Sean Combs to receive ASCAP founders Award in June

LOS ANGELES - Sean "diddy" Combs will receive founders Award from ASCAP in 24th annual Rhythm & Soul Music Awards performing rights organization. The invitation only ceremony will be held June 24 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Songwriters and publishers of the songs ASCAP more played on maps from R & B/hip hop, rap and Gospel of 2010 will be also honoured.

Combs joined the award winners of previous founders such as Dr. Dre, Stevie Wonder, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney. "To be recognized for my contribution to the music by ASCAP are a real honour, Combs said in a statement." All I wanted to make was that people dance and hopefully inspire other people to never resolve anything other than their best. ?

Throughout his career, Combs has worn several hats. A former D & R Executive Uptown Records who has worked with Heavy D and Mary j. Blige, he established Bad Boy Entertainment after leaving Uptown in 1993.

Obtaining early success with artists Craig Mack and Notorious B.I.G., Bad Boy has later been touted as Faith Evans and 112. Solo, Combs has recorded a string of hits - "I'll Be missing you," "I need a girl" and "Coming Home" - released six studio albums. His most recent is the Diddy-Dirty Money album "last Train to Paris".

As a producer (Mariah Carey, TLC, Boyz II Men), combs is a fashion designer, actor and businessman. "Its success", emphasized ASCAP President Paul Williams in a statement, "is a testament to its entrepreneurial spirit, hard work and ability to smart to add his personal touch to contemporary culture."

Cannes Film Festival award winners

 64Th Festival de Cannes Awards, selected by a jury chaired by American actor Robert De Niro. :

-The Palme d'Or of the (Palme d'Or): "the tree of life" of Terrence Malick (United States)

-Grand prize: shared between "The Kid with the bike" by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) and "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)

-Jury prize: "Poliss" by Ma?wenn (France)

-Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn for "Drive" (Denmark)

-Best actor: Jean Dujardin, "The artist" (France)

-Best actress: Kirsten Dunst, "Melancholy" (from the United States film, the Denmark, actress)

-Best screenplay: Joseph Cedar, "Reference" (Israel)

-Camera (Director) Gold: "Las Acacias" by Pablo Giorgelli (Argentina)

-Best short film: "Country" by Maryna Vroda (Ukraine)

Broadway anticipates Tony Award Nomination smiles

 During the Broadway season began last year, a musical big brash on Spider-Man was supposed to muscle its way to multiple Tony Awards. Instead, a pair of goofy Mormons may be those of beat.

"The book of Mormon" was a critical and box-office darling even without star big names and nominations of Tony Award on Tuesday could give additional boost: official endorsement of the theatre community. Not bad for a show in which a man loudly complains of having of maggots in his scrotum.

The musical, about two Mormon missionaries who are more that they negotiated in Africa, was written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of "south park" and Robert Lopez, co-creator of the Tony Award-winning musical "Avenue Q." the trio is teaming up with Casey Nicholawwho co-directed with Parker and choreographed.

He received 12 Drama Desk Award nominations, six Outer Critics Circle Award nominations and appointment Fred & Adele Astaire Award, which recognizes excellence in dance. The musical is Box-Office also more 1 million dollars per week and that it sells - location "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was supposed to be before its implosion.

On the front of the theatre piece, two favorites for the appointments of Tony are the hybrid of human puppets comforting "War horse" and David Lindsay-Abaire of the "Good People", a darkly comic exploration of differences of class in Boston. While the "war horse" is a great visually and beautifully directed story of a boy and his horse during the second world war, it is based on a children's book; Lindsay-Abaire game, on the other hand, leaves all Fireworks in his script smart, adult.

"The book of Mormon" and "War horse" are just two hits in good faith in a complicated season which has seen everything for a deemed revival of "The merchant of Venice Shakespeare" for a new raw piece whose title - "The Motherfuckers - with the Hat" - some delicate. It is also a season in which football fans come to see Vince Lombardi prowling a scene from Broadway and applauded James Earl Jones at the wheel in a resumption of "driving Miss Daisy."

"There is absolutely nothing cookie cutter on this season," said Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of the Broadway League, jointly produced the awards with the American Theatre Wing Tony. "" "". "The theme is that there is no theme".

42 New productions this season, there were 14 musicals - 12 occasions ones and two new - and 25 pieces of theatre, a whopping 16 of them again. The last time there were 16 new plays produced in a single season was 1986-87.

It is also shaping up to a lucrative time for Broadway, with a large box-office total already be over $ 987,057,484, or 3.6% more than the same period last year. Attendance this season is more than 11.4 million, an increase of 3 per cent on this time last year.

The awards will be given June 12 to a new location: the Beacon Theatre in the Upper West Side of Manhattan after producers lost their space in the long term at the Radio City Music Hall. It will be broadcast live by CBS.

"The book of Mormon" will probably have competition from a trio of musicals that have films in their DNA - "Catch Me If you can", "Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical"and "Sister Act." is there spots for "elf" or "the scottsboro Boys" or "bloody bloody Andrew Jackson"?"

Kronos Quartet, Patti Smith awarded Swedish award (AP)

STOCKHOLM - American Quartet Kronos Quartet and rocker Patti Smith won the Polar Music 2011 Prize, the Prize Committee announced Tuesday.

The musicians will be invited to Stockholm to accept the price of 1 million kroner ($ 166,000) later this year.

The Polar Music Prize more prestigious music from Sweden and is usually shared by a pop artist and a classical musician. It was founded by Stig Anderson, manager of the Swedish group ABBA, in 1989.

The Prize Committee said that "by devoting his life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith demonstrated how rock ' do roll it in poetry and how poetry is in the rock ' does roll.".

The Smith born in Chicago, 64, "has changed the way that examines a generation, the esteem and dreams," said the Committee.

The Kronos Quartet, which is based in San Francisco, has been praised for incorporating avant-garde rock and music from a variety of sources around the world.

"Since almost 40 years that the Kronos Quartet has been revolutionizing the potential of the Quartet genre when it comes to style and content,"the Committee said.""

Polar Music Prize last year was shared by the composer Italian Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork.

The public Wins "Waive tomorrow" award at the Tribeca

 "Give Up tomorrow," a documentary on the fate of the innocent who have been imprisoned in the Philippines, won the award of the public for the Tribeca Film Festival.

The film tells the highly publicized case of student culinary Paco Larranaga, who was arrested in 1997 for the abduction, rape and murder of two sisters as a young man of 19 years. He was convicted despite dozens of witnesses to be a guarantor of his comings and goings on another Philippine island hundreds of kilometres away.

Michael Collins film had been earlier that a special mention in the festival took the jury of the prize.

Festival Executive Director Nancy Schafer said she hopes the film "will help raise the fate of Paco and his freedom.".