Feb
24
NEW YORK – An estimated 36.3 million people watched this year’s Academy Awards, an increase of more than 4 million from last year’s least-watched Oscars ceremony ever.
While ABC was heartened by the larger audience, especially among younger viewers, there are still only two Oscar telecasts on record with fewer viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Last year, when “No Country For Old Men” won best picture, the telecast was seen by 32 million people. The 2003 telecast, with “Chicago” as the best picture winner, was seen by 33 million people.
Hugh Jackman was the host of Sunday’s show, where “Slumdog Millionaire” was the big winner. Among the earlier awards on the telecast was the late Heath Ledger’s best supporting actor prize for “The Dark Knight.”
At a time that the TV audience is fragmenting, Sunday’s audience was the biggest for any prime-time entertainment program in two years, ABC said. The Golden Globes was seen last month by just under 15 million people.
The largest Oscars audience on record was in 1998, when 55.2 million watched “Titanic” win best picture.
Feb
24
RIYADH (AFP) – Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz underwent a successful operation in New York for an undisclosed health problem, according to the royal court.
The operation was carried out on Monday, the royal court said, just three days after Prince Sultan arrived in New York from Morocco, where he had been convalescing following earlier treatment for the ailment.
“The treatment received by his highness has been successful, thank God,” the court said in a statement carried by the state news agency SPA.
It said the operation “continues the medical tests and treatment” for the prince.
Prince Sultan, who was born in 1928, and who also serves as minister of defence in the oil powerhouse, has been battling the ailment since last year, when he first travelled to New York in November for treatment.
He became heir to the Saudi throne when his half-brother Abdullah took over as monarch on the death of King Fahd in August 2005.
As defence and aviation minister since 1963 and second deputy prime minister since 1982, Sultan is a key figure in Saudi Arabia, overseeing the use of the kingdom’s vast oil wealth to establish modern armed forces through a series of huge arms deals with the West.
Saudis have closely followed the news of his health problem and his six-week stay afterwards in Agadir, Morocco to recuperate from the first stage of treatment.
Feb
23
Margalla College of Dentistry (MCD)
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Margalla College of Dentistry (MCD) was established in 1997, being a constituent college of Margalla Institute of Health Sciences in Islamabad. Margalla College of Dentistry is the first dental institution in the twin cities of Islamabad / Rawalpindi. Dentistry has become significant domain of human sciences. Students in MCD are expected to learn thoroughly the basic principles and theories of dentistry. They are also provided with ample opportunity to get sufficient clinical knowledge and practical experiences in this very field. The students are imparted the best competency to interact with the patients according to the needs of today’s life.
The MCD is determined to promote the quality education of Dentistry with purpose educational aims and objectives. MCD is undertaking most advance surgeries for accomplishing teaching purposes for the students of Dentistry.
Apart from education in Dentistry, MCD is also extending community oral health services. Basic dental and health facilities are provided to the needy population on regular visits to selected rural areas to implement welfare mission of MCD. Students also participate in these efforts in order to have the orientation about community oral heath problems and their management.
The OPD of MCD is also providing free consultation and basic emergency / dental treatment to the deserving patients on all working days of the week. The functioning of a comprehensive dental facility is meeting both the indoor &, outdoor dental treatment needs of the thickly populated areas of Rawalpindi / Islamabad.
Feb
23
LOS ANGELES – Hollywood has met Bollywood at the Academy Awards, and the makers of Oscar champ “Slumdog Millionaire” hope it’s a sign of future melding between the U.S. dream factory with its counterparts in India and elsewhere in the world.
A tale of hope amid adversity and squalor in Mumbai, “Slumdog Millionaire” came away with eight Oscars, including best picture and director for Danny Boyle.
The low-budget production was a merger of India’s brisk Bollywood movie industry, which provided most of the cast and crew, and the global marketing reach of Hollywood, which turned the film into a commercial smash, said British director Boyle.
“We’re Brits, really, trapped in the middle, but it’s a lovely trapped thing,” Boyle said backstage. “You can see it’s going to happen more and more. There’s all sorts of people going to work there. The world’s shrinking a little bit.”
