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| Primetime ratings slide continues with weak Monday |
6 May 08, 23:53 ET |
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| Reuters - Broadcast networks
received more bad news Monday night, when most shows' ratings
registered week-over-week declines. |
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| Hollywood producers suspend talks with Screen Actors Guild |
6 May 08, 23:47 ET |
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| AP - Hollywood producers on Tuesday temporarily broke off contract talks with the Screen Actors Guild, calling its demands regarding DVD sales and online content "unreasonable." |
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| Time-traveling cop show "Mars" in ABC's orbit |
6 May 08, 23:23 ET |
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| Reuters - ABC is close to picking
up David E. Kelley's pilot "Life on Mars" for series
production. |
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| 'Dancing With the Stars' eliminates another celebrity |
6 May 08, 22:38 ET |
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| AP - It was the 100th episode of "Dancing with the Stars" - but the last for Mario. |
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| Hollywood studios and actors break off labor talks |
6 May 08, 22:36 ET |
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| Reuters - Major studios and the Screen Actors
Guild broke off three weeks of contract talks without agreement
on Tuesday, stoking fears of renewed Hollywood labor unrest
after a 100-day writers strike that ended in February. |
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| Q&A: "Idol" contestant Archuleta finds his voice |
6 May 08, 22:12 ET |
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| Reuters - Just 17, David Archuleta is the
youngest contestant still in the running to win Season 7 of the
Fox contest series "American Idol." In this exclusive Billboard
interview, the Utah native opens up about the vocal paralysis
that almost kept him from singing and discusses his desire to
attend college. |
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| Harrelson and Morton sign for "Messenger" |
6 May 08, 21:53 ET |
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| Reuters - Woody Harrelson and Samantha
Morton have joined the cast of the road movie "The Messenger." |
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| Jack Bruce, the Animals and the Turtles top Hippiefest |
6 May 08, 21:52 ET |
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| Reuters - Jack Bruce of Cream, Eric Burdon
and the Animals, and the Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie will
lead the lineup of the third installment of Hippiefest. |
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| "Babysitters" falls short of intended satire |
6 May 08, 21:50 ET |
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| Reuters - Attempting to be this
generation's "Risky Business," "The Babysitters" is the sort of
ribald morality tale that manages to feel sleazy and decorous
at the same time. |
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| Ellen Page books a classic with "Jane Eyre" role |
6 May 08, 21:48 ET |
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| Reuters - Jane Eyre could be taking
another swoon on the big screen -- with Ellen Page playing the
iconic British character. |
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| Monet painting sold for $41 million at NYC auction |
6 May 08, 21:44 ET |
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| AP - A Claude Monet painting was auctioned Tuesday for more than $41 million, breaking the auction record for the French Impressionist artist. |
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| Yet another `American Idol' hopeful flubs lyrics to a song |
6 May 08, 21:41 ET |
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| AP - "American Idol" hopeful Jason Castro became at least the third contestant this season to flub lyrics to a song. |
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| K-Fed lawyer: Spears' expanded visits recognize 'progress' |
6 May 08, 21:06 ET |
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| AP - Britney Spears will have expanded visits with her sons following a child-custody hearing that went off without a hitch Tuesday, capping a three-month period of relative calm and stability for the troubled pop star and mother of two. |
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| 'Superbad' leads MTV Movie Awards nominees |
6 May 08, 21:02 ET |
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| AP - "Superbad" has supergood chances of winning a trophy at the MTV Movie Awards. |
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| Britney all smiles after custody hearing |
6 May 08, 20:30 ET |
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| AFP - A smiling Britney Spears left a Los Angeles court Tuesday after winning the right to spend more time with her two children, according to her ex-husband's lawyer. |
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| GRANDMA'S TERM OF ENDEARMENT IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR TODDLER |
6 May 08, 20:00 ET |
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| Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law -- I'll call her "Irene" -- refers to our 3-year-old daughter, "Amber," as "sexy." When she buys clothing for Amber, she will say, "This is sexy." When Amber was younger and would pull up her dress in play, Irene would say, "Are you trying to be sexy?" Luckily, when it has happened, Amber either didn't hear or remember her comments. |
