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No $3,900 curry for Kanye West
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_en_ce/people_west"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070304/capt.ny10903041948.people_west_ny109.jpg?x=91&y=130&sig=M4_ccXFAozZqTXuNqKtU9g--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="Kanye West arrives at the Playboy Super Bowl XLI party in this Feb. 3, 2007 file photo in Miami. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Kanye West is not eating any $3,900 curry, his management said Tuesday. The British Raj restaurant had said that a music promotion company was paying that princely sum, plus travel and accommodation for the restaurant's head chef, to send a fully cooked Indian meal from Wales to New York for a meeting with West and seven guests.</p><br clear="all"/>
Chicago fetes hometowner Jennifer Hudson
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_ce/people_jennifer_hudson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070306/capt.ilbk10703061923.people_hudson_ilbk107.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=jvVw47INiFo1U5U8dMBaBQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Jennifer Hudson smiles as she is honored in her hometown of Chicago on Tuesday, March 6, 2007. The Academy Award winning actress won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in 'Dreamgirls.' (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)" border="0" /></a>AP - Since being booted from "American Idol," Jennifer Hudson has won a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild prize and an Academy Award for best supporting actress. On Tuesday, the 25-year-old star of the movie "Dreamgirls" added one more award to the collection — she got her own day in her hometown.</p><br clear="all"/>
New era: hip-hop in the Hall
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_en_mu/music_hip_hop_hall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20070306/capt.af7f7c2cb85881daca3fd2580a9231d9.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=ST3jWh9O_8N5uloCYltJFQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="**FILE PHOTO** DJ Grandmaster Flash describes the genesis of his career at a news conference to launch 'Hip-Hop Won't Stop: The Beat, The Rhymes, The Life,' a hip-hop exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, in New York, Feb. 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)" border="0" /></a>AP - Ask Grandmaster Flash about hip-hop stars deserving of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he's quick with a list of rap icons. "Afrika Bambaataa. Run-DMC. KRS-One," he says, barely pausing for a breath. "Big Daddy Kane. LL Cool J. Eric B and Rakim. Tribe Called Quest. The list goes on and on."</p><br clear="all"/>
Library of Congress selects Stones' song
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_ot/sound_archive"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070207/i/r2647029677.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=RTZm9OaGRqlh1kiuhbuknA--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Rolling Stonesvocalist Mick Jagger sings during the second half of their 'A Bigger Bang World Tour' in Foxboro, Massachusetts September 20, 2006. Twentieth Century Fox is rolling with the Stones after snapping up distribution rights on Tuesday for Britain, Australia and New Zealand to Martin Scorsese's documentary on the Rolling Stones. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi" border="0" /></a>AP - They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But what about an original sound recording? Twenty-five culturally important recordings — including an episode of "The Lone Ranger," President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to Congress the day after the Pearl Harbor attack and one of the Rolling Stones' most famous songs — were selected Tuesday for preservation in a special sound archive.</p><br clear="all"/>
Obi-Wan's brown cloak sells for $104,000
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_en_mo/film_costume_auction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070306/capt.lon11203061700.britain_film_costume_auctio_lon112.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=lZdJtOvD6QTOgsxRMI2wGQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="An auction house worker, center, wearing the original cloak of the Star Wars movies Obi-Wan Kenobi's character, is seen next to other costumes, during a media presentation ahead of an upcoming auction in central London, in this Wednesday Feb. 28, 2007 file photo. More than 400 movie, television, and theater costumes were up for auction Tuesday, March 6, 2007, at Bonhams in London, in what the British auction house is calling Britain's largest such sale. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)" border="0" /></a>AP - The brown hooded cloak worn by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Star Wars" films — and then forgotten for years in a warehouse — sold for $104,000 to an anonymous telephone bidder Tuesday at an auction of movie and TV memorabilia.</p><br clear="all"/>
Yoko blocks premiere of film on Lennon
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_mo/lennon_documentary_blocked"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070222/capt.nyet17502221517.people_yoko_ono___nyet175.jpg?x=130&y=79&sig=9qu7b97rwFhM9iqNV3fcrQ--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Yoko Ono Lennon talks about 'The U.S. vs. John Lennon' in Sept. 6, 2006 photo, in New York . (AP Photo/Paul Hawthorne, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - The world premiere of "Three Days in the Life," a documentary about John Lennon, was canceled after lawyers for the slain Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, warned that she had not authorized any public viewing of the film.</p><br clear="all"/>
Indie singer Feist aims "lowbrow" with new album
(Reuters)
Reuters - Indie singer/songwriter Leslie Feist
spent more than two years on the road promoting her 2004
breakthrough, "Let It Die," but the core of her upcoming set,
"The Reminder," was assembled in less than a week's worth of
sessions at a rented home outside Paris.
