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Stallone pleads guilty to import charge
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070515/ap_en_mo/people_stallone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070515/capt.60247c7a1a034bdfb060ad70e93ba689.people_stallone_ny125.jpg?x=119&y=130&sig=UFz.Wchz1Wbqmb7c8V7E3w--" align="left" height="130" width="119" alt="Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, with his wife Jennifer Flavin, left background, arrive for a news conference at the Miss Italia (Miss Italy) 2006 beauty contest in Salsomaggiore, Italy, in a Friday, Sept. 22, 2006 photo. Actor Sylvester Stallone pleaded guilty Tuesday to bringing vials of a restricted muscle-building hormone into Australia. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Actor Sylvester Stallone pleaded guilty Tuesday to bringing vials of restricted muscle-building hormones into Australia and faces sentencing next week.</p><br clear="all"/>
Review: Third 'Shrek' feels hackneyed
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070515/ap_en_mo/film_review_shrek_the_third"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070514/capt.84735b16d52642e4b5ee3d10ac423557.shrek_the_third_nysr101.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=leFjVIYhDTrRq46XyWOHpQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Actor Mike Myers arrives to the special screening of the Dreamworks animation movie Shrek the Third in New York, Monday, May, 14, 2007. Myers lends his voice to the film's main character, a green ogre named Shrek. ( AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Shrek the Third" begins with a death, and from there the movie itself steadily dies. The third installment in this monster of an animated franchise still subverts the fairy tales we grew up knowing and loving, but it's smothered in a suffocating sense of been-there, done-that.</p><br clear="all"/>
DiCaprio sued over his basketball court
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070515/ap_en_ce/people_dicaprio"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070514/capt.91052aa66d274134ad7ac3772f926a0d.people_dicaprio_ny121.jpg?x=129&y=130&sig=Tgi1oOxQxXEE5SRBQahj7g--" align="left" height="130" width="129" alt="Actor Leonardo DiCaprio speaks at the 2007 Leadership Awards presentation by the Harvard Business School Association of Southern California at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif. in a May 10, 2007 photo. Leonardo DiCaprio's neighbor is charging him with an offensive foul, claiming the actor excavated the neighboring property without permission and damaged plants and hedges to build a basketball court at his home. (AP Photo/Earl Gibson III, file )" border="0" /></a>AP - Leonardo DiCaprio's neighbor is charging him with an offensive foul, claiming the actor excavated the neighboring property without permission and damaged plants and hedges to build a basketball court at his home.</p><br clear="all"/>
Actor Tom Sizemore settles lawsuits
(AP)
AP - Actor Tom Sizemore has settled lawsuits brought against him by State Farm Insurance and his former girlfriend, one-time Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
Smashing Pumpkins plan residencies
(AP)
AP - The Smashing Pumpkins announced Monday they will give nine concerts in Asheville and eight in San Francisco this summer in the band's first residencies in more than a decade.
Cryer, Denton "Tortured" by thriller
(Reuters)
Reuters - Jon Cryer and James
Denton have joined Cole Hauser and Laurence Fishburne in the
cast of the psychological thriller "Tortured."
Bonnaroo festival to add jazz tent
(AP)
AP - The Bonnaroo Music Festival is adding a jazz tent to its sprawling festival, sponsored by the renowned Blue Note label.
HBO medical drama pins "Hope" on 10 actors
(Reuters)
Reuters - HBO has assembled the
cast of J.J. Abrams' medical drama pilot "The Anatomy of Hope,"
which explores cancer battles from the patients' perspective.
Disney launches travel channel on two cable carriers
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Walt Disney Co. said on Tuesday
it was launching a cable travel channel that lets viewers
contact Disney vacation planners via their TV remote control.
Season's after-party steals Broadway spotlight
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070515/stage_nm/osborne_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070515/2007_05_08t120225_450x383_us_osborne.jpg?x=130&y=110&sig=6KFSQAWHYc3kIrK0cB3aXA--" align="left" height="110" width="130" alt="Angela Lansbury arrives at the Museum of Television and Radio's annual gala in New York, February 8, 2007. Lansbury had just opened in her first Broadway show in 25 years, 'Deuce,' a new play from Terrence McNally; her co-star was the equally indomitable Marian Seldes, this time receiving the best billing on a marquee she's had in a main stem play in her four-plus decades as a dedicated actress. (Chip East/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The final new Broadway
offering to debut within this year's Tony cutoff deadline
opened last week, with "110 in the Shade" pulling ecstatic
reviews for Audra McDonald and officially ending the 2006-07
Broadway season.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cryer, Denton "Tortured" by thriller
(Reuters)
Reuters - Jon Cryer and James
Denton have joined Cole Hauser and Laurence Fishburne in the
cast of the psychological thriller "Tortured."
