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Scorsese wins DGA prize for 'Departed'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_en_mo/film_directors_guild_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070204/capt.camw10202040710.directors_guild_awards_camw102.jpg?x=130&y=103&sig=oy_507gE5f5fmsxbqLBN7A--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="Martin Scorsese, left, holds the award for outstanding director for his work on the film 'The Departed,' along with Steven Spielberg at the 59th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - Martin Scorsese won the top honor Saturday from the Directors Guild of America for his mob saga "The Departed," moving him a step closer to finally receiving Hollywood's biggest filmmaking prize at the Academy Awards.</p><br clear="all"/>
Site barred from releasing Hilton data
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_en_tv/people_paris_hilton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070204/capt.nydg11802040118.people_paris_hilton_nydg118.jpg?x=95&y=130&sig=UUgbkqPbbj1OAfAmo6Puww--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="In a file photo Paris Hilton makes a special appearance at Macys Herald Square, to promote her new fragrances, Friday, June 16, 2006 in New York. A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction against a Web site personal pictures, videos, diaries, and other items that Hilton once kept at a storage facility. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh-File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction against a Web site peddling personal pictures, videos, diaries, and other items that heiress Paris Hilton once kept at a storage facility.</p><br clear="all"/>
$65 Harry Potter edition topping charts
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_en_bu/potter_deluxe"><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 - It's months away from being on bookshelves, but fans can't get enough of the seventh — and final — Harry Potter book, no matter the cost.</p><br clear="all"/>
Timberlake to host Kids' Choice Awards
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_en_tv/kids_choice_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070204/capt.ny11902040134.kids_choice_awards_ny119.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=Cjsb3Wf5sZrUXdoBoSnkoQ--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Justin Timberlake talks during an interview as he arrives for the screening of 'Black Snake Moan' during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in this file photo from Jan. 24, 2007. Timberlake has been tapped to host Nickelodeon's 20th annual Kids' Choice Awards on March 31 at the University of California, Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster-File)" border="0" /></a>AP - He's an actor, Grammy-winning singer and two-time Best Burp Award-winner. Now Justin Timberlake can add another title to his resume: awards-show host.</p><br clear="all"/>
Spinners singer Billy Henderson dies
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_en_mu/obit_henderson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070203/capt.ny11602032236.obit_henderson_ny116.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=Deb0V7a2bkno6QKlGaHn9w--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="The Spinners from left John Edwards, Bobby Smith, Henry Fambrough, Pervis Jackson and Billy Henderson pose for photographers during a Rhythm & Blues Foundation news conference in New York, in this Feb. 27, 1997 file photo. Singer Billy Henderson, a member of the band the Spinners who sang 'I'll Be Around' and other hits, died Friday Feb. 2, 2007. He was 67. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)" border="0" /></a>AP - Singer Billy Henderson, a member of the band the Spinners who sang "I'll Be Around" and other hits, has died. He was 67.</p><br clear="all"/>
Scorsese wins DGA prize for 'Departed'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_en_mo/film_directors_guild_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070204/capt.camw10202040710.directors_guild_awards_camw102.jpg?x=130&y=103&sig=oy_507gE5f5fmsxbqLBN7A--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="Martin Scorsese, left, holds the award for outstanding director for his work on the film 'The Departed,' along with Steven Spielberg at the 59th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - Martin Scorsese won the top honor Saturday from the Directors Guild of America for his mob saga "The Departed," moving him a step closer to finally receiving Hollywood's biggest filmmaking prize at the Academy Awards.</p><br clear="all"/>
In New York, David Byrne sings of Imelda Marcos
(Reuters)
Reuters - Independent rock icon David Byrne took
the stage at Carnegie Hall on Saturday to unveil for a U.S.
audience a collection of songs about the life of former
Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos -- minus the shoes.
Scorsese wins DGA prize for 'Departed'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_en_tv/film_directors_guild_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070204/capt.camw10202040710.directors_guild_awards_camw102.jpg?x=130&y=103&sig=oy_507gE5f5fmsxbqLBN7A--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="Martin Scorsese, left, holds the award for outstanding director for his work on the film 'The Departed,' along with Steven Spielberg at the 59th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - Martin Scorsese won the top honor Saturday from the Directors Guild of America for his mob saga "The Departed," moving him a step closer to finally receiving Hollywood's biggest filmmaking prize at the Academy Awards.</p><br clear="all"/>
Site barred from releasing Hilton data
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_en_bu/people_paris_hilton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070204/capt.nydg11802040118.people_paris_hilton_nydg118.jpg?x=95&y=130&sig=UUgbkqPbbj1OAfAmo6Puww--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="In a file photo Paris Hilton makes a special appearance at Macys Herald Square, to promote her new fragrances, Friday, June 16, 2006 in New York. A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction against a Web site personal pictures, videos, diaries, and other items that Hilton once kept at a storage facility. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh-File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction against a Web site peddling personal pictures, videos, diaries, and other items that heiress Paris Hilton once kept at a storage facility.</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?
