John Legend Is 'Made To Love'

John Legend has released a new single.

John Legend released a new single on Monday. Called "Made to Love," the track takes a mid-tempo beat and has Legend crooning about his inevitable love. The single features production by Da Internz, Kanye West, Dave Tozer and Nana Kwabena.

"I was sent here for you / We were made to love / You were sent for me too,” Legend sings in "Made to Love." Take a listen to the song above.

"Made to Love" is expected to be featured on Legend's upcoming album, "Love In the Future." The album from G.O.O.D. music will hit stores on June 25.

"Over the years, I've been in a comfort zone with Kanye and Dave, and we’ve had great collaborations,” Legend told Billboard about his music. "But this album also offers some fresh collaborations. And together that typifies the sound of this album. 'Love in the Future' has the feel of my first two albums but takes that sound forward."

The 34-year-old singer released his last studio album, "Wake Up!," in 2010. The album performed modestly for Legend, hitting No. 8 on the Billboard 200 but falling short of the expectations set by his previous ventures. His 2006 album, "Once Again," hit No. 3 and was certified platinum, while his 2004 album, "Get Lifted," and his 2008 album, "Evolver," both hit No. 4.

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Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis to perform in S.Africa (AP)

JOHANNESBURG – Famed American trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis is sharing memories and music in South Africa.

On Tuesday, Marsalis talked about his life during a question-and-answer session at Johannesburg's Market Theatre. Later this week, he will perform at the city's annual Joy of Jazz festival.

As a trumpeter, Marsalis has won Grammy awards in both the jazz and classical categories. As a composer, he was the first jazz artist to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1997 for "Blood on the Fields," which explores the themes of slavery and the creativity of black Americans.

Sibongile Khumalo, one of South Africa's best-loved singers, welcomed him as a "cultural activist" to the Market Theatre. Under white racist rule, multiracial audiences and casts challenged apartheid with original art at the Market.

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Russia theatre legend quits in fury after 50 years (AFP)

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia's most celebrated living director on Sunday parted company with the theatre he has led for almost a half century, accusing its actors of only being interested in money.

Yuri Lyubimov, 93, who founded Moscow's Taganka Theatre in 1964, fell out with the acting troupe in a dispute over pay while on tour in the Czech Republic and said he had no intention of working with them any more.

"I confirm I have taken my final decision -- to leave the theatre," the director declared to the RIA Novosti news agency late on Saturday.

"I have no intention of working with this troupe. Let them be led by their trade union. I've had enough of this disgrace, these humiliations, this lack of desire to work, this desire just for money."

The scandal erupted before a performance of Brecht's classic morality play "The Good Person of Szechwan" when the actors refused to rehearse unless they were paid first.

His wife Katalin told RIA Novosti that to keep the show going Lyubimov paid the actors out of his own pocket but then vowed never to work with them again.

Yuri Lyubimov commented: "Clearly this is a loss of prestige for the country, for Russian theatre. But, it seems, the actors don't give a damn."

Although Lyubimov has become somewhat notorious in the last years by repeatedly threatening -- in true theatrical style -- to quit, he confirmed to Echo Moscow radio Sunday "that my decision to depart is final".

Speaking to the same radio, Katalin Lyubimova denounced the actors as an "uncontrollable band who just want money and don't want to work", adding that the theatre would now be headed by a trade union committee.

One of the theatre's main actresses, Tatyana Sidorenko, denied that the actors had threatened to torpedo the performance, telling Echo Moscow that "we just wanted to be paid money for our work".

Lyubimov was one of the giants of Soviet theatre, winning fame not only in Russia but also abroad for hugely visual and experimental spectacles that transcended language.

He was acclaimed as the heir to the innovative director Vsevolod Meyerhold, who was executed in the Stalin purges after changing the the face of Russian and world theatre.

Lyubimov dazzled the Soviet public with his productions until 1984 when he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship after giving an interview to the Times newspaper while putting on a play in London.

