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Foxy Brown rapped over probation terms
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_ce/people_foxy_brown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.ny11612112233.people_foxy_brown_ny116.jpg?x=92&y=130&sig=98x0eCE5pkaQ5uYPRBapKw--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Foxy Brown, whose birth name is Inga Marchand, enters Manhattan criminal court, in this Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006 file photo, in New York. Rapper Foxy Brown was summoned to court unexpectedly Monday, Dec. 11, 2006 after being accused of violating probation stemming from a fight in a nail salon more than two years ago. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)" border="0" /></a>AP - Rapper Foxy Brown was summoned to court unexpectedly Monday after being accused of violating probation stemming from a fight in a nail salon more than two years ago. Brown, appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, where she was sentenced in October to three years probation, was accused of failing to keep appointments with probation officers, appear for anger management classes and submit to drug tests.</p><br clear="all"/>
Nicole Richie arrested for DUI in L.A.
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_ce/people_nicole_richie_arrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.la20112111750.people_nicole_richie_arrest_la201.jpg?x=103&y=130&sig=qY3Auv7S55da2htaYtnVhQ--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="In this photo released by the Glendale Police Department, Nicole Richie's booking mug shot is seen after her arrest early Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol, in Glendale, Calif. California Highway Patrol officers took the 25-year-old daughter of pop singer Lionel Richie into custody without incident after she failed a field sobriety test, CHP Officer Todd Workman said. (AP Photo/Glendale Police Department)" border="0" /></a>AP - Nicole Richie was arrested early Monday for investigation of driving under the influence after her car was reported headed the wrong way on a freeway.</p><br clear="all"/>
Clooney says he's too old to have game
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_ce/people_george_clooney"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.nyet13512112026.people_george_clooney_nyet135.jpg?x=107&y=130&sig=hZ5duAsED3K7Or5k0ZA80w--" align="left" height="130" width="107" alt="Actor George Clooney puts on a crown and 'Sexiest Man Alive' sash presented to him on the NBC 'Today' television show during an interview, in New York, Dec. 1, 2006. He tells Newsweek in its Dec. 18, 2006, issue that he can't get any woman he wants despite being a two-time winner of People magazine's 'sexiest man alive.' (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0" /></a>AP - Let's get real: George Clooney is a two-time winner of People magazine's "sexiest man alive." He can woo practically any woman he wants — right? "Um, ah, no, because I also wake up and my knees hurt and I think, `I'm 45,'" he tells Newsweek in its Dec. 18 issue. The actor-director, who was married in the early '90s to actress Talia Balsam, is one of Hollywood's most famous bachelors.</p><br clear="all"/>
L.A. judge dismisses cases against Love
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_en_ce/people_courtney_love"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.la10312111915.people_courtney_love_la103.jpg?x=130&y=110&sig=yecl2FMYcEGNqu3blY1VTA--" align="left" height="110" width="130" alt="Singer Courtney Love leaves the Los Angeles Superior courthouse Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, with her attorney Howard Weitzman, left and manger Peter Asher. Love walked out of the courtroom on Monday a free woman after a judge terminated her probation and dismissed three misdemeanor cases, including two drug-related charges, against her. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sobbing with joy, Courtney Love thanked a judge Monday after he terminated her probation and dismissed three misdemeanor cases, including two drug-related charges.</p><br clear="all"/>
Judge rejects injunction against 'Borat'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_mo/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 rejected a request by two fraternity brothers to block the DVD release of the hit spoof movie "Borat." West Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph S. Biderman also refused to order the removal of a scene that includes the two men, who claim they had been duped into misbehaving on camera.</p><br clear="all"/>
Judge rejects injunction against 'Borat'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_mo/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 rejected a request by two fraternity brothers to block the DVD release of the hit spoof movie "Borat." West Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph S. Biderman also refused to order the removal of a scene that includes the two men, who claim they had been duped into misbehaving on camera.</p><br clear="all"/>
Nashville musicians decry media consolidation
(Reuters)
Reuters - Media consolidation
doesn't play well here in Music City, USA as a roomful of
singers and songwriters, from the famous to the unknown,
gathered Monday to criticize government policy easing the rules
that say who can own what media outlet where.
NBC football overpowers Sunday rivals
(Reuters)
Reuters - Reggie Bush and the New
Orlean Saints' defeat of the Dallas Cowboys led NBC to a
primetime win Sunday night without the tough front line of
ABC's "Desperate Housewives" on the field.
Nashville musicians decry media consolidation
(Reuters)
Reuters - Media consolidation
doesn't play well here in Music City, USA as a roomful of
singers and songwriters, from the famous to the unknown,
gathered Monday to criticize government policy easing the rules
that say who can own what media outlet where.
