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Britney Spears, K-Fed settle divorce
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_en_ce/people_spears"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070330/i/r2981620782.jpg?x=130&y=102&sig=xBQH3Xtt2AfaizgHI82gLQ--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="Singer Britney Spears poses backstage following the Baby Phat 2007 Fall collection during New York Fashion Week February 2, 2007. REUTERS/Eric Thayer" border="0" /></a>AP - Britney Spears and Kevin Federline reached a settlement in their divorce Thursday, a spokesman for Federline's attorney said. After a five-hour meeting with their attorneys present, Spears and Federline signed "a global settlement on all issues of their marriage," said Michael Sands, a spokesman for Federline's attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sligh says he considered quitting 'Idol'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_en_tv/american_idol_sligh"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070329/capt.38d1edbf45864daa9b291ffc40a7ff48.tv_american_idol_nyet103.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=mDN1cJr5B1oqks_VM.KloA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="This photo supplied by Fox Television shows Haley Scarnato,left, reacting with a show of relief after Chris Sligh , right, is eliminated on Fox's 'American Idol' television talent show on Wednesday night, March 28, 2007, in Los Angeles. The sacking of Sligh, 28, who hails from Greenville, S.C., winnowed the number of 'Idol' wannabes to nine. The winner will be chosen in May. (AP Photo/Fox,Frank Micelotta )" border="0" /></a>AP - Chris Sligh, the curly headed contestant from South Carolina who was voted off "American Idol" this week, said he considered quitting the show two weeks before viewers sent him packing.</p><br clear="all"/>
Prosecutors: Revoke Hilton's probation
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_en_ce/paris_hilton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070329/capt.0745049b5af148e18e61c308dd25ec8f.paris_hilton_nyol989.jpg?x=95&y=130&sig=XIrFalTZQcPsQLCdvveakA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Paris Hilton gets her hair checked before signing autographs at the Chicago Midwest Beauty Show in Rosemont, Ill. on Sunday, March 4, 2007. Los Angeles prosecutors said Thursday they will ask a judge to revoke Hilton's probation in a reckless driving case, a move that could lead to a jail term. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - City prosecutors said Thursday they will ask a judge to revoke Paris Hilton's probation in a reckless driving case, a move that could lead to a jail term.</p><br clear="all"/>
Aide: Jackson sick, but not in hospital
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_en_ce/people_michael_jackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070329/capt.3832d4d98af54dd58ef78d1d5c311918.people_michael_jackson_nyol990.jpg?x=104&y=130&sig=rp5TKeGcB7HOUbjDGWF0wA--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="Michael Jackson delivers his speech to fans during an event 'Fan Appreciation Day' in Tokyo Friday, March 9, 2007. Jackson is 'a little bit under the weather,' but has not sought hospital treatment, his spokeswoman said Thursday. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)" border="0" /></a>AP - Michael Jackson is "a little bit under the weather," but has not sought hospital treatment, his spokeswoman said Thursday. "He is not in the hospital and he has not been in the hospital," Raymone K. Bain said, denying news reports that Jackson was hospitalized for pneumonia.</p><br clear="all"/>
Miss America loses TV contract
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_en_tv/miss_america"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070330/capt.1459c24dfdc8433d8c7b68d1ec47e715.miss_america_pageant_ny115.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=3uZ.3prjfV4mDJqaf_0a1Q--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Miss America pageant contestants share the stage during the preliminary competition for the Miss America Pageant in this Jan. 26, 2007, file photo in Las Vegas. The Miss America Pageant has been dropped by Country Music Television, leaving the 86-year-old pageant without a TV outlet for the second time in three years. The Viacom-owned network, which had rights to air the pageant through 2011, notified the Atlantic City, N.J.-based organization that it will not exercise its option to televise the contest 'in 2008 and beyond,' the cable network said in a statement issued to The Associated Press on Thursday, March 29, 2007. (AP Photo/ Jae C. Hong, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Miss America Pageant has been dropped by Country Music Television, leaving the 86-year-old competition without a TV outlet for the second time in three years.</p><br clear="all"/>
Wahlberg knows what's "Happening"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Mark Wahlberg, riding
high on his Oscar nomination, has signed on to star in M. Night
Shyamalan's thriller "The Happening."
