LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Country-pop starlet Taylor Swift, who rocketed to stardom with ballads of teen love that she wrote on her bedroom floor, Sunday became the youngest artist to win the coveted Grammy for album of the year.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Eclectic rocker Neil Young, who has made no secret of his disdain for the Grammys, finally won a coveted trophy on Sunday for the first time in a career spanning almost 50 years.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Country-pop star Taylor Swift won the Grammy for album of the year on Sunday for “Fearless,” the best-selling release of 2009.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Grammys rode the 3-D wave Sunday with a special-effects-laden tribute to the late Michael Jackson in an awards show that featured many big spectacle moments.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Country-pop singer Taylor Swift, who turned her tales of high-school misery into chart-topping ballads of teen heartbreak, won the first Grammys of her brief career on Sunday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Avatar” ventured further into rarefied territory at the worldwide box office during the weekend, surpassing the $2 billion mark days after it broke the record held by “Titanic.”
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the best director award from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday with her Iraq war thriller “The Hurt Locker,” a low-budget film gathering awards steam ahead of the Oscars.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Emmy award winning actor Rip Torn, who has had a recurring role in the NBC hit “30 Rock,” has been arrested after police found him intoxicated and armed inside a Connecticut bank at the weekend.
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – “Winter’s Bone,” a stark tale of a young woman trying to keep her family together, and Afghanistan war documentary “Restrepo” won top awards at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday,
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson won yet another posthumous honor on Saturday, joining six other musicians including Leonard Cohen and Loretta Lynn who received Grammy awards for lifetime achievement.