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Anne Heche's husband files for divorce
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_en_ce/people_heche"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070203/capt.a96e983003274475815f1512176533f7.people_heche_nyol987.jpg?x=113&y=130&sig=VZUYmPn4.i9CmwcqujCA_g--" align="left" height="130" width="113" alt="Coley Laffoon, left and his wife Anne Heche,arrive for the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, on June 6, 2004, in New York. Laffoon has filed for divorce after five years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - Anne Heche's husband has filed for divorce after five years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. In documents filed Thursday, Coleman Laffoon asked the court to award him spousal support and joint custody of the couple's 4-year-old son, Homer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Margera turns wedding into new MTV show
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_en_tv/people_bam_margera"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070202/capt.ny12502022322.people_bam_margera__ny125.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=UCRJ6eHjREu8V83P_zHj_w--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Actor and skate boarder Bam Margera and his fiancee Missy Rothstein appear backstage during MTV's 'Total Request Live' show at the MTV Times Square Studios, in this file photo from Jan. 29, 2007, in New York. Margera has done some crazy stunts in MTV's 'Jackass' and its movie spin-offs. His newest: turning the planning of his wedding into a reality show. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen-File))" border="0" /></a>AP - Bam Margera has done some crazy stunts in MTV's "Jackass" and its movie spin-offs. His newest: turning the planning of his wedding into a reality show.</p><br clear="all"/>
Federline 'sorry' about Super Bowl ad
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_en_ce/people_kevin_federline"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070202/capt.nyet16402022144.people_kevin_federline_nyet164.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=tmIBi2bzyGd5GdmTP4hKEw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="This undated file photo originally released by Nationwide Mutual Insurance shows Kevin Federline in the role of a fast-food worker in a clip from the 2007 Nationwide Super Bowl Ad 'Life Comes at You Fast'. Federline has something to say to those who are offended by the upcoming Super Bowl ad featuring him as a fast-food worker: He's 'really sorry.'(AP Photo/Nationwide Mutual Insurance)" border="0" /></a>AP - Kevin Federline has something to say to those who are offended by an upcoming Super Bowl ad featuring him as a fast-food worker: He's "really sorry."</p><br clear="all"/>
Doctor says Farrah Fawcett cancer-free
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_en_ce/people_fawcett"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070202/capt.nyet11202021902.people_fawcett_nyet112.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=L3iEgskAm99_Wn6RBdYDoA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Farrah Fawcett poses for photographers on the red carpet before a Comedy Central event on Aug. 13, 2006, in Los Angeles. The actress, who revealed in October that she was fighting cancer, learned this week that she is cancer-free, spokesman Mike Pingel said Friday, Feb. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Rene Macura)" border="0" /></a>AP - Farrah Fawcett got an unbeatable gift for her 60th birthday: a clean bill of health. The actress, who revealed in October that she was fighting cancer, learned this week that she is cancer-free, spokesman Mike Pingel said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Rowling marks end of writing last book
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_en_ot/people_rowling"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070201/capt.nyet10402011431.britain_harry_potter_nyet104.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=rRDzmpRKH5k0PC4wXBZIWw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Author J.K. Rowling listens to a question from the media during a press conference in this Aug 1, 2006, file photo taken in New York. 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,' the last of seven installments of the boy wizard's adventures, will be published July 21, Rowling said Thursday, Feb.1, 2007. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)" border="0" /></a>AP - J.K. Rowling marked the spot where she finished the final "Harry Potter" book. "J.K. Rowling finished writing `Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows' in this room on 11 Jan 2007," read the message on an antique-style statue at Edinburgh's five-star Balmoral Hotel.</p><br clear="all"/>
Universal falls for "Gravity"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Universal Pictures has
emerged victorious in another bidding war, this time snapping
up the rights to a children's fantasy book manuscript titled
"Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper."
R&B the heart and soul of posthumous Levert album
(Reuters)
Reuters - Making the transition from his previous project, 2004's
socially conscious "Do I Speak for the World?," Levert
refocused on his R&B legacy for the Atlantic Records album,
which arrives February 13.
