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| Entertainment News: Most Emailed |
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| Oprah's couch is safe: Cruise more subdued during taping |
1 May 08, 22:36 ET |
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| AP - Tom Cruise didn't jump on Oprah Winfrey's couch this time. |
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| Jimi Hendrix company says sex tape not genuine |
1 May 08, 22:33 ET |
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| Reuters - The company that controls rights to
rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix's music and likeness said on
Thursday a purported sex tape of the musician being sold on the
Internet was not authentic. |
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| System of a Down duo form new rock band |
1 May 08, 22:19 ET |
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| Reuters - System Of A Down
guitarist/vocalist Daron Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan are
putting the finishing touches on the debut album from their new
rock band Scars On Broadway. |
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| Dwyane Wade on Star Jones rumors: We're just friends |
1 May 08, 22:19 ET |
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| AP - Dwyane Wade has finally spoken up about his alleged romance with Star Jones: "Star is an unbelievable woman. We have a great, great relationship. As friends." |
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| Flashy "Speed Racer" quickly wipes out |
1 May 08, 22:13 ET |
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| Reuters - Amid the push by
filmmakers to deny photo reality in favor of animated
impressionism comes the Wachowski brothers' "Speed Racer," a
movie that gives the sensation of being trapped inside a 3-D
video game. |
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| `Pray the Devil Back to Hell' wins top doc honor at Tribeca |
1 May 08, 22:02 ET |
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| AP - "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," a documentary about the role women played in ending civil war in Liberia, was among the films honored at the seventh annual Tribeca Film Festival. |
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| Rob Lowe's ex-nanny discusses her countersuit, cries |
1 May 08, 21:52 ET |
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| AP - A former nanny for Rob Lowe took part in a dramatic, tear-filled press conference Thursday regarding her lawsuit that accuses the actor's wife of sexual harassment. |
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| Mariah Carey marries Nick Cannon: reports |
1 May 08, 20:49 ET |
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| Reuters - Top-selling recording artist Mariah
Carey and popular rap singer and actor Nick Cannon married this
week in the Bahamas, according to several media reports. |
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| Alicia Keys recruiting backup singer via MySpace |
1 May 08, 20:12 ET |
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| Reuters - Want to be a backup singer for
Alicia Keys? The R star is inviting female singers who are
aged 21 to 30 to "audition" via MySpace. |
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| WIFE CRAVING BUSY RETIREMENT MAY HAVE TO FIND IT BY HERSELF |
1 May 08, 19:59 ET |
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| Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: "Mrs. Couch Potato" (Feb. 28) complained that she's finding in retirement that her husband isn't interested in social activities. Please tell her she's not alone. |
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| Miley Cyrus to skip scheduled Disney red carpet event |
1 May 08, 19:21 ET |
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| AP - Miley Cyrus won't be attending her first scheduled public appearance since Vanity Fair published photos that have thrown her status as a role model for young girls into question, Disney said Thursday. |
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| Fine, driving ban for Nickelback lead singer |
1 May 08, 18:57 ET |
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| Reuters - Chad Kroeger, the
lead singer for Canadian rock band Nickelback, was sentenced on
Thursday to a one-year driving ban and fined C$600 ($590) for
drunken driving. |
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| Cosby brings 'blunt' message to community leaders |
1 May 08, 18:28 ET |
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| AP - Bill Cosby told several hundred people at a conference of community associations Thursday to stand up and confront the ills facing black Americans. |
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| Nick and Mariah Married! |
1 May 08, 18:14 ET |
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| E! Online - Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon aren't just dreamlovers anymore. |
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| Ferrell, Aniston film videos for Myanmar campaign |
1 May 08, 17:44 ET |
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| AP - Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston and Ellen Page are among those lending their celebrity status to a new campaign focusing attention on Myanmar's military-run government. |
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| Review: Online play makes `Mario Kart Wii' a must-have |
1 May 08, 16:15 ET |
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| AP - It's not often that a series installment can stray so little from its past and still make a mark, but "Mario Kart Wii" waves the checkered flag with a 12-player online racing mode that makes the best use of the Wii's Wi-Fi capabilities to date. |
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| Library of Congress unveils high-tech exhibits |
1 May 08, 16:01 ET |
