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| Another celebrity is finished on `Dancing With the Stars' |
29 Apr 08, 22:49 ET |
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| AP - Shannon Elizabeth won't have to shed any more tears over "Dancing With the Stars." |
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| Superheroes seek box office invincibility |
29 Apr 08, 22:12 ET |
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| Reuters - "Iron Man," which opens
across North America on Thursday night, not only kicks off
Hollywood's extended summer movie season, it supercharges what
is shaping up as the biggest season ever for comic book-to-film
transfers. |
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| TV's "CSI" star Gary Dourdan faces drug charges |
29 Apr 08, 21:47 ET |
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| Reuters - Actor Gary Dourdan, who co-stars on
the CBS television hit "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," has
been arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine, heroin and
other drugs, police said on Tuesday. |
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| Radiohead says no more music freebies |
29 Apr 08, 21:41 ET |
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| Reuters - It was a pivotal moment for
the music industry which many thought sounded the death knell
for recorded music sales, but Radiohead won't be repeating its
initiative to let fans pay what they want for their downloads,
The English rock band's frontman said Tuesday. |
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| 'Girls Gone Wild': Video proves call girl agreed to appear |
29 Apr 08, 21:11 ET |
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| AP - The founder of "Girls Gone Wild" released a video Tuesday that he said proved the call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor agreed to be filmed in 2003. |
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| Carly Simon: Nobody does it better than Brooke on 'Idol' |
29 Apr 08, 21:09 ET |
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| AP - Carly Simon has more than a passing interest in this season's "American Idol" and leaves no mystery about who's her favorite remaining finalist - Brooke White. |
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| LOWBROW GOSSIPING IS TOPIC OF HIGH INTEREST |
29 Apr 08, 19:58 ET |
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| Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: I live in a medium-sized community where a lot of people know one another. I often hear them discuss such private matters as the state of someone's marriage, their finances, etc. Even if they don't know if what they're saying is true, they still repeat it. |
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| Prosecutors decline to charge rapper Vanilla Ice |
29 Apr 08, 19:53 ET |
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| AP - Authorities decided against prosecuting Vanilla Ice for a domestic battery charge since his wife recanted her original statement. |
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| David Blaine's next stunt to be conducted on Winfrey's show |
29 Apr 08, 19:52 ET |
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| AP - He spent 44 days suspended from a glass box by the River Thames in London. He was buried alive for a week in a see-through coffin in New York. |
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| Meirelles' `Blindness' to open Cannes Film Festival |
29 Apr 08, 19:15 ET |
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| AP - "Blindness," a Fernando Meirelles movie starring Julianne Moore, will open this year's Cannes Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday. |
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| Purported Jimi Hendrix sex tape sold online |
29 Apr 08, 18:47 ET |
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| Reuters - A videotape said to show rock
guitar great Jimi Hendrix having sex with two women was
released for sale on the Internet on Tuesday, following a wave
of stars, alive and dead, showing up in homemade porn. |
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| For its final season, `ER' will have Angela Bassett in cast |
29 Apr 08, 18:37 ET |
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| AP - Angela Bassett will don the white coat for the final season of "ER." |
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| 'CSI' co-star Gary Dourdan arrested for drugs |
29 Apr 08, 18:35 ET |
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| AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "CSI" co-star Gary Dourdan was arrested Monday for possession of narcotics and dangerous drugs, police said. The 41-year-old actor was found asleep in his car by the Palm Springs Police Department, authorities said. |
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| Katie Couric's ratings still sinking |
29 Apr 08, 18:28 ET |
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| AP - The "CBS Evening News" audience has taken a noticeable dip ever since the latest round of speculation over Katie Couric's job. The broadcast averaged 5.34 million viewers last week, breaking a record low for CBS News' flagship show that had been set the week before, according to Nielsen Media Research. |
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| Woodstock museum to open June 2 |
29 Apr 08, 18:21 ET |
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| AFP - A museum dedicated to the 1969 Woodstock music festival is scheduled to open on June 2 at a farm in upstate New York where the event was held, organizers said Tuesday. |
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| Inflatable pig lost after Roger Waters' Coachella set |
29 Apr 08, 18:12 ET |
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| AP - Have you seen this pig? It's huge, inflatable, features the word "Obama" and it has lost its way in the California desert. |
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| Elevator Repair Service celebrates stream-of-consciousness |
29 Apr 08, 17:39 ET |
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| AP - In its new staging of "The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)," experimental theater troupe Elevator Repair Service (ERS) has created a new form of dramatic expression: stream-of-consciousness theater. |
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| 'All the More to Love', a Plus-Size Musical, Will Premiere at Laguna Playhouse |
29 Apr 08, 17:31 ET |
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| Playbill - The 2008-09 season at The Laguna Playhouse in California will include the world-premiere musical, All the More to Love, about habitués of a plus-size consignment shop. |
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| Dinosaur dung, other ancient finds go up for auction in NYC |
29 Apr 08, 17:27 ET |
