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Jackson 'evaluating' Las Vegas offers
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_en_ce/people_michael_jackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070228/capt.ny12102280128.people_michael_jackson__ny121.jpg?x=96&y=130&sig=aNXzqIakh6879I8B4zdUXg--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="Michael Jackson waves in Tokyo in this Sunday, May 28, 2006 file photo. Jackson is 'reviewing and evaluating' proposals for his future including several offers to perform in Las Vegas, his spokeswoman said Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007, but he doesn't feel any pressure to make a quick decision. Raymone K. Bain confirmed that, after a period of globe-trotting, Jackson is currently living in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Michael Jackson is "reviewing and evaluating" proposals for his future including several offers to perform in Las Vegas, his spokeswoman said Tuesday, but he doesn't feel any pressure to make a quick decision. Raymone K. Bain confirmed that, after a period of globe-trotting, Jackson is currently living in Las Vegas.</p><br clear="all"/>
LA police probe: Did Blunt foot-and-run?
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_en_ce/people_james_blunt"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070228/capt.ny11702280019.people_blunt_ny117.jpg?x=83&y=130&sig=ILXchwbmul2TuzQBMV3WOw--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="In this photo provided by Hard Rock Cafe, British singer James Blunt performs at Hard Rock Cafe, Monday, May 22, 2006, in New York's Times Square, as part of radio station Z100's concert series. Police are investigating reports that James Blunt ran over someone's foot as he was leaving a party, then drove off, authorities said Tuesday Feb. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Hard Rock Cafe, Diane Bondareff-HO)" border="0" /></a>AP - Police are investigating reports that James Blunt ran over someone's foot as he was leaving a party, then drove off, authorities said Tuesday. The alleged victim told police his foot was injured at a party Saturday around 1:50 a.m., police spokeswoman Martha Garcia said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Liz Taylor marking her 75th birthday
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_en_ce/people_liz_taylor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070228/capt.9cfc192a6bef449b8a428b47f1f147ff.people_liz_taylor_nyol922.jpg?x=90&y=130&sig=DveL74pPTnTj.DuHRYCcGQ--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="Elizabeth Taylor attends an annual AIDS benefit, in Mougins, south eastern France, May 22, 2003. Taylor will celebrate her 75th birthday at Nevada resort. (AP Photo/Patrick Gardin, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - A red carpet fit for a queen was laid out Tuesday for Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor, who was to celebrate her 75th birthday at a party at a Lake Las Vegas resort.</p><br clear="all"/>
Marty, Jerry bask in Oscar spotlight
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070227/en_nm/osborne_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070227/2007_02_27t145735_450x291_us_osborne.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=hZcM7aSxEo_lJG7HSU16Rw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Director Martin Scorsese poses backstage with his Oscar after winning Best Director for the film 'The Departed' at the 79th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, February 25, 2007. (Mike Blake/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An Oscarcast first: the
award show host (or in this case hostess) running a vacuum
cleaner in the audience. As amusing as it was, DeGenerously
speaking, it did take the glamour of the Oscars down a notch or
two.</p><br clear="all"/>
Girls go mild in Israeli wartime drama
(Reuters)
Reuters - In "Close to Home," a film
now receiving its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's IFC
Center, two 18-year-old girls prowl the streets, making small
talk about their lives and loves, taking time out along the way
to talk on their cell phones, smoke, window shop and indulge in
some snacks.
Watts up? Naomi and Liev expecting
(AP)
AP - Naomi Watts and her boyfriend, Liev Schreiber, are expecting.
Mortier to take over New York City Opera
(AP)
AP - Gerard Mortier will take over as general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, putting him in prime position to mount an avant-garde challenge to the Metropolitan Opera across Lincoln Center Plaza.
Oscar overshadowed by "Idol" in weekly ratings
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Oscars and a new
episode of "Grey's Anatomy" helped ABC to its best week in the
ratings since it carried the Super Bowl in February 2006,
though it wasn't enough to beat the three-night-a-week
juggernaut that is Fox's "American Idol."
Caterer exposes celebrity party to Hepatitis A
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070228/media_nm/sportsillustrated_hepatitis_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070228/2007_02_27t225247_450x305_us_sportsillustrated_hepatitis.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=b4IGxJlQ2hbSYxIq3IZsTg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Brazilian models (L-R) Fernanda Motta, Ana Beatriz Barros, Raica Oliveira, Aline Nakashima and Fernanda Tavares, who are featured in the 2007 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, pose at a media event in Los Angeles, California February 14, 2007. The magazine's bash for its annual swimsuit issue has turned into a health scare for stars in Hollywood after a caterer working for celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck may have exposed them to acute Hepatitis A. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A Sports Illustrated bash for its
annual swimsuit issue has turned into a health scare for stars
in Hollywood after a caterer working for celebrity chef
Wolfgang Puck may have exposed them to acute Hepatitis A.</p><br clear="all"/>
Potter star Radcliffe bares all in "Equus"
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070227/stage_nm/arts_potter_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070228/2007_02_27t180935_450x318_us_arts_potter.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=LZbEBQ00wQuDRcfgxD45rA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is seen in this undated handout publicity picture for 'Equus' which opened at The Gielgud Theatre Theatre in London on February 27, 2007. (Uli Weber/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Teenage film star Daniel Radcliffe threw
off Harry Potter's invisibility cloak on Tuesday to appear
naked on a London stage in the psychological thriller "Equus."</p><br clear="all"/>
Watts up? Naomi and Liev expecting
(AP)
AP - Naomi Watts and her boyfriend, Liev Schreiber, are expecting.
