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Fawcett remains positive despite cancer
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_en_ce/people_fawcett"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061007/capt.39b425aa69e840dfa8565e32d95b8134.people_farrah_fawcett_ny135.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=tNxVpE2zqSh4Amit1kw55g--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Farrah Fawcett arrives for the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami in this Aug. 29, 2004, file photo. Fawcett, recently found to have cancer, said Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, she is maintaining a positive attitude and expects to recover completely. 'I am determined to bite the bullet and fight the fight while going through the next six weeks of cutting edge, state-of-the-art treatment,' the 59-year-old actress said in a statement. 'I should be able to return to my life as it was before.' (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Farrah Fawcett, recently found to have cancer, said Friday she is maintaining a positive attitude and expects to recover completely.</p><br clear="all"/>
Shakira shaking it to help build school
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_en_mu/people_shakira"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.ff182250f96f4001849e17e10ecb8432.mexico_oye_awards_mojm101.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=zbD812Rou_YYahvrJakRlw--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Colombian singer Shakira sends off a kiss after she won the best recorded music during the Oye! awards in the city of Puebla, Mexico on Thursday Oct. 5, 2006.(AP Photo/Joel Merino)" border="0" /></a>AP - Shakira will donate the proceeds from a concert in her hometown to build an arts school for 1,800 children forced to flee their homes by Colombia's civil war.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sienna Miller apologizes to Pittsburgh
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_en_ce/people_sienna_miller"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.2bf0f8bae40f4d85b662dac5ad50ec77.people_sienna_miller_nyol919.jpg?x=130&y=128&sig=ngqTiKbj8S3Lm9.xsUPj0w--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="Actress Sienna Miller poses in this 2005 file photo in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sienna Miller, who disparaged Pittsburgh in a magazine interview, apologized on Friday, saying her remarks were taken out of context and that she found the city and residents gracious.</p><br clear="all"/>
Gibson takes redemption tour to 'GMA'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_en_ce/mel_gibson_redemption"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.d4290197d4ed463d91e178a2b09037e0.mel_gibson_redemption_ny133.jpg?x=92&y=130&sig=p5hvyJKu3KYXTXc4LScpgg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Mel Gibson talks about his film 'The Passion of the Christ' after accepting the Motion Picture Award during the Catholics in Media Awards ceremony, in this Nov. 7, 2004, file photo in Beverly Hills, Calif. The embattled 50-year-old actor-director, whose high-profile drunken-driving arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic tirade made international headlines over the summer, is set to appear on 'Good Morning America' next week. This follows other efforts by Gibson to mend his personal and professional life, including participating in a recovery program, attending court-ordered alcohol-rehabilitation classes and meeting privately with Jewish leaders to understand the source of his 'vicious words,' as he described them. (AP Photo/Rene Macura, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Mel Gibson's redemption tour is heading to TV. The embattled 50-year-old actor-director, whose high-profile drunken-driving arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic tirade made international headlines over the summer, is set to appear on "Good Morning America" next week.</p><br clear="all"/>
RFK's widow praises new film 'Bobby'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_en_mo/kennedy_film"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.b7b08740e6584f12b2cedf251990ecf4.kennedy_film_ny131.jpg?x=125&y=130&sig=iEQp1YT7GXTFCw_N2UI_7Q--" align="left" height="130" width="125" alt="U.S. Attorney Gen. Robert F. Kennedy is photographed in his office in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28, 1964. The widow and a daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy give a thumbs-up for 'Bobby,' an ensemble drama about the 1968 Kennedy assassination directed by Emilio Estevez and set for release next month.(AP File Photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - The widow and a daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy give a thumbs-up for "Bobby," an ensemble drama about the 1968 Kennedy assassination directed by Emilio Estevez and set for release next month.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sienna Miller apologizes to Pittsburgh
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_en_mo/people_sienna_miller"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.2bf0f8bae40f4d85b662dac5ad50ec77.people_sienna_miller_nyol919.jpg?x=130&y=128&sig=ngqTiKbj8S3Lm9.xsUPj0w--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="Actress Sienna Miller poses in this 2005 file photo in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sienna Miller, who disparaged Pittsburgh in a magazine interview, apologized on Friday, saying her remarks were taken out of context and that she found the city and residents gracious.</p><br clear="all"/>
Shakira shaking it to help build school
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_en_mu/people_shakira"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.ff182250f96f4001849e17e10ecb8432.mexico_oye_awards_mojm101.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=zbD812Rou_YYahvrJakRlw--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Colombian singer Shakira sends off a kiss after she won the best recorded music during the Oye! awards in the city of Puebla, Mexico on Thursday Oct. 5, 2006.(AP Photo/Joel Merino)" border="0" /></a>AP - Shakira will donate the proceeds from a concert in her hometown to build an arts school for 1,800 children forced to flee their homes by Colombia's civil war.</p><br clear="all"/>
TV group calls probe of video releases chilling
(Reuters)
Reuters - A U.S. investigation of how video
news releases are used by television stations is cutting their
use and depriving viewers of key information, a group of news
directors said in comments made public on Friday.
