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Irwin remembered for his 'zest for life'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060920/ap_en_ce/crocodile_hunter"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060920/capt.bwh12609200221.australia_crocodile_hunter_bwh126.jpg?x=116&y=130&sig=aV72UHgxvlHmxZaeHtsihw--" align="left" height="130" width="116" alt="Terri Irwin, center, wife of Australian environmentalist and television personality Steve Irwin with daughter Bindi and son Bob attends a memorial service for her husband at Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Australia, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006. Irwin, known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' was killed Sept. 4 by a stingray barb during a diving expedition on the Great Barrier Reef. (AP Photo/Steve Holland, POOL)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was remembered Wednesday for his "great zest for life" at a public memorial service for the beloved conservationist and entertainer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cousteau: Irwin's tactics 'misleading'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060920/ap_en_tv/people_cousteau_irwin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060920/capt.ff6eb8f98fdc458c962014e37a526b5b.people_cousteau_irwin_ny117.jpg?x=95&y=130&sig=0AXQ6II9rKu.a8cyxNUMtA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau gestures during an interview in Berlin in this Wednesday, March 23, 2005 file photo. Cousteau said Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006 that while he mourns the recent death of 'The Crocodile Hunter,' Steve Irwin, he disagrees with Irwin's hands-on approach to nature television. (AP Photo/Fritz Reiss, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau said Tuesday that while he mourns the recent death of "The Crocodile Hunter," Steve Irwin, he disagrees with Irwin's hands-on approach to nature television.</p><br clear="all"/>
Eminem divorce is going to mediator
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_en_mu/people_eminem_divorce"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060919/capt.nyet17909191534.people_eminem_divorce_nyet179.jpg?x=114&y=130&sig=0YLJ53JlC5HR_bwmx98_Ug--" align="left" height="130" width="114" alt="Rapper Eminem poses at a Detroit Hip-Hop Summit at Cobo Arena in Detroit in this April 26, 2003 file photo. Eminem continued divorce proceedings with his wife, Kimberley Mathers, in an hour-long private hearing in Mount Clemens, Mich., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. (AP Photo/Rob Widdis, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Eminem, his estranged wife and their lawyers met privately in a judge's chambers Tuesday but failed to agree to terms for the couple's second divorce.</p><br clear="all"/>
Smith death said not homicide or suicide
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060920/ap_en_ce/anna_nicole_smith_son"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060917/capt.56578f049e744788bdf69168dd89e061.bahamas_anna_nicole_smith_son_sju104.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=cwPKHMHK1VZspTO70.9Pog--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Pathologist Cyril Wecht, center, talks to the media while Bahamas' head coroner Linda Virgil, right, and attorney Michael Scott, left, listen, outside the Rand Laboratory morgue at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006. Wecht, the private examiner hired by the family, said a second autopsy on the body of Daniel Wayne Smith, the 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith, did not produce conclusive evidence of what killed him. He has requested Smith's medical records from the United States and ordered further analyses that could take weeks to be completed. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)" border="0" /></a>AP - More than a week after her son mysteriously died beside her hospital bed, Anna Nicole Smith remained out of sight in the Bahamas as officials said only that his death was not a suicide or homicide.</p><br clear="all"/>
'South Park' celebrates with best-of DVD
(AP)
AP - "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker say that choosing their favorite episode would be like choosing between their children. Not that they're above that.
HBO Asia touts "Entourage" but lacks "Enthusiasm"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Until recently,
fans in Asia who have wanted to follow Vinny Chase and his
posse's wild, unpredictable escapades on "Entourage" or Larry
David's neurotic antics on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" had to rely
on getting DVDs from overseas (or via illegal means).
