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Music of WWII victims finds new life
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_en_mu/holocaust_music"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070317/capt.8392c6e6fbed45aaa27840fe26bfc1e7.holocaust_music_nyol204.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=U3xWCC_HyinGKy8lmSxbQA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Francesco Lotoro, left, plays the piano as professor David Meghnagi listens on in a music shop in Rome, Feb. 22, 2007. Lotoro and Meghnagi are two Italian researchers who are creating a music library in Rome of works composed or played in concentration camps between 1933 and 1945. The library, set to open in September at Rome's Third University, will offer scholars a repertoire of 4,000 papers and 13,000 microfiches including music sheets, letters, drawings and photos. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)" border="0" /></a>AP - A waltz. A tango. A piece of jazz. But they weren't composed in Vienna, Buenos Aires or New Orleans. Scribbled on diaries, loose pages or even toilet paper, these are the notes left behind by people who lived and died in the prisons and concentration camps of World War II.</p><br clear="all"/>
1,423 Afghan artifacts return to Kabul
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_en_ot/afghan_museum_returns"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070317/capt.kab10703171256.afghanistan_museum_returns_kab107.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=8NEvrGz39BkYXjPPrrXGMA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="An Afghan worker of the National Museum of Afghanistan places an artifact in a cabinet near other pieces from a collection which have been returned from a Swiss museum to the Kabul based museum, in Afghanistan on Saturday, March 17, 2007. More than 1,400 artifacts, protected from looters and the Taliban since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland, were returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan on Saturday. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)" border="0" /></a>AP - More than 1,400 artifacts — protected from looters and the Taliban since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland — were returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan on Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Secret of horror writer's lineage broken
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/ap_en_ot/books_joe_hill"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070317/capt.1aeace70971849a7ae344b12929b727f.books_joe_hill_ny310.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=jOWvsOHQdJjo5PHOzg2_Eg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Author Joe Hill, using a pen name, poses in a restaurant in Portsmouth, N.H., Monday, March 5, 2007. The young author tried to keep his real name a secret, but after his fantasy thriller 'Heart-Shaped Box' arrived in book stores this February, it was only a matter of time before readers knew he is the older son of Stephen King. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)" border="0" /></a>AP - Joe Hill knew it was only a matter of time before one of the publishing industry's hottest little secrets became common knowledge. He just wished he could have kept it under wraps a bit longer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Blanchett could be 'Indy's' next love
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/ap_en_mo/people_blanchett"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070317/capt.afefffca8bd249e09513098de15f1a36.people_blanchett_nyol203.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=sk8fr9cSGJmblOUjbG1sUQ--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="Australian actress Cate Blanchett, nominated for an Oscar for best actress in a supporting role for her work in 'Notes on a Scandal,' arrives for the 79th Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Cate Blanchett is in negotiations to star opposite Harrison Ford in the long-awaited fourth installment of the "Indiana Jones" series, her publicist confirmed Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Almodovar joins thousands in war protest
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_en_mo/spain_iraq_protest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070317/capt.ba80303171821.spain_iraq_protest_ba803.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=c.ztVUirU7gsoYjiRYyJLA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="People hold placards and wave peace flags during an anti-war demonstration in Madrid Saturday March 17, 2007 marking the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)" border="0" /></a>AP - Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar joined tens of thousands of people in a march through the Spanish capital on Saturday to protest the war in Iraq and to demand the closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</p><br clear="all"/>
Almodovar joins thousands in war protest
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_en_mo/spain_iraq_protest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070317/capt.ba80303171821.spain_iraq_protest_ba803.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=c.ztVUirU7gsoYjiRYyJLA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="People hold placards and wave peace flags during an anti-war demonstration in Madrid Saturday March 17, 2007 marking the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)" border="0" /></a>AP - Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar joined tens of thousands of people in a march through the Spanish capital on Saturday to protest the war in Iraq and to demand the closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</p><br clear="all"/>
Music of WWII victims finds new life
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_en_mu/holocaust_music"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070317/capt.8392c6e6fbed45aaa27840fe26bfc1e7.holocaust_music_nyol204.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=U3xWCC_HyinGKy8lmSxbQA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Francesco Lotoro, left, plays the piano as professor David Meghnagi listens on in a music shop in Rome, Feb. 22, 2007. Lotoro and Meghnagi are two Italian researchers who are creating a music library in Rome of works composed or played in concentration camps between 1933 and 1945. The library, set to open in September at Rome's Third University, will offer scholars a repertoire of 4,000 papers and 13,000 microfiches including music sheets, letters, drawings and photos. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)" border="0" /></a>AP - A waltz. A tango. A piece of jazz. But they weren't composed in Vienna, Buenos Aires or New Orleans. Scribbled on diaries, loose pages or even toilet paper, these are the notes left behind by people who lived and died in the prisons and concentration camps of World War II.</p><br clear="all"/>
Larry King is OK after vascular surgery
