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Roberts Makes Broadway Debut Amid Hoopla
(AP)
 AP - Amid hoopla more befitting a blockbuster movie premiere, Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut Wednesday night in Richard Greenberg's "Three Days of Rain."
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Another 'Idol' Booted, Six Remain
(AP)
 AP - He sang "That's All."
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'Shield' Producer Scott Brazil Dies at 50
(AP)
 AP - Emmy-winning producer-director Scott Brazil, whose television shows included "The Shield" and "Hill Street Blues," has died. He was 50.
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Tabloid Apologizes to Teri Hatcher
(AP)
 AP - Britain's best-selling newspaper apologized Wednesday to "Desperate Housewives" star Teri Hatcher for a story that claimed she had sex with men in a van outside her home.
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One Down: World Awaits Pitt, Jolie's Baby
(AP)
 AP - One down, one to go. Now that TomKitten has been born, the world still awaits the birth of another superbaby: the expected child of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It's a tabloid editor's dream of a doubleheader — it's a beautiful day, let's play two!
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Vivid to offer movies to burn onto discs
(Reuters)
Reuters - Adult entertainment giant Vivid
Entertainment Group said on Wednesday it will start next month
selling downloadable movies that viewers can burn to DVD and
watch on their TVs.
Another 'Idol' Booted, Six Remain
(AP)
AP - He sang "That's All."
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American Gives Free Tickets to Mavs Fans
(AP)
 AP - American Airlines took a page out of Oprah Winfrey's playbook Wednesday night, giving vouchers for free flights to everyone at the Dallas Mavericks' final game of the regular season.
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EMI sees year profit up 12 pct, digital sales up
(Reuters)
Reuters - EMI Group, the world's third-largest
record company, said on Thursday it expected annual profit to
rise by around 12 percent after digital music sales soared.
Mack is Back as 'Threepenny Opera' with Cumming, Lauper and Co. Opens on Broadway
(Playbill)
Playbill - Alan Cumming returns to Broadway as "Mack the Knife" opposite Cyndi Lauper, Ana Gasteyer, Nellie McKay and Jim Dale in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of The Threepenny Opera which opens April 20.
Vivid to offer movies to burn onto discs
(Reuters)
Reuters - Adult entertainment giant Vivid
Entertainment Group said on Wednesday it will start next month
selling downloadable movies that viewers can burn to DVD and
watch on their TVs.
'Mamma Mia' Heading to the Big Screen
(AP)
 AP - "Mamma Mia!", the campy, crowd-pleasing musical inspired by ABBA disco-pop hits, is heading for the big screen, the trade paper Variety reported Wednesday.
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At the Movies: `The Sentinel'
(AP)
 AP - In "The Sentinel," Michael Douglas stars as Kiefer Sutherland in a big-screen clone of "24," playing a fed caught up in a lurid tale of illicit passion, presidential assassination and an agent on the run.
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At the Movies: Capsule Reviews
(AP)
AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
Tom and Katie Welcome Daughter Suri
(AP)
 AP - Word of the world's most famous silent birth has finally been heard.
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Rwanda survivors say Hollywood has got it wrong
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Three films in two years about Rwanda's
genocide have shocked Western audiences with the scale and
savagery of the slaughter, but many survivors in the tiny
central African nation are unimpressed.
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Colin Farrell Settles Sex Tape Dispute
(AP)
 AP - Colin Farrell can breathe easy — his private parts will remain out of public view.
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Cameraman sticks it to convention in gym pic
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Cameraman Daryn Okada is
no stranger to strong female characters, having shot 1997's
"Anna Karenina," 2004's "Mean Girls" and last year's "Just Like
Heaven," starring Reese Witherspoon.
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"Adam and Steve" a gross-out gay comedy
(Reuters)
Reuters - In most romantic comedies
the lovers meet cute. "Adam & Steve," directed by actor Craig
Chester (familiar from his roles in such gay-themed indie films
as "Grief" and "Swoon"), adopts a new approach. In this
ramshackle if intermittently amusing effort, currently playing
in limited release, they meet gross.
Latest Hollywood script deals
(Reuters)
Reuters - John Cox has been hired
to write "Sgt. Rock," producer Joel Silver's Warner Bros.
adaptation of DC Comics' World War II adventure series.
Another 'Idol' Booted, Six Remain
(AP)
AP - He sang "That's All."
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Cash's "Personal Files" ready for eager public
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Two new titles by top
contemporary country acts, Rascal Flatts' "Me and My Gang" and
Toby Keith's "White Trash With Money," slugged it out for No. 1
on the Billboard 200 this week. But elsewhere on the chart,
Johnny Cash continued to abide.
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Rascal Flatts Won't Be (White) Trashed
(E! Online)
 E! Online - In a country shootout for the top of the charts, Toby Keith
got flat-out Flatt-ened.
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Beatles Songs Join With Cirque Du Soleil
(AP)
 AP - The Beatles will soon join "Hairspray," "Mamma Mia!" and Celine Dion on the fabled Las Vegas Strip. Tickets went on sale Wednesday for "Love," a theater collaboration that features the legendary music of the Fab Four and the acrobatic spectacle of Cirque du Soleil. The show premieres June 30 with an international cast of 60 performers at The Mirage hotel-casino.
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Mariah Rings Up Pepsi
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Mariah Carey may be taking her role as pop idol a bit too
literally.
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Nick Speaks Out
(E! Online)
 E! Online - If you want to know the real reason Nick Lachey and Jessica
Simpson called it quits, well, don't ask him.
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'Idol' Helps Established Stars Too
(AP)
AP - It turns unknowns into icons overnight — but "American Idol" isn't just for aspiring singers. With its unparalleled exposure — the weekly audience is usually somewhere north of 30 million viewers — "Idol" is now launching record sales of the established artists who appear as guests.
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New Michael Jackson Album Due Next Year
(AP)
 AP - Michael Jackson has returned to the studio and plans to release a new album next year for a record label owned by the son of Bahrain's king.
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Young's Anti-War Album a Growing Drumbeat
(AP)
 AP - If the snippets Neil Young is posting on his Web site are any indication, his upcoming album, "Living With War," will be a serious musical broadside against the Bush administration and the Iraq war.
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Madonna Performance Throws a Loop
(AP)
 AP - Imagine if Elvis had decided to make a pit stop at Woodstock.
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