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BERLIN — Keep your blue suede shoes behind the curb: the central German town where Elvis Presley was stationed as a U.S. soldier in the 1950s has installed three pedestrian lights with images of the American rock icon.
The red shows an image of the singer striking a pose at a microphone and the green depicts his trademarked hip swivel dance.
They went online this week in the town of Friedberg, where Elvis, who died in 1977, was stationed at the U.S. Army’s Ray Barracks from October 1958 to March 1960. He lived in nearby Bad Nauheim.
Friedberg, north of Frankfurt, already has an “Elvis Presley Platz” — Elvis Presley Square — and decided to add the three lights as an added attraction for the many Elvis fans who already make the pilgrimage to the town.
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LOS ANGELES — Rapper 2 Milly is suing the makers of Fortnite, saying they’re illegally using his dance moves in their wildly popular video game.
In the lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Los Angeles, the Brooklyn-based rapper whose real name is Terrence Ferguson alleges that North Carolina-based Fortnite-maker Epic Games misappropriated his dance the “Milly Rock.”
Ferguson says the company used the dance that he came up with in 2011 and popularized in a 2015 song and video without giving him credit or compensation.
He’s asking for a judge’s order that the game stop using his moves, and for damages to be determined later.
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LONDON — Antony and Cleopatra,” currently running at London’s National Theatre, has tragic romance, two top-flight actors and a live snake. No wonder it’s a hit.
Sophie Okonedo and Ralph Fiennes play the lovers rocked by war and empire in William Shakespeare’s historical tragedy, which was being broadcast live to movie theaters in Britain and internationally Thursday as part of the NT Live series.
Okonedo and Fiennes won acting trophies at last month’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards for the roles, previously played on-screen by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and onstage by Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench.
Fiennes said the characters of the Roman military hero and the Egyptian queen are — strange as it seems — very relatable.
He tells the AP “they’re not young lovers. They’re mature. They’ve both got baggage.”