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/ap_en_tv/people_larry_king"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070316/capt.3123a4193b03428c86f301fedd07ff17.people_larry_king_ny120.jpg?x=107&y=130&sig=wM8nxHpIAa.8oauJoqdDhA--" align="left" height="130" width="107" alt="Larry King is shown in this May 11, 2005, file photo in Washington. King underwent vascular surgery Friday, March 16, 2007, and was expected to return Monday to his CNN talk show. King, 73, was admitted to Cedars Sinai Medical Center where doctors performed carotid endarterectomy surgery, which removes plaque from the carotid artery and can restore blood flow. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Larry King underwent vascular surgery Friday and was expected to return Monday to his CNN talk show. King, 73, was admitted to Cedars Sinai Medical Center where doctors performed carotid endarterectomy surgery, which removes plaque from the carotid artery and can restore blood flow.</p><br clear="all"/>
Amid digital boom, indie labels eye retail sales
(Reuters)
Reuters - When Montreal-based rock group
Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible" debuted this week at No. 2 on the
U.S. album charts with sales of 92,000 units, 27,000 of those
were sold digitally, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Gilbert back on "Prairie" for musical
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070316/stage_nm/prairie_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070316/2007_03_16t031902_450x340_us_prairie.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=HT5IaSvPTDkUk6o6kqWa_w--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Actress Melissa Gilbert answers a question during a panel discussion at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena January 9, 2007 file photo. Gilbert and Patrick Swayze will star as Ma and Pa in an April workshop presentation of 'Prairie,' a musical version of Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House on the Prairie.' (Gus Ruelas/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Patrick Swayze and Melissa
Gilbert will star as Pa and Ma in an April workshop
presentation of "Prairie," a musical version of Laura Ingalls
Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie."</p><br clear="all"/>
Almodovar joins thousands in war protest
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_en_mo/spain_iraq_protest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070317/capt.ba80303171821.spain_iraq_protest_ba803.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=c.ztVUirU7gsoYjiRYyJLA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="People hold placards and wave peace flags during an anti-war demonstration in Madrid Saturday March 17, 2007 marking the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)" border="0" /></a>AP - Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar joined tens of thousands of people in a march through the Spanish capital on Saturday to protest the war in Iraq and to demand the closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</p><br clear="all"/>
Blanchett could be 'Indy's' next love
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/ap_en_mo/people_blanchett"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070317/capt.afefffca8bd249e09513098de15f1a36.people_blanchett_nyol203.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=sk8fr9cSGJmblOUjbG1sUQ--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="Australian actress Cate Blanchett, nominated for an Oscar for best actress in a supporting role for her work in 'Notes on a Scandal,' arrives for the 79th Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Cate Blanchett is in negotiations to star opposite Harrison Ford in the long-awaited fourth installment of the "Indiana Jones" series, her publicist confirmed Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Spider-Man, Shrek lead summer of sequels
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070317/film_nm/summer_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070317/2007_03_17t035224_450x342_us_summer.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=n_1IKgyBS6rSk5yAILig.A--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="In this file photo singer-actress Hilary Duff hugs the movie character Shrek during her visit to the Universal Studios Orlando Resort, Florida, August 9, 2005. (Sheri Lowen/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Get ready for the summer
of sequels.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Pride" a tired and banal sports tale
(Reuters)
Reuters - "Pride" combines the two
main themes in the current plethora of sports movies -- the
inspirational victory and a "Bad News Bears" team that goes
from ragtag to riches. Throw in historical black empowerment,
too, which does occasionally crop up in films like "Glory
Road."
Chris Rock jokes on marriage in life, new film
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070316/film_nm/rock_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070316/2007_03_16t155049_450x301_us_rock.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=w16vbY48XbaEZ_B7ZZw2iw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Gina Torres and Chris Rock in a scene from 'I Think I Love My Wife' in an image courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Chris Rock's new film detailing the
frustrations and temptations of married life strangely reflects
persistent rumors his real-life marriage is in trouble.</p><br clear="all"/>
Movie confab more about bottom lines than glitter
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070316/film_nm/movies_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070316/2007_03_16t134607_450x321_us_movies.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=rs7cR.ASu.XAbw4e3GEk_A--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="A movie projection system is displayed at the 2007 ShoWest, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), in Las Vegas, Nevada March 13, 2007. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - It's called show business.
But here at the movie theater industry's annual ShoWest
convention, with only a few exceptions, the business has
eclipsed the show.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sandler reigns in delicately balanced 9/11 drama
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070316/film_nm/film_love_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070316/2007_03_15t203732_450x302_us_film_love.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=UtQRQ9xadJCscJ.EIMb4IA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Adam Sandler is seen in Beverly Hills, California March 6, 2007. (Phil McCarten/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Comedy-inflected
dramas about grief are hard enough to get right when the loss
at hand is purely fictional, tailored to suit one story's
dramatic needs.</p><br clear="all"/>
A personal climb of `The Alps' in IMAX
(AP)
AP - Nine-year-old Siena Harlin peered through the telescope at the North Face of the Eiger, and at her dad, John Harlin III, balanced on ice axes and the front-points of his crampons.
