The Smurfs will wrap up their Smurfs Save Spring tour at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts today. Originally called Les Schtroumpfs, when created in 1958, the current name is a Dutch translation of the word, which was invented during a meal with their Belgian maker, Peyo, and fellow cartoonist Andre Franquin. The colony of little creatures hit the big time in 1981, when The Smurfs cartoon series aired on American television station NBC. Its soundtrack featured classical music, including Symphony No8 in B minor by Franz Schubert …
Born in 1910, the sultry blonde rose from an impoverished childhood in Budapest to become a glamorous film, stage and radio performer at home and abroad. A strident anti-communist, Massey became an American citizen in 1946. She starred in a number of films in the United States, including the 1942 science-fiction flick Invisible Agent. The concept for the story was inspired by The Invisible Man, a sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells …
The 72-year-old singer-songwriter, composer and artist was born in Liverpool, England, and, in 1957, performed for the first time with The Quarrymen, the rock and roll band founded by John Lennon. Proving he is still relevant after more than five decades in the business, McCartney collaborated this year with rap artist Kanye West and Barbadian singer Rihanna on the single FourFiveSeconds. On a Twitter chat recently, McCartney was asked whether he knew how to twerk. The septuagenarian replied that, indeed, he did, and revealed the last time he had done so was with Katy Perry …
