment for the time being, except to ask that the family’s privacy be respected in the days ahead."
 
“My job — and it’s something I discuss with Jim all the time — is to make sure at every turn of the film it’s something the audience can feel with their heart,” Horner said in a 2009 interview with the Los Angeles Times. “When we lose a character, when somebody wins, when somebody loses, when someone disappears — at all times I’m keeping track, constantly, of what the heart is supposed to be feeling. That is my primary role.”
 
His score for Titanic sold a whopping 27 million copies worldwide.
 
His fruitful partnership with Cameron also netted him Oscar noms for original score for the blockbusters Aliens (1986) and Avatar (2009). The pair reportedly were also at work on Avatar sequels.
 
 

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Bristol Palin Reveals She Is Expecting Her Second Child

 

The very vocal daughter of Sarah Palin is pregnant. Bristol Palin announced the news that she is expecting her second child, but has yet to reveal further details. Looks like Tripp is getting a sibling! Bristol Palin, 24, revealed on June 25 that she is in fact pregnant with her second child. This comes as a shock to most, because she has strongly promoted abstinence after she gave birth to her son Tripp Johnston back in 2008. Did she have a change of heart?

Bristol announced the news on her blog with a long post that stated the following. “I’m announcing this news a lot sooner than I ever expected due to the constant trolls who have nothing better to talk about!!!” She went on to say, “I wanted you guys to be the first to know that I am pregnant.”

“Honestly, I’ve been trying my hardest to keep my chin up on this one. At the end of the day there’s nothing I can’t do with God by my side, and I know I am fully capable of handling anything that is put in front of me with dignity and grace.”

She went on to say, “Life moves on no matter what. So no matter how you feel, you get up, get dressed, show up, and never give up. When life gets tough, there is no other option but to get tougher.”

Bristol added that she wants this to remain out of the media. “I know this has been, and will be, a huge disappointment to my family, to my close friends, and to many of you. But please respect Tripp’s and my privacy during this time. I do not want any lectures and I do not want any sympathy.”

She finished her post by saying, “My little family always has, and always will come first. Tripp, this new baby, and I will all be fine, because God is merciful.”

Bristol didn’t mention if the dad was U.S. Marine veteran Dakota Meyer, the man she was supposed to marry back inMarch.

 

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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Divorcing After 10 Years of Marriage

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have split, PEOPLE confirms. The couple were married for 10 years, having marked their anniversary on Monday.

"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce," the couple tells PEOPLE in a joint statement. "We go forward with love and friendship for one another and a commitment to co-parenting our children whose privacy we ask to be respected during this difficult time. This will be our only comment on this private, family matter. Thank you for understanding."

Garner, 43, and Affleck, 42, intend to seek mediation, says a source close to the couple. The two are parents to three kids: Violet, 9, Seraphina, 6, and Samuel, 3.

The couple often enjoyed family time together at home in Los Angeles where they were frequently spotted on carpool, coffee and after-school activity outings with their brood. But their marriage was also the subject of scrutiny over the years. In a 2014 interview with InStyle, Garner spoke of the couple's "mindful" marriage, noting that their relationship was no longer in the "courtship" phase – but that she was fine with it.

"You can't expect to be courted all the time, and I don't want to court him right now – I don't have the energy!

"But we're definitely in a very mindful place where we're making an effort to be together, do things at the same time, and be loving."

Affleck often spoke of how much Garner helped stabilize his life after it had become tabloid fodder in the years following his 2004 split with Jennifer Lopez.

"My wife was definitely around then," Affleck told Playboy in 2013. "Getting to know her, falling in love with her and being connected with her gave me a foundation to reach out and say, 'Okay, I'm going to do Hollywoodland. I'm going to direct Gone Baby Gone,' " Affleck said. "Those were the steps forward I needed to put positive stuff on the board."

Garner returned the praise, telling InStyle in 2013, "We both know we couldn't do what we do without each other. He has been amazing at finding ways of telling me how much he appreciates what I do. Honestly, I would do anything for that man, because I know it's not to be taken for granted.”

The two met as costars on the the set of their 2003 film Daredevil and started dating soon afterward.

 

people.com

 

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True Detective Co-Stars Taylor Kitsch and Rachel McAdams May Be Dating,

Becoming New King and Queen of Canada

There’s a new rumor that two beautiful Canadian co-stars, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch, are an item. Happy Canada Day!