TV group calls probe of video releases chilling
(Reuters)
Reuters - A U.S. investigation of how video
news releases are used by television stations is cutting their
use and depriving viewers of key information, a group of news
directors said in comments made public on Friday.
PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: 'A Chorus Line': Gypsy Feat
(Playbill)
Playbill - That's right: Another 'Singular Sensation' has hit town. The fourth longest-running show in Broadway history-A Chorus Line, which logged up 6,137 performances at the Shubert Theatre between July 25, 1975 and April 28, 1990-reformed Oct. 5 just around the corner at a theatre recently renamed for The Shubert's chairman of the board, Gerald Schoenfeld, and gave, after a 16-year intermission, its 6,138th Broadway performance.
Sienna Miller apologizes to Pittsburgh
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_en_mo/people_sienna_miller"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.2bf0f8bae40f4d85b662dac5ad50ec77.people_sienna_miller_nyol919.jpg?x=130&y=128&sig=ngqTiKbj8S3Lm9.xsUPj0w--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="Actress Sienna Miller poses in this 2005 file photo in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sienna Miller, who disparaged Pittsburgh in a magazine interview, apologized on Friday, saying her remarks were taken out of context and that she found the city and residents gracious.</p><br clear="all"/>
Major theaters shun "Death of a President" film
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061007/film_nm/deathofapresident_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061006/2006_10_06t073219_304x450_us_president.jpg?x=87&y=130&sig=xLh5mMX.wf3bM2s6x4n3VQ--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="The poster for the film 'Death of a President.' Newmarket Films set itself an unusual challenge when it decided to release the controversial faux investigative documentary just six weeks after acquiring the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. (Newmarket Films/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Two major U.S. theater chains say
they will not show a controversial new movie that depicts the
assassination of President George W. Bush, while the film's
distributor defended it as a thoughtful political thriller.</p><br clear="all"/>
Gibson takes redemption tour to `GMA'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_en_mo/mel_gibson_redemption"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.d4290197d4ed463d91e178a2b09037e0.mel_gibson_redemption_ny133.jpg?x=92&y=130&sig=p5hvyJKu3KYXTXc4LScpgg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Mel Gibson talks about his film 'The Passion of the Christ' after accepting the Motion Picture Award during the Catholics in Media Awards ceremony, in this Nov. 7, 2004, file photo in Beverly Hills, Calif. The embattled 50-year-old actor-director, whose high-profile drunken-driving arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic tirade made international headlines over the summer, is set to appear on 'Good Morning America' next week. This follows other efforts by Gibson to mend his personal and professional life, including participating in a recovery program, attending court-ordered alcohol-rehabilitation classes and meeting privately with Jewish leaders to understand the source of his 'vicious words,' as he described them. (AP Photo/Rene Macura, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Mel Gibson's redemption tour is heading to TV.</p><br clear="all"/>
Young `Whale Rider' actress pregnant
(AP)
AP - Keisha Castle-Hughes is growing up fast.
