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Justin Bieber had to leave a monkey in quarantine after landing in Germany last week without the necessary papers for the animal, an official said Saturday.The 19-year-old singer arrived at Munich airport Thursday. When he went through customs, he didn’t have the documentation necessary to take the capuchin monkey into the country, so the animal had to stay with authorities, customs spokesman Thomas Meister said. Bieber performed in Munich on Thursday, beginning the latest leg of his European tour. He later Tweeted: “Munich was a good time. And loud. The bus is headed to Vienna now. U coming?” He didn’t mention the monkey. The Canadian singer is giving several concerts in Austria and then in Germany over the next week. Bieber had a trying stay in London recently. The star struggled with his breathing and fainted backstage at a show, was taken to a hospital and then was caughton camera clashing with a paparazzo. Days earlier, he was booed by his beloved fans when he showed up late to a concert.

Martin Scorsese is developing a TV series basedon his 2002 film Gangs of New York. The director is partnering with Miramax, which released the Oscar-nominated film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis. The planned show doesn’t yet have a TV network. The series expands on the brutal, 19th-century New York gang world of the film. Miramax says the series will chronicle the birth of organized crime in not just New York but also in cities such as Chicago and New Orleans. In a statement Thursday, Scorsese said the era was too rich to fully explore in a two-hour film. He says the series “allows us the time and creative freedom to bring this colorful world, and all the implications it had and still does on our society, to life.”