Time may be a flat circle, but love is . . . heart-shaped? Or: Yellow King? More like, Yaaas Queen! I’m not really sure what any of those sentences mean, because life is a big existential mystery. But we do at least know one thing: True Detective co-stars Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch are dating! So says Us Weekly, anyway, and they’re only wrong a modest amount of the time. So that’s exciting! Of course, “time is a flat circle” and “Yellow King” are references from the first, completely different season of the show, which McAdams and Kitsch weren’t on, but you get my point. The point is, True Detective is a very dark, grave show, and yet somehow a bright, fun thing has emerged from it. The brightest and most fun thing there is: a romance!

Us quotes one of its mysterious sources—shadowy, unknowable figures, who move through the celebrity world unseen and unimpeded—as saying, “It hasn’t been long, but it’s serious.” Serious! Just like True Detective. The magazine also points out that, y’know, McAdams has a history of dating her co-stars, and quotes another inside source who says that McAdams dated Jake Gyllenhaal while filming the upcoming boxing drama Southpaw. So this union with Kitsch was probably inevitable. I mean, who else was she going to hook up with, Vince Vaughn? Highly unlikely.

No, she and Kitsch are a perfect fit, mostly because they’re both Canadian. Us says they’ve been friends for years, which is true of all Canadians who live and work in the States. Oh, yeah, they all know each other. They go to Sunday suppers, talk about that year’s Gemini Awards, listen to Jann Arden records. Y’know, Canadian things. It’s a very close-knit community. In the case of these two love birds, she may be from Toronto while he’s from the weird wilds of British Columbia, she the city girl and he the grizzled but beautiful mountain man, but it doesn’t matter. Such a union would never work for Americans, but for Canadians? All they have to do is get to gabbing about Rookie Blue or DaVinci’s Inquest and it’s like they’ve known each other forever. It’s a natural fit, natural as Justin Trudeau’s penchant for good liberal politics.

And to have this relationship be announced on Canada Day?? That’s an extra blessing. As all Canadians know, and all Americans should know, a purebred Canadian couple announcing their love—or having an anonymous source announce their love for them to an American gossip magazine, same diff—on Canada Day ensures that they will be together forever. So head on down to a Montana’s or a Boston Pizza and raise a LaBatt to them, the new king and queen of Canada. Oh, yeah, that’s how that works. As the official Canada Day Couple, they are also now the rulers of Canada. Until, of course, Cobie Smulders ditches her American husband and marries Ryan Gosling and they rule Canada and much of the Arctic for a thousand years, thus fulfilling Alanis Morissette’s ancient prophecy. It’s all right there in the rulebook, guys. The big Canadian rulebook.

Anyway, valar morghulis! Or whatever they say on True Detective.

 

vanityfair.com

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Miley Cyrus has been spotted passionately kissing blonde Victoria's Secret Angel Stella Maxwell.

In new pictures obtained by MailOnline, Miley, 22, who recently came out as bisexual, can be seen locking lips with the 24-year-old model during a break from filming her new music video in Hollywood.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3146337/Miley-Cyrus-passionately-kisses-Victoria-s-Secret-Angel-Stella-Maxwell-coming-bisexual.html

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I was shocked to see photos of Candice at the Taylor Swift concert. This is just my opinion, but Taylor Swift has always seemed very reluctant to socialise with anyone better looking than she is (and Candice is far better looking then Taylor, IMHO). For that reason, I doubt this will become a budding friendship, perhaps Lily/Behati asked Taylor if Candice could join them???

But Taylor has lots of model friends.  Are you saying Taylor thinks she is hotter than them all?

 

Anyways, I think Taylor is secure because she knows she is a lot more famous than any of them, even Candice.

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Louis Tomlinson Is Having a Baby with Briana Jungwirth!

 

Louis Tomlinson is reportedly going to be a dad – he is expecting a baby withBriana Jungwirth!

The 23-year-old One Direction singer met the Los Angeles-based stylist earlier this year through mutual friends. He split from his longtime girlfriend Eleanor Calder back in March.

Louis is happy and very excited about becoming a dad and he thinks Brianawill be an amazing mother. It was a surprise at first, but he and Briana are very, very close friends and this has brought them even closer,” a mutual friend of the couple told People.

The baby is due next year and Louiswants to be a “hands-on dad.”

Louis and Briana care about each other very much and have spent a lot of time together privately over the last few months,” the source added. “They are both really happy and although they aren’t in a relationship, their friendship is extremely strong and they are both really excited about the baby. It’s early days and Briana and the baby’s health are the most important things right now.”

 

 

http://www.justjared.com/2015/07/14/louis-tomlinson-is-having-a-baby-with-briana-jungwirth/

 

I laughed :rofl: :rofl:

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