Britney Spears, K-Fed settle divorce
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_en_mu/people_spears"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070330/i/r2981620782.jpg?x=130&y=102&sig=xBQH3Xtt2AfaizgHI82gLQ--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="Singer Britney Spears poses backstage following the Baby Phat 2007 Fall collection during New York Fashion Week February 2, 2007. REUTERS/Eric Thayer" border="0" /></a>AP - Britney Spears and Kevin Federline reached a settlement in their divorce Thursday, a spokesman for Federline's attorney said. After a five-hour meeting with their attorneys present, Spears and Federline signed "a global settlement on all issues of their marriage," said Michael Sands, a spokesman for Federline's attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan.</p><br clear="all"/>
Sligh says he considered quitting 'Idol'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_en_tv/american_idol_sligh"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070329/capt.38d1edbf45864daa9b291ffc40a7ff48.tv_american_idol_nyet103.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=mDN1cJr5B1oqks_VM.KloA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="This photo supplied by Fox Television shows Haley Scarnato,left, reacting with a show of relief after Chris Sligh , right, is eliminated on Fox's 'American Idol' television talent show on Wednesday night, March 28, 2007, in Los Angeles. The sacking of Sligh, 28, who hails from Greenville, S.C., winnowed the number of 'Idol' wannabes to nine. The winner will be chosen in May. (AP Photo/Fox,Frank Micelotta )" border="0" /></a>AP - Chris Sligh, the curly headed contestant from South Carolina who was voted off "American Idol" this week, said he considered quitting the show two weeks before viewers sent him packing.</p><br clear="all"/>
Time for an age-old Hollywood lawsuit
(Reuters)
Reuters - If lawsuits, like fine
wine, get better with age, this batch should be a doozy.
Edinburgh festival focuses on 400 years of opera
(Reuters)
Reuters - Edinburgh turns this year to a
celebration of the exuberance of opera to mark the 60th
anniversary of its international festival of the arts, founded
in 1947 the dark days of austerity following World War Two.
Wahlberg knows what's "Happening"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Mark Wahlberg, riding
high on his Oscar nomination, has signed on to star in M. Night
Shyamalan's thriller "The Happening."
Fantastic future for Gilliam in Amsterdam
(Reuters)
Reuters - Director and former Monty
Python member Terry Gilliam will be honored with a career
achievement award at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival,
organizers said Thursday.
Murphy, Rhys are versed in Dylan Thomas movie
(Reuters)
Reuters - Cillian Murphy and
Matthew Rhys have signed on to join Keira Knightley and Lindsay
Lohan in "The Best Time of Our Lives."
Director dons "Straw" hat for remake
(Reuters)
Reuters - Rod Lurie is on board to
direct a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 thriller "Straw Dogs."
Patton seeing her image in "Mirrors" scarefest
(Reuters)
Reuters - Paula Patton, who was
the love interest in last year's Denzel Washington thriller
"Deja Vu," will join Kiefer Sutherland in the horror film
"Mirrors."
"Robinsons" could be on thin ice at box office
(Reuters)
Reuters - It's 3-D vs. Will
Ferrell at the North American box office this weekend.
