Paul McCartney canceled his second concert in Tokyo on Sunday, as well as the makeup performance for the one canceled a day earlier, and apologized to his fans for still being sick with a virus. The former Beatle said on his Out There Japan Tour 2014 website that he wanted to perform Sunday against doctors’ orders, but that his team wouldn’t allow it. “Unfortunately my condition has not improved overnight,” he said. “I was really hoping that I’d be feeling better today. I’m so disappointed and sorry to be letting my fans down.” McCartney, 71, got sick Friday and canceled his concert at the National Stadium in Tokyo at the last minute Saturday. But he had promised to be well enough to perform Sunday and do an additional concert today. The tour site said McCartney instructed his team to look into rescheduling options. Ticket holders were advised to hold on to them, but where and when the concerts would be held was unclear. Organizers said McCartney’s scheduled performance was still on for Wednesday at Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, the same venue where the Beatles took the stage during their visit to Japan in 1966.
The megawatt cast of The Expendables 3 made a splashy debut at Cannes, France on Sunday, rolling down the famous Croisette in tanks as a throng of onlookers and media members jostled for a better view of its cargo: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas and Jason Statham, among others. “The chance to work with all these guys is very, very rare,” said Stallone, the film’s original star and creator, sitting between Schwarzenegger and Gibson at a news conference. The third edition of the film series includes younger stars such as Kellan Lutz and Ronda Rousey (the only woman in the cast), as well as Wesley Snipes and Kelsey Grammer. Ford called joining the cast “a lot of fun.” There were plenty of compliments: Schwarzenegger called Stallone one of his “great inspirations, while Stallone gushed about the former California governor’s great mind; Banderas said he was honored, as a Spaniard, to be included. The cast also cracked jokes at the expense of each other, and themselves: Age was a natural target, given the advanced age of most of its top-billed stars. “I think Lincoln was in the White House when we first met,” said Stallone, 67, about Ford, 71.