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'Wedding Crashers' wins 3 MTV Movie Awards
(AP)
 AP - Last summer's "Wedding Crashers" was the big winner at Saturday's 2006 MTV Movie Awards, collecting three prizes, including the coveted Golden Popcorn trophy for best movie.
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Wolverine is ruling fictional power player
(AP)
 AP - Wolverine, the blade-bearing "X-Men" superhero played by Hugh Jackman, ranks as the top fictional power player, according to Entertainment Weekly.
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Updike probes the mind of a suicide bomber
(AP)
 AP - John Updike came to Washington to promote a book.
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Pakistan bans 'Da Vinci Code'
(AP)
 AP - Pakistan on Saturday banned cinemas from showing "The Da Vinci Code" because it contained what officials called blasphemous material about Jesus.
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Grateful Dead's last keyboardist dies
(AP)
AP - Vince Welnick, the Grateful Dead's last keyboard player and a veteran of other bands, including the Tubes and Missing Man Formation, has died, the Grateful Dead's longtime publicist confirmed Saturday. He was 51.
'Wedding Crashers' wins 3 MTV Movie Awards
(AP)
AP - Last summer's "Wedding Crashers" was the big winner at Saturday's 2006 MTV Movie Awards, collecting three prizes, including the coveted Golden Popcorn trophy for best movie.
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Nelly Furtado gets "Loose" with new sound, look
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Chalk it up to a corporate merger,
limited promotion or maybe just a record that was too different
from her first -- whatever the reason, Nelly Furtado's last
record tanked.
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Former 'Idol' contestant nixes Fuel gig
(AP)
AP - Former "American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry said Saturday he has turned down an offer to be lead singer for the band Fuel.
New acts building a fan base try to phone it in
(Reuters)
Reuters - Hello, your career is calling.
Golijov's opera on Garcia Lorca proves a hit
(Reuters)
Reuters - At first blush, a new opera
meditating on the life and death of Spanish poet/playwright
Federico Garcia Lorca seems an unlikely choice to be a chart
hit. But Osvaldo Golijov's "Ainadamar" is precisely that.
'Wedding Crashers' wins 3 MTV Movie Awards
(AP)
AP - Last summer's "Wedding Crashers" was the big winner at Saturday's 2006 MTV Movie Awards, collecting three prizes, including the coveted Golden Popcorn trophy for best movie.
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Egypt seizes 2,000 'Da Vinci Code' DVDs
(AP)
 AP - Police seized 2,000 pirated DVDs of "The Da Vinci Code" on Saturday, and the Egyptian Coptic Christian church demanded the film be banned in Egypt.
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Chavez opens Venezuela studios to counter Hollywood
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Lights, camera and ...
revolution.
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Pakistan bans 'Da Vinci Code'
(AP)
AP - Pakistan on Saturday banned cinemas from showing "The Da Vinci Code" because it contained what officials called blasphemous material about Jesus.
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Priscilla Presley to speak at rehab center
(AP)
 AP - Priscilla Presley plans to speak at the opening of a drug rehabilitation center in Michigan on Saturday.
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Wolverine is ruling fictional power player
(AP)
AP - Wolverine, the blade-bearing "X-Men" superhero played by Hugh Jackman, ranks as the top fictional power player, according to Entertainment Weekly.
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7 of India's 29 states ban 'Da Vinci Code'
(AP)
 AP - Seven of India's 29 states have banned "The Da Vinci Code," with officials in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh saying Friday the movie was insulting to Christians.
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Penelope Cruz, Matthew McConaughey split
(AP)
 AP - The "sexiest man alive" is available again. Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz "have decided to split," Cruz spokesman Robert Garlock told The Associated Press Friday. McConaughey's rep, Alan Nierob, confirmed the breakup, first reported by People magazine.
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'Break-Up' was right for Jennifer Aniston
(AP)
 AP - Jennifer Aniston had a laugh when she got a call about "The Break-Up." Funny enough, she had some firsthand experience on the topic.
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At the Movies: `The Omen'
(AP)
 AP - All remakes are needless, but this update of "The Omen" is especially so.
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Nelly Furtado gets "Loose" with new sound, look
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chalk it up to a corporate merger,
limited promotion or maybe just a record that was too different
from her first -- whatever the reason, Nelly Furtado's last
record tanked.
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World Cup getting a kick out of music
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The most popular recording this year
may not be a song, but rather a five-note melody called
"Bamboo."
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Latin American music sales head south during World Cup
(Reuters)
Reuters - When the World Cup begins June 9, four
Latin countries will be competing, and two of them -- Brazil
and Argentina -- will have a serious shot at winning.
AARP tunes in to music as promotional tool
(Reuters)
Reuters - This is not your father's AARP.
Colorado rappers brew Rocky Mountain hip-hop high
(Reuters)
Reuters - The next hip-hop hot spot is
percolating "in the middle of nowhere" -- as Procussions member
Mr. J Medeiros feels most people view Colorado.
Grateful Dead's last keyboardist dies
(AP)
 AP - Vince Welnick, the Grateful Dead's last keyboard player and a veteran of other bands, including the Tubes and Missing Man Formation, has died, the Grateful Dead's longtime publicist said Saturday.
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Former 'Idol' contestant nixes Fuel gig
(AP)
AP - Former "American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry said Saturday he has turned down an offer to be lead singer for the band Fuel.
Youngbloodz face drug, weapons charges
(AP)
AP - The two members of the rap group Youngbloodz and their 12-person entourage face drug and weapons charges after being stopped while on their way to a concert.
Grateful Dead keyboardist dies
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Vince Welnick, who took over as
the Grateful Dead's keyboard player in 1990 after a succession
of predecessors met untimely deaths, has died at the age of 55,
according to an announcement on his Web site.
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Master P Looking For America's Next Hip Hop Stars
(Yahoo! Music)
Yahoo! Music - Hip-hop needs an American Idol, and Master P has a plan.
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