It was a theme Oscar voters embraced through the evening with other key awards honoring films fostering broader understanding and compassion.
Sean Penn won his second best-actor Oscar, this one for playing slain gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk in “Milk,” while Kate Winslet took best actress for “The Reader,” in which she plays a former concentration camp guard coming to terms with the ignorance that let her heedlessly participate in Nazi atrocities.
Penn had harsh words for protesters outside the Oscars holding anti-gay signs.
“I’d tell them to turn in their hate card and find their better self,” Penn said. “I think that these are largely taught limitations and ignorances, this kind of thing. It’s really sad in a way, because it’s a demonstration of such cowardice, emotional cowardice, to be so afraid of extending the same rights to your fellow man as you’d want for yourself.”
As expected, Heath Ledger became just the second performer to win an Oscar posthumously, receiving the supporting-actor award for the menace and mayhem he wreaks as Batman villain the Joker in “The Dark Knight.” Penelope Cruz was the first Spanish actress to win an Oscar with her supporting prize as a volatile artist in a three-way romance in Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
Ledger’s award was accepted by his parents and sister on behalf of the 3-year-old daughter he had with actress Michelle Williams. The win came 13 months after Ledger died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs on Oscar nominations day last year.
His sister, Kate Ledger, said backstage that her brother sensed he was creating something special with “The Dark Knight.”
“When he came home Christmas a year ago, he had been sending me shots and bits and pieces of the film,” Kate Ledger said. “He hadn’t seen it, but he knew. I said, `I have a feeling, this is it for you,’ and I said, `You’re going to get a nomination from the academy.’ He just looked at me and smiled. He knew.”
“I think he would have been quietly pleased, because I think he enjoyed the performance he did,” said Ledger’s mother, Sally Bell. “He was very proud of what he did. Heath was never one to be over the top with anything. He would be quietly pleased it was being recognized by his peers in the industry.”
“Slumdog Millionaire” started as an unlikely candidate for the sort of industry and audience recognition it has garnered, presenting a cast of unknowns and a Dickensian tale of an Indian orphan rising above his street-urchin roots.
Though set in a foreign land, the film tells a universal story of optimism that has been eagerly embraced by U.S. audiences.
“This country has changed, from the moment we started making the film to the moment it was released,” “Slumdog” producer Christian Colson said. “I think America is cool again, for the first time in my lifetime. … I think this is a symptom of how it’s beginning to embrace a more-globalized view of the world.”
Boyle earned the directing prize with his first Oscar nomination in a career of hip movies that include the drug romp “Trainspotting” and the zombie horror tale “28 Days Later.”
“Slumdog Millionaire” has all the trademark elements of Boyle: raw and relentless energy, rich visual whimsy, a sense of childlike yearning, and a seamless mix of the harrowing and hilarious.
The film follows the travails and triumphs of Jamal, who artfully dodges a criminal gang that mutilates children to make them more pitiable beggars. Jamal witnesses his mother’s violent death, endures police torture and struggles with betrayal by his brother, while single-mindedly hoping to reunite with the lost love of his childhood.
Fate rewards Jamal, whose story unfolds through flashbacks as he recalls how he came to know the answers that made him a champion on India’s version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”
“Slumdog” writer Simon Beaufoy, who won the adapted-screenplay Oscar, said the film clicked with audiences stung by the recession and the realization that “this money thing, it’s been shown to be a real false idol.”
“It’s come out at a time when the value of money, which has been raised to this extraordinary height, is suddenly being shown to be a kind of very shallow thing,” Beaufoy said. “The financial markets are crashing around the world, and a film comes out which is ostensibly about being a millionaire. Actually, what it’s about, it’s a film that says there’s more important things than money: love, faith and family. And that struck a chord with people.”
Oscar organizers shook things up a bit after last year’s show drew the lowest TV ratings ever. Song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman was host instead of the usual standup comedian, and he kept the show to three and a half hours, relatively brisk for a ceremony that has topped four hours some years.
The Oscars have been criticized in the past for devoting so much time to technical categories that average movie fans care little about. This time, the show abridged many of those awards, with Will Smith hammering through four such categories in quick succession, including sound mixing and film editing.