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| AP - It may look like a geologic find, but the three-pound red and white fossil heading for auction in New York is actually a pile of dinosaur dung. |
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| Roger Waters' pig lost, again |
29 Apr 08, 17:21 ET |
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| Reuters - Organizers of a major California
music festival are offering a $10,000 reward and four festival
tickets for life in exchange for ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger
Waters' two-story inflatable pig, which was lost on Sunday
night. |
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| Sweet reviews for Madonna's "Hard Candy" |
29 Apr 08, 17:19 ET |
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| Reuters - As parting gifts go, Madonna's 11th
studio album -- and her last before she exits long-term record
label Warner Bros. -- is unusually generous, if early reviews
are to be believed. |
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| McCready Throws Clemens a Curveball |
29 Apr 08, 17:00 ET |
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| E! Online - Although beggars can't be choosers, Roger Clemens would have probably preferred a less inflammatory distraction from those pesky steroid allegations. |
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| Glen Campbell covering U2 on new album |
29 Apr 08, 16:40 ET |
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| Reuters - The Rhinestone Cowboy is trying on
some more fashionable threads. |
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| Top 5 lists in TV, Film, Music, Concert Tours, Video, DVDs |
29 Apr 08, 16:33 ET |
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| AP - 1. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox. |
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| Robert Downey Jr.'s career on high-flying track in "Iron Man" |
29 Apr 08, 16:30 ET |
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| Reuters - It took comic book heroics and
major studio clout but when "Iron Man" debuts in movie theaters
this week, Robert Downey Jr. will have completed a roundtrip
from showbiz boy wonder to fallen star and back again. |
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| Lennon's `Give Peace a Chance' lyrics to be sold in July |
29 Apr 08, 15:37 ET |
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| AP - When John Lennon gave Gail Renard the scribbled lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance" in 1969, he told the teen to hold on to the piece of paper. |
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| Music Review: Def Leppard `Sparkles' on new studio CD |
29 Apr 08, 15:32 ET |
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| AP - Def Leppard, "Songs from the Sparkle Lounge" (Bludgeon Riffola): Closing in on 30 years as arena rock staples, give Def Leppard credit for keeping it fresh and somewhat surprising on their first studio album in six years. |
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| Jurors hear closing argument in Hollywood wiretaps case |
29 Apr 08, 14:52 ET |
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| AP - A federal prosecutor has told jurors that private investigator Anthony Pellicano was a well-paid thug who illegally obtained information through wiretaps and other means to benefit his Hollywood A-list clientele. |
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| Winehouse working on potential James Bond theme |
29 Apr 08, 14:41 ET |
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| Reuters - Amy Winehouse might well be working on
the theme song to the next installment of the James Bond
series, but her record company is downplaying the move. |
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| Eric Mabius of ABC's `Ugly Betty' is no playboy in real life |
29 Apr 08, 14:15 ET |
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| AP - Eric Mabius is cast as playboy editor Daniel Meade on ABC's "Ugly Betty," but in real life, he's married to a former ninth-grade classmate. |
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| 'Good Indian Wife' contrasts Indian, American marriages |
29 Apr 08, 13:54 ET |
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| AP - "A Good Indian Wife" (W.W. Norton & Co., 320 pages. $23.95), by Anne Cherian: For first- and second-generation Indo-Americans, the exercise of courting a mate can be fraught with cultural conflict. |
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| Alleged Jimi Hendrix sex tape to be released |
29 Apr 08, 13:50 ET |
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| AP - Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix. |
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| Looming Leno-Conan handoff sets up late-night guessing game |
29 Apr 08, 13:22 ET |
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| AP - An orderly transfer of power: Is it possible? |
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| `Dancing With the Stars' Cristian de la Fuente cramps up |
29 Apr 08, 13:06 ET |
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| AP - Getting through the samba was painful for Cristian de la Fuente on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." |
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| 'Give Peace A Chance' lyrics going on sale in London |
29 Apr 08, 12:47 ET |
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| AFP - Lyrics to the song "Give Peace A Chance", handwritten by John Lennon, are expected to sell for up to 300,000 pounds (380,000 euros, 592,500 dollars) in July, auctioneers Christie's said Tuesday. |
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| 'Iron Man,' Schmiron Man: Terrence Howard just wants to sing |
29 Apr 08, 12:34 ET |
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| AP - Terrence Howard is having a dream season for an actor, starring in one of the summer's biggest movies with the superhero flick "Iron Man" and collecting critical acclaim for his Broadway role in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." |
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| Mario Denies Karina Split: "It's All Good" |
29 Apr 08, 11:39 ET |
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| E! Online - Karina Smirnoff and Mario Lopez aren't ready to end their pas de deux just yet. |
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| CSI Dourdan's Desert Drug Bust |
29 Apr 08, 10:58 ET |
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| E! Online - Gary Dourdan should know better than anyone that crime doesn't pay. |
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| Lauren Conrad's New Man ID'd? |
29 Apr 08, 10:41 ET |
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| E! Online - Finally, a potential pairing that could eclipse Heidi and Spencer's screen time as The Hills' resident sweethearts! |
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| Wagner festival director to step down |