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| Jonas Brothers tour getting 3-D film treatment |
6 May 08, 19:55 ET |
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| Reuters - Following in the steps of fellow
Disney teen star Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers will star in a
3-D concert film. |
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| Bootsy Collins to honor James Brown with tribute tour |
6 May 08, 19:54 ET |
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| Reuters - Funk bassist Bootsy Collins is
spearheading a star-studded fall tour, "A Tribute to James
Brown," featuring alumni from Brown's legendary 1970s band the
J.B.'s. |
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| Mellencamp musical to take later bow than planned |
6 May 08, 19:51 ET |
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| Reuters - The John Mellencamp/Stephen King
musical "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," which was set to
open at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre in April 2009, has been
postponed. |
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| Review: `Speed Racer' just spinning its wheels |
6 May 08, 19:20 ET |
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| AP - The Wachowski brothers have tumbled into a matrix of their own with "Speed Racer," one which has rendered them completely out of touch with the outside world. |
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| Common joins "Terminator" cast |
6 May 08, 18:55 ET |
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| Reuters - Rapper Common will have a starring
role in the upcoming fourth installment of the "Terminator"
series, "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins." |
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| Dancing Music Stops for Mario |
6 May 08, 18:31 ET |
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| E! Online - Maybe Mario should have played up the fact that he was dancing with an injured shoulder. The 21-year-old R singer, the youngest contestant on Dancing With the Stars to date, was eliminated from the show Tuesday despite landing in the middle of the pack after last night's ballroom-Latin double feature. |
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| Judy Davis sues Australian newspaper for defamation |
6 May 08, 18:21 ET |
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| AP - Judy Davis told an Australian court Tuesday that she stopped attending her daughter's soccer games out of anguish over newspaper articles she claims suggested she hates children. |
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| Sue Johanson ending `Talk Sex' on Oxygen after six seasons |
6 May 08, 18:03 ET |
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| AP - Sunday night is getting less steamy. |
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| Faster Than a Speeding Bullet, "Superheroes" Takes Museum by Storm |
6 May 08, 18:00 ET |
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| Fashion Wire Daily - Just in time for summer blockbuster season, with comic book-based movies such as "Iron Man" and "The Dark Knight" taking over the collective imagination, comes the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Superheroes" at the Costume Institute, a look at the intersection of fashion and the fantastic and the transformative power of costume as it relates specifically to popular superhero characters. |
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| Idol Note-by-Note: Jason Can't Do Justice to the Bobs |
6 May 08, 17:56 ET |
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| E! Online - Don't miss one song—or one note of British sarcasm—with our performance-show liveblog: |
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| Several big network shows hit low marks in the ratings |
6 May 08, 17:49 ET |
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| AP - The May "sweeps" is precisely the wrong time to hit low marks in the ratings. But several big shows did last week. |
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| Robin Williams Promises Not to Yuck It Up |
6 May 08, 17:09 ET |
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| E! Online - Robin Williams and his wife are vowing to keep it clean, for the kids' sake. |
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| 'Dirty Dancing''s East Coast Bow Will Be in Boston; Connick, 'Chorus Line, Awakening' Also Slated |
6 May 08, 17:04 ET |
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| Playbill - Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story on Stage will make its East Coast premiere in early 2009 when the national tour comes to The Opera House in Boston. |
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| Revised 'Brigadoon' Will Premiere at Colonial in Boston Prior to NYC |
6 May 08, 17:04 ET |
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| Playbill - The mornin' dew of the new revival of Brigadoon will be blinkin' yonder at Boston's Colonial Theatre Oct. 14-Nov. 9. |
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| Livent's Drabinsky and Gottlieb on Trial in Ontario |
6 May 08, 17:04 ET |
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| Playbill - Former Broadway producers Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, the men behind the ambitious, publicly-traded company Livent - devoted to the creation of new plays and musicals - pleaded not guilty to two counts of fraud and one count of forgery in Toronto May 5, when their criminal trial began. |
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| Groban doesn't mind being teased for `most beautiful' list |
