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Keith Richards Leaves New Zealand Hospital
(AP)
 AP - Keith Richards has been released from a New Zealand hospital where the Rolling Stones guitarist was admitted with a head injury after he reportedly fell out of a palm tree.
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Halle Berry Says She Wants to Adopt
(AP)
 AP - Halle Berry says she wants to adopt a child — someday. "I will adopt if it doesn't happen for me naturally," the 39-year-old actress said in a recent interview with TV newsmagazine "Extra." "I will definitely adopt. And I probably will adopt even if it does happen naturally."
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Fats Domino Set to Help Young Musicians
(AP)
 AP - Poor health led Fats Domino to cancel an autograph session Monday to raise money for a music charity, but he is still scheduled to perform Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
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Brooke Shields: 'It's a Gift Having Kids'
(AP)
 AP - Brooke Shields says "the irony is perfect" that her daughter, Grier, and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter, Suri, were born on the same day.
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Limbaugh Cuts Deal in Prescription Case
(AP)
 AP - Rush Limbaugh's prescription fraud case has concluded with a deal, ending a three-year investigation during which prosecutors accused the conservative talk-show host of illegally deceiving multiple doctors to receive overlapping pain pill prescriptions.
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Successful filmmakers struggle in Mexico
(Reuters)
 Reuters - After directing Mexico's
all-time box office champ, Carlos Carrera is making a
comfortable living off film. Or so one might think.
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Keith Richards Leaves New Zealand Hospital
(AP)
AP - Keith Richards has been released from a New Zealand hospital where the Rolling Stones guitarist was admitted with a head injury after he reportedly fell out of a palm tree.
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Al Jazeera polishes its English for new spinoff
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Its glossy new London offices
may not be fully completed, but anticipation is already
building for the summer launch of an English-language version
of Al Jazeera, the Arab broadcaster denounced by U.S. Defense
secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a "terror network,"
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Spike TV to honor horror/sci-fi films, shows
(Reuters)
Reuters - Spike TV, the cable
network that targets young men, is set to launch an awards show
devoted to the booming horror/science fiction genre.
Signature in D.C. Receives Million Grant, Creating New Musicals Project
(Playbill)
Playbill - Artistic director Eric Schaeffer announced that Signature Theatre of Arlington, VA, is the recipient of a million dollar grant from The Shen Family Foundation.
Successful filmmakers struggle in Mexico
(Reuters)
Reuters - After directing Mexico's
all-time box office champ, Carlos Carrera is making a
comfortable living off film. Or so one might think.
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Spike TV to honor horror/sci-fi films, shows
(Reuters)
Reuters - Spike TV, the cable
network that targets young men, is set to launch an awards show
devoted to the booming horror/science fiction genre.
Tom Arnold dives into swimming drama
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Tom Arnold has joined
Terrence Howard and Bernie Mac in the period drama "P.D.R."
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"Nightmare" awakens for 3-D release
(Reuters)
Reuters - Sally will drop
nightshade into Dr. Finkelstein's tea in 3-D come Halloween,
when Walt Disney Pictures releases a digitally remastered
version of "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas."
Jack Black hits "Rewind" for comedy
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Jack Black is set to star
in the eccentric comedy "Be Kind Rewind," playing a junkyard
worker whose brain is magnetized, destroying every tape in his
friend's video store and forcing the pair to remake the lost
films.
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"Ice Age" sequel in final stint at No. 1 overseas
(Reuters)
 Reuters - May madness sets in at
the foreign box office next weekend as "Mission: Impossible
III" kicks off a month that will see "Poseidon" set sail on May
12, "The Da Vinci Code" crack theaters on May 19, and "X-Men:
The Last Stand" mark the spot the following weekend.
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Cruise's appeal put to test as "M:i III" debuts
(Reuters)
 Reuters - When widely hyped action flick
"Mission: Impossible III" opens in the United States on Friday,
Hollywood will be looking for clues to a billion-dollar
question: Is Tom Cruise still one of cinema's biggest draws?