Will Ferrell rides to "Glory" in smart comedy
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070329/film_nm/film_ferrell_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070329/i/r4189651938.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=WdXszIrX8Udb325Cgg0kMQ--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Cast member Will Ferrell attends the Los Angeles premiere of "Blades of Glory" held at the Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood March 28, 2007. REUTERS/Phil McCarten (UNITED STATES)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The blissfully silly
"Blades of Glory" is one of those rare comedies that puts a
goofy smile on your face with the premise alone -- Will Ferrell
and Jon Heder playing the world's first competitive male pairs
figure skaters -- and keeps it planted there right until its
wacky finale.</p><br clear="all"/>
No fading star: Actress gets roles at 97
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070329/ap_en_mo/film_acting_her_age"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070329/capt.061091460a204d71807b8ee73002dbed.film_acting_her_age_la303.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=CYqa_c7vH7.p.3zyuTOBMQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Actress Mae Laborde poses at her Santa Monica, Calif., home on Wednesday, Feb 28, 2007. The 97-year-old Laborde is just four years into her acting career and hotter than ever. (AP Photos. Nick Ut)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hollywood's starmakers always are on the lookout for a fresh new face and they found one in Mae Laborde, albeit of the wrinkled variety. The 97-year-old Laborde is just four years into her acting career and hotter than ever. Standing 4-feet-10, with snow-white hair, rosy-red cheeks and a sweet-as-peaches-and-cream smile, she's becoming TV's ubiquitous grandma.</p><br clear="all"/>
Clooney issues denial to Web sites
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070329/ap_en_mo/people_clooney"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070329/capt.6514f00c4c3d4b3f80ea68c11b45b5fb.people_clooney_ny113.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=ANB7JTZYeYUcmUqHtGjhAQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="George Clooney arrives at the Armani Prive pre-Oscars fashion show in Beverly Hills, Calif., in this file photo from Feb. 24, 2007. Clooney personally responded Thursday to rumors circulated by two gossip Web sites. The Oscar-winner sent a note to Radaronline.com and Defamer.com. Both sites hinted this week that Clooney was responsible for releasing outtakes from the movie 'I (Heart) Huckabees' that show director David O. Russell yelling at star Lily Tomlin. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles-File)" border="0" /></a>AP - George Clooney personally responded Thursday to rumors circulated by two gossip Web sites.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ex-wife sues Walter Mosley
(AP)
AP - Walter Mosley, author of "Devil in a Blue Dress," is being sued by his ex-wife for money she says he agreed to pay out of income from several of his books.
Britney Spears, K-Fed settle divorce
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_en_mu/people_spears"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070330/i/r2981620782.jpg?x=130&y=102&sig=xBQH3Xtt2AfaizgHI82gLQ--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="Singer Britney Spears poses backstage following the Baby Phat 2007 Fall collection during New York Fashion Week February 2, 2007. REUTERS/Eric Thayer" border="0" /></a>AP - Britney Spears and Kevin Federline reached a settlement in their divorce Thursday, a spokesman for Federline's attorney said. After a five-hour meeting with their attorneys present, Spears and Federline signed "a global settlement on all issues of their marriage," said Michael Sands, a spokesman for Federline's attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan.</p><br clear="all"/>
Palestinians try to enter Eurovision song contest
(Reuters)
Reuters - Palestinians launched a
campaign on Thursday to enter next year's Eurovision song
contest, hoping to go head to head with contestants from Israel
and other countries.
