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Nissan pulls hot car ad with Kim Cattrall
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060722/ap_en_tv/cattrall_ad_pulled"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060721/capt.a47beb2cc18b4ca9a95893235716ec40.tv_raunchy_ad_nyet162.jpg?x=95&y=130&sig=gNU08wnhdBWGeMiw3zekuQ--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Kim Cattrall makes a promotional visit to a book shop in Cologne, Germany, on Nov. 2, 2005 . Japanese carmaker Nissan said Friday, July 21, 2006, it has pulled a raunchy commercial starring the 'Sex and the City' cable television series actress from New Zealand TV after complaints over its content.(AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)" border="0" /></a>AP - Japanese carmaker Nissan said Friday it has pulled a raunchy commercial starring "Sex and the City" actress Kim Cattrall from New Zealand television after complaints over its content.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Deal or No Deal' kicks off NBC fall shows
(AP)
AP - NBC is launching its fall lineup Sept. 18 with a two-hour version of the reality game show "Deal or No Deal."
New James Bond novel to be published
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_ot/new_bond_book"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060721/capt.e1ac03bf5cd648608879c7766f5a5c49.new_bond_book_ny132.jpg?x=130&y=113&sig=C.nFE5wpQYM63ZrnMONyGg--" align="left" height="113" width="130" alt="Ian Lancaster Fleming, best-selling British author and creator of a fiction character known as secret agent James Bond, is seen in this 1962 photo. A new James Bond novel by a mystery writer will be published next year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Bond creator, the late author's family announced Friday, July 21, 2006. (AP Photo/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The next author for 007? It's a secret.</p><br clear="all"/>
Emmy-winning actor Jack Warden dead at 85
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_tv/obit_warden"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060721/capt.56c32b9e80f94869b6100ada99ee3ce1.obit_warden_ny124.jpg?x=94&y=130&sig=Aa8i69_Q5I3k.w2tBbpjgA--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="Actor Jack Warden is shown in character as Washington Post editor Harry M. Rosenfeld in 'All the President's Men', in this 1975 file photo. Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85. Warden, who lived in Manhattan, died Wednesday, July 19, 2006, at a hospital in New York, Sidney Pazoff, his longtime business manager, said here Friday. (AP Photo/HO, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85.</p><br clear="all"/>
Doherty cancels concert, returns to rehab
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_mu/people_pete_doherty"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060721/capt.b4ec3ab2867c43729d97ed61e0d957a8.britain_pete_doherty_nyet169.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=jvHt7uxta3JESzSVLdYMSg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Musician Pete Doherty, frontman of British rock band Babyshambles, arrives at Thames Magistrates Court in London to face charges on drugs offenses, April 20, 2006. Doherty has canceled a concert and is returning to treatment in a drug rehabilitation clinic, the concert promoter said Friday, July 21, 2006.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Pete Doherty has canceled a concert and is returning to treatment in a drug rehabilitation clinic, his tour's concert promoter said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Indian film does not need Oscars, says Bachchan
(Reuters)
Reuters - Indian film icon Amitabh Bachchan on
Friday dismissed the notion that his country's films should
aspire to win Oscars, saying that the Indian film industry was
more creative than Hollywood.
U2 reschedules Pacific dates for end of year
(Reuters)
Reuters - U2 has rescheduled a host of dates
in Australia, New Zealand and Japan that were postponed this
spring due to an unidentified serious illness within the
immediate family of a band member.
'Deal or No Deal' kicks off NBC fall shows
(AP)
AP - NBC is launching its fall lineup Sept. 18 with a two-hour version of the reality game show "Deal or No Deal."
Selling Where People Buy: The Rise Of In-store TV
(AdWeek.com)
AdWeek.com - You probably haven't heard of the Out of Home Video Advertising Bureau, but it's just been incorporated as the latest advertising trade association. It will serve as a clearinghouse for information about in-store TV advertising, which is still a relatively tiny business by TV ad standards. But the medium is gaining greater acceptance by ad agencies, and advertisers are using it increasingly as a branding vehicle and not just as a promotion tool to move product off the shelf.