That allowed more time for the show to linger with celebrities. Each acting prize was presented by five past winners of the same awards, among them Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Kevin Kline, Sophia Loren, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley MacLaine and Robert De Niro.
Winslet finally walked off with an Oscar after five previous losses. While Winslet said she had been practicing Oscar speeches since childhood, holding a shampoo bottle instead of a golden statuette, she still felt “like a little girl from Reading,” her hometown in England.
“Did you see my mum and dad? My mum won a pickled onion competition in their local pub just before Christmas, and that was a big deal,” Winslet told reporters backstage. “You just don’t think that these dreams that seem so silly and so impossible could ever really come true.”
Feb
22
Maryland stuns No. 3 North Carolina 88-85 in OT
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Greivis Vasquez recorded Maryland’s first triple-double since 1987, and the Terrapins rallied from a 16-point deficit to shock No. 3 North Carolina 88-85 in overtime Saturday, ending the Tar Heels’ 10-game winning streak.
Vasquez had a career-high 35 points and 11 rebounds and 10 assists. The junior guard hit a key 3-pointer with 1:15 left and made two free throws with 5.4 seconds remaining to put Maryland up 88-85.
After North Carolina’s Ty Lawson lost the ball while heading toward the basket just before the buzzer, many of the 17,950 fans stormed the court to celebrate the unlikely upset.
The triple-double by Vasquez was the first for Maryland (17-9, 6-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) since Derrick Lewis did it twice in 1987.
Lawson led the Tar Heels (24-3, 10-3) with 24 points and Danny Green had 18.
North Carolina led 52-36 with 14:17 left in regulation.
Tyler Hansbrough had 11 points and 11 rebounds for North Carolina, which beat Maryland at home 108-91 earlier this month. But in the rematch, the Terrapins got career-best performances from Vasquez, who scored Maryland’s first 16 points, and Cliff Tucker, who finished with 22 points on 8-for-12 shooting.
After Green scored the first basket in overtime, Tucker made a layup and Vasquez nailed a 3-pointer to give the Terrapins their first lead since 18-17. Lawson tied it with a 3-pointer, but Vasquez put Maryland back in front by coolly making a shot from beyond the arc.
Lawson answered with two free throws, and the Terrapins played keep-away until Eric Hayes was fouled with 11.3 seconds to go. Hayes made both shots, and after Wayne Ellington made two foul shots for the Tar Heels, Vasquez was fouled and made his two at the line.
Down by 16, the Terrapins launched their comeback behind Tukcer and Hayes. Each made a 3-pointer in a 12-2 spurt that cut the gap to six, and after the Tar Heels went ahead 62-55, Hayes made two foul shots and Tucker scored on a drive and added a 3-pointer to get Maryland within 64-62.
Lawson then hit a jumper, Ellington added a free throw, Lawson connected from long range and Hansbrough capped the 8-0 run with a layup.
But it wasn’t enough. North Carolina led 76-70 before Vasquez scored with 1:24 to go, Hayes made a layup with 1:05 remaining and a layup by Vasquez with 8 seconds left forced the overtime.
Thompson scored 11 points, and North Carolina limited the Terrapins to 32 percent shooting in taking a 39-30 halftime lead.
After the Tar Heels went up 6-0, Vasquez’s opening flurry got the Terrapins to 17-16. Then, after Landon Milbourne blocked a shot by Hansbrough, Adrian Bowie made two free throws to give Maryland its first lead.
But the Terrapins went cold, going exactly 8 minutes without a field goal while missing 10 straight shots from field. During that time, Ellington made two baskets in a 10-0 run that put North Carolina ahead 27-18.
Hayes ended the drought with a 3-pointer with 5:37 to go, the first field goal by Terp other than Vasquez.
Feb
22
ATLANTA - Next time you have a case of diarrhea that lasts a day or more, chances are better than 1 in 3 that it was food poisoning. As many as a quarter of Americans suffer a foodborne illness each year – though only a fraction of those cases get linked to high-profile outbreaks like the recent salmonella-peanut scare, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Outbreaks are dramatic instances,” says Dr. Robert Tauxe, a CDC expert on the subject. But they highlight a health threat that many people exaggerate and misunderstand, according to some experts.
