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Rock stars could mean novel Nobel Peace Prize (Reuters)
 Reuters - Irish rock stars Bob Geldof and Bono are
among the bookmakers' tips to win the Nobel Peace Prize on
Friday, alongside more orthodox candidates like campaigners
against nuclear arms or a peace broker for Indonesia.
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Actors Aniston, Pitt put Calif. house on market (Reuters)
 Reuters - Actors Jennifer Aniston and Brad
Pitt, whose highly publicized divorce is expected to be
finalized this week, have placed their Beverly Hills estate on
the market for $28 million, the Los Angeles Times reported on
Sunday.
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Paris Hilton breaks engagement: spokesman (Reuters)
 Reuters - Paris Hilton is breaking off her
five-month-old engagement with tycoon fianc Paris Latsis
because "I feel I'm just not ready for marriage," the actress
and hotel heiress said on Sunday through a spokesman.
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Foster's 'Flightplan' still tops at box office (Reuters)
 Reuters - Jodie Foster stayed aloft at the
North American box office for a second weekend as her airplane
thriller "Flightplan" outdistanced some low-flying competition
and overall sales ended a four-week winning streak.
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Award-winning U.S. playwright August Wilson dies (Reuters)
Reuters - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
August Wilson, whose cycle of plays chronicling 20th-century
African-American life brought a new frankness to the way
theater dealt with race, died of liver cancer on Sunday in
Seattle, a hospital spokesman said. He was 60.
'Flightplan' Lands on Top of Box Office (AP)
 AP - Jodie Foster's "Flightplan" stayed aloft at the box office, as the airplane thriller took in $15 million to remain the No. 1 movie over a rush of new wide releases.
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Canada Reviewing Starbucks Music Plan (AP)
AP - The federal government is reviewing Starbucks Corp.'s proposal to establish a retail music business in Toronto and wants to see if it will offer adequate Canadian content and hire plenty of Canadian workers.
Instincts Took Over for Life-Saving Photog (AP)
 AP - Journalism may be the only profession where someone who helped save more than a dozen lives felt compelled to reassure his bosses that his time was well spent.
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Paramount Backs Blu-Ray Format for DVDs (AP)
AP - Paramount Home Entertainment is the latest company to back the Blu-ray Disc format as the next-generation DVD standard.
Alfred Molina is 'Howard Katz' in American Premiere of Patrick Marber Play (Playbill)
Playbill - Alfred Molina will star in the American debut of Patrick Marber's Howard Katz Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theater early in 2007.
'Flightplan' Lands on Top of Box Office (AP)
AP - Jodie Foster's "Flightplan" stayed aloft at the box office, as the airplane thriller took in $15 million to remain the No. 1 movie over a rush of new wide releases.
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Paramount Backs Blu-Ray Format for DVDs (AP)
AP - Paramount Home Entertainment is the latest company to back the Blu-ray Disc format as the next-generation DVD standard.
Bale, Jackman in talks for Nolan's "Prestige" (Reuters)
Reuters - Christian Bale is in
talks to reunite with "Batman Begins" director Christopher
Nolan in "The Prestige," which would also star Hugh Jackman.
Foster's 'Flightplan' still tops at box office (Reuters)
Reuters - Jodie Foster stayed aloft at the
North American box office for a second weekend as her airplane
thriller "Flightplan" outdistanced some low-flying competition
and overall sales ended a four-week winning streak.
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Norton: Latest Character Is Like the U.S. (AP)
 AP - Edward Norton says his latest role as an arrogant British doctor out to change the world is a little like today's America.
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Manson film lets 'Freak' flag fly (Reuters)
Reuters - It is a war-torn 3069: Tattered
survivors are hungry, ravaged, neglected. Enter Charles Manson,
played by Billie Joe Armstrong, as the messiah.
Renee Has "Eye" on Horror (E! Online)
 E! Online - Renee Zellweger is
setting her sights on a reunion with her Jerry Maguire costar Tom
Cruise in The Eye.
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Tara Reid Laments Her Rep As Party Girl (AP)
 AP - Tara Reid wants to prove she's a great actress instead of a party girl. The actress says the media has unfairly represented her and that she just needs a good movie to break the stereotype.
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Review: Sci-Fi Film 'Serenity' Engaging (AP)
 AP - You can see how "Firefly," the short-lived TV show that provided the basis for "Serenity," could have gotten addictive if given the chance.
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Spacek, Redgrave Headline Va. Film Fest (AP)
AP - Sissy Spacek and Vanessa Redgrave will be among the stars at the 2005 Virginia Film Festival Oct. 27-30.
Canada Reviewing Starbucks Music Plan (AP)
AP - The federal government is reviewing Starbucks Corp.'s proposal to establish a retail music business in Toronto and wants to see if it will offer adequate Canadian content and hire plenty of Canadian workers.
Anesthesiologists Take Pride in Music (AP)
 AP - General anesthesia or local? Hip-hop or Sinatra? These are among the decisions facing Dr. Frank Gentile in his double-duty job as anesthesiologist and self-styled DJ of the OR.
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Melissa Etheridge Works on Sitcom for ABC (AP)
 AP - Melissa Etheridge says she's working on a sitcom. The show, still in development with ABC, is about "what my life might have been like had I not left to find my fame and fortune, and stayed in Kansas and became a teacher and been gay and dealt with life there," Etheridge told Time magazine.
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Rocker Pete Doherty Detained in Drug Sweep (AP)
 AP - Pete Doherty, the rock musician boyfriend of Kate Moss, was detained by British police in a drug sweep, his spokesman said Sunday.
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NAACP Protests Racist Ga. Music Festival (AP)
AP - State troopers planned to be on hand Sunday in rural Paulding County on the final day of Hammerfest 2005, an annual gathering that features white supremacist rock bands.
Freeman: Mississippi Will Rise Again (AP)
 AP - Actor Morgan Freeman opened a star-studded benefit concert for hurricane victims Saturday, telling a national television audience that the state he calls home "will rise again" from the ruins of the storm's destruction.
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Singer Marries Ex-Ukraine PM's Daughter (AP)
 AP - A British heavy metal singer married the daughter of Ukraine's ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Sunday in a ceremony that attracted a swarm of journalists and at least 100 well-wishers eager for a glimpse of the famous mother-in-law.
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Biloxi down but not out after bout with Katrina (Reuters)
Reuters - Bill Holmes, executive director of
the Mississippi Coast Coliseum & Convention Center in Biloxi,
says his city, his entertainment market and his arena are badly
bent but not broken.
Wu-Tang Clan checks in with hip-hop underground (Reuters)
Reuters - Compilations rarely get labels or
retailers excited these days. Yet when Babygrande Records
founder Chuck Wilson received a pitch on an album that combines
the production talents of Wu-Tang Clan members with hip-hop's
underground stars, he could not resist.
Touring country acts keep kickin' up cash (Reuters)
Reuters - For country music touring, these
are the best of times. And the good news is, the times are
getting better.
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