Rihanna, Usher, Wonder honor Lionel Richie on Grammy weekend

Rihanna, Usher, Stevie Wonder and John Legend paid tribute to Lionel Richie in a musical tribute touching on his roots in R&B to his string of sentimental, simple listening songs that administered the wireless transmissions in the 1980s.

They joined The Band Perry, Demi Lovato, Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton and Ellie Honoring so as to goulding in propelling Grammy weekend Saturday night Richie as the MusiCares Person of the Year.

Richie was toasted for his musical accomplishments and charitable work two days before the Grammy Awards. The 66-year-old artist lyricist dispatches a string of South American visit dates in the not so distant future.

Rihanna, wearing red shoes with her red and white botanical outfit, sang "Say You, Say Me" sponsored by a string area.

Usher flaunted his move proceeds onward the light "Woman (You Bring Me Up)."

"You truly got the white individuals up and moving," broke host Jimmy Kimmel, who turned out donning a gigantic Afro and a white jumpsuit. Subsequent to seeing old clasps of Richie in sequined jumpsuits, Kimmel kidded, "He has such a large number of shocking outfits."

Lenny Kravitz, Florence Welch and Dave Grohl gave the most erratic variants of Richie hits. Kravitz commenced the 2 ½-hour show with a stone form of "Running With the Night" that incorporated a guitar solo. Welch's interpretation of "Moving On the Ceiling" highlighted guitar-strumming and cadenced hand-applauding from the unmoving string area.

Grohl, lead vocalist of Foo Fighters, flaunted an uncommon sentimental side with a cheerful rendition of "You Are" that had the group on its feet moving. He disclosed his association with Richie came to fruition a year ago after Grohl broke his leg on visit. Richie sent the rocker an immense crate of biscuits as relief, and Grohl saluted him as the "Biscuit Man."

Legend performed "Simple" on piano, and Wonder touched on Richie's initial days with the Commodores by doing "Three Times a Lady."

Yolanda Adams and a choir infused capable gospel into the procedures, procuring one of the night's overwhelming applauses.

Pharrell and the Roots were joined by Little Big Town, Leon Bridges, Tori Kelly and Corrine Bailey Rae for a mixture that finished in the Commodores' work of art "Block House."

Oscar-winning on-screen character Kevin Spacey did a cappella bit of "Mr. Bojangles" before presenting Richie, who gave a yell out to his "awesome" main residence of Tuskegee, Alabama, where he met the Commodores in school.

Richie said that from his soonest hits he didn't understand how the music business functioned, with R&B, pop and nation in partitioned classifications.

"I didn't realize that there were classifications until I strolled into a station one day and they said, 'We can't play your record since it's excessively dark,' " he said. "So I went home and composed "Simple" and I brought it back. They said, 'We can't play the record since it's excessively white.' I was confounded."

"The motto in those days was, 'Lionel Richie traversed and can't get dark,' " he said, drawing giggling. "Today I am remaining here praising every one of the tunes they let me know would destroy my vocation."

In his acknowledgment discourse, Richie jabbed fun at his notoriety for murmuring infant making music.

"I am the father of humankind," he said. "More men have come up to me and said, 'Lionel, I have had intercourse to you commonly.' "

Richie took to the piano to play and sing "Hi" before finishing things off with "Throughout the Night (All Night)" as confetti impacted the stage.

Among the group were makers Quincy Jones and David Foster, Motown originator Berry Gordy, David Crosby and Joe Walsh.

Saturday's supper and closeout earned $7 million, the most astounding netting evening in the tribute's 26-year history, Recording Academy President Neil Portnow said.

"I can't be more glad for every one of you," Richie told the group at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

MusiCares, keep running by the Recording Academy, gives monetary help to people in the music business amid times of need

UK band Viola Beach 'killed in Swedish car crash'

Five British nationals have kicked the bucket in a pile up in Sweden, the Foreign Office has said.

It is seen every one of the four individuals from the independent band Viola Beach kicked the bucket in the mishap, which happened on Saturday close to the Swedish capital Stockholm.

The auto dove more than 25m (82ft) from a roadway span into a trench, the police say.

The Foreign Office said it was in contact with the neighborhood powers and supporting the groups of the casualties.

The Warrington-based band individuals were Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin.

They were because of play a gig in Guildford in Surrey on Saturday, however it was wiped out. They had been a piece of the line-up for Swedish music celebration Where is the Music? on Friday.

The four-piece discharged their introduction single Swings and Waterslides a year ago and had highlighted on BBC Introducing, which showcases best in class music craftsmen.