Scientists have counted more than 250 food-related types of illness – from viruses to bacteria to parasites. Most common are Norwalk-like viruses – famous for sickening cruise-ship passengers. They account for about two-thirds of known food-poisoning cases, according to the CDC.
Two types of bacteria, campylobacter and salmonella, are the next most common. Campylobacter is blamed for about 14 percent of food poisonings, salmonella for roughly 10 percent.
The exact toll of these and other bugs is not really known.
Ten years ago, a team of CDC scientists put together the best enduring estimate of how many Americans get food poisoning each year: 76 million illnesses, which resulted in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths.
No more recent figures are available. But the current numbers must be close to 87 million cases, 371,000 hospitalizations and 5,700 deaths, according to an Associated Press calculation that used the CDC formula and current population estimates.
The statistics seem even more alarming in the context of a parade of high-profile food-poisoning outbreaks in recent years: salmonella poisoning linked to hot peppers and tomatoes from Mexico that sickened more 1,400 last year; an E. coli outbreak from bagged spinach in 2006; and even deadly cases of hepatitis A from green onions in 2003.
The recent peanut-related salmonella outbreak has caused more than 640 confirmed illnesses in 44 states and been linked to nine deaths. It was traced to a Virginia-based company, Peanut Corp. of America, which makes minor-label peanut butter, peanut paste and other products.
Those numbers just scratch the surface: A case is confirmed only after a lab test is sent to the CDC. Many sick people just soldier on without even seeing a doctor.
Health officials assume that for every salmonella case, there are three dozen unreported cases. By that calculation, the latest peanut-related outbreak actually has sickened closer to 20,000 people.
But the problem could be a lot worse.
The number of confirmed food poisonings has basically held steady in recent years. It may seem worse because more advanced testing allows investigators to better link cases and identify outbreaks, CDC officials said.
Also, despite sometimes dramatic problems in food production and inspections, the U.S. food supply is still considered one of the safest in the world, several experts said.
Food poisoning affects an estimated 25 percent of Americans every year. That compares with roughly 30 percent of people in industrialized countries, according to the World Health Organization. The toll, of course, is much higher in developing countries, where diarrheal diseases are a major cause of death for children.
But not all of our food comes from within our borders, as demonstrated by last summer’s vegetable-caused outbreak.
“I usually say it is one of the safest in the world,” said Tauxe, when asked about the U.S. food supply. “But increasingly, our food supply is the world.”
Patients suffering gastric distress sometimes assume food poisoning, partly because of all the outbreak news and partly because it’s human nature, some doctors said.
“I think a lot of people in general say, ‘I have symptoms. I must have eaten something that’s caused this,’” said Dr. Andi Shane, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Atlanta’s Emory University.
Patients may not consider an infection came from some other means, like handling a contaminated tissue, she said.
Some may also find the latest outbreak unsettling because it involved a prepackaged food like peanut butter, said Dr. Akiko Kimura, an epidemiologist with the California Department of Public Health.
“It’s ready-to-eat, and so there wasn’t anything the consumer could do,” she said.
Food disease investigators say their experience has made them careful to wash their hands, review restaurant inspection reports and think carefully about the foods they eat.
“I am fond of many foods, but I draw the line at eating raw meat and raw poultry, raw oysters and raw unpasteurized eggs,” said the CDC’s Tauxe.
“I run the cutting boards through our dishwasher,” he added.
Feb
22
LOS ANGELES – Limos are out, hybrids are in. The Los Angeles Police Department shows off a pair of bomb-sniffing dogs along with some high-tech gear being used to keep security tight.
Also, a million-dollar shoe designer tones it down, and celebrities collect some swag while raising awareness of the arts.
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SUNDAY DRIVER: Meryl Streep will be going green – literally – to the Oscars.
The best actress nominee is expected to be chauffeured to Sunday’s ceremony in a silver 2010 Toyota Prius, according to the Environmental Media Association. The new hybrid model won’t launch until later this spring, making the “Doubt” actress the first woman in America to take a ride in the new energy efficient vehicle.
