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Taylor Swift accepts the award for Female Artist of the Year during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3 in Inglewood, California. (AP)
Recording artist Chris Stapleton ac-cepts the Album of the Year Award for Traveller onstage during the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards at MGM grand garden arena on April
3 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AFP)
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BIDDEFORD, Maine: A baseball glove belonging to hard-swinging Babe Ruth fetched $118,000 at auction Saturday, the top item from a collection of memora-bilia that included Walt Disneys Mickey Mouse ears and John Waynes cowboy hat, boots and spurs.
The price paid for the left-handed glove showed once again that Americas pas-time resonates with collectors, said Troy Thibodeau from Saco River Auction.
A face mask and catchers mitt belong-ing to Hall of Famer Roy Campanella sold for $42,000.
Other top items were a hat and harmonica from Janis Joplin that went for $33,000 and Jimi Hendrixs leather cowboy hat that netted $22,000.
All told, the auction of items that once belonged to the late New York TV talk show host Joe Franklin brought in $500,000, Thibodeau said.
The items included leather jackets belonging to Steve McQueen and Marlon Brando, Laurel and Hardys boxing gloves, and hats from the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra, and Johnny Carson.
They were put up for bid by an anony-mous collector who spent years purchas-ing items from the collection of Franklin, Thibodeau said. (AP)
LOS ANGELES: BBC Worldwide has pre-sold the eight-part drama The Collec-tion, from writer, creator and showrunner Oliver Goldstick (Ugly Betty, Desper-ate Housewives), to Swedens SVT and DR in Denmark.
The Anglo-French co-production, which is set in the world of French haute couture after World War II, will have its global launch Monday at MipTV. Amazon Prime holds the UK rights to the miniseries, which is co-commissioned and distributed international by BBC Worldwide. Lookout Point, whose credits include Ripper Street and War and Peace, produces the show.
Actors Tom Riley (Da Vincis Demons, Kill Your Friends), Mamie Gummer (The Good Wife, Ricki and the Flash), Richard Coyle (Crossbones, Life of Crime, Going
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Recording artists Phillip Sweet, Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, and Jimi Westbrook of music group Little Big Town accept the Vocal Group of the Year Award onstage during the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards at MGM
Grand Garden Arena on April 3 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AFP)
Postal) and Alix Poisson (Disparue, 3xManon, Parents mode demploi) will be joined at the Cannes event by
Goldstick, the director Dearbhla Walsh (Penny Dreadful, The Tudors, Esio Trot) and executive producers Anne
Thomopoulos (Rome, Band of Broth-ers), Kate Croft (Murderland) and Pascal Breton (Marseille).
The Collection tells the story of an illustrious Paris fashion house emerging from the dark days of the Occupation. The family saga, which centers on two very different brothers, exposes the grit behind the glamour and the treachery beneath the trappings of this empire, and all who work there. (RTRS)
LOS ANGELES: Beta Film has picked up thriller Terror, which starts with the terrorist hijack of a passenger plane. Beta is offering the drama to buyers at MipTV in Cannes as a format and a ready-made TV movie.
In the fi lm, the hijacker forces the pilot to set course for a packed soccer stadium. The drama focuses on a fi ghter pilot who, against orders, shoots the hijacked plane down, and is later prosecuted. It follows the court case and after listening to the evidence, TV viewers will be able to vote on whether the pilot is innocent or guilty. Alternative endings will be prepared.
Beta Film CEO Jan Mojto said: Terror places the audience in the mid-dle of the action. We want to create an international event, a campfi re of linear television, gathering people to ask and answer the universal question: guilty or not guilty? (RTRS)
Church pays tribute to Bowie, Frey
Aldean wins big at ACMBy Mesfi n Fekadu
Jason Aldean beat Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert for entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Mu-sic Awards a fi rst for the singer after earning nominations for the top prize over the years, while Chris Stapleton cleaned house in other categories.
Aldean also won over Garth Brooks and Eric Church on Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
I was just starting to think this one wasnt in the cards for me, Aldean said onstage near the end of the three-hour show, which aired on CBS. This is one of the best nights of my professional ca-reer.
Stapleton had an even better night. It was a repeat of the recent Grammy Awards and last years Country Music Association Awards. Stapleton took home six awards, including album, song, male vocalist and new male vocalist of the year (he won twice for album and song of the year as the artist and song-writer-producer).
