tabloid! The weekly wrap #11

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Bruno Mars plans his Dubai visit, Kanye West and Slash rock the UAE, Alice Cooper plays golf and Priyanka Chopra gets cheesy. All this and more as tabloid brings you the highlights in entertainment this week.

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00:00Music stars are flooding into the Emirates, the usual Hollywood suspects are back in court

00:10and having punch-ups, and Bollywood gets controversial. This is your weekly wrap for Tabloid.

00:14Bruno Mars is finally coming to Dubai. The Filipino-American singer-songwriter will perform

00:19at Dubai Media City on April 12th. The venue has been expanded to accommodate 14,000 fans,

00:24but we predict the tickets, which went on sale today, will move very quickly.

00:28The star of Another Generation also made a date with Dubai this week. Greek star Yanni,

00:32who sold out a concert here last year, is giving his fans more, with two dates booked

00:36on April 4th and 5th. And there's a music dilemma in the UAE tonight. Will he be in

00:40Abu Dhabi to see Kanye West, or Dubai for rock legend Slash? It's dividing the nation.

00:45There's another rock legend in the city too, albeit for a different kind of performance.

00:49Alice Cooper hit the golf course, playing in the Amiga Dubai Desert Classic Challenge

00:53match. Perhaps he should stick to music though, he came last.

00:57In international news, Chris Brown is back doing what he does best, getting into fights.

01:01This time with fellow rapper Frank Ocean, apparently over a parking spot in an LA music

01:06studio. Ocean has told police he wants to prosecute, which could land Brown in serious

01:10trouble. He's still on promotion for assaulting Rihanna, who this week revealed their on-off

01:14relationship is 100% on. In an interview with The Rolling Stone, she came clean about reuniting

01:20with a man who beat the living daylights out of her four years ago. She said dating Brown

01:24makes her happy, and if it's a mistake, it's my mistake.

01:28One couple who are not reuniting, yet, is Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. Bieber had

01:33a new album out this week, and it features a track about their breakup. The song, Nothing

01:37Like Us, is a raw and emotion-filled ballad over a piano melody, with lyrics such as,

01:42Girl, why would you push me away? But that is the past, we didn't last now.

01:47Lindsay Lohan has plenty of dates, court dates that is. She returned to an LA court on Wednesday

01:52to be told she's going on trial in March for a car crash last year. She's pleaded not

01:57guilty to lying to police, reckless driving and obstructing officers.

02:02We're knee-deep in awards season, and it's looking like Ben Affleck's year. His Iranian

02:06hostage drama Argo swept two awards in two days, taking top prizes at the Screen Actors

02:11Guild and Producers Guild Awards, which are always good indicators of Oscar success. He's

02:15looking likely to take the Directors Guild Awards next week, but unfortunately isn't

02:19nominated as a director at the Oscars. Too bad, Ben.

02:22Celebrity mum's got plenty of limelight this week too, with Whitney Houston's mum Sissy

02:26releasing a tell-all book about the singer's life and tragic death one year ago. And Kim

02:31Kardashian's manager, we mean mother, Kris Jenner, getting her own talk show. We hope

02:35that means she lets someone else talk for once.

02:38Now over to Manju for this week's Bollywood News.

02:41It's been an eventful week for superstar Shah Rukh Khan. The good news is that as soon as

02:46he wraps up Chennai Express with Deepika Padukone, Khan will head to Dubai. His next film, Happy

02:51New Year, directed by his best friend Farah Khan, is largely set in the Gulf and the busy

02:55actor has booked 25 days in Dubai. If you thought Priyanka Chopra's lyrics for her debut

03:00single In My City were cheesy, wait till you see the official video. No offence to PC,

03:05we think she's gorgeous and all, but it looks like that's not going to be enough for a successful

03:09international pop career. Even Will.I.Am, who makes an appearance in the video and the

03:13single, does not rescue it from the depths of mediocrity. South Indian hero Kamal Hassan

03:18has agreed to modify his ambitious spy thriller Vishwaroopam after talks with Muslim leaders

03:23who felt that the film was offensive to their community. Earlier, an emotional Hassan said

03:27he was contemplating leaving his native state Tamil Nadu if the trouble over releasing Vishwaroopam

03:32continued. In the UAE, the film is still under review.

03:36If you're looking for what to do this weekend, then the film with most nominations in this

03:40year's Oscars finally arrives in UAE cinemas for you to deliver your verdict. Lincoln has

03:4612 nominations including Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Director for Steven Spielberg.

03:51Also showing is gruesome fairy tale Hansel and Gretel with Jeremy Renner and Gemma Otterton

03:56as butt-kicking witch hunters and Hindi-Tamil film drama David from acclaimed director Bijoy

04:01Nambiar. And that's your weekly wrap.

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