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"Mission: Impossible" Marketing Blowup
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Your mission, should you choose to accept it--make the newspapers
go boom!
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Glenn Ford Celebrates 90th Birthday
(AP)
 AP - Legendary actor Glenn Ford, who turned 90 on Monday, had to cut short a birthday celebration with family and friends when failing health forced him to retire to his bedroom.
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Rams Sign Denzel Washington's Son
(AP)
 AP - Signing the son of actor Denzel Washington on Monday ensured the St. Louis Rams of making a splash the day after the NFL draft ended.
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Keith Richards Leaves New Zealand Hospital
(AP)
AP - Keith Richards has been released from a New Zealand hospital where the Rolling Stones guitarist was admitted with a head injury after he reportedly fell out of a palm tree.
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Review: 1920s Musical Comedy Celebrated
(AP)
 AP - If you want to get some idea of what it means to be over the moon for musical comedy, pay a visit to Broadway's Marquis Theatre, where a disarming, delightful soufflé called "The Drowsy Chaperone," is making a strong case for song-and-dance obsession.
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Fats Domino Set to Help Young Musicians
(AP)
AP - Poor health led Fats Domino to cancel an autograph session Monday to raise money for a music charity, but he is still scheduled to perform Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
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Toussaint-Costello: a collaboration born of Katrina
(Reuters)
 Reuters - It's a collaboration that grew from
Hurricane Katrina, and now Elvis Costello and New Orleans
legend Allen Toussaint have cemented the relationship with
songs that won hearts in the battered city.
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Tonya and Nancy Turned Into Sports Opera
(AP)
AP - When Tufts music student Abigail Al-Doory sought inspiration for her opera, she looked not to Wagner's "Ring" cycle but to the Olympic rings, where themes like power, envy and greed are plentiful.
Bender's Family Sues Rapper's Estate
(AP)
 AP - The family of 35-year-old Army veteran Keith Bender have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the estate of rapper Proof, who police say shot Bender before he was killed.
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Madonna wins over restless crowd at Coachella fest
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Madonna made her
festival debut at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in
southern California, performing six songs Sunday in front of
one of the largest crowds ever to witness an artist at the
two-day event.
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Starbucks hires talent firm for showbiz deals
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Even though it stumbled
with its first official foray into Hollywood, coffee retailer
Starbucks Corp. has hired the William Morris Agency to identify
additional opportunities in the entertainment world.
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Coachella Recap: Sunday, April 30
(Yahoo! Music)
Yahoo! Music - Despite an impressively high-wattage amount of Sunday star power this year (the first performance by Tool in nearly half a decade, an equally rare appearance by reclusive trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack, a surprisingly intimate side-stage set by easy-listening chart-topper James Blunt, a career-making performance by Hassidic reggae wunderkind Matisyahu), day two of the 2006 Coachella Music & Arts Festival was for all intents and purposes Madonna Day. Ever since it was announced that the leotarded diva would grace not the main stage but the comparatively teeny-tiny dance tent for her first-ever festival performance, the subsequent megahype and seriously out of control Craigslist ticket-scalping proved this would be the Coachella event to end all Coachella events. The re-emergence of the Beastie Boys and Iggy & the Stooges in 2003, the Pixies reunion of 2004, Bauhaus's Peter Murphy dangling from the ceiling in a vampire-bat costume, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne crowd-surfing inside a clear plastic bubble...not even these memorable moments of Coachellas past could possibly compare with a chance to see the one-and-only Divine Mizz M on a scaled-down stage previously reserved for techno headliners like Fatboy Slim and Basement Jaxx.
Napster offers free music to beat iTunes
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Napster Inc., the one-time renegade
music download service, has returned to its roots with a new
Web service which offers fans the chance to listen to over 2
million tracks for free.
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