Livewire

Steve Carell goes from The Office to end of the world. After leaving The Office last year,he immediately began production on the indie film Seeking a Friend For the End of the World. The film is about an asteroid headed toward Earth that will destroy the planet. Carell plays a newly single man who decides to go on a road trip to find his high school sweetheart. He is unexpectedly accompanied by his neighbour (Keira Knightley) who wants to find a plane to take her to her family in England. The other co-star is a dog who is a constant companion,he says “Our main dog seemed to have an awareness that he was being filmed and would favor the lens.”

Victor Spinetti,who was an established British film star in 1963 when he agreed to make a movie with the Beatles and who became famous ever after as the only person besides the four Beatles to appear in all of their movies —A Hard Day’s Night,Help! and Magical Mystery Tour—died Tuesday in London. He was 82. The cause was cancer,said a spokesman for his longtime theatrical agent,Barry Burnett. Spinetti appeared in scores of plays and about 30 other movies,acting alongside stars like Laurence Olivier,Elizabeth Taylor,Richard Burton and Peter Sellers. He won a Tony Award in 1965.

Michelle Obama might have been one of the few people in the United States who knew President Barack Obama could actually carry a tune before he surprised an Apollo Theater audience this month. In her debut appearance on NBC The Tonight Show as first lady,Mrs Obama told host Jay Leno that her husband sings to her all the time. She said she even knew what song it would be when she heard about his singing a line from Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together. Mrs Obama gave a very tiny demonstration before conceding that the president was the better singer. Obama said her husband has a beautiful voice.