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"Lost" actor, wife robbed at gunpoint in home (Reuters)
 Reuters - A cast member of the Emmy-winning
TV series "Lost" and his wife were robbed at gunpoint in their
Honolulu home, police and a spokeswoman for the actor said on
Thursday.
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Next Bond to be revealed, ending months of mystery (Reuters)
 Reuters - The next man to play super spy James
Bond is due to be revealed on Friday, and Englishman Daniel
Craig is favorite to take over from Pierce Brosnan on Her
Majesty's secret service.
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Eric Clapton to tell life story "warts and all" (Reuters)
 Reuters - Eric Clapton will follow musicians Bob
Dylan and Sting with a book about his life, telling of his 40
years as the top rock and blues guitarist of his age in which
he went "to hell and back," publisher Doubleday said on
Thursday.
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Actress Tori Spelling and husband to divorce (Reuters)
Reuters - Former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star
Tori Spelling and her husband are getting divorced, just 15
months after they were married.
INXS create new sensation on US charts (Reuters)
 Reuters - With a new lead singer chosen by
the viewers of the CBS reality series "Rock Star: INXS," the
Australian band returned to the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart
Thursday after an absence of 12 and a half years.
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Staying true to herself, Foster passes star test (Reuters)
 Reuters - Today's quiz: 10 true or
false questions about female movie stars:
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Elvis Shirt Disappears From Texas Fair (AP)
AP - A blue silk shirt worn by Elvis Presley has been swiped from a State Fair of Texas exhibit.
Tori Spelling's Husband Seeks Divorce (AP)
AP - Tori Spelling's husband has filed for divorce, a little more than a year after the couple married.
MTV acquires IFILM to expand Web presence (Reuters)
 Reuters - MTV Networks on Thursday said it
acquired IFILM, an Internet provider of short films, news clips
and other video snippets, for $49 million as part of its
ongoing effort to expand its presence on the Web.
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Public Is Welcome at Re-Dedication of Broadway's Virginia Theatre as August Wilson Theatre (Playbill)
Playbill - The public is invited on a first come, first served basis to attend the re-dedication ceremony of the August Wilson Theatre, recently known as the Virginia, on Oct. 16 at 8 PM.
Staying true to herself, Foster passes star test (Reuters)
Reuters - Today's quiz: 10 true or
false questions about female movie stars:
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Moviegoers poised for trip to 'Elizabethtown' (Reuters)
Reuters - Three wide releases will
open in theaters this weekend, providing an alternative to the
Major League Baseball playoffs. But none is likely to cross the
$20 million mark, keeping overall sales down yet again.
Universal to release "King Kong" diaries DVD (Reuters)
Reuters - Universal is taking a novel
approach to marketing its upcoming, big-budget film "King Kong"
by releasing a DVD documenting the making of the movie a day
before the film hits theaters.
Film stunt performers seek respect after Oscar snub (Reuters)
Reuters - It's not easy being set on fire,
but it can be even harder to act calm while suspended 400 feet
off the ground when your safety equipment fails.
Name of James Bond Star to Be Revealed (AP)
 AP - The suspense is almost over. The name of the actor who will take over from Pierce Brosnan in the next James Bond film will be revealed Friday at a press conference, Sony Pictures said Thursday.
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Next Bond to be revealed, ending months of mystery (Reuters)
 Reuters - The next man to play super spy James
Bond is due to be revealed on Friday, and Englishman Daniel
Craig is favorite to take over from Pierce Brosnan on Her
Majesty's secret service.
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Hollywood Sets Often Breed Their Own Slang (AP)
 AP - MGM in the mid-1940s was a reporter's paradise. The mammoth sound stages were abuzz with at least eight features at once, with such names as Gable, Astaire, Stewart, Garland, Rooney, Kelly, Garson, Barrymore and Ball. All were available for interviews, or at least a brief chat between scenes.
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Spike Lee, filmmaking "provocateur," targets Katrina (Reuters)
 Reuters - Never far from the center of a storm,
self-described filmmaker "provocateur" Spike Lee is headed to
New Orleans to make a documentary examining how race and
politics collided in aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Director Crowe looks at success, failure in new film (Reuters)
 Reuters - For "Jerry Maguire" director
"Cameron Crowe," whose new movie "Elizabethtown" debuts on
Friday, his Hollywood career is all about time.
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Photog Pleads Innocent in Witherspoon Case (AP)
AP - A photographer pleaded innocent Wednesday to six misdemeanor charges alleging he struck a 5-year-old girl with his camera and shoved two amusement park employees out of the way to take pictures of Reese Witherspoon and her children.
Elvis Shirt Disappears From Texas Fair (AP)
AP - A blue silk shirt worn by Elvis Presley has been swiped from a State Fair of Texas exhibit.
Tommy Lee Burned During Wyo. Concert (AP)
 AP - Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee suffered minor burns on his arms and face during a pyrotechnics explosion at a concert in Casper, Wyo., his publicist said Thursday.
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Kanye's 'Gold' streak continues on singles chart (Reuters)
Reuters - Kanye West's "Gold Digger" featuring
Jamie Foxx ruled the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for a
sixth week Thursday, while Canadian rock band Nickelback's
"Photograph" rose one place to No. 2, trading places with
Mariah Carey's "Shake It Off."
Beck goes Hollywood in New York (Reuters)
Reuters - The word was that Beck was sick --
but at least he had seven people to cover for him during a
recent show in New York.
Underwood puts 'Heart' into debut album (Reuters)
Reuters - Reigning "American Idol" champ
Carrie Underwood has christened her debut album "Some Hearts,"
and it will hit stores November 15
INXS create new sensation on US charts (Reuters)
Reuters - With a new lead singer chosen by
the viewers of the CBS reality series "Rock Star: INXS," the
Australian band returned to the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart
Thursday after an absence of 12 and a half years.
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Digital music player sales seen up sharply by 2009 (Reuters)
Reuters - Global sales of digital music players
are expected to jump to nearly l billion units a year in 2009,
driven by consumers' desire for the pocket-sized devices and
falling costs for flash memory components, research firm IDC
said on Thursday.
Bono Dissociates Himself From Fundraising (AP)
 AP - U2's Bono says he is not involved in efforts by U.S. lawmakers to use his band's concerts to raise campaign money.
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Keith Urban achieves chart milestone for Marx (Reuters)
Reuters - The ascension of Keith Urban's
"Better Life" to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart
Thursday has given composer Richard Marx his second
chart-topper on this survey, 20 years after his first.
Eric Clapton to tell life story "warts and all" (Reuters)
 Reuters - Eric Clapton will follow musicians Bob
Dylan and Sting with a book about his life, telling of his 40
years as the top rock and blues guitarist of his age in which
he went "to hell and back," publisher Doubleday said on
Thursday.
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