But with the onset of perestroika, Lyubimov returned to Moscow in triumph in 1988 and retained his near mythical status after the collapse of the Soviet Union, still putting on new productions in his nineties.

He was particularly known for his work with the actor Vladimir Vysotsky who won immense fame for songs containing unusually sharp social commentary and died aged just 42 in 1980 in during the Moscow Olympics.

Lyubimov first ran into major trouble with the Soviet authorities 1980 when they banned his play about the late Vysotsky. In 1982 his production of Pushkin's politically loaded "Boris Godunov" was also banned.

After his citizenship was annulled, his name was famously removed from all programmes and posters at the theatre, making him something of an icon for the dissident movement.

Both banned plays were triumphantly revived after his return in the late 1980s and he won back his Soviet passport and position as the theatre's artistic director.

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Football legend Thuram accuses Belgian restaurant of racism (AFP)

BRUSSELS (AFP) – A former football World Cup winner, France's Lilian Thuram, accused staff in an upmarket restaurant of racial discrimination during a visit to Brussels, a Belgian newspaper reported Friday.

Thuram, his country's most capped footballer who also played for top clubs Barcelona and Juventus, told Le Soir a staff member in the restaurant, La Paix, told Thuram the toilets were "reserved for clients" when he was dining there on Tuesday lunchtime.

A leading rights and education campaigner, Thuram said he was "stunned at this discrimination visibly linked to the colour of (my) skin" while in town to promote an anti-racism campaign.

Thuram left the restaurant "shocked and baffled" after rejoining his table, the paper said.

The manager David Martin said there had been a "misunderstanding," saying "we didn't know he was a client and I admit I didn't recognise him. There was no wilful discrimination."

Thuram, who was born in Guadeloupe, has recently spoken out against a "scandal" in French football over recent weeks concerning suggested quotas for French-speaking footballers of African, Caribbean or Pacific origin going through national player academies.

The 1998 World Cup-winning French team was credited with helping France accept its place in the world as a rainbow nation.

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Spin legend Warne bows out in Mumbai (AFP)

MUMBAI (AFP) – Australian spin legend Shane Warne on Friday brought the curtain down on his stellar cricket career stretching over two decades, bowing out with a final appearance in the Indian Premier League.

A capacity crowd at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai witnessed Warne, captain of Rajasthan Royals, walk out for the toss for the last time and cheered the bowler who waved back sporting a broad smile.

The last chapter in the career of one of the game's finest ever players has been typical of Warne, with the Australian charming and shocking the Indian public during a frustrating final season in charge of the Rajasthan Royals.

On the field, the 41-year-old has struggled for rhythm with his bowling and has suffered the indignity of being repeatedly hit over the ropes by youngsters looking to make their mark in the money-spinning tournament.

And as with so much of his turbulent career, attention has often focused on his off-field exploits, including a bitter row with Rajasthan Cricket Association secretary Sanjay Dixit over a choice of wicket, which led to a fine this week of $50,000.

"I think it was a bit silly and immature from both of our parts," said the father of three, whose rumoured face-lift and romantic link with British model Liz Hurley kept him constantly in the Indian headlines.

He also had a tiff with superstar Sachin Tendulkar and caused embarrassment in conservative India with his public kissing of Hurley -- which could have landed him in trouble under India's strict anti-obscenity laws.

"He (Warne) caused quite a sensation with his long lip-lock in full public view," Dixit wrote in a column. "I had to quieten things down to make sure that the matter did not reach the courts."

The bleach-blond bowler took the field for the last time Friday in an away game against the Mumbai Indians that pitted him against another icon of the modern cricket era -- 38-year-old Tendulkar.

The two players appeared to clash earlier in the season after the Indian batsman complained about the Rajasthan pitch, but the tension was laughed off by Warne, who insisted they were "mates".

After scripting a title triumph with a rag-tag team in the first edition of the Twenty20 competition in 2008, Warne's final season as captain has offered few rewards, with the team failing to make the playoffs.