29 Apr 08, 09:37 ET |
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| AP - Wolfgang Wagner is stepping down after 57 years as director of the Bayreuth opera festival founded by his grandfather, the composer Richard Wagner, Bavaria's culture minister said Tuesday. |
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| "Give Peace a Chance" lyrics up for sale |
29 Apr 08, 08:38 ET |
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| Reuters - John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the
hit song "Give Peace a Chance" will go under the hammer at
auction in July and are expected to fetch 200-300,000 pounds
($400-600,000), Christie's said on Tuesday. |
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| Mariah makes another road-trip flick |
29 Apr 08, 08:30 ET |
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| Reuters - Seven years after making what is
widely regarded as one of the worst movies ever, Mariah Carey
is back with another road-trip flick. |
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| Jerry Springer to deliver Northwestern Law commencement |
29 Apr 08, 07:40 ET |
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| AP - Talk show host Jerry Springer accepted an invitation to give the commencement address at Northwestern University School of Law, despite student-generated petitions and blogs claiming he is an unsuitable choice. |
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| CBS' Butler says he isn't sure who kidnapped him in Iraq |
29 Apr 08, 07:24 ET |
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| AP - CBS News journalist Richard Butler said he believes he was kidnapped in Iraq by policemen with sympathies toward the Hezbollah but isn't entirely sure who held him captive for two months or why. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots singer Weiland pleads no contest to DUI |
29 Apr 08, 07:18 ET |
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| AP - Scott Weiland has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge and was sentenced to eight days in jail. |
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| Review: `Iron Man' a blockbuster with a brain |
29 Apr 08, 07:03 ET |
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| AP - Much of the allure of "Iron Man" comes from the fact that we are indeed talking about a man - a real man who has lived a life and made mistakes and experienced regret - not some scrawny, teenage boy who received his superhero powers through a bite from a radioactive spider. |
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| Hannah Montana Crisis Fits the Bill |
29 Apr 08, 06:14 ET |
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| E! Online - Her name may be Hannah Montana, but Minnesota is clearly more her state. |
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| Friend's slaying inspires `Sacred Stones' art series |
29 Apr 08, 05:22 ET |
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| AP - Artist Kearine Muizz draws her greatest inspiration from places many people spend their lives trying to avoid - cemeteries. |
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| Mel Gibson to star in first movie since 2002 |
29 Apr 08, 04:18 ET |
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| Reuters - Mel Gibson, who has kept a low
profile since his drunken anti-Semitic outburst in July 2006,
is set to headline his first feature film since 2002, Daily
Variety reported on Tuesday. |
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| Cusack comedy "War" good for nothing |
29 Apr 08, 03:28 ET |
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| Reuters - The ambitions and
intentions of "War, Inc.," co-written by and starring John
Cusack, are laudable but the film is a nearly complete misfire. |
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| Slumping CW needs parental help, edgier shows |
29 Apr 08, 03:18 ET |
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| Reuters - The CW is down 27% this
year in its target demographic, adults aged 18 to 34. |
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| Quick, Robin! To the Mancave! |
29 Apr 08, 03:00 ET |
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| Peter McKay - About a year and a half ago, I came up with a brilliant idea. My wife worked at home as a journalist, but her home office was located in a cramped little room at the back of our house. It was cold in the winter, hot in the summer, and too close to kids, distractions, and, as she pointed out, me. |
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| Angela Bassett makes rounds for last "ER" shift |
29 Apr 08, 02:59 ET |
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| Reuters - "ER" is adding star
power for its final season. Angela Bassett will join the cast
of the medical drama as a regular in the fall, the first
full-time series gig for the Oscar-nominated star of "What's
Love Got to Do With It." |
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| Pellicano case heads to jury |
29 Apr 08, 02:10 ET |
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| Reuters - After more than 30 days,
at least three mistrial hearings and testimony from Hollywood
A-listers, jurors in the federal government's wiretapping and
racketeering trial against celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano
will get the case this week. |
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| "Iron Man" flying into theaters Thursday |
29 Apr 08, 02:08 ET |
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| Reuters - The first big release of
the lucrative summer moviegoing season will actually come out
in the final four hours of the spring. |
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| Neville Brothers reign as first family of funk |
29 Apr 08, 01:22 ET |
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| Reuters - When the last spit of Abita beer has
been squeezed from a tap in the Jazz Fest 2008 food court next
Sunday, New Orleans will get back to its roots -- celebrating
the close of another Jazz Fest with the Neville Brothers, there
to mark their 30 years as a band. |
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| Katrina scatters Neville Brothers across America |
29 Apr 08, 01:20 ET |
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| Reuters - Until Hurricane Katrina swept
through New Orleans in 2005, leaving devastation and massive
flooding in its wake, the Neville Brothers had spent their
whole lives living in the Crescent City. |
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| "Witch Mountain" kids return for remake |
29 Apr 08, 01:19 ET |
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| Reuters - Kim Richards and Ike
Eisenmann, the original kid stars of Disney's 1970s "Witch
Mountain" movies, are coming back for the studio's re-imagining
of the adventure tales. |
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