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Rep: Wilson Won't Use Skoal Can in Concert (AP)
 AP - Country music's "Redneck Woman" promises to keep her can of Skoal in her back pocket from now on. Tennessee's attorney general had asked Gretchen Wilson not to pull out a can of smokeless tobacco during performances of her new song "Skoal Ring" because it glamorized tobacco use.
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Farley Gets Posthumous Walk of Fame Star (AP)
 AP - Comedian Chris Farley was a motivational speaker, a rabid fan and a topless dancer on "Saturday Night Live." On Friday, the late comic was the toast of his castmates as they honored him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Eminem Sued Over Tour Bus Accident (AP)
 AP - A lawsuit was filed Thursday against Eminem, his bus driver and tour bus company seeking unspecified damages for a July accident involving seven vehicles in western Missouri.
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Winfrey 'Furious' at Snubbing Allegations (AP)
 AP - Oprah Winfrey said she is "furious" at allegations that her absence at the recent funeral for Ebony and Jet magazines founder John H. Johnson was a snub of the pioneering black publisher.
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TV Anchor Sues Former Color Me Badd Singer (AP)
 AP - Bryan Abrams, a former singer with the 1990s boy band Color Me Badd, is being sued for $16,000 that his ex-wife alleges he owes in back child support.
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Runaway teen actress slept in park near Calif. home (Reuters)
 Reuters - A teen actress who ran away from
home slept in a park until a concerned family took her in --
and was found only after a boy boasted to schoolmates a movie
star was living in his house, police said on Friday.
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Missing Music Producer Found, Hospitalized (AP)
AP - The nearly weeklong search for a Grammy-nominated producer ended Friday after a resident spotted the man sitting naked in a backyard creek, washing his jeans.
Advertisers Now Desperate for "Housewives" (E! Online)
 E! Online - Madison Avenue is beginning to look a lot like Wisteria Lane.
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Pixar Shares Dip on Report of SEC Inquiry (AP)
AP - Shares of Pixar Animation Studios Inc. fell nearly 2.5 percent Friday after a published report said the Securities and Exchange Commission Inc. has requested information leading up to the filmmaker's report earlier this month of lower second-quarter earnings.
U.S. playwright August Wilson dying of liver cancer (Reuters)
Reuters - August Wilson, an award-winning
playwright who focuses on the lives of African-Americans, has
liver cancer and may have only months to live, a spokeswoman
for Wilson said on Friday.
Runaway teen actress slept in park near Calif. home (Reuters)
Reuters - A teen actress who ran away from
home slept in a park until a concerned family took her in --
and was found only after a boy boasted to schoolmates a movie
star was living in his house, police said on Friday.
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Farley Gets Posthumous Walk of Fame Star (AP)
AP - Comedian Chris Farley was a motivational speaker, a rabid fan and a topless dancer on "Saturday Night Live." On Friday, the late comic was the toast of his castmates as they honored him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Pixar Shares Dip on Report of SEC Inquiry (AP)
AP - Shares of Pixar Animation Studios Inc. fell nearly 2.5 percent Friday after a published report said the Securities and Exchange Commission Inc. has requested information leading up to the filmmaker's report earlier this month of lower second-quarter earnings.
Teen Actress Slept at Park, Someone's Home (AP)
 AP - A teen actress who apparently ran away from home spent nearly two weeks sleeping at a park and at the residence of a family that took her in, police said.
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Redford and Newman may pair up again on screen (Reuters)
 Reuters - Robert Redford may soon be reunited on
screen with Paul Newman but don't expect a sequel to "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" or "The Sting," which paired one
of Hollywood's most popular double acts three decades ago.
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Quartet sailing with 'Blackbeard' miniseries (Reuters)
Reuters - Just before moviegoers
get their second dose of "Pirates of the Caribbean," Hallmark
Channel will bring TV viewers its own swashbuckling actioner in
the form of a four-hour miniseries titled "Blackbeard."
Revenge, an octopus and acclaim for S.Korea's Park (Reuters)
Reuters - Revenge may be a dish best served cold,
but South Korean director Park Chan-wook put live octopus on
the menu of his award-winning movie on getting your own back.
A happy beginning for 'Grimm' at box office (Reuters)
 Reuters - With summer drawing to a
close in Hollywood, the studios will try to draw weekend crowds
at a time when the focus is more on back to school than
moviegoing.
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Duo materializing for 'Invisible' (Reuters)
Reuters - Justin Chatwin, who
played Tom Cruise's son in "War of the Worlds," is in talks to
star in "The Invisible," a Disney supernatural thriller being
directed by David S. Goyer, the writer of the "Blade" trilogy.
Disney makes 'Wise' move with Wal-Mart (Reuters)
Reuters - In a move that reflects
the growing clout of big retailers, the Walt Disney Co. is
giving Wal-Mart exclusive sales rights through the end of the
year to the animated holiday feature film "The 3 Wise Men,"
which debuts on DVD November 1.
Missing Music Producer Found, Hospitalized (AP)
AP - The nearly weeklong search for a Grammy-nominated producer ended Friday after a resident spotted the man sitting naked in a backyard creek, washing his jeans.
Rapper Saigon snags place in 'Entourage' (Reuters)
Reuters - Art imitated life on the August 21
episode of HBO series "Entourage" when up-and-coming rapper
Saigon was introduced on the show.
Kanye West confident about Grammy follow-up (Reuters)
 Reuters - For those familiar with Kanye
West's well-documented braggadocio, it may come as a surprise
that the rapper/producer found plenty wrong with his Grammy
Award-winning debut, "The College Dropout." With his sophomore
effort, "Late Registration" (due August 30 on Roc-a-Fella/Def
Jam), West aimed to correct his perceived flaws in flow,
engineering, instrumentation and lyrics.
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Country artist Toby Keith reveals label, film plans (Reuters)
Reuters - Using the slogan "The only thing we
take seriously is the music," country superstar Toby Keith and
veteran Nashville record executive Scott Borchetta will kick
off their new joint label venture September 1. They already
have signed a handful of artists and secured a major
distribution deal.
Red-hot Coldplay plans spring tour (Reuters)
 Reuters - Coldplay's ongoing Twisted Logic
tour is doing huge business at the box office in North America,
but the U.K. group already has its sights set on a return
engagement.
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Sharon Osbourne admits role in Iron Maiden flap (Reuters)
Reuters - In a statement released Thursday
night, Ozzfest organizer Sharon Osbourne admitted a role in the
incident that marred Iron Maiden's August 20 tour performance
in Devore, Calif. -- specifically, that she cut off the band's
sound on several occasions.
Rep: Wilson Won't Use Skoal Can in Concert (AP)
AP - Country music's "Redneck Woman" promises to keep her can of Skoal in her back pocket from now on. Tennessee's attorney general had asked Gretchen Wilson not to pull out a can of smokeless tobacco during performances of her new song "Skoal Ring" because it glamorized tobacco use.
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Eminem Broadsided over Bus Crash (E! Online)
 E! Online - Just a week after
checking into rehab to kick a pill habit, the Grammy-winning hip-hop
mega-star is facing a potentially big-bucks lawsuit over a tour bus
accident.
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Gretchen Wilson Chewed Out (E! Online)
 E! Online - Gretchen Wilson might be a Redneck Woman, but she also wants to be
a good role model.
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Duff, Slash Gunning for Axl (E! Online)
 E! Online - The bad blood among the ex-members of Guns N' Roses has boiled over
into a federal case.
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