The Beat Goes Off: 'Shout!' Ends NYC Run; Tour Planned
(Playbill)
Playbill - Shout! The Mod Musical, the Off-Broadway revue echoing the songs of British "girl singers" of the 1960s, closed Dec. 10.
Judge rejects injunction against 'Borat'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_mo/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 rejected a request by two fraternity brothers to block the DVD release of the hit spoof movie "Borat." West Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph S. Biderman also refused to order the removal of a scene that includes the two men, who claim they had been duped into misbehaving on camera.</p><br clear="all"/>
New York film critics fly with "United 93"
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061212/film_nm/awards_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061212/2006_12_11t144457_450x345_us_awards.jpg?x=130&y=99&sig=FT.iNSegPaJCrhyxxtKKZw--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="'United 93' director Peter Greengrass arrives at the Tribeca Film Festival's opening night screening of the film, in New York April 25, 2006. 'United 93,' a tense drama focusing on one of the hijacked planes used in the September 11 attacks, won the best picture prize on Monday in the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - In what was described as "a
dogfight" between "United 93" and another fact-based feature,
"The Queen," Paul Greengrass' 9/11 drama was named best film by
the New York Film Critics Circle Monday. after a four-round
tiebreaking vote.</p><br clear="all"/>
Porn queen Jenna Jameson seeks legal separation
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061212/film_nm/jameson_separation_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061212/2006_12_11t195214_450x359_us_jameson_separation.jpg?x=130&y=103&sig=Pci4me_6mJM57hymOhZyBw--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="File photo shows porn actress Jenna Jameson of the United States holding her Best American Actress trophy at the Hot d'Or international porno film award ceremonies, February 6, 1997. Jameson filed court papers on Monday seeking legal separation from her husband of three years, fellow adult film star Jay Grdina. (Jean-Christophe Kahn/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Porn queen Jenna Jameson filed
court papers on Monday seeking legal separation from her
husband of three years, fellow adult film star Jay Grdina, who
headed the business venture she sold to Playboy Enterprises
Inc. this summer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Marshall's rise from tragedy chronicled
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_mo/fbc_sports_showcase"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.wxs61512112037.sports_showcase_wxs615.jpg?x=130&y=117&sig=5ds7r0a4.bBt.eFfm1d.5g--" align="left" height="117" width="130" alt="McG, director of 'We Are Marshall,' tosses a football with the crew during a break in the filming of the movie in Clarkston, Ga., June 14, 2006. It's taken 36 years for the story to be told on the big screen, but those intimately familiar with the story behind the film say it was worth the wait. The movie opens nationwide Dec. 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Ric Feld)" border="0" /></a>AP - For so long, Hollywood paid no attention. A plane carrying the Marshall football team crashed in 1970, leaving no survivors. It was — and remains — the worst sports-related disaster in American history.</p><br clear="all"/>
Film review: `Dreamgirls' wows, but ...
(AP)
AP - The title of the film is "Dreamgirls" but it could have been called "A Star Is Born."
`Apocalypto' top grosser: $15 million
(AP)
AP - Mel Gibson's Mayan epic "Apocalypto" debuted as the top weekend movie with $15 million, overcoming its extreme violence and the bad publicity from Gibson's drunken-driving arrest and anti-Semitic rant last summer.
L.A. judge sides with "Borat" against frat boys
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/film_nm/borat_lawsuit_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061212/2006_12_11t175456_450x318_us_borat_lawsuit.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=QtK.FvY3OR2TS74C1NZ2gA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, acting as Kazakh TV reporter known as 'Borat', poses for photographers in Sydney in this file photo from November 13, 2006. Two college fraternity buddies shown guzzling alcohol and making racist remarks in the 'Borat' movie have lost their bid for a court order to cut the scene they claim has tarnished their reputations, court papers revealed on Monday. (David Gray/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - As the esteemed Kazakh television
journalist Borat Sagdiyev might say: "High Five. Sexy Time. You
Lose."</p><br clear="all"/>
Is Gore pursuing Oscar nod or presidency
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_en_mo/gore2008"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.79641b15e0504ea18a7c45e6cc3b18f3.gore_2008_wx109.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=Zjd38N7YZkJWRSiqEwnhNg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Al Gore waves during the premiere of the documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' in Hong Kong in this Sept. 12, 2006, file photo. The former vice president has criss-crossed the globe and the nation to promote the DVD version of his film, and in recent weeks has made high-profile appearances on the Jay Leno, Oprah and 'The Today Show', while still insisting he's not planning a return to politics. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Al Gore is waging a fierce campaign for recognition and an Oscar statuette for his global warming documentary, while reviving talk that he's pursuing a bigger prize: the presidency.</p><br clear="all"/>
Mel's Apocalypto: Bloody Good Business
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20061211/en_movies_eo/ec12ae7d-7680-4220-ae78-d927c1a20d25"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20061212/capt.999150caa3f91cf29904e5b5389d1077.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=1GDdMwere4IaEa22mg.3fw--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Mel's Apocalypto: Bloody Good Business(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Onscreen in Apocalypto, Mel Gibson serves up plenty of severed heads.</p><br clear="all"/>
Capsule reviews of this week's new films
(AP)
AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
Nashville musicians decry media consolidation
(Reuters)
Reuters - Media consolidation
doesn't play well here in Music City, USA as a roomful of
singers and songwriters, from the famous to the unknown,
gathered Monday to criticize government policy easing the rules
that say who can own what media outlet where.