Eric Clapton to hold Crossroads benefit
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070329/ap_en_mu/people_clapton_crossroads"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070329/capt.ee83231f4a9c4b9cbc2329c76f85c0a1.people_clapton__crossroads_nyet106.jpg?x=130&y=77&sig=WotBrgsAPSXqpv2j_4dy8g--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="B.B. King, left, jokes around with Eric Clapton during a jam session at the Cotton Bowl at the first Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival, on, June 6, 2004, in Dallas. The 2007 Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, scheduled July 28 in Chicago, will benefit Crossroads Centre, the drug-rehab facility he founded in Antigua a decade ago. Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 31,2007. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0" /></a>AP - Eric Clapton is having a jam session with more than a dozen of his favorite guitar-playing pals, and everyone is invited. Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, scheduled July 28 in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview, Ill., will benefit Crossroads Centre, the drug-rehab facility he founded in Antigua a decade ago. Tickets go on sale Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Rihanna releasing new single, `Umbrella'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070329/ap_en_mu/music_rihanna"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070329/capt.d26dae7d21cc4aeea6cc03d5760265b6.music_rihanna_nyet104.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=WkMb0Z9K3Z7nxEvIeIIshQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="This undated photo supplied by Def Jam Records shows Rihanna. The hits are likely to keep coming and coming for the 19-year-old Barbados beauty, who has had success with 'S.O.S.,' 'Unfaithful' and 'Break It Off.' Her new single, 'Umbrella,' is due out Thursday, March 29, 2007, the first song from her upcoming, not-yet-titled album, set for release June 5.(AP Photo/Def Jam Records)" border="0" /></a>AP - Some singers take two-year breaks between albums. Rihanna is working on her third disc, just two years after releasing her first. "It's a nonstop pace, very speedily, and Def Jam does not play, that's all I can tell you," she joked of her record label in an interview with The Associated Press. "We just keep going and going — it's fun, we make sure that we have fun while we do it."</p><br clear="all"/>
Music Review: LCD Soundsystem
(AP)
AP - LCD Soundsystem, "Sound of Silver" (DFA-Capitol): LCD Soundsystem, the brainchild of DFA Records founder and producer James Murphy, is once again biting and audacious on "Sound of Silver."
Rolling Stones deny Earth Live concert report
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070329/music_nm/stones_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070329/2007_03_29t151802_450x343_us_stones.jpg?x=130&y=99&sig=rhse9JAhsF5Mygk5MAZ07Q--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="Mick Jagger (R) works the crowd as Keith Richards (C) and Ron Wood play in the background during a Rolling Stones' concert at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, in this September 29, 2006 file photo. The Rolling Stones have denied a Fox News web report that they will play the Live Earth show in Britain on July 7. (John Sommers II/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Rolling Stones have denied a
Fox News web report that they will play the Live Earth show in
Britain on July 7.</p><br clear="all"/>
Einstein institute names resident artist
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070329/ap_en_mu/music_moravec"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070329/capt.23e4f63c88c54c56a59932fab9d2b89c.music_moravec_nyet108.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=oWbvM3S7uHVLc38WUEvsxw--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="This undated file photo originally provided by Columbia University shows Paul Moravec, the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for music for his piece 'Tempest Fantasy,' has been named artist in residence at the think tank where Albert Einstein pondered the universe and will introduce new works and lead the Institute for Advanced Study's annual concert series, the institute announced this week. (AP Photo/Columbia University,Lauren Piperno )" border="0" /></a>AP - Paul Moravec, who has composed more than 90 works and won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in music, has been named artist in residence at the think tank where Albert Einstein pondered the universe.</p><br clear="all"/>
Britney and K-Fed Settle Up
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070329/en_music_eo/3a94e92b7498_4915_94e5_54390fc2f6f0"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20070330/capt.b82a658fe143ed395a935fb452b6b968.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=7920vBa8JxyOugBshXHa6g--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Britney and K-Fed Settle Up(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Now there's yet another thing no longer hanging over Britney Spears' head.</p><br clear="all"/>
World harpists gather for international festival
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070329/music_nm/arts_harp_festival_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070329/2007_03_29t134347_270x450_us_arts_harp_festival.jpg?x=77&y=130&sig=6WzhRcxwRNdfakRm2WtqbQ--" align="left" height="130" width="77" alt="Harpist Jemima Phillips poses for photographs in western England, in this March 29, 2005 file photo. The world's largest annual harp festival opens in Edinburgh on Friday after playing its way into the Guinness Book of World Records with a 25th anniversary concert in the Scottish capital last year. (Barry Batchelor/Pool/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The world's largest annual harp
festival opens in Edinburgh on Friday after playing its way
into the Guinness Book of World Records with a 25th anniversary
concert in the Scottish capital last year.</p><br clear="all"/>
Almond to release first album since '04 crash
(Reuters)
Reuters - Former Soft Cell principal Marc
Almond will release his first album in four years in June, as
he slowly returns to regular duties after a near-fatal
motorcycle crash in 2004.
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