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Lucille Ball Tops List of Dead Celebs (AP)
 AP - Lucille Ball is America's most beloved dead star. The company that developed the "Q score" that broadcasters and advertisers quietly consult to measure a personality's popularity has done a survey that tests the reputation of performers who have gone on to that big soundstage in the sky.
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Lil' Kim Wins Order Blocking DVD Release (AP)
 AP - Lil' Kim has won a court order preventing a man who testified against the rapper at her criminal trial from releasing a DVD using her name and image.
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'Sopranos' Adds Eight 'Bonus' Episodes (AP)
 AP - When "The Sopranos" finally arrives next year for its sixth season, fans of the HBO mob drama will get more than they expected.
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Farrell Gets Reprieve in Sex Tape Scandal (AP)
 AP - A judge has extended a temporary restraining order barring an ex-girlfriend of Colin Farrell from marketing a tape of them having sex.
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Films Look at Mexican Border Town Slayings (AP)
 AP - The killings of hundreds of women in this border city have become the focus of Hollywood's camera lenses, with Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas and Minnie Driver starring in movies about them.
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Weekend box office belongs to pimps, bros (Reuters)
Reuters - With lowbrow comedy the
seeming genre of choice this summer, Sony Pictures' "Deuce
Bigalow: European Gigolo" should do some business this weekend.
Lynyrd Skynyrd Postpones Appearances (AP)
 AP - Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd has postponed eight appearances this month because lead singer Johnny Van Zant has inflamed vocal cords.
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TV review: A Father ... A Son .. (Reuters)
Reuters - The calendar says
August, but it's Valentine's Day on HBO.
NBC Universal banks on DreamWorks for enhanced slate (Reuters)
Reuters - As if affected by a series
of rolling earthquakes, the Hollywood studio landscape is in an
upheaval.
Rosie O'Donnell to return to Broadway in 'Fiddler' (Reuters)
Reuters - Former television talk show host Rosie
O'Donnell will return to Broadway in September in a production
of "Fiddler on the Roof," the show's producers said on Monday.
Weekend box office belongs to pimps, bros (Reuters)
Reuters - With lowbrow comedy the
seeming genre of choice this summer, Sony Pictures' "Deuce
Bigalow: European Gigolo" should do some business this weekend.
DreamWorks Swings to Second-Quarter Loss (AP)
 AP - DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. swung to a loss in the second quarter, although the results posted Thursday were slightly better than the bleak fiscal picture the studio outlined last month.
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Farrell Gets Reprieve in Sex Tape Scandal (AP)
AP - A judge has extended a temporary restraining order barring an ex-girlfriend of Colin Farrell from marketing a tape of them having sex.
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Films Look at Mexican Border Town Slayings (AP)
AP - The killings of hundreds of women in this border city have become the focus of Hollywood's camera lenses, with Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas and Minnie Driver starring in movies about them.
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Indie 'Wicker' adds Sobieski, Burstyn to cult (Reuters)
Reuters - Leelee Sobieski and
Ellen Burstyn are joining Nicolas Cage in Neil LaBute's indie
"The Wicker Man," a remake of a 1973 British horror film.
Winterbottom, Jordan pics make Toronto cut (Reuters)
Reuters - The Toronto International
Film Festival (September 8-17) unveiled nearly a dozen world
premieres Tuesday, including the latest from returning
directors Michael Winterbottom and Neil Jordan.
Filmmaker Singleton balances 'popcorn,' serious films (Reuters)
 Reuters - Filmmaker John Singleton, who burst to
prominence with his 1991 social drama "Boyz N the Hood," says
he has to balance his "message" movies with "popcorn" flicks to
support his more serious work.
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North Korea: an outpost of animation? (Reuters)
 Reuters - North Korea is known for producing
ballistic missiles and a nuclear weapons program. But cuddly
cartoon characters?
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Japan war movie sounds nationalist call to arms (Reuters)
 Reuters - Grim-faced foreign agents, armed with a
stolen chemical weapon, take over a Japanese warship and power
toward Tokyo, bent on destroying the metropolis.
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Fake News Abounds, but Vigilance on Rise (AP)
AP - With its official-looking BBC News banner, the Web site looked real enough, but the sick tale it told seemed too preposterous to be true.
Lynyrd Skynyrd Postpones Appearances (AP)
AP - Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd has postponed eight appearances this month because lead singer Johnny Van Zant has inflamed vocal cords.
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Lil' Kim Finally Gets a Win (E! Online)
 E! Online - The
jail-bound rapper won a permanent injunction against a man who allegedly
tried to capitalize on her fame after testifying against the erstwhile
Queen Bee in her federal perjury trial.
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Adams, Sellars Turn Atoms Into Musical Art (AP)
 AP - Peter Sellars has an unusual new creation: turning the world's first atomic bomb project into music.
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Lil' Kim Wins Order Blocking DVD Release (AP)
AP - Lil' Kim has won a court order preventing a man who testified against the rapper at her criminal trial from releasing a DVD using her name and image.
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Bow Wow makes waves on pop singles chart (Reuters)
Reuters - Five years ago, Bow Wow -- then
just 13 years old and known as Lil Bow Wow -- made his debut on
the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
Alice Cooper's "Diamonds" sparkle on albums chart (Reuters)
Reuters - Rock veteran Alice Cooper has his
highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 in 11 years.
'Rent' track leads U.S singles chart debuts (Reuters)
Reuters - The film hasn't opened yet, but a
song from the soundtrack to "Rent" was the top debut on the
Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the week ended August 7.
Hill's "Fireflies" lights up U.S. album charts (Reuters)
Reuters - Country singer Faith Hill earned
her third No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday, but
sales were down considerably from her last studio effort.
Country singer Collin Raye signs with indie label (Reuters)
Reuters - Country singer Collin Raye has
signed a recording deal with startup indie label Aspirion
Records. His first album for the label is due October 25,
preceded by the single "I Know That's Right" in September.
50 Cent's posse busted on gun charge in New York (Reuters)
Reuters - Twelve members of rapper 50 Cent's
entourage have been charged with criminal possession of a
weapon after their vehicle was stopped for running a red light
in New York, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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