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Ringwald: '16 Candles' sequel?
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Could it be time to put more candles on the cake?
Molly Ringwald said she's in discussions to make a sequel to "Sixteen Candles," the 1984 movie about the obstacles and embarrassments a teen girl faces on her birthday.
The film, directed by John Hughes, shot Ringwald to teen stardom, but she hasn't appeared in a major role in many years. She said she's been appearing in theater, small TV and film parts and raising a daughter, now 18 months old.
Ringwald, 37, said she had been approached repeatedly about doing a sequel, but recently read a script that she liked and wanted to star in the movie.
"I've turned it down for years. I couldn't see how it would work," she said. "Now, it seems right."
Ringwald was reunited at the MTV Movie Awards on Saturday with Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy and Paul Gleason, three of her co-stars in 1985's "The Breakfast Club," directed by John Hughes.
Judd Nelson and Emilio Estevez didn't show.
"They're in Africa with Dave Chappelle," Hall joked.
Wonder a dad at 55
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- There was quite a 55th birthday surprise for entertainer Stevie Wonder -- the birth of his seventh child.
Wonder and his fashion designer wife Kai Millard Morris announced Monday that they are the proud parents of a boy born May 13, the singer's 55 birthday. It was the couple's first child.
Mandla Kadjaly Carl Stevland Morris weighed 3.4 kilograms (7 pounds, 8 ounces) and was 51 centimeters (20 inches) long, publicist Howard Bragman said. Mandla means Powerful/Defiant in Zulu and Kadjaly is Swahili for Born From God, the spokesman said in a news release.
No other details were released.
"It's a perfectly healthy family," Bragman said Monday, noting Wonder was an extremely private person.
It was Wonder's seventh child, Bragman said.
The Grammy-winning singer is currently in the studio completing his "A Time To Love" album, his first in 10 years.
New 'Hour' 'one big outtake'
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- If Chris Tucker has his way, the next "Rush Hour" movie will be filled with more Jackie Chan mishaps than ever.
Tucker said the next film in the Brett Ratner-directed action-comedy franchise is in the works. "Everybody loved the outtakes. We're going to make the movie one big outtake," he said.
Wearing large black sunglasses while arriving Saturday at the MTV Movie Awards, Tucker also said he expected that Michael Jackson was "going to be cool" after the verdict was rendered in Jackson's child molestation trial.
Tucker, 32, testified on behalf of the defense, telling jurors that he found the accuser to be unusually sophisticated and cunning for a 12-year-old. He met the boy at a benefit while the child was battling cancer in 2001.
He said he was happy with his appearance in court.
"It was cool because I didn't want them to bring up all the stuff I did," Tucker joked.
Van Cliburn winner
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- When Alexander Kobrin was a toddler in Russia, he played happily with his toys as long as he could hear music. When the radio was turned off, he cried.
So his piano-teacher father taught him how to play when Kobrin was about 5. Through the years Kobrin often preferred playing soccer, but the piano became so important to him that the first compact disc he bought was one by famed pianist Van Cliburn.
On Sunday night, Kobrin won the gold medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, considered the premier contest for classical pianists.
Kobrin, 25, said it felt like a music festival because there was no cutthroat competition among the contestants.
"We're all musicians, and we do the same thing. We have the same ideals, the same dreams," said Kobrin, who received numerous curtain calls and even had roses thrown onstage after some performances. "You have to forget that this is a competition."
The silver medal went to South Korea native Joyce Yang, 19, and China's Sa Chen, 25, took third place. All three medalists win $20,000 in cash and the opportunity to record a CD.
The other finalists were Davide Cabassi, 28, and Roberto Plano, 26, both of Italy, and China's Chu-Fang Huang, 22. They each win $10,000. All six finalists receive three years of U.S. concert tours and career management.
The competition is named for the acclaimed pianist who gained prominence after winning the first Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 1958.
A few years later some music teachers in Cliburn's hometown of Fort Worth created a contest in his honor, and it is held every four years. Cliburn, 70, is not a judge but attends many performances and presents the awards.
For this year's Cliburn competition, 147 pianists among 270 applicants worldwide were chosen to audition in various cities across the globe. Only 35 were selected to compete in Fort Worth.
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Associated Press contributed to this report.
