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Lisa Marie Presley Marries Guitarist (AP)
 AP - Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of rock 'n' roll king Elvis Presley, has married guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood in a ceremony in Kyoto, Japan, her publicist said Thursday. Presley, 38, and Lockwood exchanged vows in a traditional Japanese ceremony on Jan. 22, spokesman Paul Bloch said.
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Man Charged With Pirating Oscar Screener (AP)
AP - A man accused of uploading a copy of the film "Walk the Line" that was intended for an Academy Award voter has been charged with copyright infringement.
Berry Can't Escape 'Catwoman' During Award (AP)
 AP - Halle Berry had to write "I will not make 'Catwoman II'" on a chalkboard four times Thursday in order to earn her pudding pot as Harvard's Hasty Pudding woman of the year.
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Cowell Not Close With 'Idol' Winners (AP)
 AP - "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell usually has big bad words to describe the reality show's wannabe pop stars. But the biting Brit sums up his relationships with past "AI" winners with one little one: "tiny."
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Madonna Reportedly Has Hernia Surgery (AP)
 AP - Madonna may have gyrated like a 20-year-old at the Grammy Awards, but her body felt the brunt of it later. Following last week's high-octane performance, Madonna had hernia surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
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Man Charged With Pirating Oscar Screener (AP)
AP - A man accused of uploading a copy of the film "Walk the Line" that was intended for an Academy Award voter has been charged with copyright infringement.
Madonna treated for hernia -spokeswoman (Reuters)
 Reuters - In February 17 story "Madonna treated for hernia:
spokeswoman" please read in second paragraph ... awards in Los
Angeles ... instead of ... awards in New York .
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NBC partnerships build new Olympic platforms (Reuters)
 Reuters - It's unlikely that even
the most ardent Olympics fan can sit at home to watch all 418
hours of NBC's coverage from Turin, Italy. The network,
therefore, pumped up its online presence and entered alliances
with Google, ESPN.com, Apple, TV Guide, MobiTV, Zingy and other
companies to extend its reach far beyond the television set.
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Toshiba to boost HD-DVD (Reuters)
Reuters - Toshiba American
Consumer Products on Thursday announced an ambitious marketing
push in support of HD-DVD but conceded that some of the
high-definition optical disc format's interactive features
won't be available in the two first-generation players slated
to hit stores next month without a "firmware upgrade."
"Barefoot" shows its age but still full of laughs (Reuters)
Reuters - It's hard to recapture the
giddy excitement of first love, and it's similarly difficult to
re-create the innocent exuberance of "Barefoot in the Park,"
the second vintage Neil Simon comedy to be revived on Broadway
this season.
Man Charged With Pirating Oscar Screener (AP)
AP - A man accused of uploading a copy of the film "Walk the Line" that was intended for an Academy Award voter has been charged with copyright infringement.
New Line books Bardem for "Cholera" (Reuters)
Reuters - Javier Bardem is set to
star in the big-screen adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's
"Love in the Time of Cholera," which Mike Newell is directing
for New Line Cinema.
French actress Eva Green named next "Bond girl" (Reuters)
 Reuters - Makers of the upcoming James Bond
movie "Casino Royale" have cast little-known French actress Eva
Green as the next femme fatale to pair up with British agent
007, distributor Columbia Pictures said on Thursday.
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Shyamalan gets ShoWest directing nod (Reuters)
Reuters - M. Night Shyamalan,
whose directorial credits include "The Sixth Sense," "Signs"
and "The Village," will be honored as ShoWest Director of the
Year.
Wilson, Richardson sign on for 'Mimzy' (Reuters)
Reuters - Rainn Wilson has been
cast in "Mimzy," a family feature that New Line Cinema co-CEO
Bob Shaye is directing for the studio. Joely Richardson also is
joining the cast.
Growing Berlin film market gives festival boost (Reuters)
Reuters - Strong buying of new German titles and
active British interest have helped boost sales this year at
the European Film Market (EFM), which runs alongside the annual
Berlin cinema festival.
'Gromit,' 'Life' to be honored with Genesis nods (Reuters)
Reuters - DreamWorks' Academy
Award-nominated "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the
Were-Rabbit," Miramax Films' "An Unfinished Life" and Warner
Bros. Pictures' "Duma" are among the entertainment titles to be
honored at the 20th anniversary Genesis Awards, set for March
18 at the Beverly Hilton.
Lumet film "Guilty" of misguided hero worship (Reuters)
Reuters - At its core, "Find Me Guilty"
suffers from an inexorable moral problem.
CORRECTED: Stylish angst passes for drama in 'Winter' (Reuters)
Reuters - In his first film,
playwright Adam Rapp doesn't so much bring his characters
through change as plant them in poses and will them into
epiphanies.
Bad behavior in big business in cinema spotlight (Reuters)
Reuters - Films spotlighting unethical corporate
behavior, executive greed and criminal mismanagement in big
business have scored strongly with audiences and critics at the
Berlin Film Festival.
Madonna treated for hernia -spokeswoman (Reuters)
Reuters - In February 17 story "Madonna treated for hernia:
spokeswoman" please read in second paragraph ... awards in Los
Angeles ... instead of ... awards in New York .
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Billboard Latin awards dig Daddy Yankee (Reuters)
Reuters - Reggaeton star Daddy
Yankee leads nominees for the 2006 Billboard Latin Music Awards
with 10 nominations.
Keith Urban to Make Good on Handshake Deal (AP)
 AP - Country singer and recent Grammy winner Keith Urban will travel here Friday to make good on a 5-year-old handshake agreement.
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Short's Piano Fetches $132,000 at Auction (AP)
AP - The grand piano of late cabaret singer Bobby Short sold for $132,000 in an auction of his personal effects Thursday, Christie's said.
John Michael Montgomery Arrested on DUI (AP)
 AP - John Michael Montgomery was arrested and charged Thursday with driving under the influence and concealing two loaded firearms.
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Cowell Not Close With 'Idol' Winners (AP)
AP - "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell usually has big bad words to describe the reality show's wannabe pop stars. But the biting Brit sums up his relationships with past "AI" winners with one little one: "tiny."
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Coldplay Not Going Cold Turkey (E! Online)
 E! Online - Coldplay frontman Chris Martin put frowns upon the faces of
numerous fans this week, when he appeared to hint that his band was
headed for an indefinite hiatus.
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Lisa Marie Presley Marries Guitarist (AP)
AP - Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of rock 'n' roll king Elvis Presley, has married guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood in a ceremony in Kyoto, Japan, her publicist said Thursday.
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Beyonce's "Check" nets fourth week at No. 1 (Reuters)
 Reuters - There's little movement in the top
rungs of the Billboard Hot 100 this week, with the first five
entries staying put from the previous week. Beyonce's single
"Check On It" featuring Slim Thug leads the list, at No. 1 for
a fourth consecutive week.
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"Curiosity" pays for Johnson; Underwood eyes chart record (Reuters)
Reuters - Jack Johnson's fourth chart entry
on the Billboard 200 is his first to reach pole position.
Entering the chart at No. 1 is "Curious George: Sing-a-Longs
and Lullabies for the Film" (Brushfire). Johnson made his album
tally debut exactly four years ago this week with "Brushfire
Fairytales," which worked its way up to No. 34.
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