The 73-year old singer Etta James has been suffering from leukemia and dementia and was admitted to a hospital, this week. She had a urinary tract infection and sepsis, said her son Sametto James to The Press-Enterprise newspaper. The veteran singer, living in Woodcrest east of Los Angeles were to stay in hospital for “as long as it takes to clear her infections”, said Sametto. In 2010, she was hospitalized for some similar problems. There occurred a legal family dispute over the control of her possessions and payment of her medical bills, informed the newspaper agency.

James, who was born Jamsetta Hawkins, has won 17 Blues Music Awards and 4 Grammys. She was introduced to the Rock & Roll hall of Fame and won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2003. She is also very well-known for her songs, with a soulful appeal, like, “All I Could Do Was Cry” and “I’d Rather Go Blind”.

“At Last” was sung by Beyonce for Barrack and Michelle Obama after he sas elected the President, on the inauguration night for their first dance, was originally written in 1941 by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon soon became the first hit of the season for Glen Miller and his orchestra, which was covered by Nat King Cole before being taken over by James in the year 1960.

Malika Sherawat recently was seen with the American President Barack Obama, on three occasions and narrowly missed another opportunity, a poetry evening at the Presidential resident in Washington because she would be hosting a party for her film’s promotion on the same day at Cannes. Despite being a poetry lover (the actress accepts that she is quite fond of the 13th century Indian poet Amir Khusrao and the American poet TS Eliot and Mirza Galib of India, the 19th century poet) her work did not allow her to show her love for poetry.

For the Hiss actress, professional commitments always come first, informed a source close to her. She had planned to hold a cocktail party on Nikki Beach to promote her film Politics of Love months before having received the White House invitations.

It is learned that Malika had said she will campaign for President Barack Obama in the next election.

A documentary on the of late Princess Diana won’t be shown in England because a picture in the film shows Diana just seconds before her death in the car crash in the Paris tunnel.

The photos have angered many Brits who are still busy making merry over the royal wedding, of Prince Williams. The director of the 90-minute movie has claimed that the English lawyers demanded that those pictures be cut out before the film is shown in the country.

The movie “Unlawful Killing” will be shown in the Cannes film festival this week. The film had been financed partly by Mohammed Fayed, father of Diana’s lover and Dodi Fayed who died in the car crash along with Diana. The director of the film Keith Allen called the film an “inquest of the inquest” into the death of Princess Diana. The trailor of the movie shows a letter written in 1993 by Diana that showed her fears about the fact that someone was conspiring to kill her.

“My husband is planning ‘an accident’ in my car. Brake failure or serious head injury,” read the note. Then the film explores the investigation of Diana’s death. The movie shows the photos of Diana, near death at the Paris tunnel where the crash had occurred, which was ruled as a driving accident.