Scorsese wins DGA prize for 'Departed'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_en_mo/film_directors_guild_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070204/capt.camw10202040710.directors_guild_awards_camw102.jpg?x=130&y=103&sig=oy_507gE5f5fmsxbqLBN7A--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="Martin Scorsese, left, holds the award for outstanding director for his work on the film 'The Departed,' along with Steven Spielberg at the 59th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - Martin Scorsese won the top honor Saturday from the Directors Guild of America for his mob saga "The Departed," moving him a step closer to finally receiving Hollywood's biggest filmmaking prize at the Academy Awards.</p><br clear="all"/>
Scorsese wins Directors Guild award for best director
(Reuters)
Reuters - Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese
took a giant step toward winning his first Oscar on Saturday
when he was named the Directors Guild of America's best
director for 2007 for his crime thriller "The Departed."
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"/>
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/20070204/capt.fldb21502040645.super_bowl_ocean_drive_market_america_party_fldb215.jpg?x=92&y=130&sig=MY3jSNuLqYkbKMCLTvfYsA--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Brooke Hogan watches Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez perform at the Ocean Drive/Market America Super Bowl XLI party Saturday night, Feb. 3, 2007, in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris Polk)" 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:
In New York, David Byrne sings of Imelda Marcos
(Reuters)
Reuters - Independent rock icon David Byrne took
the stage at Carnegie Hall on Saturday to unveil for a U.S.
audience a collection of songs about the life of former
Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos -- minus the shoes.
Timberlake to host Kids' Choice Awards
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_en_mu/kids_choice_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070204/capt.ny11902040134.kids_choice_awards_ny119.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=Cjsb3Wf5sZrUXdoBoSnkoQ--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Justin Timberlake talks during an interview as he arrives for the screening of 'Black Snake Moan' during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in this file photo from Jan. 24, 2007. Timberlake has been tapped to host Nickelodeon's 20th annual Kids' Choice Awards on March 31 at the University of California, Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster-File)" border="0" /></a>AP - He's an actor, Grammy-winning singer and two-time Best Burp Award-winner. Now Justin Timberlake can add another title to his resume: awards-show host.</p><br clear="all"/>
Spinners singer Billy Henderson dies
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_en_mu/obit_henderson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070203/capt.ny11602032236.obit_henderson_ny116.jpg?x=130&y=82&sig=Deb0V7a2bkno6QKlGaHn9w--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="The Spinners from left John Edwards, Bobby Smith, Henry Fambrough, Pervis Jackson and Billy Henderson pose for photographers during a Rhythm & Blues Foundation news conference in New York, in this Feb. 27, 1997 file photo. Singer Billy Henderson, a member of the band the Spinners who sang 'I'll Be Around' and other hits, died Friday Feb. 2, 2007. He was 67. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)" border="0" /></a>AP - Singer Billy Henderson, a member of the band the Spinners who sang "I'll Be Around" and other hits, has died. He was 67.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Funk Brother' Joe Hunter, 79, dies
(AP)
AP - Joe Hunter, Motown's first bandleader and a three-time Grammy winner with the Funk Brothers, has died. He was 79.
Oscar honoree Morricone conducts in U.S.
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_en_mu/morricone_in_america"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070203/capt.undk10202030216.un_morricone_undk102.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=ad9_PC1MkTtZ6VupI4of2Q--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Maestro Ennio Morricone, 2nd left, with his wife, left, met with Secretary General of United Nations Ban Ki-moon, 2nd right, and his wife, right, to pose for a picture before the Maestro conducted a 170-piece Symphony Orchestra and Polyphonic Choir performing his composition 'Voci dal Silenzio' (Voice of Silence) dedicated to victims of September 11 and victims of all other massacres in history played at the General Hall at U.N. Headquarters in New York Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 (AP Photo/David Karp)" border="0" /></a>AP - Ennio Morricone, who has been performing for some six decades and is heading to Hollywood to pick up a long-awaited Academy Award, finally made his conducting debut on the shores of the United States.</p><br clear="all"/>
Minogue and boyfriend of 4 years split
(AP)
AP - The Australian singer Kylie Minogue and her boyfriend of four years have announced their separation.
David Lee Roth back as Van Halen singer
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_en_mu/people_van_halen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070203/capt.ny11402031234.people_van_halen_roth_ny114.jpg?x=77&y=130&sig=pmbU_S4I7sp05.GOTroK6Q--" align="left" height="130" width="77" alt="Singer David Lee Roth poses for a photograph at a gala following the Tony Awards, Sunday, June 6, 2004, in New York.Van Halen will reunite with original singer David Lee Roth for a summer tour of North America. 'I am very excited to get back to the core of what made Van Halen,' guitarist Eddie Van Halen said in a statement posted Friday Feb. 2, 2007 on the band's Web site announcing a 40 city tour. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)" border="0" /></a>AP - The rumors were true. Van Halen will reunite with original singer David Lee Roth for a summer tour of North America.</p><br clear="all"/>
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"/>
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