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Publicist: Moynahan expecting Brady baby
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070219/ap_en_ce/people_moynahan_brady"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070219/capt.bx10102191829.moynahan_pregnancy_brady_football_bx101.jpg?x=130&y=112&sig=yd8vMXfhWTiUjXOwdLljpQ--" align="left" height="112" width="130" alt="New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is shown in this June 12, 2005, file photo arriving with his girlfriend, actress Bridget Moynahan, at team owner Robert Kraft's home in Brookline, Mass. The couple broke up in December 2006 after three years of dating. Moynahan is more than three months pregnant and Brady is the father, Moynahan's publicist confirmed in a statement to The Associated Press Monday, Feb. 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Actress Bridget Moynahan, former girlfriend of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, is pregnant and Brady is the father, Moynahan's publicist said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cage's 'Ghost Rider' wins at box office
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_en_mo/box_office"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070216/capt.nyrm10102160243.ghostrider_premiere_nyrm101.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=S2IWUUhFW.UgxVIXb8htxQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Eva Mendes,left, and co star Nicolas Cage arrive for the premiere of Ghostrider in New York on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Rick Maiman)" border="0" /></a>AP - Satan's bounty hunter has looted the wallets of movie-goers. "Ghost Rider," Sony's comic-book adaptation starring Nicolas Cage as a motorcycle stunt driver moonlighting as a collector of evil souls for the devil, debuted as the top weekend movie with $44.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/>
All roads lead back to Church for Hudson
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_en_mu/people_hudson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070216/i/r321925900.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=iHrJysSKK4pT8haioZ66SQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Actress Jennifer Hudson attends the 79th annual Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills California in this February 5, 2007 file photo. If all goes well for movie musical 'Dreamgirls,' Oscar night will be a dream come true for supporting actors Hudson and Eddie Murphy. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni" border="0" /></a>AP - CHICAGO (AP) — For Oscar nominee Jennifer Hudson, there was no question where she'd celebrate her success in the week leading up to the Academy Awards — at her family's church.</p><br clear="all"/>
Armani dazzles with sparkling show
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_en_ce/italy_fashion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070219/capt.mil15302191516.italy_fashion_mil153.jpg?x=130&y=79&sig=kHA8zO47yI45jmg_XUE8.g--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Models wear creations of Giorgio Armani women's Autumn-Winter 2007/2008 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Alberto Pellaschiar)" border="0" /></a>AP - Giorgio Armani celebrated the homecoming of his creations after six years on the road Monday with a winter collection that lit up his muted shades with a myriad of glistening sequins.</p><br clear="all"/>
Official scolds Bahamas PM on Smith flap
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_en_ce/bahamas_anna_nicole_smith"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070219/capt.ny11402190338.bahamas_anna_nicole_smith_ny114.jpg?x=75&y=130&sig=0Wds9_X74zpuqkAhqO8wqg--" align="left" height="130" width="75" alt="This photo shows the front page of the Monday, Feb. 12, 2007 edition of The Tribune newspaper, from The Bahamas, that published undated photos allegedly showing Anna Nicole Smith lying in bed with Bahamian Immigration Minister Shane Gibson. Gibson resigned Sunday night Feb. 18, 2007 in the wake of the publication of the photos. Both were fully clothed, but the pictures stoked a controversy because Gibson had fast-tracked Smith's application for permanent residency on the island chain. (AP Photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - The leader of the main opposition party in the Bahamas scolded the government Monday for not acting sooner to remove the country's immigration minister over his seemingly preferential treatment to Anna Nicole Smith.</p><br clear="all"/>
Brit actor joins Cruise, Redford drama
(Reuters)
Reuters - British theater actor
Andrew Garfield will make his feature film debut in the heady
company of Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in the
ensemble drama "Lions for Lambs."
All roads lead back to Church for Hudson
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_en_mu/people_hudson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070216/i/r321925900.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=iHrJysSKK4pT8haioZ66SQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Actress Jennifer Hudson attends the 79th annual Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills California in this February 5, 2007 file photo. If all goes well for movie musical 'Dreamgirls,' Oscar night will be a dream come true for supporting actors Hudson and Eddie Murphy. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni" border="0" /></a>AP - CHICAGO (AP) — For Oscar nominee Jennifer Hudson, there was no question where she'd celebrate her success in the week leading up to the Academy Awards — at her family's church.</p><br clear="all"/>
Spike plotting "Murder" reality show
(Reuters)
Reuters - Spike TV is turning to
crime with a reality show in which amateur detectives try to
solve real-life homicides.