6 May 08, 16:10 ET |
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| AP - Josh Groban has been teased by family and friends about landing on People magazine's "most beautiful" list - but he doesn't mind. |
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| Playboy posts quarterly loss, shares drop |
6 May 08, 15:43 ET |
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| Reuters - Adult entertainment publisher Playboy
Enterprises Inc posted a quarterly loss on Tuesday because of
weaker publishing and domestic television revenue and forecast
more trouble during the year, pushing its shares down 8
percent. |
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| Penguin tale tops list of `challenged' books |
6 May 08, 15:42 ET |
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| AP - A children's story about a family of penguins with two fathers once again tops the list of library books the public objects to the most. |
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| Christina Ricci returns to Hollywood blockbusters |
6 May 08, 15:16 ET |
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| Reuters - Turns out Christina Ricci, who has
become a darling of independent film fans, isn't so 'indie'
after all. |
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| Sonny Days Ahead for Britney |
6 May 08, 15:03 ET |
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| E! Online - Time is on Britney Spears' side. More specifically, time for visitation. |
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| The Police to perform final gig in New York |
6 May 08, 14:27 ET |
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| Reuters - The reunion of rock trio The Police
will come to an end this summer with a final concert in New
York that will benefit arts programming for the city's public
television stations, the band announced on Tuesday. |
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| Scarlett Johansson, newly engaged, flashes ring in New York |
6 May 08, 14:24 ET |
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| AP - Hours after confirming her engagement to Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson flashed a diamond ring at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala. |
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| The Police say their final concert will take place in NYC |
6 May 08, 14:03 ET |
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| AP - The Police, who reunited for a 30th-anniversary world tour last year, say their final concert will take place this summer in New York City. |
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| Ex-Motown star says $1M of equipment taken from Detroit home |
6 May 08, 12:50 ET |
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| AP - Detroit City Council member and ex-Motown star Martha Reeves says thieves broke into her childhood home and stole about $1 million worth of uninsured recording equipment. |
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| Vanessa Williams finally getting her degree from Syracuse |
6 May 08, 12:45 ET |
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| AP - Nearly 25 years after leaving Syracuse University, Vanessa Williams will get her bachelor of fine arts degree this weekend. |
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| TV Guide names new top editor after sale closes |
6 May 08, 12:39 ET |
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| AP - TV Guide promoted two executives to top editorial roles Tuesday, days after the previous leadership departed amid the acquisition of the magazine's parent company. |
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| Madonna talks about new album, helping Malawi and turning 50 |
6 May 08, 12:36 ET |
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| AP - Timbaland and the Neptunes are so dominant as producers, they can sometimes upstage the artist they're working with ... unless that artist is Madonna. |
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| Jamie Lynn Goes Out on Top |
6 May 08, 11:37 ET |
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| E! Online - And for her first baby shower present, Jamie Lynn Spears got a hit Zoey 101. One last time. |
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| Lindsay Lohan Wears Coat. Makes Headlines |
6 May 08, 10:04 ET |
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| E! Online - Four months ago, Lindsay Lohan may or may not have accidentally walked out of a NYC nightclub with this $11,000 blond mink coat. |
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| Iraq vet, talk show pioneer pair for anti-war film |
6 May 08, 08:06 ET |
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| Reuters - Phil Donahue met thousands of
intriguing people during three decades as a top TV talk show
host, but it was an inert Iraq war veteran in a hospital bed
that led him to the most compelling story in his life. |
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| NYC jury considers stalking case involving Uma Thurman |
6 May 08, 07:13 ET |
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| AP - The attorney for a man accused of stalking actress Uma Thurman has conceded that his client's behavior was obsessive. A prosecutor went much further, saying the man's actions "terrified" the star. |
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| Actor Judy Davis sues tabloid over child-hater report |
6 May 08, 06:57 ET |
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| AFP - Hollywood star Judy Davis has accused a Sydney tabloid of depicting her as a child-hater for suggesting that a soccer park be moved because residents could be hit by stray balls, reports said Tuesday. |