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TIGHT SECURITY: With eyes in the sky and noses on the ground, Los Angeles police say they’re ready to keep Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony safe.
Police Chief William Bratton told reporters Friday that national and city law enforcement officials didn’t know of any credible threats aimed at the ceremony. But to make sure it stays that way, officers are deploying some high-tech crime-fighters.
And Aya and Rex, a pair of bomb-sniffing dogs.
The German Shepherds sat patiently as police officials described LA Shield, a helicopter-mounted device that helps officers better coordinate ground and air patrols units near key locations, such as the Kodak Theater where the Oscars are handed out.
Security at the awards show is always tight, with the city closing streets and a subway stop. Academy officials are also working to ensure no ticket-crashers gain entry to the show.
This year police will also deploy a high-tech imaging system that can spot terrorists wearing suicide bomb vests or plastic explosives that might slip through a metal detector.
Leaving nothing to chance, Aya and Rex will also walk a beat on Sunday.
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TO BLING OR NOT TO BLING: Because of the not-so-glitzy economy, shoe designer Stuart Weitzman decided to forego his annual tradition of sending a one-of-a-kind pair of heels decked out with $1 million worth of gems down the red carpet on an up-and-comer’s feet. Weitzman said such an extravagant display would not be appropriate this year.
“There are things that are right, and there are things that are not right. This year, we have chocolate shoes,” Weitzman said pointing to a table of candy replicas at his suite at The London West Hollywood, where stylists were stopping by Thursday and Friday to pick up shoes for celebrity clients.
“You know how the old saying in retail goes: ‘Sometimes you have to eat your inventory,’” he said.
Last year, the fancy-footwear designer chose “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody to wear specially designed $1 million diamond-encrusted shoes to the ceremony, but Cody caused furor, calling the selection “a cheesy publicity stunt.” She opted to wear a pair of simple gold flats under her flowing Dior leopard print dress instead.
Weitzman hopes his “big fan” Angelina Jolie, the best actress Oscar nominee who previously donned nude Weitzman heels to the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Golden Globes, will again wear a pair of his shoes Sunday.
Feb
22
VATICAN CITY – A 19th-century Belgian priest who ministered to leprosy patients in Hawaii, and died of the disease, will be declared a saint this year at a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope Benedict XVI.
The Rev. Damien de Veuster’s canonization date of Oct. 11 was set Saturday.
Born Joseph de Veuster in 1840, he took the name Damien and went to Hawaii in 1864 to join other missionaries of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Nine years later, he began ministering to leprosy patients on the remote Kalaupapa peninsula of Molokai island, where some 8,000 people had been banished amid an epidemic in Hawaii in the 1850s.
The priest eventually contracted the disease, also known as Hansen’s disease, and died in 1889 at age 49.
“He went there (to Hawaii) knowing that he could never return,” The Rev. Alfred Bell, who spearheaded Damien’s canonization cause, told Vatican Radio. “He suffered a lot, but he stayed.”
De Veuster was beatified – a step toward sainthood – in 1995 by Pope John Paul II.
The Vatican’s saint-making procedures require that a miracle attributed to the candidate’s intercession be confirmed in order for him or her to be beatified. De Veuster was beatified after the Vatican declared that the 1987 recovery of a nun of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary was a miracle. The nun recovered after praying to Damien.
After beatification, a second miracle is needed for sainthood.
In July, Benedict declared that a Honolulu woman’s recovery in 1999 from terminal lung cancer was the miracle needed for de Veuster to be made a saint.
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints said Audrey Toguchi’s 1999 recovery from lung cancer defied medical explanation. Toguchi, too, had prayed to Damien.
The Vatican announced the date for Damien’s canonization and that of nine others. Five will be declared saints at a ceremony April 26, with the rest, including Damien, on Oct. 11.
Bell said Damien’s concern for others was a model for all the faithful today, particularly the young.
“Father Damien’s example helps us to not forget those who are forgettable in the world,” he said.
Feb
22
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – If we don’t deal with climate change decisively, “what we’re talking about then is extended world war,” the eminent economist said.
His audience Saturday, small and elite, had been stranded here by bad weather and were talking climate. They couldn’t do much about the one, but the other was squarely in their hands. And so, Lord Nicholas Stern was telling them, was the potential for mass migrations setting off mass conflict.