NBC clusters drama, reality
(Reuters)
Reuters - NBC is going for another
reshuffling of its Wednesday and Sunday schedules, creating an
all-drama lineup on Wednesdays and all-reality lineup on
Sundays.
Tom Stoppard's Russian trilogy a U.S. hit
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070219/stage_nm/arts_stoppard_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070219/2007_02_19t154044_450x278_us_arts_stoppard.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=BqH3DYwXV2E5zE5tBc0blA--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Screenwriters Marc Norman (L) and Tom Stoppard hold their Oscar statues backstage at the 71st annual Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, in a file photo from March 21, 1999. Tom Stoppard's epic eight-hour trilogy 'The Coast of Utopia' about 19th century Russian revolutionaries has won rave U.S. reviews and defied fears that its subject matter would be too heavy for theater goers. (Blake Sell/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Tom Stoppard's epic eight-hour trilogy
"The Coast of Utopia" about 19th century Russian
revolutionaries has won rave U.S. reviews and defied fears that
its subject matter would be too heavy for theater goers.</p><br clear="all"/>
Brit actor joins Cruise, Redford drama
(Reuters)
Reuters - British theater actor
Andrew Garfield will make his feature film debut in the heady
company of Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in the
ensemble drama "Lions for Lambs."
Maggie Grace "Taken" in by French thriller
(Reuters)
Reuters - Former "Lost" actress
Maggie Grace will star opposite Liam Neeson in the thriller
"Taken."
Abortion documentary set for October release
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070220/film_nm/abortion_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070216/2007_02_16t153553_308x450_us_portugal_abortion.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=ZGXDIG9jxy2NluZnaKJzrA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="A woman protests in favour of therapeutic abortion in front of the Supreme Court building in Managua February 15, 2007. The placard reads 'All the pregnant girls were violated'. The T-shirt reads 'I'm Catholic'. (Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Indie distributor ThinkFilm
has picked up worldwide rights to the provocative, graphic
abortion documentary "Lake of Fire," the first feature from
director Tony Kaye since 1998's "American History X."</p><br clear="all"/>
Zahn on "Cleaning" crew
(Reuters)
Reuters - Steve Zahn has been cast
opposite Amy Adams, Alan Arkin and Emily Blunt in Christine
Jeffs' dark comedy "Sunshine Cleaning."
Hollywood studios derail Canada actors pact
(Reuters)
Reuters - Negotiators for Canadian
actors and producers worked Monday to produce a face-saving
formula that will allow nervous Hollywood studio chiefs to
ratify a new contract for striking Canadian performers.
"Children of Men" cameraman in focus at awards
(Reuters)
Reuters - "Children of Men"
cameraman Emmanuel Lubezki has won the feature film prize at
the American Society of Cinematographers' 21st annual awards.
Costumers kneel before "Queen," "Elizabeth I"
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Costume Designers
Guild was in a royal mood, honoring "The Queen" and "Elizabeth
I" at its ninth annual awards ceremony over the weekend.
Hollywood set to honor faith-based movies
(Reuters)
Reuters - One might say former Los
Angeles-based casting director Reuben Cannon found his true
calling after moving to Atlanta and becoming a producer on
writer-director Tyler Perry's ultrasuccessful urban comedies
"Diary of a Mad Black Woman" (2005), "Madea's Family Reunion"
(2006) and the newly released "Daddy's Little Girls."
All roads lead back to Church for Hudson
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_en_mo/people_hudson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070216/i/r321925900.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=iHrJysSKK4pT8haioZ66SQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Actress Jennifer Hudson attends the 79th annual Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills California in this February 5, 2007 file photo. If all goes well for movie musical 'Dreamgirls,' Oscar night will be a dream come true for supporting actors Hudson and Eddie Murphy. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni" border="0" /></a>AP - CHICAGO (AP) — For Oscar nominee Jennifer Hudson, there was no question where she'd celebrate her success in the week leading up to the Academy Awards — at her family's church.</p><br clear="all"/>
NZ film biz churns out hits despite challenges
(Reuters)
Reuters - Whether it's Edmund
Hillary, the beekeeper who became the first man to conquer
Mount Everest, or director Peter Jackson, who went from B-movie
auteur to A-list Oscar winner, New Zealanders pride themselves
on their underdog status.
