Idris Elba returns in ‘Luther’

 
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Idris Elba is back for a second season as a police detective in the BBC America series, “Luther.”
 
Elba, 39, plays Detective Chief Inspector John Luther, a brilliant police detective entering middle age, with erratic behavior, a broken marriage, and a nervous breakdown in his past, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
 
In the psychological police thriller, Luther is an anguished soul who is too keenly aware of the evil that people can do because he recognizes the criminal impulse in himself.
 
The second season of Luther debuted on BBC America last Wednesday.
 
Episode two airs Wednesday night at 9 p.m.

Kanye West to debut fashion line in Paris

 

Kanye West visiting Paris last March.
Kanye West visiting Paris last March.

 
Kanye West is expected to debut his fashion line Saturday during Paris Fashion Week.
 
The media has been invited to cover the Kanye West Spring/Summer 2012 fashion show on Oct. 1, the Boston Globe reports.
 
The debut of West’s fashion collection has been rumored for months and the rap star recently attended the Burberry runway show in London.

‘Killer Elite’s’ versatile actor

 

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Check out my article in the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper about actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who is starring in the action movie “Killer Elite,” alongside Jason Statham, Robert De Niro and Clive Owen, which opens Friday.
 
Akinnuoye-Agbaje is known for playing Simon Adebisi in the HBO series “Oz” and Mr. Eko in the ABC drama “Lost.” He has starred in movies such as “The Bourne Identity,” “The Mummy Returns” and “Congo.”

Corinne Bailey Rae remembers 9/11, husband

 
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Corinne Bailey Rae, who was married just two days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, then lost her husband to a drug overdose seven years later, said she empathizes with the families of 9/11.
 
“I think that it’s very sobering being here today and I have a lot of empathy with people who lost family and lost partners in that tragedy,” Rae told the AP Sunday from the front row of a New York Fashion Week show for Edun.
 
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