Theaters Balk on Bush Death Film
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20061006/en_movies_eo/20181"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eo/20061007/capt.1b26e600b12532aca6c3db314620ae93.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=HjvOJDNrTxNJ.B4EiIAVuQ--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="Some of
the country's biggest theater chains are reportedly refusing to screen
Death of a President, the controversial British-made drama that
depicts a fictional assassination of President George W. Bush." border="0" /></a>E! Online - Some of
the country's biggest theater chains are reportedly refusing to screen
Death of a President, the controversial British-made drama that
depicts a fictional assassination of President George W. Bush.</p><br clear="all"/>
RFK's widow praises new film 'Bobby'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_en_mo/kennedy_film"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.b7b08740e6584f12b2cedf251990ecf4.kennedy_film_ny131.jpg?x=125&y=130&sig=iEQp1YT7GXTFCw_N2UI_7Q--" align="left" height="130" width="125" alt="U.S. Attorney Gen. Robert F. Kennedy is photographed in his office in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28, 1964. The widow and a daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy give a thumbs-up for 'Bobby,' an ensemble drama about the 1968 Kennedy assassination directed by Emilio Estevez and set for release next month.(AP File Photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - The widow and a daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy give a thumbs-up for "Bobby," an ensemble drama about the 1968 Kennedy assassination directed by Emilio Estevez and set for release next month.</p><br clear="all"/>
Natalie Portman channels Audrey Hepburn
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_en_mo/people_portman"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.fc184180fdc848f6a1ea5967ef266234.people_portman_ny128.jpg?x=94&y=130&sig=sKQ7efIrQS7IcQcqEp1eTQ--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="In this photo released by Harper's Bazaar, 25-year-old Natalie Portman, wearing the iconic black column dress worn by Hepburn in 1961's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' graces the cover and inside pages of the November issue of Harper's Bazaar, on newsstands Oct. 20. On the cover, a smiling Portman - often called the modern-day Hepburn - channels Holly Golightly by showing off the back of the dress, which was designed by Givenchy. Pearls are draped around her neck. Her hair, set with a black headband, is swept up into a stylish updo in an update of Golightly's signature beehive. (AP Photo/Harper's Bazaar, Peter Lindbergh)" border="0" /></a>AP - Audrey Hepburn has a clone: Natalie Portman.</p><br clear="all"/>
Altman, Keillor share `Prairie' tales
(AP)
AP - What was it that made "A Prairie Home Companion" such a quintessential Robert Altman movie that also captured the gabby spirit of the Garrison Keillor radio show on which it was based?
Brazil's movie industry eyes comeback
(AP)
AP - The 2005 film "The Constant Gardner" won acclaim at film festivals and an Oscar for best supporting actress Rachel Weisz. Now the film's Brazilian director is harnessing his fame to jump-start his country's struggling movie industry.
Lau gives 'Departed' an 8 out of 10
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_en_mo/people_andy_lau"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.ny12110061649.people_andy_lau_ny121.jpg?x=91&y=130&sig=9khImyYP.eF_tmnLflQ8sg--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="Hong Kong singer and actor Andy Lau holds his hands in prayer during a photo call in a Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005 file photo in Taipei, Taiwan. Hong Kong actor Lau has given Martin Scorsese's 'The Departed' , a remake of one of Lau's movies, a score of eight out of 10, but he's unhappy about the film's foul language and that it has only one female lead, a spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Jerome Favre, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Andy Lau gives "The Departed" — an Americanized version of one of his movies — an eight out of 10. The new Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson was inspired by the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," which features Lau and Tony Leung.</p><br clear="all"/>
Shakira shaking it to help build school
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_en_mu/people_shakira"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061006/capt.ff182250f96f4001849e17e10ecb8432.mexico_oye_awards_mojm101.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=zbD812Rou_YYahvrJakRlw--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Colombian singer Shakira sends off a kiss after she won the best recorded music during the Oye! awards in the city of Puebla, Mexico on Thursday Oct. 5, 2006.(AP Photo/Joel Merino)" border="0" /></a>AP - Shakira will donate the proceeds from a concert in her hometown to build an arts school for 1,800 children forced to flee their homes by Colombia's civil war.</p><br clear="all"/>
X Marks Spot for Jimmy Buffett?
