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CNN's Aaron Brown Leaving the Network (AP)
 AP - Aaron Brown, once one of CNN's most prominent anchors, is leaving the network after a shakeup that gives his prime-time slot to rising star Anderson Cooper and expands it to two hours.
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Buttafuoco Selling Ice Cream on TV Sets (AP)
 AP - Joey Buttafuoco is working on ABC's "Desperate Housewives" — at the show's concession stand, anyway.
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50 Cent Disagrees With Kanye West (AP)
 AP - Rap feuds aren't usually about differing opinions on President Bush. However, that appears to be the case between 50 Cent and Kanye West.
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Tyra Banks Goes Undercover As Obese Woman (AP)
 AP - Tyra Banks has gone undercover as a 350-pound woman. Banks wore the fat suit to experience what it's like to be obese.
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Beatle Harrison's concert still aiding Bangladesh (Reuters)
 Reuters - Long before Katrina and tsunami
relief, Live 8 and Live AID, former Beatle George Harrison
assembled an all-star concert that cast the mold for celebrity
charity, and with a new DVD and remixed songs, "The Concert for
Bangladesh" is raising money again.
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'Chicken Little' takes flight in 3-D (Reuters)
Reuters - After four months of
scrambling to secure deals and install the technology, Disney
Digital 3-D is finally ready for its close-up.
Springsteen chased out of Ft. Lauderdale by Wilma (Reuters)
Reuters - With much of Florida still
recovering from Hurricane Wilma, Bruce Springsteen has been
forced to cancel his November 3 solo acoustic show near Ft.
Lauderdale because of officials' concerns about public safety.
NBC ready for crime-time with Sleuth channel (Reuters)
Reuters - NBC Universal is booking
a new crime-themed cable channel with Time Warner Cable, the
company said Wednesday.
'Chicken Little' takes flight in 3-D (Reuters)
Reuters - After four months of
scrambling to secure deals and install the technology, Disney
Digital 3-D is finally ready for its close-up.
Blood, Sweat and Felt: Broadway's 'Avenue Q' Offers "One Night Stand" for Puppet Hopefuls (Playbill)
Playbill - Aspiring puppets now have a shot at their big break as Avenue Q offers a "One Night Stand" contest on Broadway.
'Chicken Little' takes flight in 3-D (Reuters)
Reuters - After four months of
scrambling to secure deals and install the technology, Disney
Digital 3-D is finally ready for its close-up.
Saget roasts 'Penguins' in mockumentary (Reuters)
Reuters - Comedian Bob Saget is
writing, directing and will narrate "Farce of the Penguins," a
mockumentary inspired by the box office hit "March of the
Penguins."
Lohan, Leto shooting Lennon film -- Variety (Reuters)
Reuters - Lindsay Lohan and Jared Leto will
star in an independent movie about the murder of former Beatle
John Lennon, Daily Variety said in its Thursday edition.
Three's a crowd in 'Postmodern Family' (Reuters)
Reuters - The line between
documentary filmmaking and reality TV gets further blurred in
"Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family," a portrait of a marital
relationship among three adults.
'Batman Begins' repeats atop DVD sales chart (Reuters)
Reuters - Three new releases all
out on the same day couldn't bump "Batman Begins" from the top
of the preliminary national DVD sales chart for the week ending
October 30.
Top-flight titles target post-holiday DVD rush (Reuters)
Reuters - Although the jury is
still out on the ultimate strength or weakness of the fourth
quarter, studio DVD marketers are charging ahead with plans for
next year.
Four years at Newport - Times were a-changin' (Reuters)
Reuters - "Life is funny," says
the Academy Award-winning documentarian Murray Lerner. "The use
(of my footage) in the Dylan thing got people re-interested in
me."
Stone Begins Shooting 9/11 Movie in N.Y. (AP)
 AP - Oliver Stone has begun shooting one of the first Hollywood films about Sept. 11 in New York — without recreating the large-scale devastation that's all too familiar to residents who lived through the 2001 attacks.
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Famous Parrots Face Eviction in Calif. (AP)
 AP - A flock of wild parrots that took up residence on a hill overlooking the bay, becoming the subject of a documentary and best-selling book, were nowhere to be seen after one of their perches was cut down and two others faced a similar fate.
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Warner Bros. Fires Up to 300 Employees (AP)
AP - Warner Bros. Entertainment said Wednesday it has fired between 250 and 300 employees as a cost-cutting measure.
Springsteen chased out of Ft. Lauderdale by Wilma (Reuters)
Reuters - With much of Florida still
recovering from Hurricane Wilma, Bruce Springsteen has been
forced to cancel his November 3 solo acoustic show near Ft.
Lauderdale because of officials' concerns about public safety.
Met Opera Continues Mozart Tribute (AP)
AP - It was the season's first performance of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" ("The Marriage of Figaro") at the Metropolitan Opera, but the cast still had a tough act to follow — at least during Act I.
Guitar icon Les Paul looks back on 90 years (Reuters)
Reuters - Les Paul -- nonpareil
guitarist, inventor and studio innovator -- turned 90 on June
9. He celebrated the occasion with the August 30 release of an
all-star Capitol/EMI album, "Les Paul and Friends: American
Made World Played," a rock album featuring such guitar icons as
Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Billy Gibbons. Paul
recently looked back on his career with The Hollywood Reporter
music editor Chris Morris.
A Magic display of genre hopscotch and sibling revelry (Reuters)
Reuters - The first song opened
with an ancient blues riff, then careened into a playfully
rocked-up mid-'60s L.A. folk sound. The next had a Summer of
Love vibe and enough oooh-ahhh backing vocals to be a "Pet
Sounds" outtake. And on it went.
Latin Grammys to Be Broadcast in Spanish (AP)
 AP - When presenters crack jokes and artists make acceptance speeches during Thursday's 6th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, they'll be doing something natural for them but novel for the show — speaking in Spanish.
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Queen Leaving Las Vegas (E! Online)
 E! Online - Queen won't be rocking you on the Las Vegas Strip much longer.
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Destiny's Child tops U.S. chart with hits package (Reuters)
Reuters - R&B trio Destiny's Child's "#1's"
lived up to its misleading title with a chart-topping bow on
the U.S. albums chart Wednesday, although sales fell far short
of those for its previous No. 1 release.
Child Play on Charts (E! Online)
 E! Online - Destiny's Child knows how to make a grand exit; 'N Sync, not so
much.
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50 Cent Disagrees With Kanye West (AP)
AP - Rap feuds aren't usually about differing opinions on President Bush. However, that appears to be the case between 50 Cent and Kanye West.
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Jackson Patriarch Searches for New Stars (AP)
 AP - Using a senior citizen to hype a rap contest doesn't seem like the smartest marketing ploy, especially when the man in question can't name any rap songs but knows he likes the ones "with the singing in it."
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