“Somehow we have to explain to people just how worrying that is,” the British economic thinker said.
Stern, author of a major British government report detailing the cost of climate change, was one of a select group of two dozen – environment ministers, climate negotiators and experts from 16 nations – scheduled to fly to Antarctica to learn firsthand how global warming might melt its ice into the sea, raising ocean levels worldwide.
Their midnight flight was scrubbed on Friday and Saturday because of high winds on the southernmost continent, 3,000 miles from here. While waiting at their Cape Town hotel for the gusts to ease down south, chief sponsor Erik Solheim, Norway’s environment minister, improvised with group exchanges over coffee and wine about the future of the planet.
“International diplomacy is all about personal relations,” Solheim said. “The more people know each other, the less likely there will be misunderstandings.”
Understandings will be vital in this “year of climate,” as the world’s nations and their negotiators count down toward a U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen in December, target date for concluding a grand new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol – the 1997 agreement, expiring in 2012, to reduce carbon dioxide and other global-warming emissions by industrial nations.
Solheim drew together key players for the planned brief visit to Norway’s Troll Research Station in East Antarctica.
Trying on polar outfits for size on Friday were China’s chief climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua, veteran U.S. climate envoy Dan Reifsnyder, and environment ministers Hilary Benn of Britain and Carlos Minc Baumfeld of Brazil.
Later, at dinner, the heavyweights heard from smaller or poorer nations about the trials they face as warming disrupts climate, turns some regions drier, threatens food production in poor African nations.
Jose Endundo, environment minister of Congo, said he recently visited huge Lake Victoria in nearby Uganda, at 80,000 square kilometers (31,000 square miles) a vital source for the Nile River, and learned the lake level had dropped 3 meters (10 feet) in the past six years – a loss blamed in part on warmer temperatures and diminishing rains.
In the face of such threats, “the rich countries have to give us a helping hand,” the African minister said.
But it was Stern, former chief World Bank economist, who on Saturday laid out a case to his stranded companions in sobering PowerPoint detail.
If the world’s nations act responsibly, Stern said, they will achieve “zero-carbon” electricity production and zero-carbon road transport by 2050 – by replacing coal power plants with wind, solar or other energy sources that emit no carbon dioxide, and fossil fuel-burning vehicles with cars running on electric or other “clean” energy.
Then warming could be contained to a 2-degree-Celsius (3.4-degree-Fahrenheit) rise this century, he said.
But if negotiators falter, if emissions reductions are not made soon and deep, the severe climate shifts and sea-level rises projected by scientists would be “disastrous.”
It would “transform where people can live,” Stern said. “People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move if you talk about 4-, 5-, 6-degree increases” – 7 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit. And that would mean extended global conflict, “because there’s no way the world can handle that kind of population move in the time period in which it would take place.”
Melting ice, rising seas, dwindling lakes and war – the stranded ministers had a lot to consider. But many worried, too, that the current global economic crisis will keep governments from transforming carbon-dependent economies just now. For them, Stern offered a vision of working today on energy-efficient economies that would be more “sustainable” in the future.
“The unemployed builders of Europe should be insulating all the houses of Europe,” he said.
After he spoke, Norwegian organizers announced that the forecast looked good for Stern and the rest to fly south on Sunday to further ponder the future while meeting with scientists in the forbidding vastness of Antarctica.
Feb
6
Etta James ‘can’t stand’ Beyonce
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LOS ANGELES – We saw Beyonce play Etta James. We probably won’t soon see the singing divas duet.
The 71-year-old singer says in an audio clip that surfaced online Thursday that she would “whip” Beyonce for singing “her song” “At Last” at an inaugural ball for President Barack Obama.
“The great Beyonce … I can’t stand Beyonce,” James said in the clip from a Jan. 31 concert at the Boulevard Casino in Coquitlam, British Columbia. “She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol’ president day, gonna be singing my song that I’ve been singing forever.”
Beyonce portrayed James – and sang the 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren – in the film “Cadillac Records” last year.
Spokespeople for James and Beyonce declined to comment.