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'Sopranos' Creator Gets Filmmaking Award (AP)
 AP - A television show about wiseguys, snitches and mob hits on Friday night earned its creator accolades from "Joizy's" own don, the governor. You got a problem with that?
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Matt Damon Marries Girlfriend in NYC (AP)
 AP - Matt Damon married girlfriend Luciana Bozan in a private ceremony Friday in New York City, his publicist said.
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Chris Rock Won't Be Hosting Oscars (AP)
 AP - Chris Rock won't be back cracking wise as the host of next year's Oscars telecast. "He is not hosting the Academy Awards," the comedian's publicist, Matt Labov, said Friday in a brief statement e-mailed to The Associated Press. He did not elaborate.
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Mormon Choir Performing Holiday Concerts (AP)
 AP - There's just one thing that could ruin David Gehris' Christmas season: Being singled out on stage as a member of the renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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Kate Moss back in Vogue, lands Virgin deal (Reuters)
 Reuters - British supermodel Kate Moss underlined
her durability in the fickle world of fashion on Friday with a
commercial for phone operator Virgin just three months after a
cocaine scandal threatened her career.
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'Sopranos' Creator Gets Filmmaking Award (AP)
AP - A television show about wiseguys, snitches and mob hits on Friday night earned its creator accolades from "Joizy's" own don, the governor. You got a problem with that?
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Court Rules Against Mom in Download Suit (AP)
AP - A federal appeals court late Friday upheld the music industry's $22,500 judgment against a Chicago mother caught illegally distributing songs over the Internet.
'Sopranos' Creator Gets Filmmaking Award (AP)
AP - A television show about wiseguys, snitches and mob hits on Friday night earned its creator accolades from "Joizy's" own don, the governor. You got a problem with that?
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Singapore says Wynn drops bid for casino (Reuters)
 Reuters - Wynn Resorts Ltd., headed by Las
Vegas gaming impresario Steve Wynn, has dropped its bid to
build Singapore's first casino, a government official said,
leaving five groups in the race for the estimated $3.1 billion
project.
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Dee Hoty Confirmed as 'Dr. Dolittle' Dame; Full Cast Announced (Playbill)
Playbill - Three-time Tony Award nominee Dee Hoty will play Emma Fairfax, the woman in love with a man who talks to the animals, in the fresh national tour of Dr. Dolittle, the producers confirmed.
'Sopranos' Creator Gets Filmmaking Award (AP)
AP - A television show about wiseguys, snitches and mob hits on Friday night earned its creator accolades from "Joizy's" own don, the governor. You got a problem with that?
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Chris Rock Won't Be Hosting Oscars (AP)
AP - Chris Rock won't be back cracking wise as the host of next year's Oscars telecast. "He is not hosting the Academy Awards," the comedian's publicist, Matt Labov, said Friday in a brief statement e-mailed to The Associated Press. He did not elaborate.
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Matt Damon Marries Girlfriend in NYC (AP)
AP - Matt Damon married girlfriend Luciana Bozan in a private ceremony Friday in New York City, his publicist said.
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Gay cowboys hit U.S. screen, but no rings just yet (Reuters)
 Reuters - A gay cowboy movie won rave reviews on
Friday as mainstream Hollywood embraced the tale of Marlboro
men in love, but for most gay Americans the acceptance
symbolized by marriage remains a distant dream.
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Matt Damon weds girlfriend (Reuters)
 Reuters - Actor Matt Damon, star of "The
Bourne Identity" and the current political drama "Syriana," has
married his girlfriend, Luciana Barroso, in New York, a
spokeswoman for the actor said on Friday.
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Reviews: 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' (AP)
AP - Judi Dench could sit motionless on an overturned bucket surrounded by dancing emus, bodybuilders juggling small kitchen appliances and a tableau of naked nymphs, and she still would be the most interesting thing in sight.
Review: 'The Chronicles of Narnia' (AP)
AP - Like its cousin, J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings," C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia" was left to ferment for decades while movie technology caught up with the fantastic imaginations of the two British authors.
Review: 'The World's Fastest Indian' (AP)
AP - In "Get Shorty," hack filmmaker Gene Hackman was desperate to make his "Driving Miss Daisy." Roger Donaldson, whose over-the-top flicks include "Cocktail," "The Recruit" and "Species," has found his own "Daisy," of a sort.
Review: 'Memoirs of a Geisha' (AP)
 AP - When she's still a little girl, washing clothes and running errands as a servant for the glamorous women of a Kyoto geisha house, the plucky heroine of "Memoirs of a Geisha" gets an important bit of advice:
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'Syriana' Used in Oil Conservation Calls (AP)
AP - After years of trying to wean Americans off oil with warnings about arctic drilling and air pollution, some environmentalists are focusing their appeals on national security — and using the movie "Syriana" to help make their points.
Court Rules Against Mom in Download Suit (AP)
AP - A federal appeals court late Friday upheld the music industry's $22,500 judgment against a Chicago mother caught illegally distributing songs over the Internet.
BET promotes ringtone sales with vid pop-ups (Reuters)
Reuters - BET has begun embedding
text-messaging codes into its music videos, encouraging viewers
to order a download of each song's ringtone directly from their
mobile phone. While such cross-marketing is a common practice
in Europe, this is the first time a U.S. video channel has
integrated mobile messaging on air to sell ringtones.
Musical celebrates life of salsa queen Cruz (Reuters)
Reuters - The life of Celia Cruz is being made
into a musical, conceived and produced by a longtime producer
and close friend of the salsa queen, who died at 78 in 2003.
Do Ho on the Mend (E! Online)
 E! Online - The
legendary Hawaiian crooner, best known for his hit song "Tiny Bubbles,"
is recovering in a Bangkok hospital after successfully undergoing an
experimental stem cell treatment to bolster the blood flow in his
heart.
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Mariah's Grammy Whammy (E! Online)
 E! Online - The emancipation of Mariah
Carey from all things that
Glitter seems complete.
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An Unhappy 25th Anniversary (E! Online)
 E! Online - Things that were so much a part
of John Lennon's life are being used to mark the 25th anniversary of his
death.
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Chart's ceiling sinks to new low for holiday period (Reuters)
Reuters - If Thanksgiving week was a
stinker for album sales, the numbers from the stanza that
followed are no less disheartening. Album volume is down 12.9
percent from the same week last year.
Eagles soar in high-grossing California tour (Reuters)
Reuters - They do not call California the
Golden State for nothing.
Billboard singles reviews (Reuters)
Reuters - Anyone who wondered how "American Idol" runner-up Bo Bice
might convincingly channel his retro-rock roots into mainstream
radio fodder need give "The Real Thing" only a single listen.
Billboard album reviews (Reuters)
Reuters - Love, family and a Southern outlook on life are once again
at the heart of the matter on the follow-up to Hamilton's 2003
breakthrough, "Coming From Where I'm From.
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