Despite the fizzle at the end of an explosive career, he will be remembered as one of the greatest players of all time -- and in the eyes of many second only to legendary batsman Don Bradman in Australian cricket.

On his Test debut in 1992 he posted inauspicious figures of 1-150 but he then knuckled down under his mentor Terry Jenner and 18 months later caught the cricketing world's attention with the "ball of the century" against England.

The delivery, Warne's first in an Ashes Test, turned dramatically to bamboozle England's Mike Gatting and herald the arrival of a cricketing superstar.

Warne retired from international cricket in 2007 after resurrecting the art of leg-spin and becoming the first player to take 700 Test wickets.

Along the way, the cigarette-puffing, beer-swilling "Warney" survived drug and bookmaking scandals and pursued an energetic love life which is widely thought to have cost him the Australian captaincy.

"The way Warney is bowling now, he would continue to dominate world cricket," current Australian Test star Shane Watson, a Rajasthan Royals team-mate, told The Melbourne Age on Friday.

"If he ever came out of retirement, which he's not going to do, he would still dominate," he added.

His retirement is expected to include more sports commentating for television, commercial work, charity, and possibly coaching.

Among other things, he has an advertising deal with McDonald's in Australia, promotes a poker website and also finds time to design a range of men's underwear.

"My decision to retire has got nothing to do with my bowling. I think I'm still bowling pretty well, it's more about all the other stuff and time," he told NDTV. "I want to do some other stuff in my life."

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Boxing legend says he was sexually assaulted by coach (AFP)

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Former US Olympic gold medalist Sugar Ray Leonard says he was sexually assaulted by an ex-American Olympic team coach.

Leonard, who won a gold medal in the 1976 Montreal Games and went on to have a brilliant pro career, made the accusations in a new tell-all book "The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring", US media reported.

The book is expected to come out in stores in June.

The 55-year-old Leonard said the abuse happened when he was a teenager and a young man.

Leonard said in one of the encounters, the coach talked to him about winning a gold medal.

"Before I knew it, he had unzipped my pants and put his hand, then mouth, on an area that has haunted me for life," he said. "I didn't scream. I didn't look at him. I just opened the door and ran."

He said the sexual assaults made it difficult for him to cope emotionally when he reached adulthood. Leonard declined to name the coach.

Leonard is considered one of the top professional boxers of all-time and was the first fighter to earn more than $100 million in purse money. He captured world titles in five weight classes.

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Elizabeth Taylor's Movies: 10 That Made Her a Legend

Via Moviefone: How you think of Elizabeth Taylor, who died Wednesday of heart failure at 79, depends largely on your age. Younger fans might remember her as the tabloid creature whose fluctuating health was breathlessly chronicled throughout the last three decades of her life. Others may think of the gossip-rag queen who made headlines for stealing Eddie Fisher from America's sweetheart Debbie Reynolds, her eight marriages and her tempestuous romance with (and double marriage to) Richard Burton.

If you fit into either of those categories, though, that's a shame. Because for those who came of age in the '50s and '60s, Elizabeth Taylor was one of Hollywood's most luminous talents, one whose beauty dazzled moviegoers and who had the dramatic skills to match. Wanna talk about clout? Her diva-like behavior on the set of 1963's 'Cleopatra' postponed that epic production and nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox.

But frankly, we wouldn't have cared about any of that had she not had the beauty and the talent to begin with. So ultimately it's what she left on the screen that matters. So here are 10 of Elizabeth Taylor's best movies -- 10 good reasons to clinch her place as a show business immortal.
10. 'Father of the Bride' (1950)
At the tender age of 17, Taylor had already grown into a world-class beauty. Though it was nominally Spencer Tracy's movie, Liz's role of Kay Banks provided the catalyst as daddy's little girl, whose engagement sets the whole film in motion and breaks his heart in the process.



