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'Eight Below' Mushes to No. 1 Debut (AP)
 AP - "Eight Below," a tale of survival among abandoned sled dogs, was the leader of the box-office pack with a $25 million opening over the four-day holiday weekend.
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Bono to Donate Guitar for Hunger Campaign (AP)
 AP - Bono will donate one of his guitars to benefit Brazil's Zero Hunger campaign, the government's official news agency said Monday.
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Surviving Bee Gees Reunite for Charity (AP)
 AP - Barry and Robin Gibb, two-thirds of the Bee Gees, reunited on stage for a Miami charity concert, their first performance since the death of brother Maurice three years ago.
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Former Rocker Gary Glitter to Go on Trial (AP)
 AP - British glam rocker Gary Glitter will go on trial March 2 on charges of committing obscene acts with two underaged girls in Vietnam, the presiding judge said Monday.
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Rio Cleaning Up After Free Stones Show (AP)
 AP - It was a gas gas gas, judging by the trash trash trash.
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Saturn Awards sweet on "Revenge" (Reuters)
Reuters - The Academy of Science
Fiction, Fantasy & Horror films has announced the nominations
for the 32nd annual Saturn Awards.
Williams Collective brings "Zodiac" to life (Reuters)
Reuters - A contemporary of Duke Ellington,
pianist Mary Lou Williams was not only jazz's premier female
instrumentalist but also a brilliant, yet underappreciated
composer. Now, one of her rarely played masterworks, "Zodiac
Suite," dedicated to fellow musicians born under each of the 12
astrological signs, receives an invigorating update by the Mary
Lou Williams Collective.
US series to compete for Monte Carlo awards (Reuters)
Reuters - Six critically acclaimed
American TV shows have been announced by the 46th annual Monte
Carlo Television Festival as the U.S. nominees for the awards
section of the festival.
Cease-fire in effect for Icahn, Time Warner (Reuters)
 Reuters - Carl Icahn's wrangling
to take control of Time Warner has come to an amiable close,
with the billionaire financier promising not to try to unseat
board members this year and management agreeing to some of
Icahn's suggestions for boosting TW's stock price.
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44 B'way years later, it's Jackman's "World" (Reuters)
Reuters - Don't be surprised if Hugh
Jackman, who owned Broadway in 2004-05 with his sensational
Tony-winning turn in "The Boy From Oz," returns to the Big
Apple in a major revival of the 1962 Anthony Newley-Leslie
Bricusse musical "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off." It's
being discussed, investigated, contemplated.
Saturn Awards sweet on "Revenge" (Reuters)
Reuters - The Academy of Science
Fiction, Fantasy & Horror films has announced the nominations
for the 32nd annual Saturn Awards.
Bosnian drama 'Grbavica' wins Berlin's Golden Bear (Reuters)
 Reuters - "Grbavica," an emotional tale
of war and rape and their consequences from first-time Bosnian
director Jasmila Zbanic, won the Golden Bear for best film at
the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday.
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Columbia taps Burrows, Tyler, Smith for "Reign" (Reuters)
Reuters - Saffron Burrows, Jada
Pinkett Smith and Liv Tyler are in final negotiations to join
the cast of the drama "Reign O'er Me" for Columbia Pictures.
Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle are toplining.
New Line hooks up with Bosnak for "20 Times" (Reuters)
Reuters - Karyn Bosnak, who became
a mini media sensation three years ago for her lack of
credit-card restraint and for the Web site she created in order
to beg for cash from the public, has sold her upcoming novel to
New Line Cinema.
Amp'd Mobile customers tune in to 'Scanner' trailer (Reuters)
Reuters - Warner Independent
Pictures became the first studio to premiere a movie trailer on
U.S. mobile phones last week when the trailer for Richard
Linklater's "A Scanner Darkly" was offered free to Amp'd Mobile
customers.
"Brokeback" tops BAFA mountain with four awards (Reuters)
 Reuters - Director Ang Lee's "Brokeback
Mountain" lassoed four prizes -- best film, best director, best
adapted screenplay for Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and
best supporting actor for Jake Gyllenhaal -- to top the Orange
British Academy Film Awards on Sunday.