Tributes have been pouring in on online networking for the band.

Long Island Artist Sues Martin Shkreli Over Wu-Tang Album

A Long Island craftsman has sued ex-pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli and others over utilization of his specialty in a Wu-Tang Clan collection.

Craftsman Jason Koza says pictures of individuals from the New York-based hip-bounce bunch he put on a fan website were utilized without approval on a collection Shkreli purchased for $2 million. The claim in Manhattan government court Tuesday comes after Shkreli argued not blameworthy to securities misrepresentation charges in Brooklyn elected court.

Koza, of Copiague, New York, says he never approved utilization of the pictures in the bundling of the collection titled "Quite a long time ago in Shaolin."

He looks for unspecified harms from Shkreli, a Wu-Tang pioneer, a music maker and the collection's barker.

Shkreli lawyer Benjamin Brafman declined remark. Different litigants did not promptly remark.

A week ago, Shkreli irritated officials on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee by declining to affirm why he climbed the cost of a possibly life-sparing medication by more than 5,000 percent.

Shkreli seemed to smile during his time long appearance. Four times the brash business person and previous multifaceted investments administrator articulated before the board of trustees, "On the exhortation of direction I summon my Fifth correction benefit against self-implication and deferentially decrease to answer your inquiry."

Carry On writer Norman Hudis dies aged 93

Norman Hudis, best known for composing the initial six Carry On movies, has kicked the bucket at 93 years old. 

The screenwriter kicked the bucket encompassed by his family in California on Monday following a few weeks of hospice consideration.

His dowager Rita Hudis said in an announcement: "He kicked the bucket calmly at home with myself and Stephen and Kevin, his two children.

"He did well to reach 93. We will miss him. Our 60th commemoration would have been on the 28 April."

Hudis was conceived in London and started his vocation as a columnist before composing for stage and screen.

He composed the primary Carry in movie form, 1958's Carry On Sergeant, when he was 34. The cast included future Doctor Who on-screen character William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques.

Hudis went ahead to pen Carry On Nurse, Teacher, Constable, Regardless and Cruising - the principal Carry On film in shading.

Carry On movies - the Norman Hudis years

Carry On Sergeant - 1958

Carry On Nurse - 1959

Carry On Teacher - 1959

Carry On Constable - 1960

Carry On Regardless - 1961

Carry On Cruising - 1962

Carry On Nurse was enlivened by stories from his wife, a previous medical attendant. In a BBC meeting in 2008, Hudis said: "I used to call down the stairs to Rita and say 'put on the old medical attendant's top and let me know something clever'."

In 2008, Hudis distributed a personal history titled No Laughing Matter: How I Carried On.

In it, he uncovered that he kept on composing Carry Ons after he cleared out the arrangement in the mid 1960s with the expectation that he may be asked back one day, drafting Carry On Under the Pier If Wet and Carry On Shylock Holmes.

In the wake of moving to the US, his TV composing credits incorporate The Wild West, The Man From UNCLE and Hawaii Five-O.

Morris Bright, administrator of Elstree Studios and a nearby family companion, said: "Without him we wouldn't have had the Carry On movies, since he composed the initial six - and look what that generated throughout the years.

"We owe the man a great deal. He leaves an incredible legacy of delight, stimulation and chuckling - something we can think back on and say, 'We're exceptionally thankful for him'.

"He was an awesome fellow, I should miss him an extraordinary arrangement."

Hudis is made due by his dowager, two children, and two grandchildren, Veronica and Cameron.

Brie Larson, Sylvester Stallone, Rachel McAdams attend Oscar nominees luncheon

The selective Oscar chosen people lunch get-together on Monday was likely the last time the "class of 2016" will be in the same room before the Academy Awards Feb. 28.

The yearly occasion held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Hollywood toasts the named performing artists, producers and groups behind a portion of the year's greatest movies.

Room, around a mother and her child living in imprisonment, is one of the designated motion pictures. Brie Larson, who has effectively won a Golden Globe, Critics' Choice honor and a SAG grant for her part in the film, couldn't speak enough about her young Canadian co-star, Jacob Tremblay.

"The impression of the world, that blamelessness, that amusingness, that light he conveys to the motion picture is the same thing he conveys to each second of his real life," she said in regards to the nine-year-old Vancouver native."I'm continually with this kid who has this simple method for taking a gander at things and doesn't feel the master plan of it. He's fair truly amped up for the present minute."

Alternate movies named for best picture are:

The Big Short.

Scaffold of Spies.