Liz Taylor marking her 75th birthday
(AP)
AP - A red carpet fit for a queen was laid out Tuesday for Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor, who was to celebrate her 75th birthday at a party at a Lake Las Vegas resort.
Review: 'Black Snake' strange but sweet
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_en_mo/film_review_black_snake_moan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/fwd/20070220/capt.fwd10120070220_christina_ricci.jpg?x=87&y=130&sig=zbEeZ77aQZwkJBrX9n03JQ--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Christina Ricci arrives for the premiere of "Black Snake Moan" in New York on Monday, Feb. 19, 2007.(Fashion Wire Daily/Grant Lamos IV)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sweet is probably the last word you'd expect to use in describing a film about an aging black man who chains a young white woman to a radiator to cure her of her demons. In the rural South, of all places.</p><br clear="all"/>
Capsule reviews of this week's new films
(AP)
AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
`Babel' writing-directing duo feud
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_en_mo/film_babel_feud"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070226/capt.995bb1a0a87a4cf596d9fedb5a80eb49.oscars_arrivals_cajh129.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=LxOTrPXd3FWyAdVjp3P_wA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu arrives for the 79th Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)" border="0" /></a>AP - The chasm grows even wider between the filmmaking duo who gained worldwide success with movies about the connections among disparate locations and characters — and people are taking sides.</p><br clear="all"/>
Argentine composer earns 2nd Oscar
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_en_mo/ocars_gustavo_santaolalla"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070226/capt.ef620f73f3ee44cd832118be03bdd6c5.oscars_press_room_cabs169.jpg?x=101&y=130&sig=YpwWZMa4cOAxS7WNmbDIWg--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="Gustavo Santaolalla poses with the Oscar for best original score for his work on 'Babel' during the 79th Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)" border="0" /></a>AP - Gustavo Santaolalla is again the source of national pride after winning his second consecutive Oscar for best original score — an achievement he believed was almost impossible.</p><br clear="all"/>
Review: `Wild Hogs' not so wild
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_en_mo/film_review_wild_hogs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070228/capt.cars10802280518.wild_hogs_premiere_cars108.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=lBEdOtZnw7EwneKn37snKw--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="John Travolta arrives for the premiere of Touchstone Pictures' 'Wild Hogs' at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0" /></a>AP - Tim Allen does eat like a pig in one scene of "Wild Hogs." The rest of the time, though, Allen and biker buddies John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy are not all that wild, and more importantly, not all that funny.</p><br clear="all"/>
Scorsese, Jagger rocking in new movie
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070227/film_nm/scorsese_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070227/2007_02_27t152253_450x299_us_scorsese.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=7Rp0_k82pNYMpHZXtjxB_A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Martin Scorsese, Oscar winner for Best Director, arrives for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in West Hollywood February 25, 2007. Scorsese is joining forces with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to make a movie spanning three decades in the music business. (Chris Pizzello/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Oscar-winning director Martin
Scorsese is joining forces with Rolling Stones frontman Mick
Jagger to make a movie spanning three decades in the music
business.</p><br clear="all"/>
Switzerland the land of movie subtitles
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_en_mo/film_the_land_of_subtitles"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070221/capt.la10102211913.film_oscars_best_picture_la101.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=JKFWDN1koYwEAPeyfrYj0w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="In this undated file photo provided by Paramount Vantage, Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt appear in a scene in the Oscar-nominated movie 'Babel.' For the first year in longer than anyone in Hollywood can remember, the best-picture category is so wide open that any of the five films could come away with the big prize.(AP Photo/Paramount Vantage,Murray Close )" border="0" /></a>AP - The continent-hopping, Oscar-nominated "Babel" has made subtitles sexy once again for American moviegoers. In Switzerland, they never went out of style.</p><br clear="all"/>
`Harry Potter' makes racy stage debut
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_en_mo/theater_equus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070227/capt.lon81002271558.britain_equus_radcliffe_lon810.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=M3scwdgh1cVa4Pzw8QWbUg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Daniel Radcliffe during a photocall for the theatre production of Equus, at the Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue in London, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007. Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the boy wizard in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's best-selling novels, sheds his magician's robes - and everything else - for his West End stage debut as a troubled stable boy in Peter Shaffer's 'Equus.' Even before Tuesday's Feb. 27, 2007, opening night, the Internet is awash with anticipation and outrage. In the play, Radcliffe strips naked. He simulates sex. He smokes. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan/PA)" border="0" /></a>AP - Harry Potter is all grown up. Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the boy wizard in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's best-sellers, sheds his magician's robes — and everything else — for his West End stage debut as a troubled stable boy in Peter Shaffer's "Equus."</p><br clear="all"/>
Mortier to take over New York City Opera
(AP)
AP - Gerard Mortier will take over as general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, putting him in prime position to mount an avant-garde challenge to the Metropolitan Opera across Lincoln Center Plaza.
