Beyonce has angered officials at a Vienna art museum by allegedly sending a lookalike to a special personal tour of the Albertina, one of the city’s most famous museums, while she went shopping in the Austrian capital, according to newspaper reports in the country Wednesday.
Filmgoers are obsessed with Beyonce. The nine-time Grammy winner’s new movie, Obsessed, soared to No. 1 at the box office this weekend, earning $28.5 million in ticket sales, according to early studio estimates.
The thriller stars Beyonce as the wife of a successful asset manager (Idris Elba) whose co-worker (Ali Larter) begins stalking him, turning their lives upside down.
On The TODAY Show Thursday, Beyonce chatted up her new role in the romantic-thriller Obsessed, her upcoming summer tour, and that horrible audio recording of her singing that made the rounds on the blogosphere on Wednesday.
Beyonce told correspondent Matt Lauer, which was allegedly taken from her live performance of “If I Were A Boy” on TODAY last November, was “a complete joke.”
Beyonce promoted her new film and the launch of her summer 2009 I AM…. North American Tour on the Late Show with David Letterman Wednesday night.
Beyonce –whose new romantic-thriller Obsessed opens in theaters this Friday –serenaded the Letterman audience with a LIVE rendition of her popular single “Halo.”
Beyonce has spoken out on the release of a tape rumored to be an unedited board mix of her performance of “If I Were a Boy” on The Today Show last November. Read the rest of this entry »
TMZ.com has posted a clip from Tuesday’s edition of The Howard Stern Show, during which the outspoken shock jock and his crew of croonies played what they claim is the unedited board feed from Beyonce’s performance on The Today Show back in November.
This week, manufacturers of Trident Gum rounded up 100 women to perform their own rendition of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” dance live in London’s Piccadilly Circus.
Beyonce is bringing her 2009 World Tour to North America this summer. Beyonce’s I AM…. excursion kicks off with a series of full-length concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden in June.
BEYONCE’S “I AM…” 2009 NORTH AMERICAN CONCERT DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
DATE CITY VENUE
Sun/Jun-21 New York City, NY Madison Square Garden
Wed/Jun-24 Washington DC Verizon Center
Fri/Jun-26 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center**
Sat/Jun-27 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Complex
Mon/Jun-29 Ft Lauderdale, FL Bank Atlantic Center
Wed/Jul-1 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
Fri/Jul-3 New Orleans, LA Superdome (Essence Music Festival)
Sat/Jul-4 Houston, TX Toyota Center**
Sun/Jul-5 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Tue/Jul-7 Phoenix, AZ US Airways Center
Thu/Jul-9 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena
Fri/Jul-10 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
Sat/Jul-11 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
Mon/Jul-13 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
Thu/Jul-16 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
Fri/Jul-17 Chicago, IL United Center
Sat/Jul-18 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
Thu/Jul-23 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
Thu/Jul-30 Las Vegas, NV Encore Theater, Wynn Las Vegas
Fri/Jul-31 Las Vegas, NV Encore Theater, Wynn Las Vegas
Sat/Aug-1 Las Vegas, NV Encore Theater, Wynn Las Vegas
Sun/Aug-2 Las Vegas, NV Encore Theatre, Wynn Las Vegas