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Fans and stars mourn godfather of soul
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_en_ce/james_brown_funeral"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.gajd10212301448.james_brown_funeral_gajd102.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=R0bLBRWtYdu48z3XZ57cGg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Mourners walk by the casket of James Brown during the viewing at the public funeral ceremony for the singer at the James Brown arena in Augusta, Ga., Saturday, Dec. 30, 2006. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)" border="0" /></a>AP - More than 8,500 James Brown fans filled an arena bearing his name Saturday in a final, joyful farewell to the singer that seemed as fitting for a civil rights leader as for "The Godfather of Soul."</p><br clear="all"/>
Jay Mohr reportedly marries Nikki Cox
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_en_ce/people_mohr_cox"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.ny12312302131.people_mohr_cox_ny123.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=nyhnnScEC6bTEFtp5tvFyA--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Jay Mohr, left, and Nikki Cox arrive to the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series Year-end Awards Ceremony, in a Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 photo, in New York. Comedian Jay Mohr exchanged wedding vows with 'Las Vegas' actress Nikki Cox in a ceremony in Los Angeles, People magazine reported. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Comedian Jay Mohr exchanged wedding vows with "Las Vegas" actress Nikki Cox in a ceremony here, People magazine reported.</p><br clear="all"/>
Trillin remembers late wife in new book
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_en_ot/books_bud_and_alice"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061231/capt.ny10812310754.calvin_trillin_bud_and_alice_ny108.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=qTGY6uPFvjE2aQsFpVV6WQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Author Calvin Trillin poses in his Greenwich Village apartment in New York Dec. 11, 2006. Trillin remembers late late wife, Alice, in the new book 'About Alice.' (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0" /></a>AP - A visitor to the Greenwich Village town house of author Calvin Trillin will find just one picture of his late wife, Alice, on the main floor. It's a small, framed photo of Alice and Calvin carrying bags and walking on a dirt road, backs to the camera, their bodies close together as if returning from a long journey.</p><br clear="all"/>
Report: Rai bodyguard accused in rampage
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_en_mo/people_aishwarya_rai"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.ny11512301833.people_aishwarya_rai_ny115.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=X2dsRJatvl4jV5OLqnW2eg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Bollywood actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai looks on during an event to release the music from her film 'Bride & Prejudice' in New Delhi, India, in this Sept. 22, 2004, file photo. One of Rai's bodyguards is accused of desecrating a temple in the Hindu holy town of Pushkar by entering drunk and roughing up worshippers who tried to approach the actress, media reports said Friday. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai is in trouble again.</p><br clear="all"/>
Lucas embraces Rose Parade marshal role
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_en_mo/people_rose_parade_george_lucas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.8ab33ab0d2db460296d6b90ab03caeff.rose_parade_george_lucas_la101.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=FkOMu8.QVPi.6GgRUmDw4A--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Director George Lucas arrives at the benefit premiere of 'Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith' on May 12, 2005, in San Francisco. Lucas, the mastermind behind the 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones' sagas, can add another credit to his illustrious resume: Rose Parade grand marshal. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - George Lucas, the mastermind behind the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" sagas, can add another credit to his illustrious resume: Rose Parade grand marshal.</p><br clear="all"/>
Lucas embraces Rose Parade marshal role
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_en_mo/people_rose_parade_george_lucas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.8ab33ab0d2db460296d6b90ab03caeff.rose_parade_george_lucas_la101.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=FkOMu8.QVPi.6GgRUmDw4A--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Director George Lucas arrives at the benefit premiere of 'Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith' on May 12, 2005, in San Francisco. Lucas, the mastermind behind the 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones' sagas, can add another credit to his illustrious resume: Rose Parade grand marshal. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - George Lucas, the mastermind behind the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" sagas, can add another credit to his illustrious resume: Rose Parade grand marshal.</p><br clear="all"/>
Fans and stars mourn godfather of soul
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_en_mu/james_brown_funeral"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.gajd13212302338.james_brown_funeral_gajd132.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=yLdQWMS16vBjVfx2NcUweA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="A projection of James Brown is seen on a screen during his funeral service at the James Brown arena in Augusta, Ga., Saturday, Dec. 30, 2006. (AP Photo/Todd Bennett)" border="0" /></a>AP - More than 8,500 James Brown fans filled an arena bearing his name Saturday in a final, joyful farewell to the singer that seemed as fitting for a civil rights leader as for "The Godfather of Soul."</p><br clear="all"/>
Jay Mohr reportedly marries Nikki Cox
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_en_tv/people_mohr_cox"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.ny12312302131.people_mohr_cox_ny123.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=nyhnnScEC6bTEFtp5tvFyA--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Jay Mohr, left, and Nikki Cox arrive to the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series Year-end Awards Ceremony, in a Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 photo, in New York. Comedian Jay Mohr exchanged wedding vows with 'Las Vegas' actress Nikki Cox in a ceremony in Los Angeles, People magazine reported. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Comedian Jay Mohr exchanged wedding vows with "Las Vegas" actress Nikki Cox in a ceremony here, People magazine reported.</p><br clear="all"/>
CNN wrongful death suit in U.S. court
(AP)
AP - A wrongful death lawsuit claiming that CNN's Nancy Grace pushed the mother of a missing toddler to suicide through aggressive questioning on her show has been moved to federal court.
