Table of contents for #052 in eNews Magazine

Memorial Day isn’t the only sign of summer. The return of “America’s Got Talent” to television screens, along with a liberal dose of reality shows and reruns, are just as reliable as thermometers. NBC was last week’s most popular television network for the first week since it televised the Super Bowl, helped primarily by “America’s Got Talent.” The popular summer show was the only one to register more than 10 million viewers last week on the night it was broadcast. The Nielsen company’s list of top 20 programs last week also included three prime-time newsmagazines besides “60 Minutes.” The news shows provide relatively cheap programming for networks looking to cut costs in the slow summer months. As for breezy diversions, CBS’ “The Briefcase” was the week’s most popular reality show,…

Pop star Rihanna drew a crowd Friday while cruising down Havana’s Malecon shore boulevard in a classic American convertible from the 1950s. Children and young people swarmed around the car, using their cellphones to snap pictures of the singer while security guards kept them from getting too close. Cuban state media say Rihanna arrived in Cuba on Wednesday and made an unannounced appearance at the La Fontana restaurant. The media reports say she also has recorded video footage in the capital’s central district of El Vedado and at the La Guarida restaurant, where the Cuban movie “Strawberry and Chocolate” was filmed.…

APPLE'S METAIO PURCHASE TRIGGERS SPECULATION What's the next big thing for gadgets? Virtual reality? Nah - that's a bit old hat. Augmented reality (AR), however, could be the next major area of development, at least if recently moves by many of the tech giants are anything to go by. These culminated just a few days ago in Apple buying the AR specialist Metaio, which has naturally got plenty of people wondering what it could be up to. First of all, though, let's be absolutely clear about what AR is. Whereas virtual reality concerns the replacement of the real world with a virtual one, AR centers on the augmentation - or supplementation - of one's view of the real, physical environment with such computer-generated sensory output as graphics, sound and video…

If Chita Rivera ever wants a quick reminder of her past, she only needs to walk down a hall and knock on Michelle Veintimilla’s Broadway dressing room. There she’ll find a smiling, effervescent 22-year-old just out of school who is a spitting image of the theater icon when she was just starting out. Veintimilla plays a younger version of Rivera’s character in “The Visit,” the Tony Award-nominated musical with a story by Terrence McNally and songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Rivera, 82, has been known to playfully slap the younger woman on the rear end and say: “I know that butt. I have that butt, too. That was my body.” Rivera, who originated roles in “West Side Story” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” plays a billionaire who…

E L James is back for more. A fourth novel in the British author’s multimillion-selling “Fifty Shades of Grey” erotic series will be released June 18 by Vintage Books, the publisher announced Monday. The new book is called “Grey,” told from the point of view of billionaire Christian Grey, whose explicit romance with young Anastasia Steele became an international obsession. As with the “Fifty Shades” books, “Grey” will be published as an e-book and a paperback original. In a statement issued through Vintage, a paperback imprint of Penguin Random House, James said she was dedicating the new book to readers who had “asked ... and asked ... and asked... asked” for a novel narrated by Christian. “Christian is a complex character and readers have always been fascinated by his desires…

Newly declared Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham’s interview with George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America” Tuesday is the latest sign that the ABC anchor’s donations to the Clinton Foundation seem not to have impeded his coverage of the upcoming presidential elections. Stephanopoulos also has interviewed declared or prospective candidates Rick Santorum, Martin O’Malley, Bobby Jindal and Ben Carson for ABC News since it was revealed last month that he had donated a total of $75,000 to the former president’s foundation and failed to inform his bosses about it. The “Good Morning America” and “This Week” host apologized on both programs for the donation and said he would not moderate an ABC debate among GOP candidates scheduled for early next year. ABC promised to stand by its chief news and political…

Clint Eastwood will follow his box-office sensation “American Sniper” with a biopic of pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger. Warner Bros. announced Tuesday that Eastwood will direct and produce the not-yet-titled drama as his next film. The film is to be adapted from Sullenberger’s 2009 memoir, “Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters,” which chronicled his personal history before he famously landed a US Airways plane in the Hudson River in New York in 2009. “I am very glad my story is in the hands of gifted storyteller and filmmaker Clint Eastwood,” Sullenberger said in a statement. It will be Eastwood’s first film after the biggest box-office hit of his career. The Oscar-winning “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, made $543.4 million globally for Warner Bros. and…

BATTLE OVER THE FUTURE OF CONTENT We're no longer in the age of the passive consumption of content from whoever will give us it - if the 21st century is characterized by anything as far as content creation is concerned, it is the 'citizen journalist' and the independent, 'amateur' creation of images, text and video on social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube. The growth of live streaming apps is central to this, too - but it's also creating conflict with paid TV providers and other more 'traditionally' placed parties. Let's consider two live streaming apps, in particular, that have won popularity in recent times. Periscope is Twitter's own app, which allows its users to stream live video for others to watch in real time. Its website speaks of how…