Stallone pleads guilty to import charge
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070515/ap_en_mo/people_stallone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070515/capt.60247c7a1a034bdfb060ad70e93ba689.people_stallone_ny125.jpg?x=119&y=130&sig=UFz.Wchz1Wbqmb7c8V7E3w--" align="left" height="130" width="119" alt="Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, with his wife Jennifer Flavin, left background, arrive for a news conference at the Miss Italia (Miss Italy) 2006 beauty contest in Salsomaggiore, Italy, in a Friday, Sept. 22, 2006 photo. Actor Sylvester Stallone pleaded guilty Tuesday to bringing vials of a restricted muscle-building hormone into Australia. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Actor Sylvester Stallone pleaded guilty Tuesday to bringing vials of restricted muscle-building hormones into Australia and faces sentencing next week.</p><br clear="all"/>
Virginia Madsen in spirit of "Haunting"
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070515/film_nm/madsen_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070515/2007_05_15t015330_450x311_us_madsen.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=c7_Qi4Be6Upkg4ZaCexyyg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Virginia Madsen poses as she arrives at the annual Race to Erase MS in Century City, California, in this April 13, 2007 file photo. Madsen will star in the supernatural thriller 'A Haunting in Connecticut.' (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Virginia Madsen will
star in the supernatural thriller "A Haunting in Connecticut."</p><br clear="all"/>
U.S. healthcare expensive, inefficient: report
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070515/film_nm/healthcare_usa_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070515/2007_05_15t012103_450x301_us_healthcare_usa.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=v1kPClAn6gJM70cNypGf5w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Beds sit in an emergency room in a file photo. Americans get the poorest health care and yet pay the most compared to five other rich countries, according to a report released on Tuesday. (Lee Celano/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Americans get the poorest health
care and yet pay the most compared to five other rich
countries, according to a report released on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Actor Tom Sizemore settles lawsuits
(AP)
AP - Actor Tom Sizemore has settled lawsuits brought against him by State Farm Insurance and his former girlfriend, one-time Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
Review: Third 'Shrek' feels hackneyed
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070515/ap_en_mo/film_review_shrek_the_third"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070514/capt.84735b16d52642e4b5ee3d10ac423557.shrek_the_third_nysr101.jpg?x=130&y=98&sig=leFjVIYhDTrRq46XyWOHpQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Actor Mike Myers arrives to the special screening of the Dreamworks animation movie Shrek the Third in New York, Monday, May, 14, 2007. Myers lends his voice to the film's main character, a green ogre named Shrek. ( AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Shrek the Third" begins with a death, and from there the movie itself steadily dies. The third installment in this monster of an animated franchise still subverts the fairy tales we grew up knowing and loving, but it's smothered in a suffocating sense of been-there, done-that.</p><br clear="all"/>
French classic "Balloon" aloft again at Cannes
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070515/film_nm/cannes_balloon_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070515/2007_05_14t213530_289x450_us_cannes_balloon.jpg?x=83&y=130&sig=NSTJexSmnYkwgqlJt_7lDg--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="Flags flap outside the Festival Palace in Cannes as preparations continue for the 60th Cannes Film Festival May 14, 2007. (Yves Herman/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - More than 50 years after it
won the Palme d'Or for best short film in Cannes, Albert
Lamorisse's 34-minute children's classic "The Red Balloon" is
returning to the Croisette.</p><br clear="all"/>
Review: Small `Once' is a huge surprise
(AP)
AP - Forget everything you think you know about the movie musical, one of the more tried-and-true and utterly predictable genres around.
Capsule reviews of this week's new films
(AP)
AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
Spidey leads box-office with $58 million
(AP)
AP - "Spider-Man 3" took in $58.2 million in its second weekend to easily lead the weekend box office again, raising its 10-day total to $240.2 million.
Bonnaroo festival to add jazz tent
(AP)
AP - The Bonnaroo Music Festival is adding a jazz tent to its sprawling festival, sponsored by the renowned Blue Note label.
Crowded House beginning U.S. tour in August
(Reuters)
Reuters - Reunited rock trio Crowded House
will tour North America for the first time in more than 10
years, beginning August 4 in Northampton, Mass.
Smashing Pumpkins plan residencies
(AP)
AP - The Smashing Pumpkins announced Monday they will give nine concerts in Asheville and eight in San Francisco this summer in the band's first residencies in more than a decade.
Producer Rubin in "partnership" with Columbia
(Reuters)
Reuters - Rick Rubin's long-rumored move to
Columbia Records is now official, although there are no details
yet on what the Grammy-winning producer's exact role will be at
the label or where he will be based.
Bobby Darin gets Las Vegas sidewalk star
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070515/ap_en_mu/people_bobby_darin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070514/capt.b5b0b6886d594d1490c91168ee442009.people_bobby_darin_ny123.jpg?x=102&y=130&sig=HuetMcLzIh6eUlBSd4Gizg--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="Rock and roll singer Bobby Darin is shown in a Feb. 1965 file photo. Friends, fans and his half brother marked what would have been singer Bobby Darin's 71st birthday Monday by dedicating a sidewalk star on the Las Vegas Strip to honor the 'Mack the Knife' crooner. (AP Photo, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - What would have been Bobby Darin's 71st birthday was marked on Monday by the dedication of a sidewalk star on the Las Vegas strip.</p><br clear="all"/>
Rolling Stones add Poland to Europe tour
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070515/music_nm/stones_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070515/2007_05_15t015734_450x337_us_stones.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=oPwEn0GENrAJ0ZW27LILBQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Rolling Stones vocalist Mick Jagger performs in Zurich, August 5, 2006. The Stones will play Poland for the first time in nine years during their upcoming European tour, the band confirmed on Monday. (Siggi Bucher/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Rolling Stones will play Poland
for the first time in nine years during their upcoming European
tour, the band confirmed on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Turner, Stanley paired on `Me and God'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070514/ap_en_mu/people_josh_turner"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070511/capt.e1955e11e29a4d6b98529b1968aeb1c4.music_turner_nyrd107.jpg?x=91&y=130&sig=PRyL1stvQ4XORIOEuoCTaA--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="Country singer Josh Turner performs on the NBC 'Today' television show during program's summer concert series, in New York's Rockefeller Center, