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Struthers 'crazy' over role in TV movie
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_en_tv/people_struthers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061209/capt.ny14612090032.people_struthers_ny146.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=.u1oQJEHYCsE80K9tbFstw--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Actress Sally Struthers, center, who played Archie Bunker's daughter Gloria on television's 'All in the Family,' arrives at St. Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles for the funeral of actor Carroll O'Connor on in this file photo from from June 26, 2001. The 58-year-old actress co-stars in 'What I Did For Love,' airing Saturday on the Hallmark Channel. Struthers plays a nosy aunt whose niece returns with her new fiance to her small hometown, where tradition calls for him to seek her parents' consent to the marriage. (AP Photo/Lee Celano-File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sally Struthers felt like she'd won an award when she was offered a role in a new cable television movie about small-town values. "I went crazy," she said, citing family values, love and the struggle between good and evil as her favorite themes.</p><br clear="all"/>
Jon Peters faces sex harassment lawsuit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_en_ce/people_peters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061209/capt.ny14712090034.people_peters_ny147.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=5xVgPBqTfC7LUPiq6RjZZg--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="Jon Peters and Barbra Streisand hold their awards at the Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood, in this file photo from Jan. 29, 1977. A woman claims in a lawsuit that the 'Superman Returns' producer sexually harassed her and exposed himself to her 3-year-old daughter while she worked as his personal assistant. (AP Photo-File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A woman claims in a lawsuit that "Superman Returns" producer Jon Peters sexually harassed her and exposed himself to her and her 3-year-old daughter while she worked as his personal assistant.</p><br clear="all"/>
Snipes pleads not guilty in tax case
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_en_ce/people_wesley_snipes_indicted"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061208/capt.1a61cceb1d334356b8de36fd1964b2e9.wesley_snipes_indicted_flpc103.jpg?x=122&y=130&sig=Wk_hYHLVZgYmm6bUcTG_HA--" align="left" height="130" width="122" alt="Actor Wesley Snipes with his press assistant Judy Smith, right, meet a media gathering at Orlando International Airport, Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, in Orlando, Fla. Snipes surrendered to authorities earlier in the day on tax fraud charges and was released on bail. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wesley Snipes was released on $1 million bond Friday after pleading not guilty to federal charges that he failed to file tax returns and falsely claimed millions of dollars in refunds.</p><br clear="all"/>
Pitt, Jolie tour Wright's masterpiece
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_en_ce/people_pitt_jolie"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061208/capt.nyet12812082045.people_pitt_jolie_nyet128.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=XE3N.gCahoLaiosOyXvqRQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="This photo supplied by Western Pennsylvania Conservancy shows Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie outside Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pa. Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006. The couple visited Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece for Pitt's birthday. Cara Armstrong, Fallingwater's curator of education, says Pitt said he wanted to experience Fallingwater ever since he took an architectural history course in college. Pitt turns 42 on December 18th. (AP Photo/Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, Cara Armstrong)" border="0" /></a>AP - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visited Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece, where they celebrated the actor's upcoming birthday, Fallingwater's curator of education said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Judge to review 'Borat' fraternity suit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_en_mo/film_borat_lawsuit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061208/capt.a042b484f0d94e9eab0dd9cdd4a13db9.borat_nyol200.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=H8PNV6Oe7LIJsdzj4CChsg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Actor Sacha Baron Cohen arrives in character as Borat for the film premiere of 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' in Hollywood in this Oct. 23, 2006 file photo. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - A judge weighing whether to halt the DVD release of "Borat" viewed a scene from the hit film in which a group of South Carolina fraternity brothers converse with the raucous Kazakh journalist played by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Diamond" is rough, for a bigger purpose
(Reuters)
Reuters - Two new movies in
theaters boast grisly, disturbing violence that raises the
question: Where is the line between violent and too violent?
Ciara, Eminem set to lead U.S. pop album charts
(Reuters)
Reuters - R&B singer Ciara's second release
is expected to top the U.S. pop album charts when sales data
are issued Wednesday.