Nancy Grace in first acting role
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_tv/tv_nancy_grace_acting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070307/capt.ny12903070158.acting_grace_ny129.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=lv6ZJvrLCYLfgv9wKaETjw--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Legal analyst Nancy Grace, is taking on her first prime-time acting role, though it shouldn't be a stretch for the CNN Headline News talk show host. She will appear offering faux legal commentary during the season finale of NBC's 'Law & Order: SVU,' NBC said on Tuesday March 6, 2007. She'll talk about a case involving a man charged with killing a woman and her baby. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon-File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Nancy Grace is taking on her first prime-time acting role, though it shouldn't be a stretch for the CNN Headline News talk-show host. She will appear offering faux legal commentary during the season finale of NBC's "Law & Order: SVU," NBC said on Tuesday. She'll talk about a case involving a man charged with killing a woman and her baby.</p><br clear="all"/>
Eisner makes play for baseball trading-card firm
(Reuters)
Reuters - Topps Co., maker of baseball trading
cards and Bazooka gum, said on Tuesday it would be acquired by
an investment firm run by former Walt Disney Co. chief Michael
Eisner and private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners for
$385 million.
'Summer of '42' Recording Now Available; Two-Disc Set Stars Rachel York
(Playbill)
Playbill - The two-disc cast recording of <I>Summer of '42</I>, the musical, has finally been released by Jay Records, two years after it was recorded.
Yoko blocks premiere of film on Lennon
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_mo/lennon_documentary_blocked"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070222/capt.nyet17502221517.people_yoko_ono___nyet175.jpg?x=130&y=79&sig=9qu7b97rwFhM9iqNV3fcrQ--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Yoko Ono Lennon talks about 'The U.S. vs. John Lennon' in Sept. 6, 2006 photo, in New York . (AP Photo/Paul Hawthorne, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - The world premiere of "Three Days in the Life," a documentary about John Lennon, was canceled after lawyers for the slain Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, warned that she had not authorized any public viewing of the film.</p><br clear="all"/>
Director adds real life to Queen Latifah film
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070307/film_nm/george_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070307/2007_03_06t212151_450x353_us_george.jpg?x=130&y=102&sig=N8Z754sqA.xszyruWqrmdw--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="Presenter Queen Latifah arrives at the 79th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, February 25, 2007. 'Life Support,' starring Queen Latifah, which premiered at January's Sundance Film Festival and airs on HBO starting on Saturday, tells about the AIDS epidemic and its impact on black American culture in general, and black women in particular. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - He is a watchdog of black American
culture who might have directed any movie he wanted, but when
it came to his first film, Nelson George tapped into subjects
that hit close to home -- drugs, AIDS and his sister.</p><br clear="all"/>
Review: `The Host' intense, darkly funny
(AP)
AP - An update of the classic Asian monster movies of yore, "The Host" boasts a wicked sense of humor and vastly improved special effects. (Not once do you see a zipper up the back of a rubber suit.)
Capsule reviews of this week's new films
(AP)
AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
Chicago fetes hometowner Jennifer Hudson
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_en_mo/people_jennifer_hudson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070306/capt.ilbk10703061923.people_hudson_ilbk107.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=jvVw47INiFo1U5U8dMBaBQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Jennifer Hudson smiles as she is honored in her hometown of Chicago on Tuesday, March 6, 2007. The Academy Award winning actress won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in 'Dreamgirls.' (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)" border="0" /></a>AP - Since being booted from "American Idol," Jennifer Hudson has won a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild prize and an Academy Award for best supporting actress. On Tuesday, the 25-year-old star of the movie "Dreamgirls" added one more award to the collection — she got her own day in her hometown.</p><br clear="all"/>
Publisher closes Premiere movie magazine
(AP)
AP - Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi is shutting down the U.S. edition of its movie magazine Premiere.