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| AP - The Declaration of Independence looked a bit different before Benjamin Franklin got his hands on it, using a pen to scratch out the words "sacred and undeniable." After all, he thought, it would be better to make these truths "self-evident" that all men are created equal. |
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| Smallville Loses Its Big Bad |
1 May 08, 15:47 ET |
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| E! Online - Lex Luthor apparently feels ready to exercise his evil tendencies on a bigger stage than Smallville. The pre-Superman drama's producers have confirmed that Michael Rosenbaum, who has played the emotionally complex bald baddie since 2001, will be leaving the series at the end of the current season. |
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| Guitarist Loueke's path takes him from Africa to jazz star |
1 May 08, 15:40 ET |
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| AP - Lionel Loueke's name could easily be overlooked among the jazz and pop stars on Herbie Hancock's "River: The Joni Letters," this year's Grammy winner for album of the year. |
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| LA sex charge against `Girls Gone Wild' founder is dropped |
1 May 08, 15:39 ET |
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| AP - A Los Angeles judge has dismissed a sexual battery charge against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis because prosecutors said they were unable to contact his accuser. |
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| Ex-nanny countersues Rob Lowe, wife in LA |
1 May 08, 15:33 ET |
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| AP - A former nanny has countersued Rob Lowe and his wife for sexual harassment. The suit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles alleges that Lowe's wife, Sheryl, walked around naked in front of nanny Laura Boyce and made repeated crude comments about her boyfriend's genitals. It doesn't make any sex allegations against the actor. |
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| "Iron Man" poised to blast box office into summer |
1 May 08, 15:14 ET |
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| Reuters - Hollywood studios are counting on
actor Robert Downey Jr. and his big-screen incarnation as "Iron
Man" to blast them out of a box office slump as the lucrative
summer movie season opens this weekend. |
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| Barbara Walters reveals past affair with US senator |
1 May 08, 15:06 ET |
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| AP - After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant." |
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| Cusack aims to offend with war satire film |
1 May 08, 13:42 ET |
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| Reuters - John Cusack is outraged over the Iraq
war, so the U.S. actor channeled his anger into a low-budget
political satire -- complete with a chorus line of scantily
clad female amputees -- that he hopes will offend. |
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| Fashion's Gaultier to turn Eurovision commentator |
1 May 08, 13:21 ET |
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| AFP - Jean-Paul Gaultier, bad boy of French fashion, is to turn TV commentator for a day for the May 24 Belgrade finals of the Eurovision song contest, the network airing the show said late Wednesday. |
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| Ladies' love literature stirs up Nigeria's Muslim north |
1 May 08, 13:20 ET |
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| AP - Each evening, headscarf-shrouded women seeking romantic advice gather at book stalls lining a rush-hour intersection in Nigeria's Islamic heartland. |
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| Music Review: Dianne Reeves' new CD `When You Know' |
1 May 08, 13:14 ET |
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| AP - Dianne Reeves, "When You Know" (Blue Note Records) |
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| Rodman arrested for alleged domestic violence at LA hotel |
1 May 08, 12:59 ET |
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| AP - Dennis Rodman has been arrested for allegedly hitting a woman at a hotel in the Century City area of Los Angeles. |
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| For CIA tech chief details espionage successes, failures |
1 May 08, 12:36 ET |
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| AP - "Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs From Communism to Al-Qaeda" (Dutton, 549 pages, $29.95), by Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger: International spying could be called a cat and mouse game - a frightened mouse scurrying to outwit a powerful feline. The folks at the Central Intelligence Agency have worked hard with actual dead rats and a live cat, using them in highly specialized CIA ways. |
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| Apple's iTunes sells movies on DVD release date |
1 May 08, 11:05 ET |
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| Reuters - Apple Inc said on Thursday it would
begin selling movie downloads on its iTunes service on the same
day as the titles are released in DVD form, under agreements
with most of the top Hollywood studios. |
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| Uma Thurman at NYC courthouse for trial of accused stalker |
1 May 08, 10:51 ET |
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| AP - Uma Thurman is at a lower Manhattan courthouse, where she is expected to testify against the man accused of stalking her. |
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| Harvey Fierstein is a theater creature |
1 May 08, 08:43 ET |
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| AP - Harvey Fierstein, four-time Tony Award-winning actor, playwright and singer, has just turned down a part in an Adam Sandler movie. |
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| Brooke White: "I've Been Packed for Two Weeks" |