Eminem Moves to Mediation
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060920/en_music_eo/20047"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eo/20060920/capt.6008bcf778afca12563302e467a09648.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=C6mXuODtZBJy7ZJQK4IniA--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="It's official: The amount of time Eminem has spent in divorce
proceedings has already outlasted the time he spent in his remarriage." border="0" /></a>E! Online - It's official: The amount of time Eminem has spent in divorce
proceedings has already outlasted the time he spent in his remarriage.</p><br clear="all"/>
Tom Green to film surgery on broken leg
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060920/ap_en_tv/people_tom_green"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060920/capt.7c42e28ba4e44b6083192650699dc5e8.people_tom_green_nyol968.jpg?x=130&y=114&sig=tw5inYTAVcJ5n0QkJvugow--" align="left" height="114" width="130" alt="Tom Green is photographed at his Los Angeles home in this June file photo. (AP Photo/Branimir Kvartuc, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - Entertainer Tom Green, who allowed cameras to film his battle with cancer, plans to film an operation on his broken leg for his online talk show "Tom Green Live." "It worked with my cancer special so why not try it with my broken leg," Green told The Associated Press on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
U.S. FCC chief seeks probe into draft media studies
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. Federal Communications
Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has asked the agency's
inspector general to investigate why two draft reports on
television and radio ownership never saw the light of day until
now.
Edwin C. Owens, a Veteran Actor in Resident and NYC Theatre, Dead at 64
(Playbill)
Playbill - Edwin C. Owens, a veteran actor whose career spanned almost 50 years, died of heart failure Sept. 16 in Fort Worth, TX, while on the road in the national tour of On Golden Pond.
HBO Asia touts "Entourage" but lacks "Enthusiasm"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Until recently,
fans in Asia who have wanted to follow Vinny Chase and his
posse's wild, unpredictable escapades on "Entourage" or Larry
David's neurotic antics on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" had to rely
on getting DVDs from overseas (or via illegal means).
Fox launches new Christian home-video unit
(Reuters)
Reuters - Twentieth Century Fox launched a
Christian home-video label on Tuesday, becoming the first major
studio with a business unit devoted to the church-going
audience that turned "The Passion of the Christ" into a
blockbuster.
Crowe honors Irwin at memorial service
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060920/ap_en_mo/crocodile_hunter"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060916/capt.9e96f88135c649b38f812abb8116f45b.obit_crocodile_hunter_ny109.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=6IUN_to_HT41edhh1HgTyA--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="In a file photo Australian Steve Irwin, of the TV show 'The Crocodile Hunter,' holds a nine-foot female alligator in company with his American wife Terri, who is from Eugene, Oregon, at his 'Australia Zoo' in Beerwah, Queensland, Australia, June 18, 1999. Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed Monday., Sept. 4, 2006, by a stingray barb during a diving expedition, Australian media reported. (AP Photo/Russell McPhedran)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was remembered Wednesday for his "great zest for life" at a public memorial service for the beloved conservationist and entertainer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Fox to offer films for Christian viewers
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_en_mo/fox_christian_films"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060919/capt.485f0b65cd3248489891df5b6db97d67.fox_christian_films_la106.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=dNsmbSz3kLzPNw1XmuEanQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="This undated photo provided by Twentieth Century Fox, shows a poster advertising FoxFaith's film 'Love's Abiding Joy.' The home video division of the Twentieth Century Fox movie studio is ramping up efforts to appeal to the Christian audiences that helped boost box office receipts for such films as 'The Passion of the Christ' and 'The Chronicles of Narnia.' (AP Photo/Twentieth Century Fox)" border="0" /></a>AP - The home-video division of Twentieth Century Fox said Tuesday it will acquire as many as a dozen family friendly movies a year and market them under the FoxFaith banner.</p><br clear="all"/>
Louisiana still has Hollywood role
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060919/film_nm/weather_hurricanes_film_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20060920/2006_09_19t174732_450x352_us_weather_hurricanes_film.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=FtX6AN4825DM7qelgQYV3Q--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="Cast member Sean Penn signs an autograph at the premiere of 'All the King's Men' in New Orleans, Louisiana September 16, 2006. (Lee Celano/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - With a star-packed movie filmed in
Louisiana opening nationally on Friday, the state's film
industry continues to thrive despite the ravages of Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita, according to state officials and film
producers.</p><br clear="all"/>
George Lucas named parade grand marshal