9. 'Little Women' (1949)
In this sentimental version of Louisa May Alcott's timeless tale (a remake of the 1933 version starring Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett), Taylor played the exuberant optimist Amy, one of four sisters approaching womanhood at different rates while their father is off fighting the Civil War. Another significant step on Liz's road to greatness.



8. 'Raintree County' (1957)
As Southern belle Susanna Drake, Taylor comes off better than anything else in this more or less standard Old South epic. Playing a loud lady with traces of hereditary madness did, however, earn Taylor her first Oscar nod for Best Actress, even though she lost out to Joanne Woodward.



7. 'National Velvet' (1944)
This wholesome charmer provided Taylor with her first major breakthrough. Only 12 years old at the time, Taylor played Velvet Brown, a horse-crazy girl who trains a wild stallion to run in England's Grand National, and exhibited a precocious gift for drama and a visceral sense of emotion. This promised great things, and fans didn't have to wait long for that promise to be fulfilled.



6. 'The Taming of the Shrew' (1967)
This was one of 11 films she made with Richard Burton and certainly the most artsy (that Shakespeare fellow turned out to be a pretty good screenwriter). Taylor was reportedly petrified to tackle the Bard on film, especially opposite her Shakespearean-trained spouse. She worried over nothing -- Taylor acquits herself admirably with her smoldering intensity as Katharina. Whether on or off screen, Liz and Dick never failed to create sparks together.



5. 'Suddenly, Last Summer' (1957)
You wouldn't expect anything light when Tennessee Williams is writing the story and Gore Vidal is doing the screen adaptation. And you'd be right. Taylor stars as Catherine Holly, a young girl who witnesses the death of her cousin Sebastian on vacation and goes to pieces. Enter Katharine Hepburn as her imperious aunt, who seeks to have Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth about Sebastian being (shhhhh, it's 1959) gay. Another Oscar nod for Liz -- and for Kate, too. (Awkward!)



4. 'A Place in the Sun' (1951)
Boy, for a decade that's become synonymous with America's "happy days," the '50s sure turned out some dark movies, none more so than this tragic tale of moral bankruptcy and unfettered lust. Taylor's lifelong friend Montgomery Clift plays George Eastman, who falls for Taylor's glamorous society girl Angela Vickers. But being a louse at heart, he manages to impregnate a good girl (Shelley Winters), and later stand by idly as he watches her drown. As the irresistible Angela, Taylor is the elusive dream girl who makes him abandon all he knows to be good and true. A malignant story, but beautifully acted nevertheless.



3. 'Butterfield 8' (1960)
Taylor hated this melodramatic film (privately calling it "Butterball Four") and only did it to escape her MGM contract so she could jump to 20th Century Fox for 'Cleopatra.' But her near-fatal bout with pneumonia and a well-publicized tracheotomy generated enough sympathy to earn Taylor her first Best Actress Oscar. Taylor plays Gloria Wandrous, a disillusioned prostitute who's involved with a married man and trying to outrun the ghosts of an unhappy childhood. Taylor parlayed her success into a then eye-popping $1,000,000 for 'Cleopatra.' But climbing to the summit of Hollywood turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory -- it was on that film she met Burton, after which her personal life began to generate more ink than her dramatic gifts.



2. 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (1958)
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman: hard to imagine a better-looking screen pairing, isn't it? But that's just a distraction; this riveting film of Tennessee Williams' classic play shows Taylor in her full dramatic glory. As Maggie Pollitt, the frustrated wife of Newman's alcoholic ex-football star, she's alternately flirtatious, angry and desperate, showing all at once why her acting skills were as beguiling as her looks.



1. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (1966)
The gloves come off in Mike Nichols' harrowing film version of Edward Albee's play about a drunken university professor and his equally drunken wife as they "entertain" another young couple for a deeply confrontational social engagement. Taylor and Burton play Martha and George, a boozy, frustrated couple trapped in a codependency that seems to devour both them and anyone else who's unfortunate enough to wander into their orbit. Need we say it? Worst date movie ever.



Written by Bob Cannon at Moviefone

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