Struthers 'crazy' over role in TV movie
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_en_tv/people_struthers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061209/capt.ny14612090032.people_struthers_ny146.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=.u1oQJEHYCsE80K9tbFstw--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Actress Sally Struthers, center, who played Archie Bunker's daughter Gloria on television's 'All in the Family,' arrives at St. Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles for the funeral of actor Carroll O'Connor on in this file photo from from June 26, 2001. The 58-year-old actress co-stars in 'What I Did For Love,' airing Saturday on the Hallmark Channel. Struthers plays a nosy aunt whose niece returns with her new fiance to her small hometown, where tradition calls for him to seek her parents' consent to the marriage. (AP Photo/Lee Celano-File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sally Struthers felt like she'd won an award when she was offered a role in a new cable television movie about small-town values. "I went crazy," she said, citing family values, love and the struggle between good and evil as her favorite themes.</p><br clear="all"/>
Fox, Viacom, CBS and NBC discuss YouTube rival: WSJ
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061209/media_nm/media_youtube_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061206/capt.sge.spn01.061206064122.photo02.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=2T8KsojrYRbhutSN0aHWmw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="File photo shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Websites such as YouTube and Second Life won superstar status in 2006, helping to transform the Internet from a window on the world into a stage on which people play out their lives and dreams(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - News Corp.'s Fox, Viacom Inc., CBS
Corp.. and NBC Universal are in talks about creating a video
Web site to compete with Google Inc.'s YouTube, the Wall Street
Journal reported on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Shakespeare Theatre of NJ Has Four 'Henry' Plays, Plus Saroyan and Molnar in 2007
(Playbill)
Playbill - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will celebrate its 45th season by expanding its Main Stage season from six productions to seven.
"Diamond" is rough, for a bigger purpose
(Reuters)
Reuters - Two new movies in
theaters boast grisly, disturbing violence that raises the
question: Where is the line between violent and too violent?
Hollywood bets on Mel's future as "Apocalypto" opens
(Reuters)
Reuters - "Apocalypto," Mel Gibson's first
film since his anti-Semitic tirade last summer, opened on
Friday as Hollywood wondered whether his career, like the Mayan
civilization the movie depicts, is doomed to collapse or poised
for resurrection.
Snipes pleads not guilty in tax case
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_en_mo/people_wesley_snipes_indicted"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061207/capt.nyet19712072045.people_wesley_snipes_indicted_nyet197.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=57bZzXyR7Ys9f7oViBJbEg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Actor Wesley Snipes poses in New York on March 20, 2006. The tax-fraud investigation that led to the indictment of the 'Blade' star began with a raid four years ago in Pennsylvania, an IRS agent testified in court Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2005. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wesley Snipes was released on $1 million bond Friday after pleading not guilty to federal charges that he failed to file tax returns and falsely claimed millions of dollars in refunds.</p><br clear="all"/>
Jon Peters faces sex harassment lawsuit
(AP)
AP - A woman claims in a lawsuit that "Superman Returns" producer Jon Peters sexually harassed her and exposed himself to her and her 3-year-old daughter while she worked as his personal assistant.
Judge to review 'Borat' fraternity suit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_en_mo/film_borat_lawsuit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061208/capt.a042b484f0d94e9eab0dd9cdd4a13db9.borat_nyol200.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=H8PNV6Oe7LIJsdzj4CChsg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Actor Sacha Baron Cohen arrives in character as Borat for the film premiere of 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' in Hollywood in this Oct. 23, 2006 file photo. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - A judge weighing whether to halt the DVD release of "Borat" viewed a scene from the hit film in which a group of South Carolina fraternity brothers converse with the raucous Kazakh journalist played by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.</p><br clear="all"/>
Pitt, Jolie tour Wright's masterpiece
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_en_mo/people_pitt_jolie"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061208/capt.nyet12812082045.people_pitt_jolie_nyet128.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=XE3N.gCahoLaiosOyXvqRQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="This photo supplied by Western Pennsylvania Conservancy shows Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie outside Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pa. Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006. The couple visited Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece for Pitt's birthday. Cara Armstrong, Fallingwater's curator of education, says Pitt said he wanted to experience Fallingwater ever since he took an architectural history course in college. Pitt turns 42 on December 18th. (AP Photo/Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, Cara Armstrong)" border="0" /></a>AP - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visited Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece, where they celebrated the actor's upcoming birthday, Fallingwater's curator of education said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Critics writing their lists, checking them twice
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061208/film_nm/critics_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061208/2006_12_08t151408_291x450_us_critics.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=gjWLRz_kS3UiXwWqzQMlPQ--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="Stars of 'Dreamgirls' Jennifer Hudson (L), Anika Noni Rose (C) and Beyonce arrive at the premiere of the film 'Dreamgirls' in New York December 4, 2006. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The awards race is on.
