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Bob Denver, TV's Gilligan, Dies at Age 70 (AP)
AP - Bob Denver, the bumbling namesake of "Gilligan's Island" who embarked on what was supposed to be a three-hour tour and endeared himself to generations of TV fans, has died at age 70. ]]>
Kanye West Won't Detract From NFL Concert (AP)
AP - In his first public appearance since verbally lashing President Bush, rapper Kanye West said he would stick to entertainment at this week's NFL opening kickoff concert. ]]>
Mother of Jackson Accuser Pleads Innocent (AP)
AP - The mother of the boy who accused Michael Jackson of molesting him pleaded not guilty Tuesday to welfare fraud. ]]>
'Transporter 2' Carries Off Audiences (AP)
AP - Audiences were carried away by the high-octane action flick "Transporter 2" over the Labor Day weekend, making it the top weekend movie with a take of $20.1 million.
Connick Surveys Father's Damaged La. Home (AP)
AP - Traveling by boat and wading through foul-smelling water, Harry Connick Jr. surveyed the damage by Hurricane Katrina to his father's New Orleans home. ]]>
Burton's "Corpse Bride" animates Venice film fest (Reuters)
Reuters - In Tim Burton's ghoulish but hilarious
animation movie "Corpse Bride," the world of the dead is full
of color, music and fun while the land of the living is black,
white and oppressive.
Crow, Dixie Chicks among Katrina benefit acts (Reuters)
Reuters - Sheryl Crow, the Dixie
Chicks, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Alicia Keys and
Paul Simon will perform during Friday's Hurricane Katrina
benefit organized by the major broadcast networks. ]]>
Crow, Dixie Chicks among Katrina benefit acts (Reuters)
Reuters - Sheryl Crow, the Dixie
Chicks, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Alicia Keys and
Paul Simon will perform during Friday's Hurricane Katrina
benefit organized by the major broadcast networks. ]]>
Saudi billionaire boosts News Corp. voting stake (Reuters)
Reuters - Saudi Arabian billionaire
investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said Tuesday he now holds a
5.5% voting stake in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and is ready
to raise his stake, especially if it is necessary to shield
Murdoch from any potential hostile takeover attempts by the
likes of John Malone's Liberty Media.
Gary Beach Returns to Broadway's 'Producers,' Following His Own Trail of De Bris (Playbill)
Playbill - Gary Beach will be back on Broadway as crazed impresario Roger De Bris Sept. 6 following a Tony Award-nominated turn in La Cage aux Folles and the shooting of "The Producers" movie, in which he reprises his Tony-winning Roger role.
Burton's "Corpse Bride" animates Venice film fest (Reuters)
Reuters - In Tim Burton's ghoulish but hilarious
animation movie "Corpse Bride," the world of the dead is full
of color, music and fun while the land of the living is black,
white and oppressive.
Bibb joins starting grid for Ferrell pic (Reuters)
Reuters - Leslie Bibb will play
Will Ferrell's wife in Columbia Pictures' untitled NASCAR
comedy shooting in North Carolina.
Brit actor Hunnam in talks for sci-fi thriller (Reuters)
Reuters - English actor Charlie
Hunnam is in talks to join Clive Owen and Julianne Moore in
"Children of Men," based on the book by mystery writer P.D.
James.
'Hard Candy' director has eyes for 'Night' (Reuters)
Reuters - David Slade, who
directed the Sundance breakout "Hard Candy," has signed on to
shoot "30 Days of Night," a low-budget horror based on the
eponymous comic book series.
Not even The Force could save summer box office (Reuters)
Reuters - Science fiction and
fantasy pyrotechnics might have lit up movie screens, but the
summer box office season proved stubbornly lackluster.
Romance & Cigarettes (Reuters)
Reuters - The Judy Garland and Mickey
Rooney spirit is alive and well in John Turturro's "Romance &
Cigarettes" with some top stars including James Gandolfini,
Susan Sarandon, and Kate Winslet gamely putting on a show, but
the sad result is a karaoke nightmare. ]]>
Film review: Elizabethtown (Reuters)
Reuters - There's a winning little road
picture with an appealing couple and great music in
writer/director Cameron Crowe's "Elizabethtown," but it's not
until Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst blow town that it gets up
any speed. ]]>
Everything Is Illuminated (Reuters)
Reuters - In his behind-the-camera
debut, Liev Schreiber brings Jonathan Safran Foer's ambitious
2001 novel "Everything Is Illuminated" to the screen in a
considerably scaled down version that still effectively retains
the book's warm eccentricity and gently persuasive
sentimentality.
Lord of War (Reuters)
Reuters - "Lord of War" is an
oddly satisfying mesh of an international action-adventure with
an extremely dark satire about the global arms trade.
Captain America's Big Shot (E! Online)
E! Online - Spider-Man is about to get company--a lot of it--in makeup. ]]>
Crow, Dixie Chicks among Katrina benefit acts (Reuters)
Reuters - Sheryl Crow, the Dixie
Chicks, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Alicia Keys and
Paul Simon will perform during Friday's Hurricane Katrina
benefit organized by the major broadcast networks. ]]>
Aerosmith's Vegas club show headed to CD (Reuters)
Reuters - Aerosmith kicks out the jams on the
upcoming live disc "Rockin' the Joint," which was taped January
11, 2002, during a rare club show at Las Vegas' the Joint. ]]>
Music video directors get their own DVD series (Reuters)
Reuters - When Palm Pictures
issued a series of DVDs in the winter of 2003 highlighting the
works of music video directors, sales reps struggled to spark
retailer interest. Compilations crafted by relatively obscure
directors are not exactly mass-appeal items.
Cream reuniting for 3 New York shows next month (Reuters)
Reuters - British rock trio Cream, will whip
up a "Strange Brew" for American fans next month when it plays
its first U.S. arena shows since breaking up in 1968, the band
announced on Tuesday. ]]>
Michael Jackson writes song for hurricane relief (Reuters)
Reuters - Pop star Michael Jackson has
written a song for the victims of Hurricane Katrina that he
hopes to record with other top artists and release as a charity
single, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday. ]]>
Androgynous New Yorker wins top U.K. music prize (Reuters)
Reuters - An androgynous New York-based artist who
sings haunting ballads about gender confusion was the surprise
winner of one of Britain's most prestigious music prizes
Tuesday. ]]>
Faith Evans (Reuters)
Reuters - After 10 years, with
four solid albums under her belt, it's disappointing that Faith
Evans isn't more of a household name beyond the strictures of
R&B/hip-hop. At the end of a solid, emotion-drenched two-hour
set on the Sunset Strip Saturday, Evans solidified her
reputation of "The First Lady," also the title of her recently
released album.
Kanye West Won't Detract From NFL Concert (AP)
AP - In his first public appearance since verbally lashing President Bush, rapper Kanye West said he would stick to entertainment at this week's NFL opening kickoff concert. ]]>
NFL Stands by Kanye (E! Online)
E! Online - The National Football League is refusing to punt Kanye West,
despite the rapper's controversial trashing of President Bush's response
to Hurricane Katrina. ]]>
Crow, Armstrong Ready for Marriage (E! Online)
E! Online - All Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong wanna do is have some
fun--oh, and get hitched, too. ]]>
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