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Gonzo Writer Thompson's Ashes Blast Off (AP)
AP - With a deafening boom, the ashes of Hunter S. Thompson were blown into the sky from a 153-foot tower late Saturday as relatives and a star-studded crowd bid an irreverent farewell to the founder of Gonzo journalism. ]]>
Miller Beer Holds 150th Anniversary Bash (AP)
AP - When it's Miller Time, Miller Brewing knows how to party. The nation's second-largest and oldest major brewer threw a 150th birthday bash Saturday with more than 100 descendants of the Miller family attending. ]]>
Brooks Albums to Only Be Sold at Wal-Mart (AP)
AP - Country superstar Garth Brooks has signed an exclusive multiyear contract with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ]]>
Scarborough Won't Challenge Harris in Fla. (AP)
AP - Talk show host and former congressman Joe Scarborough said Saturday he had decided not to challenge U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris in the Republican Senate primary. ]]>
Marc Cohn Recalls Terrifying Shooting (AP)
AP - Grammy-winning singer Marc Cohn says the bullet that lodged in his temple as he rode in a car after a Denver concert earlier this month seemed like "an abstraction" until he heard the footsteps of his alleged assailant and saw his own blood. ]]>
Mourning "Toy Story" Storyteller (E! Online)
E! Online - The story artist's blog might have said it all: "It is the
saddest day at Pixar." ]]>
Tearful Courtney Love ordered into rehab facility (Reuters)
Reuters - A judge ordered a tearful Courtney
Love into an in-patient substance abuse facility on Friday
after the troubled rock singer admitted to violating the terms
of her probation by using drugs. ]]>
Scarborough Won't Challenge Harris in Fla. (AP)
AP - Talk show host and former congressman Joe Scarborough said Saturday he had decided not to challenge U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris in the Republican Senate primary. ]]>
Brooks Albums to Only Be Sold at Wal-Mart (AP)
AP - Country superstar Garth Brooks has signed an exclusive multiyear contract with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ]]>
Theater review: Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams (Reuters)
Reuters - The first few minutes of
"Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams" is played entirely in the
dark, with voices shouting across a blackened stage. The lights
then come on, but all that's really illuminated for the next
two-plus hours is the decline of playwright Terrence McNally,
and Nathan Lane's limits as an actor.
Mourning "Toy Story" Storyteller (E! Online)
E! Online - The story artist's blog might have said it all: "It is the
saddest day at Pixar." ]]>
Actor Seething over "Saw" (E! Online)
E! Online - It seems that Saw is turning into a horror for Cary
Elwes' bank account. ]]>
Clooney Movie to Open N.Y. Film Festival (AP)
AP - The New York Film Festival will say hello on opening night with "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's depiction of McCarthyism and TV news in the 1950s. ]]>
Love Admits Using Drugs; Sent to Rehab (AP)
AP - Courtney Love tearfully admitted using drugs in violation of her probation terms Friday. The rocker-actress was ordered into a 28-day drug treatment program by a judge who said he had wanted to put her in jail. ]]>
Sarajevo Film Festival Now Thriving (AP)
AP - The annual Sarajevo Film Festival opens its doors Friday evening for the 11th time. What began as an act of defiance during the 1992-95 Bosnian war has turned into the most important festival in the Balkans. ]]>
Review: 'Valiant' Is No 'Chicken Run' (AP)
AP - The animated tale "Valiant" certainly is not a documentary about pigeons, yet it captures the essence of those omnipresent urban scavengers: Mildly annoying, sometimes really aggravating, often so bland you don't even notice them. ]]>
Phil Donahue Selling Home for $25 Million (AP)
AP - With a $25 million price tag, the home being put up for sale by Phil Donahue and his actress-wife, Marlo Thomas, is most definitely upscale. ]]>
Disney Investigates Alleged Labor Abuses (AP)
AP - The Walt Disney Co. said Friday it has hired an auditor to investigate claims that its Chinese contractors pay workers below minimum wage, demand excessive overtime and cheat labor monitors by faking pay slips. ]]>
Movie theater owners fire back at studios (Reuters)
Reuters - Tired of being blamed
for the box office slump, the nation's movie theater owners
returned fire Thursday, accusing the studios of delivering
sub-standard product. ]]>
'Left Behind' sequel debuts among pews (Reuters)
Reuters - Hoping to appeal to the
same faith-based audience that played a key role in the success
of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," the apocalyptic
film "Left Behind: World at War" will screen in hundreds of
U.S. churches the weekend of October 21-23, ahead of its
October 25 release on DVD.
Tearful Courtney Love ordered into rehab facility (Reuters)
Reuters - A judge ordered a tearful Courtney
Love into an in-patient substance abuse facility on Friday
after the troubled rock singer admitted to violating the terms
of her probation by using drugs. ]]>
Digital competitors ready to take bite out of Apple (Reuters)
Reuters - Enjoy it while it lasts.
Q&A: Oasis' Noel Gallagher (Reuters)
Reuters - It has often been a rocky decade, but
Oasis has rolled with it.
Miller Beer Holds 150th Anniversary Bash (AP)
AP - When it's Miller Time, Miller Brewing knows how to party. The nation's second-largest and oldest major brewer threw a 150th birthday bash Saturday with more than 100 descendants of the Miller family attending. ]]>
Brooks Albums to Only Be Sold at Wal-Mart (AP)
AP - Country superstar Garth Brooks has signed an exclusive multiyear contract with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ]]>
Iron Maiden Added to Hollywood Rockwalk (AP)
AP - Heavy metal rock band Iron Maiden have put their mark in cement — along with the bony hand of its album cover skeleton mascot, "Eddie." ]]>
Time Running Out on Hendrix Boyhood Home (AP)
AP - Time is running short for a group hoping to make the boyhood home of Jimi Hendrix the centerpiece of a community music center.
Stewart-Harrah's Dispute Goes to Court (AP)
AP - Rod Stewart and gambling giant Harrah's Entertainment are headed to federal court next week in Nevada in a dispute over a canceled casino concert. ]]>
Marc Cohn Recalls Terrifying Shooting (AP)
AP - Grammy-winning singer Marc Cohn says the bullet that lodged in his temple as he rode in a car after a Denver concert earlier this month seemed like "an abstraction" until he heard the footsteps of his alleged assailant and saw his own blood. ]]>
Bluegrass great Vassar Clements dies (Reuters)
Reuters - Acclaimed fiddle virtuoso Vassar
Clements died August 16 of cancer at his daughter's home
outside of Nashville. He was 77.
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