Brooklyn.

Distraught Max: Fury Road.

The Martian.

The Revenant.

Spotlight.

Canadian Rachel McAdams is named for a supporting part in Spotlight, taking into account the genuine anecdote around a tyke misuse sex outrage in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston. She offered credit to the genuine Boston Globe investigative columnist she played in the film, Sacha Pfeiffer, whom she depended on for pointers.

"I just got the chance to venture into those shoes," she said in regards to Pfeiffer. "I owe this designation to her altogether and I trust that we keep on telling the stories of awesome ladies out there."With no acting candidates of shading for a long time in succession, the absence of assorted qualities at the current year's Oscars, which set off the online networking hashtag #OscarsSoWhite when the selections were initially reported Jan.14, has been a proceeding with talk.

Sylvester Stallone, designated for best supporting performing artist in the film Creed, said he felt the star of the Rocky spinoff film, Michael B. Jordan, "ought to have been given significantly more regard, significantly more consideration."

Stallone said he asked movie producer Ryan Coogler whether he ought to go to the honors in the wake of getting the selection, yet at last, he said, Coogler urged him to speak to the film.

"I do trust things will change. It's simply an issue of time. In the end, all ability will ascend to the top."

There are less columnists welcomed to this lunch get-together than to different honors season occasions and the littler venue makes it feel more easygoing than the formal recompenses. Infrequently, it permits the stars to be somewhat more open.

"It's an enormous honor and it's such an incredible approach to praise the greater part of our movies," said supporting performing artist candidate Rooney Mara about her film Carol and the acknowledgment it has gotten this recompenses season.

"Be that as it may, then again it can be extremely overpowering, and some of the time it feels like we've been commending the same individual's birthday for quite a long time and it's fair never going to stop. In some cases it can feel a smidgen much, similar to I need the birthday gathering to end."

'OITNB' actress Taryn Manning sues NYC for $10M for 'false arrest'

"Orange Is the New Black" star Taryn Manning needs the city to hack up $10 million, saying she was dishonestly captured in 2014 and blamed for undermining the very individual who had been stalking her, as indicated by a request recorded Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court.Manning, who plays previous meth-head Tiffany "Pennsa­tucky" Doggett in the hit Netflix arrangement, was cuffed on Nov. 18, 2014, at the Fifth Precinct station in Chinatown — despite the fact that the Manhattan DA's Office had informed analysts she would not have been indicted, court papers claim.

The capture topped a meeting with Manning, her lawyer, Stacey Richman, and cops over claims by ex-buddy turned-stalker Jeanine Heller that the petite star sent her undermining instant messages, infringing upon a request of assurance.

"The meeting finished when I was bound by a criminologist and secured a little room adjoining the meeting room," Manning, 37, said in a sworn testimony. "Around 20 minutes after the fact, I was evacuated . . . still cuffed and walked through the area. I was prepared and at last set in a holding cell."

By then, Heller — who was not distinguished by name in the new recording — had as of now been busted twice before for purportedly stalking and bothering Manning, reports say.

Keeping an eye on says she needed to hold up hours to be discharged from guardianship once the DA's Office issued a formal declination of arraignment.

Her capture was voided and fixed, yet the NYPD spilled points of interest of it to the media, she charges. "My harms incorporate lawyer's charges, hours of detainment, enthusiastic misery and reputational hurt," Manning said.

By documenting the request, Manning is looking for authorization to record a late notice of case against the city in the wake of neglecting to do as such inside of the 90-day due date.

Heller would later be captured a third time before confessing to abusing a contingent release by ceaselessly messaging Manning. She was sentenced the previous summer to six months in prison.

Keeping an eye on, who reignited her acting vocation as the God-dreading redneck criminal on "OITNB," has a past filled with legitimate burdens.

She was blamed under two weeks back for thumping her cosmetics craftsman Holly Hartman, who said the on-screen character head-butted her, whipped her with a wet towel and splashed her in the eyes with Windex last November, TMZ reported.

Keeping an eye on additionally as of late scattered gossipy tidbits she's a second cousin of Super Bowl 50 champion quarterback Peyton Manning and his sibling, Eli, the two-time Super-Bowl-winning QB with 

Stars at Super Bowl 2016

Everyone was a football fan on Sunday, Feb. 7, when the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers went head to head amid Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, California. Woman Gaga commenced the merriments and Coldplay, with assistance from Beyoncé and Bruno Mars, claimed the halftime appear, however they weren't the main stars commending the pigskin confrontation. See stars from Kate Hudson to Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones getting their football on