Bollywood cashes in on World Cup with cricket films
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070316/film_nm/india_bollywood_cricket_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070316/2007_03_16t040025_450x318_us_india_bollywood_cricket.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=rTBrVucbAAOyWym6nLeAzA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="England cricketers bat in the nets during their training session in Castries during the World Cup cricket tournament March 14, 2007. A slew of cricket-themed films are set to hit Indian cinemas soon as Bollywood tries to cash in on the World Cup fever that has gripped the country. (Simon Baker ST. LUCIA./Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A slew of cricket-themed films are set
to hit Indian cinemas soon as Bollywood tries to cash in on the
World Cup fever that has gripped the country.</p><br clear="all"/>
Blanchett Keeping Up with the Indy Jones?
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070316/en_movies_eo/93f3d089_bc634e3f_8a60_1bbf4c210998"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20070316/capt.46939ba1cd8b5250ea2ac62eba1deaf9.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=L2xtzRR2bSbKgrvE.wSUpA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Blanchett Keeping Up with the Indy Jones?(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - If adventure has a name, then it must be…Cate Blanchett?</p><br clear="all"/>
Music of WWII victims finds new life
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_en_mu/holocaust_music"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070317/capt.8392c6e6fbed45aaa27840fe26bfc1e7.holocaust_music_nyol204.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=U3xWCC_HyinGKy8lmSxbQA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Francesco Lotoro, left, plays the piano as professor David Meghnagi listens on in a music shop in Rome, Feb. 22, 2007. Lotoro and Meghnagi are two Italian researchers who are creating a music library in Rome of works composed or played in concentration camps between 1933 and 1945. The library, set to open in September at Rome's Third University, will offer scholars a repertoire of 4,000 papers and 13,000 microfiches including music sheets, letters, drawings and photos. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)" border="0" /></a>AP - A waltz. A tango. A piece of jazz. But they weren't composed in Vienna, Buenos Aires or New Orleans. Scribbled on diaries, loose pages or even toilet paper, these are the notes left behind by people who lived and died in the prisons and concentration camps of World War II.</p><br clear="all"/>
Billboard single reviews: Lavigne, Good Charlotte
(Reuters)
Reuters - Avril Lavigne's soundtrack pit stop
"Keep Holding On" from "Eragon" -- top 10 at adult top 40 and
top 20 at mainstream top 40 -- shows the softer side of the
artist .
Billboard CD reviews: Modest Mouse, Stephen Marley
(Reuters)
Reuters - Modest Mouse is in top form on the
follow-up to 2004's commercial breakthrough "Good News for
People Who Like Bad News.
Hilary Duff emerges from breakup with "Dignity"
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070317/music_nm/duff_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070317/2007_03_16t211801_450x308_us_duff.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=xEJTcIEvhhAD3k1r759oaw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Actress Hilary Duff arrives at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles February 11, 2007. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - As multimedia momentum goes, no one
need teach 19-year-old Hilary Duff a thing.</p><br clear="all"/>
Amid digital boom, indie labels eye retail sales
(Reuters)
Reuters - When Montreal-based rock group
Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible" debuted this week at No. 2 on the
U.S. album charts with sales of 92,000 units, 27,000 of those
were sold digitally, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Ryan Adams goes "Easy" on ninth album
(Reuters)
Reuters - Ryan Adams will issue his next
album, "Easy Tiger," on June 5, his first retail release since
a trio of discs in 2005.
Phair, Adams contribute to Minnie Driver CD
(Reuters)
Reuters - Liz Phair and Ryan Adams are among
the guests on actress/musician Minnie Driver's second album,
"Sea Stories."
'The Egyptian Helen' returns to the Met
(AP)
AP - It was tough enough in antiquity to be a sorceress, let alone the planet's most beautiful woman. In the postmodern world, you have to compete for attention with directors, too.
"Hits" CD off to small start for Notorious B.I.G.
(Reuters)
Reuters - Turns out "Life After Death," the
title to the Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 set, was prophetic. A new
compilation, "Greatest Hits," bowed atop The Billboard 200 this
week, marking Biggie's third No. 1.
Country combo Alabama inspired by gospel success
(Reuters)
Reuters - Fans of veteran country band
Alabama had to wait nearly two decades for the band to deliver
its first gospel album, but they aren't waiting long for the
follow-up. On the heels of last year's successful "Songs of
Inspiration," RCA Records is issuing "Songs of Inspiration,
Vol. II" on March 27.
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