Tenor walks off stage at La Scala
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_mu/italy_la_scala"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.fbfa78d000d04234a49972734980e512.correction_correction_italy_aida_la_scala_rom101.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=B8muUOpmPIwE6H3S47nK1A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="French tenor Roberto Alagna" border="0" /></a>AP - Tenor Roberto Alagna broke his contract by walking out of a performance of Franco Zeffirelli's "Aida" at La Scala after being booed, and he will not sing for the remaining scheduled performances, a spokesman for the opera house said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Quincy Jones named `Mentor of the Year'
(AP)
AP - Quincy Jones' stockpile of awards is about to grow higher — he's been named "Mentor of the Year," by Harvard University's School of Public Health.
'50s pop singer Georgia Gibbs dies at 87
(AP)
AP - Georgia Gibbs, a versatile singer who starred on the popular show "Your Hit Parade" and reached the top of the charts in the 1950s with covers of songs by black artists, has died. She was 87.
Rare Wagner opera gets Glimmerglass date
(AP)
AP - Wagner's "Das Liebesverbot," will be presented by the Glimmerglass Opera in 2008 in what the company said Monday will be the first staged production of the work in North America.
Judge terminates rocker Courtney Love's probation
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/music_nm/probation_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061212/2006_12_11t184652_450x360_us_probation.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=JJdIjVw4AMzzR0Cbc92MnQ--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="File photo shows Courtney Love (L) and Rebecca Romijn attending the 'Waist Down - Skirts by Miuccia Prada' exhibition in Beverly Hills July 13, 2006. A Los Angeles judge brought an early end to Courtney Love's probation on drug and assault charges on Monday, telling the tearful singer she had earned it. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A Los Angeles judge brought an
early end to Courtney Love's probation on drug and assault
charges on Monday, telling the tearful singer she had earned it
by completing a substance abuse program.</p><br clear="all"/>
Foxy Brown rapped over probation terms
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_en_mu/people_foxy_brown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.ny11612112233.people_foxy_brown_ny116.jpg?x=92&y=130&sig=98x0eCE5pkaQ5uYPRBapKw--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Foxy Brown, whose birth name is Inga Marchand, enters Manhattan criminal court, in this Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006 file photo, in New York. Rapper Foxy Brown was summoned to court unexpectedly Monday, Dec. 11, 2006 after being accused of violating probation stemming from a fight in a nail salon more than two years ago. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)" border="0" /></a>AP - Rapper Foxy Brown was summoned to court unexpectedly Monday after being accused of violating probation stemming from a fight in a nail salon more than two years ago.</p><br clear="all"/>
Music Review: Ghostface Killah
(AP)
AP - Ghostface Killah, "More Fish" (Def Jam)
L.A. judge dismisses cases against Love
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_en_mu/people_courtney_love"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.la10312111915.people_courtney_love_la103.jpg?x=130&y=110&sig=yecl2FMYcEGNqu3blY1VTA--" align="left" height="110" width="130" alt="Singer Courtney Love leaves the Los Angeles Superior courthouse Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, with her attorney Howard Weitzman, left and manger Peter Asher. Love walked out of the courtroom on Monday a free woman after a judge terminated her probation and dismissed three misdemeanor cases, including two drug-related charges, against her. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sobbing with joy, Courtney Love thanked a judge Monday after he terminated her probation and dismissed three misdemeanor cases, including two drug-related charges.</p><br clear="all"/>
Hicks ready for big-time with CD debut
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_en_mu/music_taylor_hicks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061211/capt.nyet38312111949.music_taylor_hicks_nyet383.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=d8iH63KMuvoa6KzvTd7VrA--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="American Idol winner Taylor Hicks poses at NBC Studios in Burbank, Calif. Friday, Dec 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)" border="0" /></a>AP - Kicking back on a couch with a hot cup of tea, Taylor Hicks looks as comfortable backstage at the "Tonight Show" as he might in his own home. When Jay Leno pops into Hicks' dressing room to say hello, the gray-haired soul singer is unfazed — a moment that reflects just how much "American Idol" has changed the 30-year-old's life.</p><br clear="all"/>
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