Not the race to position films for year-end awards
consideration -- that dance has been going on since at least
the September trifecta of the Telluride, Venice and Toronto
film festivals, if not before. No, the current race is the rush
by film organizations and critics' groups to be among the first
to anoint the best films of 2006.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Blood diamonds' decline, but not poverty
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_en_mo/film_diamond_ethics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061208/capt.5920275b3aa94a8ba13f7e52d156412d.africa_diamond_ethics_sle102.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=aod1sLrInKmUgwbryc8wyQ--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Miners pan for diamonds near Koidu in northeastern Sierra Leone near the Guinean border, in this June 8, 2004 file photo. Hollywood's take on 'conflict diamonds' has brought attention back in a big way to how gems associated with wealth and glamor have too often meant war and suffering in Africa. The film 'Blood Diamond,' which opened Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, in U.S. theaters, is set in late 1990s Sierra Leone, when the West African country was in the throes of a civil war in which untraceable diamonds allegedly funded fighters who hacked off people's hands with machetes and burned entire villages. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hollywood's take on "conflict diamonds" has brought attention back in a big way to how gems associated with wealth and glamour have too often meant war and suffering in Africa.</p><br clear="all"/>
Spears says she went 'a little too far'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_en_mo/people_britney_spears"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061207/capt.nyet17712071839.people_britney_spears_nyet177.jpg?x=113&y=130&sig=nS00vZ0i8AtXl3.WatNQ6A--" align="left" height="130" width="113" alt="Britney Spears appears at the 2006 Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, Calif., on Aug. 20, 2006. The pop star admits she went 'a little too far' with her recent partying, in a posting Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006, on her Web site. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)" border="0" /></a>AP - After igniting a media firestorm by flashing her apparent lack of underwear to the paparazzi, Britney Spears is finally talking. "It's been so long since I've been out on the town with friends," the singer writes in a posting Thursday on her Web site.</p><br clear="all"/>
Pregnant singer says Murphy's the father
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_en_mo/people_melanie_brown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061207/capt.nyet12112071924.people_melanie_brown_nyet121.jpg?x=82&y=130&sig=n6m3FpmfvVpK8iPJL3aGNw--" align="left" height="130" width="82" alt="Melanie Brown who was once known as Scary Spice of the Spice Girls, attends the opening night of a play Broadway on April 8, 2004, in New York. Brown says in a statement released through her publicist,that there is 'no question' that actor Eddie Murphy is the father of her unborn child. (AP Photo/Jennifer Szymaszek)" border="0" /></a>AP - Eddie Murphy has said that he's not sure if he's the father of ex-Spice Girl Melanie Brown's unborn child. Brown, however, says she's quite certain that he is.</p><br clear="all"/>
Jazz bandleaders pool resources in New York
(Reuters)
Reuters - Given the shifting tides of the
recording industry, breaking in as a jazz bandleader poses
increasing challenges, not only in raising one's profile but
also in rustling up the funds to pay the support musicians.
Bad "Behavior" pays off for rock band Hinder
(Reuters)
Reuters - It certainly didn't take long for
Hinder frontman Austin Winkler to get comfortable with the rock
star lifestyle.
Velvet Revolver recording second album in L.A
(Reuters)
Reuters - Hard rock combo Velvet Revolver is
eyeing a mid- to late-spring release for the follow-up to its
Grammy-winning debut.
Lucinda Williams shares heartbreak on new album
(Reuters)
Reuters - Loss and loneliness are at the core
of Lucinda Williams' largely down-tempo album, "West," the
singer/songwriter's first release since 2003.
Rapper Nas emerges from drama with label debut
(Reuters)
Reuters - When Nas and Jay-Z set aside their
feud and joined forces last October, it was a great moment for
hip-hop, but an even greater moment for Nas. Having been
Columbia's staple rap artist for more than a decade, the
acclaimed yet commercially unreliable MC seemed poised to reap
the benefits of Def Jam's hip-hop savvy.
Rapper Bow Wow growing with his young fans
(Reuters)
Reuters - Bow Wow's image as the cute
preteen heartthrob who cut his teeth on pop confections still
lingers.
Rapper's drug lyrics scare corporate America
(Reuters)
Reuters - Young Jeezy, born Jay Jenkins,
originally planned to be a businessman instead of a rapper.
Distinctive sounds drive new Latin success stories
(Reuters)
Reuters - As 2006 winds down, it's the perfect
time to take stock of new acts who broke through in the last
year or so.
Twins for Elvis Costello & Diana Krall
(AP)
AP - Elvis Costello and wife Diana Krall are the parents of twin boys.
Mariah Carey battles porn star over stage name
(Reuters)
Reuters - Grammy-winning pop singer Mariah
Carey is trying to block porn star-turned politician Mary Carey
from trademarking her similar-sounding stage name, saying that
fans could get the two performers confused.
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