"Rent" road tour passes through LA
(Reuters)
Reuters - In addition to
high-octane energy and a dazzling level of professionalism, the
new national tour of "Rent" (making its first appearance at the
Pantages) is guided by a relentless aesthetic that might be
described as:
"Superman II" 2.0
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060722/en_movies_eo/19563"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eo/20060722/capt.4e29e583d49124318926cfac5c4ee933.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=1381mUwDHp1G0iDePMWNnw--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="Superman Returns sequel or no, Man of Steel fans are
getting a new movie. Make that, a new old movie." border="0" /></a>E! Online - Superman Returns sequel or no, Man of Steel fans are
getting a new movie. Make that, a new old movie.</p><br clear="all"/>
Emmy-winning actor Jack Warden dead at 85
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_mo/obit_warden"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060721/capt.56c32b9e80f94869b6100ada99ee3ce1.obit_warden_ny124.jpg?x=94&y=130&sig=Aa8i69_Q5I3k.w2tBbpjgA--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="Actor Jack Warden is shown in character as Washington Post editor Harry M. Rosenfeld in 'All the President's Men', in this 1975 file photo. Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85. Warden, who lived in Manhattan, died Wednesday, July 19, 2006, at a hospital in New York, Sidney Pazoff, his longtime business manager, said here Friday. (AP Photo/HO, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cameo roles in Broadway musicals auctioned
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_mo/actors__fund_auction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060721/capt.a81a9d0cfc794c8099a90a41b1c4c9a3.actors_fund_auction_nyet165.jpg?x=71&y=130&sig=qQUyM7Tvy3SFSlwo6.bBug--" align="left" height="130" width="71" alt="Natasha Richardson and her husband Liam Neeson attend the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival at the Shanghai Concert Hall in Shanghai, China,on June 17, 2006. Dinner with the pair is one of the prizes to be sold to the highest bidders by the Actors' Fund of America during its 'Auction of 1000 Stars,' on a Website starting Monday, July 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Color China Photo) CHINA OUT" border="0" /></a>AP - Dinner with Liam Neeson and his actress-wife Natasha Richardson. A chance to star on Broadway. VIP access to a movie premiere.</p><br clear="all"/>
Fred Willard, practiced at improvisation
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_mo/film_fred_willard"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060718/capt.dd697a8346c54536a3534e0dad475efc.monster_house_premiere__cadm108.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=Shgs5VBjWNbDwRQC3jF20Q--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Actor and comedian Fred Willard, left, poses with co-star Spencer Locke, right, as they arrive for the premiere of the film 'Monster House' Monday, July 17, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)" border="0" /></a>AP - He plays the gladdest of glad-handers, the hardest of blowhards, the goofiest of goofballs.The words that spew from his unfiltered mouth! You cringe. Then you cry, laughing.</p><br clear="all"/>
Hugh Jackman's old jeans fetch $22,476
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_mo/jackman_s_jeans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060721/capt.tok11207210824.australia_jackman_s_jeans_tok112.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=bs4uwWpKlmoCJZwx.81xwg--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Australian actor Hugh Jackman smiles during an interview for his new film 'X-Men: The Last Stand,' at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, France, in this May 21, 2006 file photo. A pair of old jeans owned by Jackman have been sold at a fundraising auction in Sydney Thursday, July 20, 2006 for 30,000 Australian dollars (US$22,476; euro17,777), more than double the amount paid for Nicole Kidman's denim duds. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A pair of old jeans owned by actor Hugh Jackman have been sold at a fundraising auction for $22,476, more than double the amount paid for Nicole Kidman's denim duds.</p><br clear="all"/>
Jeff Daniels to be honored at film festival
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_mo/people_jeff_daniels"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060721/capt.aede8f1542c94e369acc5b819b426b36.daniels_nyol216.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=bryP6Wu3PslYozOiYguYSQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Actor Jeff Daniels waves to the crowd at the world premier of his new movie, 'Escanaba in da Moonlight,' in this Sunday, Oct. 22, 2000, photo taken at the Fox Theater in Detroit. The movie, a saga of a luckless hunter who breaks family tradition in his quest to avoid shame by bagging his first buck, is set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. (AP Photo/Paul Warner)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jeff Daniels will receive the first Michigan Filmmaker Award at Michael Moore's second annual Traverse City Film Festival.</p><br clear="all"/>
'My Super Ex-Girlfriend' fails to be funny
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_mo/film_review_my_super_ex_girlfriend"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060720/capt.13270d66b68d4fb1b1521cbe80668779.mtv_trl_wilson_thurman_nyjd112.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=679gY440Ux77H3FB_Y4ZiA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Actress Uma Thurman and actor Luke Wilson appear onstage during MTV's 'Total Request Live' at the MTV Times Square Studios Thursday, July 20, 2006 in New York. Thurman and Wilson star in the new film 'My Super Ex-Girlfriend' which premieres Friday. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)" border="0" /></a>AP - One of the freshest movie premises of the summer — and one of the best casting choices, Uma Thurman as a superhero using her powers to exact payback on the man who jilted her — are utterly wasted in "My Super Ex-Girlfriend."</p><br clear="all"/>
'Monster House' delivers scary thrills