Awards boost "Betty," "Anatomy" ratings
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070203/tv_nm/ratings_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070203/2007_02_02t112240_450x254_us_ratings.jpg?x=130&y=73&sig=OiEdTM8cYWVSajm2.C0dzg--" align="left" height="73" width="130" alt="Contestants line up to audition for the television show 'American Idol' at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena August 8, 2006. Fox and 'American Idol' continued their rampage through primetime Wednesday, logging another nightly win in all the major demographics. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Wins at the Golden Globes
and the Screen Actors Guild awards helped lift ABC's "Ugly
Betty" and "Grey's Anatomy" to their highest ratings since both
dramas bowed in September.</p><br clear="all"/>
Awards boost "Betty," "Anatomy" ratings
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070203/media_nm/ratings_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070203/2007_02_02t112240_450x254_us_ratings.jpg?x=130&y=73&sig=OiEdTM8cYWVSajm2.C0dzg--" align="left" height="73" width="130" alt="Contestants line up to audition for the television show 'American Idol' at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena August 8, 2006. Fox and 'American Idol' continued their rampage through primetime Wednesday, logging another nightly win in all the major demographics. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Wins at the Golden Globes
and the Screen Actors Guild awards helped lift ABC's "Ugly
Betty" and "Grey's Anatomy" to their highest ratings since both
dramas bowed in September.</p><br clear="all"/>
Things That Go Chirp in the Night
(Playbill)
Playbill - More than three years after the New York City Council passed a law banning the use of cell phones in theatres, has anything changed?
Universal falls for "Gravity"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Universal Pictures has
emerged victorious in another bidding war, this time snapping
up the rights to a children's fantasy book manuscript titled
"Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper."
"Messengers" fails to deliver suspense
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070203/film_nm/film_messengers_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070203/2007_02_02t215320_324x450_us_film_messengers.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=PeAMwGlaWKMOlX6YI0HBIg--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Thai directors Danny Pang and his twin brother Oxide Pang are seen in Hong Kong March 21, 2005. (Kin Cheung/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Identical-twin
filmmakers Danny and Oxide Pang make their English-language
debut with "The Messengers," but there's a lot less here than
meets "The Eye," the 2002 cult horror film that made them an
international success.</p><br clear="all"/>
Docu digs deep into roots of L.A. gangs
(Reuters)
Reuters - "Bastards of the Party"
is one of those feature documentaries that practically reviews
itself. Fascinating, insightful, comprehensive and altogether
sobering, this HBO original painstakingly -- and with enormous
scope -- chronicles the rise and development of black gangs in
Los Angeles from the 1940s through the present day. And it
isn't what you might think.
Trial starts in 'Sahara' flop flap
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_en_mo/hollywood_script_spat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070202/capt.la10302022049.hollywood_script_spat_la103.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=Is4Oc4QD_Z4A_zFA8KNl4g--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Adventure writer Clive Cussler stands to face the jury as they enter Los Angeles Superior Court, Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, for a civil trial. Billionaire Philip Anschutz and Cussler have filed dueling lawsuits accusing one another of crippling the 2005 film 'Sahara.' (AP Photo/Nick Ut)" border="0" /></a>AP - A production company that made the action film "Sahara" reneged on a deal to give best-selling author Clive Cussler creative control of the movie based on his book, his attorney said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Author Cussler sues over film treatment of book
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070202/film_nm/cussler_lawsuit_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070203/2007_02_02t214326_450x349_us_cussler_lawsuit.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=lfnT1iA3QBXFr7OvEFlQWQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="Matthew McConaughey poses in front of his Airstream trailer, which is been used to promote his new film 'Sahara' in New York, March 3, 2005. Best-selling writer Clive Cussler, who has featured Pitt in 19 of his 32 books, is suing Crusader Entertainment, owned by Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz, for making so many script and plot changes to the film version of his book 'Sahara' that it was doomed to box-office failure. (Albert Ferreira/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Action-novel hero Dirk Pitt has
overcome myriad obstacles on his way to finding buried
treasures and shipwrecks but his career and that of his creator
-- novelist Clive Cussler -- was nearly destroyed by a bad
script, a court was told on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Jennifer Lopez to get human rights award
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_en_mo/people_jennifer_lopez"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070202/capt.nyet11502022147.people_jennifer_lopez_nyet115.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=zYDahkq2jlL8TCQczYWxMQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Jennifer Lopez appears backstage at the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lopez will receive an award for her work as producer and star of a film examining the ongoing murders of hundreds of women in a Mexican border town, officials with Amnesty International said Friday, Feb. 2, 2007. Lopez will receive the 'Artists for Amnesty' award Feb. 14 at the Berlin Film Festival. The film 'Bordertown' will make its debut Feb. 15 at the festival. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jennifer Lopez will receive an award for her work as producer and star of a film examining the murders of hundreds of women in a Mexican border town, Amnesty International officials said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
A film industry flourishes in Uzbekistan
(AP)
AP - A new film industry is on the rise in this ex-Soviet state: Dozens of inexpensive, but profitable movies featuring pop divas and heart-wrenching plots have been churned out recently.