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| Rock musician Pete Doherty released from jail |
6 May 08, 05:14 ET |
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| AP - Rock musician Pete Doherty has been released from a London jail after serving a partial sentence for breaking his probation. |
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| The Olsens: There Can Be Only One |
6 May 08, 05:11 ET |
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| E! Online - It must have been Mary-Kate's headband that did her in. |
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| Pete Doherty released from jail early |
6 May 08, 04:56 ET |
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| Reuters - British rock musician Pete Doherty
walked out of prison on Tuesday after serving 29 days of a
14-week sentence for breaching the terms of his probation,
British media reported. |
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| Gas Pains |
6 May 08, 03:00 ET |
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| Peter McKay - Last week, I ran out to the supermarket in my wife's station wagon and noticed that the tank was empty. I stopped off to fill it up, and while the gas was running, washed all the windows with the little squeegee thing they have. When I heard the gas pump click off, I turned and glanced at the pump, and nearly had a heart attack right there in the self-serve lane. The little red numbers blinked at $57. |
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| De la Fuente a one-armed 'Dancing' bandit |
6 May 08, 02:52 ET |
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| AP - It may always take two to tango, but it apparently only takes one arm to tango and mambo. |
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| Audrina Sets Sights on Cineplex |
6 May 08, 02:04 ET |
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| E! Online - Audrina Patridge is planning a field trip from the Hollywood Hills to a Hollywood set. |
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| Microsoft brings TV shows from NBC, others to Zune |
6 May 08, 01:56 ET |
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| Reuters - Microsoft Corp said it will start
offering television shows for its Zune portable media device,
more than two years after Apple Inc introduced the feature for
its iPod player. |
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| ABC extends Sunday streak on strength of "Housewives" |
6 May 08, 01:55 ET |
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| Reuters - ABC enjoyed
across-the-board ratings gains Sunday night, with its dramas
climbing slightly from their post-writers'-strike malaise. |
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| Britney Spears expected in court for custody hearing |
6 May 08, 01:41 ET |
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| AP - LOS ANGELES - Exactly three months have passed since Britney Spears slipped away from a psychiatric ward and promptly stirred up a paparazzi car chase, a scene that looked like the beginning of even more erratic behavior for the troubled pop star. |
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| Cruise "Mission" return not impossible: Redstone |
6 May 08, 01:35 ET |
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| Reuters - Sumner Redstone, the executive chairman
of cable network and movie studio owner Viacom Inc, will not
oppose the casting of Tom Cruise in the next installment of the
"Mission: Impossible" movie franchise. |
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| New crop of "Country" wannabes ready to warble |
6 May 08, 01:13 ET |
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| Reuters - Actress Sean Young, 'N
Sync'er Chris Kirkpatrick and former Jackson 5 member Jermaine
Jackson have "Gone Country" at CMT. |
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| Four accept Bitterman's "Job" offer |
6 May 08, 01:11 ET |
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| Reuters - Ron Perlman ("Hellboy"),
Taryn Manning ("Hustle & Flow"), Joe Pantoliano ("The
Sopranos") and Patrick Flueger (USA's series "The 4400") will
star in the darkly comic drama "The Job." |
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| "Runway" stops here for Bravo show's producers |
6 May 08, 01:08 ET |
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| Reuters - Dueling fashion divas
have nothing on the ongoing tug-of-war drama between NBC
Universal and the Weinstein Co. over the cable hit "Project
Runway." |
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| Universal rides with "Knights Templar" |
6 May 08, 01:03 ET |
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| Reuters - Universal has picked up
the mantle of "The Knights Templar," acquiring a spec script on
the historic military order by Adam Torchia and Justin Stanley. |
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| King-Mellencamp musical postponed in Atlanta |
6 May 08, 00:39 ET |
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| AP - A musical by John Mellencamp and Stephen King, scheduled to be produced next season in Atlanta, has been postponed, the Alliance Theatre announced Monday. |
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| "Crashers" remake would break ground in Bollywood |
6 May 08, 00:01 ET |
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| Reuters - A Bollywood version
of "The Wedding Crashers" could be the first authorized remake
of a Hollywood film in India. |
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