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_en_mo/people_lucas_rose_parade"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060919/capt.99f08f1e52814af99af0f1fbbe51cb6f.tournament_of_roses_lucas_cadm105.jpg?x=95&y=130&sig=WwlC0E50RgpwNRQ6rRFyzg--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Director George Lucas appears through curtains after Tournament of Roses President Paul L. Holman, not pictured, announced Lucas as the Grand Marshal for the 2007 Tournament of Roses in front of the Tournament House, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Force will be with the Rose Parade next year. Perhaps that will keep the rain away this time.</p><br clear="all"/>
Johansson happy with her curvy figure
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_en_mo/people_scarlett_johansson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060919/capt.914b77f9a6fd4b1a8fd75c2aeb2da2e8.people_scarlett_johansson__nyol964.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=aT8FXIbN8JKq5Sv7OFMX2Q--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="Scarlett Johansson arrives for the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. in this January file photo. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - Scarlett Johansson struts her stuff in cleavage-baring dresses on the red carpet, but in real life, she'd rather remain a mystery.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ashanti settles case with ex-producer
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_en_mo/people_ashanti"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060919/capt.42ad98c8730d48ce8ef324af96269419.people_ashanti_ny107.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=eOMALST_LnfT.c_F08WhdA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Singer and actress Ashanti is seen in this Thursday, July 27, 2006 file photo, in New York. Ashanti told a courtroom Monday, Sept. 18, 2006 that she was a teenager trying to follow her dream when she worked a decade ago with a producer who wants more than $2 million for helping start her career. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)" border="0" /></a>AP - Ashanti and her first producer, Genard Parker, dropped all litigation Tuesday in a contract dispute, ending a trial that began a day earlier.</p><br clear="all"/>
Disney sells films through iTunes store
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_en_mo/disney_online_movies"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060913/i/r3039351338.jpg?x=130&y=96&sig=ooN4Iusc3f.id2K1C4Llrg--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="Apple Corporation CEO Steve Jobs introduces full-length, high resolution Walt Disney company movie downloads from the iTunes Web site to the crowd at an Apple media event at Yerba Buena Center of the Arts theater in San Francisco, California, September 12, 2006. REUTERS/Dino Vournas" border="0" /></a>AP - The Walt Disney Co. has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes store in less than a week, generating $1 million, Disney chief executive Robert Iger said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Judge: Eminem divorce going to mediator
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_en_mo/eminem_divorce"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060919/capt.nyet17909191534.people_eminem_divorce_nyet179.jpg?x=114&y=130&sig=0YLJ53JlC5HR_bwmx98_Ug--" align="left" height="130" width="114" alt="Rapper Eminem poses at a Detroit Hip-Hop Summit at Cobo Arena in Detroit in this April 26, 2003 file photo. Eminem continued divorce proceedings with his wife, Kimberley Mathers, in an hour-long private hearing in Mount Clemens, Mich., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. (AP Photo/Rob Widdis, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Grammy- and Oscar-winning rapper Eminem continued divorce proceedings with his wife, Kimberley Mathers, in an hour-long private hearing Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Eminem Moves to Mediation
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060920/en_music_eo/20047"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eo/20060920/capt.6008bcf778afca12563302e467a09648.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=C6mXuODtZBJy7ZJQK4IniA--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="It's official: The amount of time Eminem has spent in divorce
proceedings has already outlasted the time he spent in his remarriage." border="0" /></a>E! Online - It's official: The amount of time Eminem has spent in divorce
proceedings has already outlasted the time he spent in his remarriage.</p><br clear="all"/>
Peppers, Peas, Mariah Spice Up AMAs
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060920/en_music_eo/20046"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eo/20060920/capt.39e73dadb53708ba456562f7317a05df.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=LGJRnxA2Eofcujxd2ANLIg--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="If the folks behind the American Music Awards are trying to
reverse the perception of being the most predictable award show out
there, well, they aren't doing themselves any favors with this year's
list of nominees." border="0" /></a>E! Online - If the folks behind the American Music Awards are trying to
reverse the perception of being the most predictable award show out
there, well, they aren't doing themselves any favors with this year's
list of nominees.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sugarcubes reuniting for one-off show
(Reuters)
Reuters - Iceland's top rock export the
Sugarcubes will reunite on November 17 to play their first show
in 14 years, according to a Web site posting from Bjork, the
group's most famous member.