A Queens boulevard of broken dreams
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_en_mo/supreme_mcgriff"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070201/capt.ny12502012049.death_penalty_docket_ny125.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=ywcT9VcIeuTew3dyCLl9dw--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="Kenneth 'Supreme' McGriff is seen in this undated photo provided by the U.S. attorney's office Friday, Jan. 12, 2007. McGriff, the notorious crack kingpin with ties to the hip-hop industry, was convicted Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007, in a federal death penalty case for paying $50,000 to have two rivals gunned down in 2001. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - It was the mid-1990s and Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff — well-schooled in crack cocaine, dirty cash and body counts — was tackling a new subject: pulp fiction.</p><br clear="all"/>
Capsule reviews of this week's new films
(AP)
AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
Review: 'Messengers' creepy but familiar
(AP)
AP - "The Messengers" wasn't screened for critics before opening day, not because it's bad but because it's a horror movie, and horror movie fans don't read reviews anyway. Duh.
R&B the heart and soul of posthumous Levert album
(Reuters)
Reuters - Making the transition from his previous project, 2004's
socially conscious "Do I Speak for the World?," Levert
refocused on his R&B legacy for the Atlantic Records album,
which arrives February 13.
Henley: New Eagles CD due this spring
(Reuters)
Reuters - The new Eagles studio album that
has been in the works since 2003 will be out before summer,
according to principal member Don Henley.
Hanson "Walks" tall on new album
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070203/music_nm/hanson_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070203/2007_02_02t220203_450x351_us_hanson.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=8LCLYQY54SkfMXzTwft1Nw--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="Members of the pop music group Hanson, brothers (L-R) Issac, Taylor and Zach Hanson pose at the 10th Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala in Beverly Hills October 23, 2006. Last year, sibling trio Hanson spent time lecturing performance and entertainment law students in college about its bumpy five-year arc of major-label heartache, chronicled in the documentary 'Strong Enough to Break.' (Fred Prouser/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Last year, sibling trio Hanson spent
time lecturing performance and entertainment law students in
college about its bumpy five-year arc of major-label heartache,
chronicled in the documentary "Strong Enough to Break."</p><br clear="all"/>
Macy rolls with will.i.am, Justin on new CD
(Reuters)
Reuters - R&B singer Macy Gray will release
her first album in four years next month as part of a new deal
with the will.i.am music group/Geffen.
A Queens boulevard of broken dreams
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_en_mu/supreme_mcgriff"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070201/capt.ny12502012049.death_penalty_docket_ny125.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=ywcT9VcIeuTew3dyCLl9dw--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="Kenneth 'Supreme' McGriff is seen in this undated photo provided by the U.S. attorney's office Friday, Jan. 12, 2007. McGriff, the notorious crack kingpin with ties to the hip-hop industry, was convicted Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007, in a federal death penalty case for paying $50,000 to have two rivals gunned down in 2001. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - It was the mid-1990s and Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff — well-schooled in crack cocaine, dirty cash and body counts — was tackling a new subject: pulp fiction.</p><br clear="all"/>
Federline is `sorry' about Super Bowl ad
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_en_mu/people_kevin_federline"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070203/i/r4235707426.jpg?x=52&y=130&sig=b_mOvpf2XDCNCBVyErVDMg--" align="left" height="130" width="52" alt="Singer Kevin Federline arrives at the Maxim Magazine party in Miami Beach, Florida February 2, 2007. REUTERS/David Snyder (UNITED STATES)" border="0" /></a>AP - Kevin Federline has something to say to those who are offended by an upcoming Super Bowl ad featuring him as a fast-food worker: He's "really sorry."</p><br clear="all"/>
N'Dour intervenes to avert violence
(AP)
AP - Opposition leaders canceled a political demonstration that many feared would turn violent on Friday after Youssou N'Dour interceded.
Garrett is music industry's hitmaker
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_en_mu/grammywatch__the_hitmaker"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070202/capt.nyet45802021613.grammy_watch_the_hitmaker_nyet458.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=O2JL.RWNo1xS7q2ub.voCQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Songwriter and producer Sean Garrett is photographed in New York, Nov. 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)" border="0" /></a>AP - Surprisingly, there are a few people in the music industry who apparently haven't gotten the memo on Sean Garrett.</p><br clear="all"/>
Claims against boy-band impresario grow
(AP)
AP - Claims against boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman have grown to more than $130 million through a spate of lawsuits by creditors and investors related to his business interests that range from an airline leasing company to restaurants.
How not to be a Grammy fashion don't
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_en_mu/music_grammywatch__the_outfit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070202/capt.nyet45402021619.grammy_watch_the_outfit_nyet454.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=Nx.TPsLylC2ov5wqiQU3jg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Television hosts Stacy London, center, and Clinton Kelly, left, of the TLC show 'What Not To Wear,' help Associated Press music writer Nekesa Moody, right, pick out an outfit for the upcoming Grammy Awards, in this Jan. 23, 2007 photo in New York. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's hard to feel sorry for a celebrity who turns up at an awards show looking like a fashion "don't."</p><br clear="all"/>
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