The worst day of Aaron Baker’s life wasn’t when the then-20-year-old professional motocross racer crashed his bike one spring day in 1999, flew over the handlebars and hit the ground head-first, paralyzing him from the neck down. No, the worst day came a year later when Baker’s physical therapy ended. That was when his therapists, marveling that he could actually stand on his own again and move his arms some, cautioned him not to expect much more. The chances of walking again, he was told, were one in a million. He eventually used that as a mantra - when people say odds are a million to one, ignore the million and focus on the one - and has learned to walk again. It began with learning to do just one…

Results A surprising love circle emerges in this off-kilter romantic comedy, comprising New York transplant Danny (Kevin Corrigan), his brash new personal trainer Kat (Cobie Smulders) and her ex, the gym owner and self-styled guru Trevor (Guy Pearce). Danny proves a perfect test subject for the relationship between money and happiness in this screwball comedy with a heart. FIVE FACTS: Survivor Milla Jovovich plays Kate Abbott, a London-based Foreign Service Officer who attempts to prevent a terrorist attack aimed at New York, but instead finds herself on the run, having been mysteriously framed for the bombing. She has to evade a ruthless assassin (Pierce Brosnan) as he tries to stop the true perpetrators’ master - and much deadlier - plan. FIVE FACTS:…

The stealth Caitlyn Jenner cover shoot for Vanity Fair sprang from her chats with the magazine’s fashion and style director, Jessica Diehl, about inspirations ranging from Lauren Bacall to “The Thomas Crown Affair.” In an interview released by the magazine, Diehl called Jenner “all-American in so many ways,” style wise. “She has certain ideas about what she feels great in. But those ideas are still forming and taking shape. There will be some experimentation and trying things. Welcome to the world of women’s fashion! It’s not always smooth sailing, but I think she has a pretty good idea of what makes her feel good, and those are classic silhouettes,” Diehl said. Jenner’s debut as Caitlyn for the July cover was released online Monday and will hit newsstands June 9. Downloads…

Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak say they are indeed writing a book together. The two were on a panel at BookCon on Saturday at the Javits Center in New York. The panel was organized around Novak interviewing Kaling about her upcoming second book entitled “Why Not Me?” It’s due out in September. The 35-year-olds, who worked together on NBC’s comedy “The Office,” both as writers, producers and supporting cast members, say they just started working on the book project and it won’t be out for a while. “It’s very early in the creative process,” Novak said. Kaling was more enthusiastic. “It’s going to be awesome,” she said. “We just started working on it. I love working with him ... and the ideas that we’ve had so far have been super…

Tracy Morgan said Monday he doesn’t remember anything about the limo accident that left him in a coma for two weeks, and said that, a year later, he still has bad days as well as good. Appearing live on the “Today” show for his first public appearance since the accident, Morgan sat clutching a cane and became emotional as he recalled learning after the crash June 7, 2014, that his fellow comedian, James “Jimmy Mack” McNair, was killed. Morgan then came across a video of McNair’s funeral on YouTube, and “I lost it for about a week,” he said. Asked by “Today” host Matt Lauer what it’s been like emotionally, Morgan replied, “Up and down.” He said he had his daughter, son and fiancee, Megan Wollover, “so they keep my…

Surf Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment This debut solo project of American band The Social Experiment may ostensibly highlight hip hop trumpeter Nico Segal, otherwise known as Donnie Trumpet, but much of the feverish anticipation for the album is actually due to the heavy involvement of one of his collaborators, Chance the Rapper, who contributes both vocals and arrangements. FIVE FACTS: AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP A$AP Rocky A$AP Rocky’s second studio album follows 2013’s Billboard 200-topping Long.Live. A$AP and calls upon no shortage of supporting talent, with Bones, Future, M.I.A., ScHoolboy Q, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Rod Stewart all making guest appearances - to say nothing of the high-profile producers involved like Danger Mouse, Mike Dean, West and Mark Ronson. FIVE FACTS:…

Network television, once wedded to a September-to-May schedule, saw the error of its ways as cable and online competitors demonstrated a brazen disregard for tradition. So summer has evolved from a rerun graveyard to the home of lively offerings, with enough choices to threaten your vacation plans - or at least DVR capacity. That includes returning shows AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire,” already underway on Sundays, along with NBC’s “Hannibal,” coming June 4; “Orange is the New Black,” Netflix, June 12; TNT’s “The Last Ship” and HBO’s “True Detective,” both June 21; “Under the Dome,” CBS, June 25, and “Masters of Sex” and “Ray Donovan,” Showtime, both back on July 12. The newbies include a mix of scripted series, documentaries and a few reality-genre curveballs - like CBS’ “The Briefcase”…