Will Dean Cain Star in U.S. Tour of Sorkin's 'A Few Good Men'?
(Playbill)
Playbill - Dean Cain may star in what is being billed as a "pre-Broadway tour" of Aaron Sorkin's drama A Few Good Men.
Lucas embraces Rose Parade marshal role
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_en_mo/people_rose_parade_george_lucas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.8ab33ab0d2db460296d6b90ab03caeff.rose_parade_george_lucas_la101.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=FkOMu8.QVPi.6GgRUmDw4A--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Director George Lucas arrives at the benefit premiere of 'Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith' on May 12, 2005, in San Francisco. Lucas, the mastermind behind the 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones' sagas, can add another credit to his illustrious resume: Rose Parade grand marshal. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - George Lucas, the mastermind behind the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" sagas, can add another credit to his illustrious resume: Rose Parade grand marshal.</p><br clear="all"/>
Report: Rai bodyguard accused in rampage
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_en_mo/people_aishwarya_rai"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.ny11512301833.people_aishwarya_rai_ny115.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=X2dsRJatvl4jV5OLqnW2eg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Bollywood actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai looks on during an event to release the music from her film 'Bride & Prejudice' in New Delhi, India, in this Sept. 22, 2004, file photo. One of Rai's bodyguards is accused of desecrating a temple in the Hindu holy town of Pushkar by entering drunk and roughing up worshippers who tried to approach the actress, media reports said Friday. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai is in trouble again.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Indiana Jones' to begin filming in 2007
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_en_mo/george_lucas_indiana_jones"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061229/capt.ny12212292202.george_lucas_indiana_jones_ny122.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=Zbl536sr9KOfFYGuPb49ow--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Honorees producer George Lucas, left, and actor Harrison Ford are seen backstage at the Jules Verne Adventure and Film Festival and Exposition launch event at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, in this Oct. 6, 2006 file photo. Lucas said Friday filming for the much-anticipated 'Indiana Jones' movie will begin next year and he promised it will be 'the best one yet.' Lucas said he and director Steven Spielberg recently finalized the script, which stars Harrison Ford, who appeared in the three earlier flicks. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - George Lucas said Friday that filming of the long-awaited "Indiana Jones" movie will begin next year. Harrison Ford, who appeared in the three earlier flicks, the last one coming in 1989, is set to star again. Lucas said he and Steven Spielberg recently finalized the script for the film.</p><br clear="all"/>
Moretti quits as film fest director
(AP)
AP - Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti on Friday gave up the job of artistic director at the Turin Film Festival, just two days after he was called to lead the event, news reports said.
Pitt and Jolie visit the Panama Canal
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061229/ap_en_mo/people_jolie_pitt"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061229/capt.f7259268fbdf49b983255f335d8ed5ddc.correction_panama_pitt_pan103.jpg?x=98&y=130&sig=11vm3cXKFM2wwG.DVvmR2w--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="Movie star Brad Pitt, left, talks with an unidentified man outside of a handicraft market in Panama City, Friday, Dec. 29, 2006. Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie are in Panama on vacations.(AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)" border="0" /></a>AP - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt surprised fans in Panama City on Friday, visiting a souvenir shop, a colonial neighborhood and the Panama Canal.</p><br clear="all"/>
New DVD releases include `Snakes'
(AP)
AP - Selected home-video releases:
Julia Roberts expecting her 3rd child
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061229/ap_en_mo/people_julia_roberts"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061229/capt.la10112291731.people_julia_roberts_la101.jpg?x=90&y=130&sig=6CkiQ21jboyDKDi_ZctH2g--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey hugs actress Julia Roberts, pregnant with her twins, on the set of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' during taping in this Oct. 6, 2004, file photo. Roberts' rep Marcy Engelman, confirmed Friday, Dec. 29, 2006, that the Roberts is expecting her third child with husband Danny Moder. (AP Photo/Harpo Productions, Inc, George Burns)" border="0" /></a>AP - Julia Roberts is expecting her third child with her husband, cinematographer Danny Moder, her spokeswoman confirmed to People magazine Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Nick and Jessica Split the Bills
(E! Online)
E! Online - The final curtain has fallen on this very public affair.