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"Eight Below" sleds to top of film box office (Reuters)
Reuters - A pack of gallant sled dogs mushed
the Walt Disney Co.'s Antarctic adventure "Eight Below" to the
top of the North American box office over the four-day holiday
weekend, according to studio estimates on Monday.
"Eight Below" a Cut Above (E! Online)
 E! Online - The canine heroes of Eight Below finished above all comers to win
the Presidents Day holiday weekend.
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Bond Hot for Eva, Mads About Baddie (E! Online)
 E! Online - After months of searching, and with filming on Casino Royale
already underway in Prague, the 007 brain trust hired a love interest
and a nemesis for Daniel Craig's super spy. French hottie Eva Green will
essay the role of vixen Vesper Lynd. The alliteratively named Danish
actor Mads Mikkelsen will play the villainous Le Chiffre.
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'Eight Below' Mushes to No. 1 Debut (AP)
AP - "Eight Below," a tale of survival among abandoned sled dogs, was the leader of the box-office pack with a $25 million opening over the four-day holiday weekend.
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Williams Collective brings "Zodiac" to life (Reuters)
Reuters - A contemporary of Duke Ellington,
pianist Mary Lou Williams was not only jazz's premier female
instrumentalist but also a brilliant, yet underappreciated
composer. Now, one of her rarely played masterworks, "Zodiac
Suite," dedicated to fellow musicians born under each of the 12
astrological signs, receives an invigorating update by the Mary
Lou Williams Collective.
Franti chronicles Middle East travels in 3 releases (Reuters)
Reuters - Two of the most pivotal and
event-filled years in the life of lauded singer/songwriter
Michael Franti will culminate in June with the simultaneous
release of a new studio disc with Spearhead and a documentary
DVD and book chronicling his recent trip to Iraq. All three
will carry the name "I Know I'm Not Alone."
Camilo pays homage to Gershwin on "Blue" (Reuters)
Reuters - When pianist Michel Camilo first
came to New York in 1979 from his native Dominican Republic, he
stood in awe of the skyscrapers and was mesmerized by the
city's bustling magnificence. The theme music for the
experience? George Gershwin's majestic extended work "Rhapsody
in Blue," which represented to Camilo not only the romance of
New York but also its creative opportunities for an immigrant.
Islamic singer aims to fill pop "spirituality" gap (Reuters)
 Reuters - A singer who has shot to fame in the
Middle East with songs about Islam and the Prophet Mohammad
says his music is quenching a thirst for spirituality in pop.
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Q&A: David Gilmour (Reuters)
Reuters - David Gilmour has remained quiet since
Pink Floyd's reunion last July for the Live 8 concert at
London's Hyde Park. Quiet but hardly inactive.
Stones' Mick Jagger visits Brazilian son at school (Reuters)
 Reuters - The leader of the Rolling
Stones, Mick Jagger, visited his Brazilian son at school on
Monday in Sao Paulo, eyewitnesses said, two days after his band
performed a free concert for more than a million fans on
Copacabana beach.
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Bono to Donate Guitar for Hunger Campaign (AP)
AP - Bono will donate one of his guitars to benefit Brazil's Zero Hunger campaign, the government's official news agency said Monday.
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Vince Gill to Host Television Special (AP)
 AP - Country singer Vince Gill will host a television special next month with an unlikely combination of subject and venue: "The Grand Ole Opry at Carnegie Hall."
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Surviving Bee Gees Reunite for Charity (AP)
AP - Barry and Robin Gibb, two-thirds of the Bee Gees, reunited on stage for a Miami charity concert, their first performance since the death of brother Maurice three years ago.
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Former Rocker Gary Glitter to Go on Trial (AP)
AP - British glam rocker Gary Glitter will go on trial March 2 on charges of committing obscene acts with two underaged girls in Vietnam, the presiding judge said Monday.
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