Jackson `evaluating' Las Vegas offers
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_en_mu/people_michael_jackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070228/capt.ny12102280128.people_michael_jackson__ny121.jpg?x=96&y=130&sig=aNXzqIakh6879I8B4zdUXg--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="Michael Jackson waves in Tokyo in this Sunday, May 28, 2006 file photo. Jackson is 'reviewing and evaluating' proposals for his future including several offers to perform in Las Vegas, his spokeswoman said Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007, but he doesn't feel any pressure to make a quick decision. Raymone K. Bain confirmed that, after a period of globe-trotting, Jackson is currently living in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Michael Jackson is "reviewing and evaluating" proposals for his future including several offers to perform in Las Vegas, his spokeswoman said Tuesday, but he doesn't feel any pressure to make a quick decision.</p><br clear="all"/>
`Purple' role for Destiny's Williams
(AP)
AP - Michelle Williams of the R&B group Destiny's Child is joining the Chicago production of "The Color Purple," the producers announced Tuesday.
Former Phish frontman pleads not guilty
(AP)
AP - Trey Anastasio pleaded not guilty Tuesday to drug charges stemming from a Dec. 15 traffic stop and was released on bail.
LA police probe: Did Blunt foot-and-run?
(AP)
AP - Police are investigating reports that James Blunt ran over someone's foot as he was leaving a party, then drove off, authorities said Tuesday.
Levine to conduct just 4 operas at Met
(AP)
AP - James Levine will conduct just 33 performances of four operas with the Met next season, a sharp break from his workaholic schedule since he became chief conductor in 1973.
Husband says he faked wife's recordings
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_en_mu/britain_deceptive_cds"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070219/capt.sge.tud26.190207154753.photo00.photo.default-512x461.jpg?x=130&y=117&sig=qHdcIr_6ouMWF.MPZqGt6w--" align="left" height="117" width="130" alt="Gramophone magazine says British pianist Joyce Hatto -- who was belatedly hailed as a virtuoso in the final years of her life -- may have passed off recordings by better known musicians as her own.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)" border="0" /></a>AP - British pianist Joyce Hatto, hailed after her death as a neglected genius, owed her reputation to performances stolen from other artists, her husband has admitted, saying he was desperate to have her life end "on a high note."</p><br clear="all"/>
Lawyer: DNA agreement reached on Brown
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_en_mu/james_brown_dna"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070220/capt.nyet16902202152.james_brown_estate_nyet169.jpg?x=108&y=130&sig=RuIyiUM_goattIr0ykicng--" align="left" height="130" width="108" alt="'Godfather of Soul' James Brown performs during a Java Jazz Festival concert in Jakarta, Indonesia, on, March 4, 2005. Brown's six adult children have agreed with his partner, Tomi Rae Hynie, on where the entertainer will be buried, an attorney for the woman said Tuesday, Feb.20, 2007.(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)" border="0" /></a>AP - A lawyer for James Brown's partner says an agreement has been reached over obtaining DNA samples from the late soul singer's body.</p><br clear="all"/>
Scorsese, Jagger rocking in new movie
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070227/music_nm/scorsese_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070227/2007_02_27t152253_450x299_us_scorsese.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=7Rp0_k82pNYMpHZXtjxB_A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Martin Scorsese, Oscar winner for Best Director, arrives for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in West Hollywood February 25, 2007. Scorsese is joining forces with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to make a movie spanning three decades in the music business. (Chris Pizzello/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Oscar-winning director Martin
Scorsese is joining forces with Rolling Stones frontman Mick
Jagger to make a movie spanning three decades in the music
business.</p><br clear="all"/>
Label withdraws Deep Purple live album
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070227/music_nm/record_deeppurple_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070227/2007_02_27t125926_450x344_uk_record_deeppurple.jpg?x=130&y=99&sig=sANi3bMNUxPiKSnSwzFVtg--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan (L) and guitarist Steve Morse perform at the Live 8 concert in Barrie, Ontario, July 2, 2005. Sony BMG has withdrawn a Deep Purple album after complaints from Gillan that it had been released without his knowledge, a spokesman for the label said on Tuesday. (J.P. Moczulski/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Sony BMG has withdrawn a Deep Purple
album after complaints from lead singer Ian Gillan that it had
been released without his knowledge, a spokesman for the label
said on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
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