Sideshow: Rap earns raves at Bonnaroo fest
Eminem's performance to thunderous ovations Saturday is being hailed as "the day rap took over at Bonnaroo," the four-day festival in Manchester, Tenn. The rapper played for more than an hour, but returned when nearly 80,000 fans chanted, "
Eminem
's performance to thunderous ovations Saturday is being hailed as "the day rap took over at Bonnaroo," the four-day festival in Manchester, Tenn. The rapper played for more than an hour, but returned when nearly 80,000 fans chanted, "Shady!" The day began with sets from
Big Boi
and
Lil Wayne
shortly after
Arcade Fire
's Friday night finale, and the takeover continued with
Wiz Khalifa
during a hot afternoon set before Eminem's Bonnaroo debut. The event is known more for its granola-flavored ethos than its urban cool, but
Jay-Z
gave a memorable set in 2010, raising expectations for Saturday's takeover - the most concentrated collection of star MCs ever at Bonnaroo.
Help for Joplin
Brad Pitt
and
Angelina Jolie
are donating $500,000 from their foundation to help Joplin, Mo., rebuild after the deadly tornado May 22. The Community Foundation of the Ozarks says the gift from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation will go to mid- and long-term needs, according to a news release. Pitt grew up in southwest Missouri and knows the people to be "especially resilient," the release said. The tornado destroyed more than 8,000 homes and 400 businesses, killing 151 people as of Friday, including those who died as a result of injuries.
Good luck
Filmmaker
Wayne Wang
is ready to move on from his successful 1993 adaptation of the
Amy Tan
novel
The Joy Luck Club
to another film focused on relationships between Chinese women. He promoted
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
at the Shanghai Film Festival in China on Sunday. It comes 13 years later and is based on
Lisa See
's novel of the same name.
Snow Flower
marks Wang's reunion with
Joy Luck Club
actress
Vivian Wu
, a native of Shanghai. Oscar-winning screenwriter
Ronald Bass
, who cowrote the
Joy Luck
screenplay, also worked on the script for
Snow Flower,
scheduled to open here in July.
"I think it's very different from Joy Luck Club," Wang said. "I don't want to make another movie like Joy Luck Club. Joy Luck Club is about mother-daughter relationships. This is the story of two female friends."
Weekend box office
Super 8
, the science-fiction thriller from
Steven Spielberg
and
J.J. Abrams
, led all films, with $37 million in ticket sales for Paramount Pictures, according to estimates.
X-Men: First Class
, dropped to second place, with $25 million.
The Hangover: Part II
fell to third, and
Kung Fu Panda 2
and
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
rounded out the top five.