Obi-Wan's brown cloak sells for $104,000
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_en_mo/film_costume_auction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070306/capt.lon11203061700.britain_film_costume_auctio_lon112.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=lZdJtOvD6QTOgsxRMI2wGQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="An auction house worker, center, wearing the original cloak of the Star Wars movies Obi-Wan Kenobi's character, is seen next to other costumes, during a media presentation ahead of an upcoming auction in central London, in this Wednesday Feb. 28, 2007 file photo. More than 400 movie, television, and theater costumes were up for auction Tuesday, March 6, 2007, at Bonhams in London, in what the British auction house is calling Britain's largest such sale. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)" border="0" /></a>AP - The brown hooded cloak worn by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Star Wars" films — and then forgotten for years in a warehouse — sold for $104,000 to an anonymous telephone bidder Tuesday at an auction of movie and TV memorabilia.</p><br clear="all"/>
Costs flat at U.S. box office, report says
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070306/film_nm/boxoffice_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070306/2007_03_06t050153_450x247_us_boxoffice.jpg?x=130&y=71&sig=QMHc4nQMiAhRxv2n8VZ51g--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="(L-R) Actors Tim Allen, William Macy, Martin Lawrence and John Travolta show off vests given to them at the Georgia State Capitol where they were promoting their latest movie 'Wild Hogs' in Atlanta, Georgia February 6, 2007. (Tami Chappell/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Ticket sales at the U.S.
box office jumped 5.5 percent to $9.49 billion in 2006, while
the number of tickets sold ended a three-year decline,
according to data issued Tuesday by the Motion Picture Assn. of
America.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Departed" stirs anger over Boston Irish mob boss
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070306/film_nm/departed_boston_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20070306/capt.b8ae5db9ac2213ecc7d63a71202fb3d2.jpg?x=130&y=117&sig=uKzdhjrJhBRRRN8GuCvWCw--" align="left" height="117" width="130" alt="**FILE PHOTO** A Massachusetts state police wanted poster shows fugitive Boston mobster James J. 'Whitey' Bulger. (AP Photo/Massachusetts State Police handout)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - While Martin Scorsese is feted by
Hollywood for his Oscar-winning film "The Departed," relatives
of people killed or tortured by the real-life Boston Irish
mobster on which the movie is based are not applauding.</p><br clear="all"/>
Screams for Butler at '300' premiere
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_en_mo/film300_premiere"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070306/capt.camw11903060507.300_premiere_camw119.jpg?x=130&y=109&sig=cKAH9F_EhUA0Gf5kJiw4ug--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="Gerard Butler, right, and Djimon Hounsou pose together at the premiere of '300' in Los Angeles, Monday, March 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - For most visitors, all it takes is a plane ticket and then a quick cab ride to reach Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. But Zack Snyder did some time-traveling to end up there on Monday night.</p><br clear="all"/>
Indie singer Feist aims "lowbrow" with new album
(Reuters)
Reuters - Indie singer/songwriter Leslie Feist
spent more than two years on the road promoting her 2004
breakthrough, "Let It Die," but the core of her upcoming set,
"The Reminder," was assembled in less than a week's worth of
sessions at a rented home outside Paris.
ZZ Top, Evanescence headline Ohio festival
(Reuters)
Reuters - ZZ Top, Evanescence and Velvet
Revolver are among the acts scheduled to play the inaugural
Rock on the Range festival, set for May 19 at Columbus Crew
Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
Clock strikes "Midnight" for Linkin Park album
(Reuters)
Reuters - After more than 14 months in the
studio, Los Angeles nu-metal band Linkin Park will release its
new album in the United States on May 15.