1 May 08, 08:10 ET |
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| E! Online - For Brooke White, being on American Idol was an emotional experience. And leaving it was "kind of a relief." |
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| Ono in fight over copyright of rarely seen Lennon video |
1 May 08, 07:43 ET |
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| AP - They are rare, intimate images of John Lennon just before the breakup of the Beatles: He's hunched over a piano writing songs, smoking pot, joking about putting LSD in President Nixon's tea. |
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| `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world |
1 May 08, 07:28 ET |
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| AP - J.J. Abrams grew up more a fan of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo than of James Kirk and his Vulcan buddy Spock. So why is a self-professed "Star Wars" kid directing "Star Trek"? |
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| Critic accuses Hollywood of vilifying Arabs |
1 May 08, 07:19 ET |
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| Reuters - American films and TV dramas shot since
the September 11 attacks have reinforced screen images of Arabs
and Muslims as fanatics and villains, ingraining harmful
stereotypes, argues an author on the subject. |
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| Moviegoers have "Sex" on the brain: poll |
1 May 08, 06:08 ET |
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| Reuters - Sorry "Iron Man." But moviegoers
have something else on their minds as spring gives way to
summer -- like Sex. |
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| Mariah Carey: A Sloppy-Seconds Engagement? |
1 May 08, 05:20 ET |
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| E! Online - Is this any way to treat a diva? |
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| Gisele Bundchen tops list of high-earning models |
1 May 08, 04:13 ET |
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| Reuters - Brazilian Gisele Bundchen is the
world's top supermodel with estimated earnings of $35 million
during the past year, according to new ranking released on
Wednesday. |
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| R.E.M. guitarist takes aim at bandmates |
1 May 08, 04:11 ET |
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| Reuters - R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck has a
few choice words for his bandmates: Told you so. |
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| Indian megastar Bachchan to play Bangladesh founder |
1 May 08, 03:50 ET |
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| Reuters - Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and
his celebrity family members have all tentatively agreed to
take part in a film based on the life of Bangladesh's founding
leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, local media said on Thursday. |
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| DVD restoration shows how "West" was done |
1 May 08, 03:26 ET |
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| Reuters - Warner Home Video is
gearing up for one of its most ambitious catalog releases ever. |
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| "Sex and the City" back on DVD |
1 May 08, 03:00 ET |
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| Reuters - HBO Video is reissuing
its "Sex and the City: The Complete Series" DVD set in time for
the May 20 release of the "Sex and the City" movie. |
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| Goodbye to All That |
1 May 08, 02:00 ET |
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| Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I'm 34 years old, married for 16 years. |
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| Long-lost Vivaldi opera to play in Prague after 278-year hiatus |
1 May 08, 01:28 ET |
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| AFP - After a 278-year hiatus, a long-lost opera by the Italian Baroque master Antonio Vivaldi will be performed in Prague Saturday in a tour de force for a young Czech conductor with a detective's nose. |
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| Paula Abdul hits a sour note on ailing "Idol" |
1 May 08, 01:16 ET |
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| Reuters - Scandal has always
suited "American Idol." From accusations of voting
irregularities to the secret personal histories of contestants,
Fox's unequaled reality hit produces a flurry of new
controversies every season. |
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| Jewel hoping for country success |
1 May 08, 01:06 ET |
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| Reuters - Pop singer Jewel is going country,
and says she is willing to pay her dues to win acceptance. She
will release her first country album, "Perfectly Clear," on
June 3, and will hit the road with Brad Paisley, beginning June
11 in Albuquerque, N.M. |
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| CBS honcho rips network's extreme fight plan |
1 May 08, 01:02 ET |
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| Reuters - That ringing in your
ears, Les Moonves, was your boss taking you to task for your
plan to bring extreme fighting to CBS. |
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| Studios not willing to accept contract demands by actors |
1 May 08, 00:42 ET |
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| AP - Major Hollywood studios said Wednesday they won't accept pay hikes sought by the Screen Actors Guild in contract talks, suggesting a deal is unlikely before the talks temporarily end later this week. |
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| Celebrity Birthdays |
1 May 08, 00:00 ET |
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| AP - Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 4-10: |
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