Gyllenhaal Sibs Flee Fire
(E! Online)
E! Online - If only the Gyllenhaal siblings' careers were all that was on fire these days.
Indian film on reincarnation probes karma concept
(Reuters)
Reuters - A new Indian film examines the
ancient philosophical concept of karma through the lives of
eight characters who remember the sins of their past life and
reconcile to the suffering in their new birth.
Fans and stars mourn godfather of soul
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_en_mu/james_brown_funeral"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.gajd13212302338.james_brown_funeral_gajd132.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=yLdQWMS16vBjVfx2NcUweA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="A projection of James Brown is seen on a screen during his funeral service at the James Brown arena in Augusta, Ga., Saturday, Dec. 30, 2006. (AP Photo/Todd Bennett)" border="0" /></a>AP - More than 8,500 James Brown fans filled an arena bearing his name Saturday in a final, joyful farewell to the singer that seemed as fitting for a civil rights leader as for "The Godfather of Soul."</p><br clear="all"/>
Chicago jazz mecca closes doors, perhaps forever
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061230/music_nm/jazz_chicago_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061230/2006_12_30t122936_450x310_us_jazz_chicago.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=u5e_gYA0K9uGEPoffQmmQw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Joe (L) and Wayne Segal recall the past at the bar of the Jazz Showcase in Chicago December 29, 2006. The nightclub is closing its doors after hosting jazz acts for 59 years. (James Kellerher/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - In a city that lost several beloved
institutions in 2006, the sound coming out of Chicago's jazz
scene is providing a year-end coda no one wants to hear.</p><br clear="all"/>
No sparks, again, at controversial opera
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061229/ap_en_mu/germany_headless_opera"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061229/capt.ober10312292122.germany_headless_opera_ober103.jpg?x=130&y=77&sig=OPP51w__WTpkq9o39doL1A--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="Protestors stand in front of the Deutsche Oper (German Opera) in Berlin displaying an Islamic flag, prior to the performance of Mozart's Idomeneo on Friday, Dec. 29, 2006. Visitors of the Deutsche Oper production are asked to empty the pockets of all metal objects, after the opera dropped from its November schedule over security concerns. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)" border="0" /></a>AP - The second re-staging of a Mozart opera dropped due to security fears over a scene with the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad took place Friday without disruption in a Berlin theater with several hundred empty seats.</p><br clear="all"/>
Placido Domingo backs NY Met's opera at cinema push
(Reuters)
Reuters - Placido Domingo says he has a dream.
He's in Vienna at 2 a.m. and his yearning to see the
performance taking place at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
is instantly fulfilled by switching on a television.
Music world lost Rawls, Pickett, others in 2006
(Reuters)
Reuters - Following is a list of some
leading lights in the music world who were silenced in 2006.
U2 may change musical direction on next album
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061229/music_nm/u2_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061230/capt.ny12012301842.un_annan_s_legacy_ny120.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=tMLnwESCVIw676OamcYuxQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, left, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, center, and Bono, from the Irish band U2, display a banner representing a petition signed by some 21 million people urging world leaders of the Group of Eight nations to cancel global debt, during the United Nations Millennium Summit in this Sept. 7, 2000 file photo, at the U.N. Kofi Annan steps down as secretary-general at midnight Sunday, leaving behind a global organization far more aggressively engaged in peacekeeping and fighting poverty around the world - but struggling to restore its tarnished reputation. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, file)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - With its monster-selling Vertigo
world tour complete, U2 may be ready to rock less, according to
frontman Bono</p><br clear="all"/>
Nick and Jessica Split the Bills
(E! Online)
E! Online - The final curtain has fallen on this very public affair.
A Private Goodbye to James Brown
(E! Online)
E! Online - James Brown always knew how to attract a crowd.
Jubilee year ends with a flourish
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061229/ap_en_mu/mozart_premiere"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061229/capt.vie10912291136.austria_mozart_vie109.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=GPyoI27IFO1WUxFvKeTdZg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="A visitor takes a close look at a previously unknown piece of music that in all likelihood was composed by young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during a presentation, on Friday, Dec. 29, 2006, in Salzburg, Austria. The piece is marked 'Allegro di Wolffgango Mozart' and probably dates from before 1769. (AP Photo/Andreas Schaad)" border="0" /></a>AP - Mozart is still generating hits — millions of them, in fact. A jubilee year of celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth ended Friday with a flourish: As a harpsichord player tapped out a posthumous premiere of a previously unknown tune, a new online database of all of Mozart's works got its 20 millionth page view.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cha-Ching! Stones Paint It Green
(E! Online)
E! Online - It's been another bang-up year on the road for the Rolling Stones.
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