All roads lead back to Church for Hudson
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_en_mu/people_hudson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070216/i/r321925900.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=iHrJysSKK4pT8haioZ66SQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Actress Jennifer Hudson attends the 79th annual Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills California in this February 5, 2007 file photo. If all goes well for movie musical 'Dreamgirls,' Oscar night will be a dream come true for supporting actors Hudson and Eddie Murphy. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni" border="0" /></a>AP - CHICAGO (AP) — For Oscar nominee Jennifer Hudson, there was no question where she'd celebrate her success in the week leading up to the Academy Awards — at her family's church.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sirius plans to buy XM in $4.6 billion stock deal
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070220/music_nm/xm_sirius_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070220/2007_02_19t120826_450x347_us_xm_sirius.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=1CzU4hIQhDC46fb51klTFw--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="An XM Satellite Radio dish is seen in this undated handout photo.The two main satellite radio providers, XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius are expected to announce a long-awaited merger on Monday, according to the New York Post. (Handout/John Harrington/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Sirius Satellite Radio plans to buy
U.S. rival XM Satellite Radio for $4.6 billion in stock to
bring entertainers such as Oprah Winfrey and shock-jock Howard
Stern under one roof, but a top regulator said the deal would
face a tough time winning approval.</p><br clear="all"/>
Bronx duo takes updated Dominican beat to the Xtreme
(Reuters)
Reuters - The latest musical style to target
young, bilingual Latin audiences is urban bachata, the blend of
traditional Dominican bachata and R&B that first gained
notoriety with Aventura.
Ringtone pioneers branch out to survive
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070219/music_nm/ringtones_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070220/2007_02_19t112803_314x450_us_ringtones.jpg?x=90&y=130&sig=D.WTx_6Q2Eoc053mIFRkAw--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="A Motorola 'Moto Q' mobile phone is displayed during the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, January 8, 2007. As lucrative as the global mobile music business is today -- projected to be worth $9 billion by the end of the year -- times are tough for the companies that started it all. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - As lucrative as the global
mobile music business is today -- projected to be worth $9
billion by the end of the year -- times are tough for the
companies that started it all.</p><br clear="all"/>
Britney Goes Bald(!) as Rehab Reports Swirl
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070219/en_music_eo/6551d8738fde_48e0_bbfb_9a33f6824467"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20070219/capt.d6e1de2e7f7c6816a7ec08e4b976d444.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=e3XKpoYLXuzF6GESmKjQDg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Britney Goes Bald(!) as Rehab Reports Swirl(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - If Britney Spears wanted to distract the paparazzi from that fresh tattoo on her wrist, she sure picked a heck of a way to go about it.</p><br clear="all"/>
Britney's Mane Event, Day 2: Hair for Sale?
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070219/en_music_eo/120050a8_c01b45a2_a141_b359cb4d3954"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20070219/capt.b9888b4da99cf4effbfd4d28890de14c.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=.y.Y6Fh1JS2AiiZ5ne7fTQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Britney's Mane Event, Day 2: Hair for Sale?(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Britney Spears' locks could soon be on the block.</p><br clear="all"/>
U.S. folk singer pleads for abducted Japanese girl
(Reuters)
Reuters - Moved by the story of Megumi Yokota, a
Japanese schoolgirl kidnapped by North Korean secret agents
three decades ago, folk singer Noel Paul Stookey has penned a
song he hopes will help bring her home.
Billboard album reviews: Erasure, Jill Cunniff
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070219/music_nm/review_music_albums_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070219/2007_02_19t113406_450x304_us_review_music_albums.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=sO9UPGL1hFvE09JLJtE13A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Singer Andy Bell of the British electro-pop group Erasure performs in San Francisco in a file photo from May 20, 2005. Erasure's acoustic tour last year is captured on its latest CD and accompanying DVD. (Kimberly White/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - ARTIST: ERASURE; ALBUM: ON THE ROAD
TO NASHVILLE.</p><br clear="all"/>
Dixie Chicks still not making nice with country radio
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070219/music_nm/dixiechicks_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070219/2007_02_19t001034_450x281_us_dixiechicks.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=FhjsI..GM0xci_zL0oOIkw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="File photo shows Dixie Chicks (L-R) Emily Robison, Natalie Maines and Martie Maguire posing with their Grammys at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles February 11, 2007. (Mike Blake/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - After the Dixie Chicks swept the
Grammy Awards with five trophies, the group's tenuous
relationship with country radio moved back into the spotlight.</p><br clear="all"/>
Teen band the Jonas Brothers serve up "clean" punk
(Reuters)
Reuters - At the Jonas Brothers' family home
in New Jersey, a wooden sign over the bathroom door reads
"Patience is a virtue." It's a lesson the Brothers are lucky to
have learned. Though the pop-punk boy band is riding high at
iTunes and Radio Disney on the strength of "Year 3000," the
brothers have taken an unexpectedly circuitous route to
success.
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