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_mo/film_review_monster_house"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060718/capt.792556ba580c4b30b3545d936f5ff068.monster_house_premiere__cadm111.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=7zV_dpuFgCZweozjXEFEGA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Actress Spencer Locke, center, gets a kiss from co-stars Mitchel Musso, left, and Sam Lerner, as they arrive for the premiere of the film 'Monster House' Monday, July 17, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)" border="0" /></a>AP - The difference between "Monster House" and most other animated movies is a little thing called story. It actually has one, and doesn't just trot out cheeky characters spewing gratuitous pop-culture references.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Clerks II' visits slackers 12 years later
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_mo/film_review_clerks_ii"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060717/capt.75324e15f92940a1977772f860a20bf6.film_clerks_ii_nyet116.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=AWLMe7SGue5gl7LeeKZenQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Writer-director and cast member of 'Clerks II' Kevin Smith, center, poses with fellow cast members, from left, Jeff Anderson, Brian O'Halloran, Rosario Dawson and Jason Mewes at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, July 11, 2006. Anderson playing Randal Graves and O'Halloran as Dante Hicks are back as perhaps the rudest guys to ever sell you a cup of coffee in the sequel of the original cult favorite.(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)" border="0" /></a>AP - With "Clerks II," Kevin Smith checks back in with the slackers from "Clerks" to find out what they're up to a dozen years later. You'll be shocked to learn that Dante and Randal are still doing the exact same thing: standing around all day at their menial jobs, finding ways to avoid work, and talking. And talking and talking. They're just doing it in color instead of black and white.</p><br clear="all"/>
Georgia church scores distributor for film
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_en_mo/film_facing_the_giants"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060721/capt.87e886350b3b476f9e810067c300d1fb.film_facing_the_giants_nyet466.jpg?x=130&y=74&sig=3KdNvKoKwQJKFj9N3yuy8A--" align="left" height="74" width="130" alt="In this undated photo released by Lovell-Fairchild Communications, the Rev. Alex Kendrick, center, as football coach Grant Taylor, talks to his players in a scene from the motion picture, 'Facing The Giants.' The inspirational film about a chronically losing high school football team and its coach, was made using donations from members of the Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. (AP Photo/Lovell-Fairchild Communications, Bob Scott)" border="0" /></a>AP - A movie made by Baptist pastors using their congregation as cast and crew is a long shot for the Hollywood treatment. But "Facing the Giants," an inspirational film about a chronically losing high school football team, is heading to 400 theaters nationwide after becoming embroiled in a ratings dispute that reached the halls of Congress.</p><br clear="all"/>
U2 reschedules Pacific dates for end of year
(Reuters)
Reuters - U2 has rescheduled a host of dates
in Australia, New Zealand and Japan that were postponed this
spring due to an unidentified serious illness within the
immediate family of a band member.
Rod Stewart returns to rock on new album
(Reuters)
Reuters - Rod Stewart is retiring his series
of standards albums and returning to the rock and roll of his
roots.
Syd Barrett suffers fate worse than death
(Reuters)
Reuters - Syd Barrett was the
second-most-famous drug casualty after Brian Jones.
American radio hangs up on Madonna
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060721/music_nm/madonna_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060721/i/r3410133660.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=yejk_._aYsUICsoFl62ZeA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="File photo shows Madonna performing at the T.D. Banknorth Garden as part of her Confessions Tour in Boston, Massachusetts July 6, 2006. Madonna is in the midst of a sold-out North American trek that may end up being the top-grossing tour ever by a female artist. But this on-the-road success is not carrying over to American radio, which largely snubbed the first three singles from her latest album. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Madonna is in the midst of a
sold-out North American trek that may end up being the
top-grossing tour ever by a female artist. But this on-the-road
success is not carrying over to American radio, which largely
snubbed the first three singles from her latest album.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mayer explores soulful side on new album
(Reuters)
Reuters - John Mayer is an addict and he is
not afraid to admit it. His fix of choice? Sugar-free,
15-calorie popsicles. They were his constant companions while
making his third studio album, "Continuum," arriving September
12.
Nashville singer Raul Malo a Maverick no more
(Reuters)
Reuters - Let's make one thing clear, Raul
Malo is no longer the lead singer for the Mavericks, the
critically acclaimed alternative country group that enjoyed
cult stardom in the 1990s.
Latino musicians enter immigration debate
(Reuters)
Reuters - As the immigration debate grips
Congress, the issue is inspiring new songs by Latin artists.
Jazzman Bernstein deals four aces
(Reuters)
Reuters - Jazz fans soon won't be able to
avoid Steven Bernstein when they visit their local record
store. The trumpeter/arranger has four major recording projects
all coming out within a week of each other.
Indie buzz band finds XL the right size
(Reuters)
Reuters - Mere days after Minneapolis quartet
Tapes 'N Tapes self-released its debut album, "The Loon," last
November, the band received an unexpected call from Capitol
Records.
Top acts may boost R&B/hip-hop sales in late '06
(Reuters)
Reuters - Six months into 2006, and so far
overall R&B/hip-hop album sales have suffered a 22.4% drop to
53.8 million units from the 69.3 million units scanned during
the same six-month period in 2005. (Note: These Nielsen
SoundScan R&B figures include hip-hop sales.)
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