Eminem back in action with mixtape CD
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060920/music_nm/eminem_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060919/capt.nyet17909191534.people_eminem_divorce_nyet179.jpg?x=114&y=130&sig=0YLJ53JlC5HR_bwmx98_Ug--" align="left" height="130" width="114" alt="Rapper Eminem poses at a Detroit Hip-Hop Summit at Cobo Arena in Detroit in this April 26, 2003 file photo. Eminem continued divorce proceedings with his wife, Kimberley Mathers, in an hour-long private hearing in Mount Clemens, Mich., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. (AP Photo/Rob Widdis, File)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Dodging retirement rumors, Eminem
will spring back into action this winter with "Eminem Presents:
The Re-Up," a mixtape disc that will serve as an introduction
to new artists from his Shady Records camp.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ashanti Settles Up
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060920/en_music_eo/20049"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eo/20060920/capt.db57431f027a021f06423ff3ec904745.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=p5Y9MUbqhzm.JyORlB.GLw--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="The R&B diva has
settled a lawsuit brought by ex-producer Genard Parker, who claimed she
owed him more than $2 million in fees and royalties for helping launch
her career when she was just a teenager." border="0" /></a>E! Online - The R&B diva has
settled a lawsuit brought by ex-producer Genard Parker, who claimed she
owed him more than $2 million in fees and royalties for helping launch
her career when she was just a teenager.</p><br clear="all"/>
Met to give away 3,000 free tickets
(AP)
AP - To promote its first season under its new general manager, Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera will give away 3,000 free tickets to Friday's dress rehearsal of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly."
Eminem divorce is going to mediator
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_en_mu/people_eminem_divorce"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060919/capt.nyet17909191534.people_eminem_divorce_nyet179.jpg?x=114&y=130&sig=0YLJ53JlC5HR_bwmx98_Ug--" align="left" height="130" width="114" alt="Rapper Eminem poses at a Detroit Hip-Hop Summit at Cobo Arena in Detroit in this April 26, 2003 file photo. Eminem continued divorce proceedings with his wife, Kimberley Mathers, in an hour-long private hearing in Mount Clemens, Mich., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. (AP Photo/Rob Widdis, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Eminem, his estranged wife and their lawyers met privately in a judge's chambers Tuesday but failed to agree to terms for the couple's second divorce.</p><br clear="all"/>
Deschanel Channels Joplin
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060919/en_music_eo/20048"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eo/20060920/capt.d41f5022d1c7eaf6c400e40991775e59.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=0ARRjPLIY8sz4tfhS20.0Q--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="Could a long-delayed Janis Joplin biopic finally be
making its way to the big screen?" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Could a long-delayed Janis Joplin biopic finally be
making its way to the big screen?</p><br clear="all"/>
Multiple Music Award nods for many
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_en_mu/american_music_award_nominations"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060919/i/r3264973860.jpg?x=130&y=99&sig=Ejay_ckFN7Or7FasGgUjnw--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="Mariah Carey performs in Miami, August 5, 2006. A year after she was snubbed at the American Music Awards, the pop singer will get another shot at glory when the next event takes place in Los Angeles on November 21, organizers said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Marc Serota" border="0" /></a>AP - For more than a dozen artists, nominations for the American Music Awards came in twos and threes.</p><br clear="all"/>
Nelson cited for marijuana possession
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_en_mu/people_willie_nelson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060918/capt.ee38101b517045a592369b6ce6c5ab21.people_nelson_nyet116.jpg?x=94&y=130&sig=yJLb9m6RXLPq4sWAseHW4w--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="Willie Nelson raises his hat to the fans attending his Fourth of July Picnic in this July 4, 2006 file photo, in Ft. Worth, Texas. Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop Monday morning, Sept. 18, 2006, on a Louisiana highway, state police said. (AP Photo/Rex C. Curry, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Willie Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for possession of illegal mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop Monday morning on a Louisiana highway, state police said.</p><br clear="all"/>
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