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20061007/en_music_eo/20182"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eo/20061007/capt.c5640fde4b6eeb30f61b605ad02d2185.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=I0SJTnBeNqWkdLCXEiLKRw--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="Memo to Parrotheads: Cheeseburgers in paradise, no problem;
drugs in France, well, that's another story..." border="0" /></a>E! Online - Memo to Parrotheads: Cheeseburgers in paradise, no problem;
drugs in France, well, that's another story...</p><br clear="all"/>
Billboard single reviews: Gnarls, Nelly
(Reuters)
Reuters - Duo Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green,
collectively known as Gnarls Barkley, cooked up a Grammy Award
contender for song of the year with "Crazy," a psychedelic soul
celebration so universal that it has been covered by an
unlikely combination of acts, from Nelly Furtado and Billy Idol
to the Roots, Butch Walker and Bryan Adams.
Billboard album reviews: Jet, Sting
(Reuters)
Reuters - All the drama and every hook in the
world a record does not make.
Clarkson, Anthony singing at Tony Bennett bash
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061006/music_nm/bennett_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061007/2006_10_06t170049_450x325_us_bennett.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=JG2lp0VqILGZyIi4iVHjpQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Singer Tony Bennett performs on NBC's Today show in New York September 22, 2006. Kelly Clarkson, Marc Anthony, Rascal Flatts and Madeleine Peyroux will join Bennett for a November 9 concert at Los Angeles' Kodak Theater, in celebration of his 80th birthday (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Kelly Clarkson, Marc Anthony, Rascal
Flatts and Madeleine Peyroux will join Tony Bennett for a
November 9 concert at Los Angeles' Kodak Theater, in
celebration of Bennett's 80th birthday.</p><br clear="all"/>
CD/DVD combo chronicles Knopfler/Harris gig
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061006/music_nm/knopfler_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061006/2006_10_06t141431_450x332_us_knopfler.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=Je8K0yybbbxkVqwLI79rxg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Mark Knopfler (L) and Emmylou Harris perform during the 'All the Roadrunning Tour 2006' concert in Barcelona, Spain, June 13, 2006. Knopfler and Harris' June 28 performance at Los Angeles' Gibson Amphitheatre is the subject of a CD/DVD set due in stores November 14. (Gustau Nacarino/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris'
June 28 performance at Los Angeles' Gibson Amphitheatre is the
subject of a CD/DVD set due in stores November 14.</p><br clear="all"/>
Backstage drama before Carnegie opener
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_en_mu/music_carnegie_opening"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061005/capt.7fe978517bd74596b97dcf3aab4025b8.carnegie_hall_xny706.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=gEOvH_8eXAZtB7i6SRYxgg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Conductor Franz Welser-Most leads the Cleveland Orchestra as The Cleveland Orchestra Opening Night Gala at Carnegie Hall's 116th season Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006 at Carnegie Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda)" border="0" /></a>AP - The call came a few hours before Carnegie Hall's season-opening gala concert — Thomas Quasthoff, one of the stars of the night, had an inflamed vocal cord and couldn't sing.</p><br clear="all"/>
Guns 'confirm' "Chinese Democracy"
(Yahoo! Music)
Yahoo! Music - The new Guns N' Roses album will be released next month, it has been claimed.
Digital sales shore up ailing music biz
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061006/music_nm/industry_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061006/2006_10_05t111314_450x316_us_industry.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=3lfbOUY.ksD1lvrPtjaQkw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Members of Rascal Flatts, Joe Don Rooney (L), Gary LeVox (C) and Jay DeMarcus perform on NBC's Today Show in New York, June 30, 2006. The band has the second top-selling release this year. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - While sales of physical
albums plummeted during the first nine months of 2006, big
increases in the demand for digital tracks and albums have kept
the overall music business in line with last year's totals.</p><br clear="all"/>
Stefani gearing up for new album, live DVD
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061006/music_nm/stefani_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061006/2006_10_06t012358_450x368_us_stefani.jpg?x=130&y=106&sig=SJm0AvCCRLYFtrV26FvJzw--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="Gwen Stefani poses for photographers in this September 16, 2005 file photo. After laying low this year following the birth of her first child, Gwen Stefani is roaring back into action with a variety of projects. (Seth Wenig/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - After laying low this year following
the birth of her first child, Gwen Stefani is roaring back into
action with a variety of projects. According to her Web site,
Stefani is "hard at work" on new material with an eye on
releasing her second solo album before the end of the year.</p><br clear="all"/>
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