48 years later, Big Bopper rumors buried
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_mu/big_bopper_autopsy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070307/capt.ny12703070107.big_bopper_autopsy_ny127.jpg?x=57&y=130&sig=MBK7IgVvcluu67h5k.OZ3w--" align="left" height="130" width="57" alt="J.P. Richardson, singer known as Rock-'n -Roll circles as the 'Big Bopper,' is shown in this undated file photo. Richardson suffered massive fractures and likely died immediately in the 1959 plane crash that also killed early rock 'n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, a forensic anthropologist said Tuesday, March 5, 2007 after exhuming the body. (AP Photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson suffered massive fractures and likely died immediately in the 1959 plane crash that also killed early rock 'n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, a forensic anthropologist said Tuesday after exhuming the body.</p><br clear="all"/>
Yoko blocks premiere of film on Lennon
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_mu/lennon_documentary_blocked"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070222/capt.nyet17502221517.people_yoko_ono___nyet175.jpg?x=130&y=79&sig=9qu7b97rwFhM9iqNV3fcrQ--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Yoko Ono Lennon talks about 'The U.S. vs. John Lennon' in Sept. 6, 2006 photo, in New York . (AP Photo/Paul Hawthorne, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - The world premiere of "Three Days in the Life," a documentary about John Lennon, was canceled after lawyers for the slain Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, warned that she had not authorized any public viewing of the film.</p><br clear="all"/>
Pussycats search for new doll
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070307/music_nm/pussycat_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070307/2007_03_06t194103_450x320_us_pussycat.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=H9Swm4lOXRVMn0Z9wLEl_Q--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Contestants in the new reality series 'The Search for the Next Pussycat Doll' from The CW television network are shown in this undated publicity photo. (Patrick Ecclesine/The CW Network/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - They've bumped and grinded and sung
their way to the top and on Tuesday night the raunchy girl band
The Pussycat Dolls break into the world of TV reality to find a
new member -- and promote girl power along the way.</p><br clear="all"/>
New era: hip-hop in the Hall
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_en_mu/music_hip_hop_hall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20070306/capt.af7f7c2cb85881daca3fd2580a9231d9.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=ST3jWh9O_8N5uloCYltJFQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="**FILE PHOTO** DJ Grandmaster Flash describes the genesis of his career at a news conference to launch 'Hip-Hop Won't Stop: The Beat, The Rhymes, The Life,' a hip-hop exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, in New York, Feb. 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)" border="0" /></a>AP - Ask Grandmaster Flash about hip-hop stars deserving of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he's quick with a list of rap icons. "Afrika Bambaataa. Run-DMC. KRS-One," he says, barely pausing for a breath. "Big Daddy Kane. LL Cool J. Eric B and Rakim. Tribe Called Quest. The list goes on and on."</p><br clear="all"/>
Library of Congress selects Stones' song
(AP)
AP - They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But what about an original sound recording?
Raitt rates mention on `Definitive 200'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_en_mu/people_raitt_top_albums"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070306/capt.nyet14103061847.people_bonnie_top_albums_nyet141.jpg?x=87&y=130&sig=0XTf3.ieZkzkt_Zc7.00sg--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Bonnie Raitt performs to a sold-out crowd on Feb. 16, 2006, at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix. Her breakthough album 'Nick of Time' is part of a new list of the 'Definitive 200' albums and soundtracks compiled by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and released on Tuesday, March 6, 2007.(AP Photo/Tom Hood)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Nick of Time" was a turning point for Bonnie Raitt. The 1989 album elevated the blues singer-songwriter to a new level of success and earned her three Grammy Awards.</p><br clear="all"/>
Pulp's Cocker shoulders burden on solo debut
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070306/music_nm/cocker_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070307/2007_03_06t173523_450x308_us_cocker.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=PYkG8s2laf_DdAP65X_Xeg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="File photo shows singer Jarvis Cocker presenting the best British Breakthrough Act at the Brit Awards at the Earls Court Arena in London, February 14, 2007. Cocker will release his first solo album on April 3 in North America, five months after it came out in the rest of the world. (Kieran Doherty/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker
will release his first solo album on April 3 in North America,
five months after it came out in the rest of the world.</p><br clear="all"/>
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