Stapleton also shined with an impres-sive performance of the song, Fire Away. His special guest this time wasnt Justin Timberlake, but his wife, Morgane, who sang next to her all-star hubby.
The critically-acclaimed singer-song-writer was humbled and shocked as he won the most awards of the night.
You got to be kidding me. I thought for sure we were going to be girl-crushed on this one, Stapleton said onstage after winning song of the year for Nobody to Blame and beating Little Big Towns mega-hit Girl Crush.
Other top moments from the show included Dolly Parton partnering with Katy Perry for Coat of Many Colors and Jolene.
FamousYall fi nally got me in a pair of boots,
Perry said onstage, sporting a bright pink and yellow country-fl avored get-up. Par-ton wore a 2016 sparkly version of the
famous coat she said represents a very special time in my life and was part of last years NBC TV-movie about her childhood, Dolly Partons Coat of Many Colors. She won the Tex Ritter Award for fi lms that honor country music.
Eric Church also had a special mo-ment when he paid tribute to rock icons like David Bowie, The Eagles Glenn Frey, Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead and former Stone Temple Pilots front-man Scott Weiland. Bryan introduced Church and said the performer was a big fan of vinyl records and was set to pay tribute to four of his musical heroes. Church performed the track, Record Year, and intertwined the late perform-ers songs into his performance.
Tim McGraws performance was also a highlight: As he sang Humble & Kind, a diverse group of people joined him onstage, from children to adults of every race. Some even dressed in clothes representing their backgrounds, and oth-ers wore clothes representing their oc-cupation.
Other performers include Lambert with ZZ Tops Billy Gibbons and Keith Urban, Sam Hunt, Kenny Chesney, Lit-tle Big Town with Trombone Shorty and Kelsea Ballerini, who sang with pop singer Nick Jonas.
Carrie Underwood earned loud ap-plause after singing Church Bells. She was nominated for female vocalist of the year, but lost to Miranda Lambert, who won the honor for record-setting seventh time.
I love to see here tonight a bunch of new country girls up here shining and singing their great songs that they wrote themselves, said Lambert, who also won vocal event of the year for Smokin and Drinkin with Little Big Town. Im really excited for women in country music, and Im glad to be here as one of them.
Lambert was referring to break-through singers like Ballerini, who won new female vocalist of the year, and
Cam, who was nominated for six awards and sang her Grammy-nominated hit, Burning House, at the ACMs. They represent a small number of women who performed Sunday. In typical fashion of the last few years at country awards shows and country radio the night was dominated by the men.
Other winners included Little Big Town, Florida Georgia Line, Church, Old Dominion and Thomas Rhett, who took home single record of the year for Die a Happy Man.
Blake Shelton, who didnt host this years ACMs like usual with Bryan, joined his former co-host to open the show with a performance, taking the spot of new co-host Dierks Bentley.
WinnersA full list of winners at the 51st annu-
al Academy of Country Music Awards, held Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas: Entertainer of the Year: Jason Al-dean. Male Vocalist of the Year: Chris Stapleton. Female Vocalist of the Year: Mi-randa Lambert. Vocal Duo of the Year: Florida Georgia Line. Vocal Group of the Year: Little Big Town. Album of the Year: Chris Stapleton, Traveller. Single Record of the Year: Thomas Rhett, Die a Happy Man. Song of the Year: Chris Stapleton, Nobody to Blame. New Male Vocalist of the Year: Chris Stapleton. New Female Vocalist of the Year: Kelsea Ballerini. New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year: Old Dominion. Video of the Year: Eric Church, Mr. Misunderstood. Vocal Event of the Year: Mi-randa Lambert and Little Big Town, Smokin. (AP)
Dynamic performance by Derulo
Swift, Bieber takespotlight at iHeartLOS ANGELES, April 4, (Agencies): The iHeartRadio Music Awards assembled an im-pressive array of big-name acts for its third edition Sunday at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., with Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Adele among the evenings big winners.
The show kicked off with a dynamic performance by Jason Derulo, who danced around fans and the stage to a mashup of this years most popular hits.
Shortly after, Justin Bieber took the stage, or rather took place among the audience, with an acoustic version of Love Yourself and the moved into a full out version of Company.
Fetty Wap and his dirt bike squad appeared in a video in-t
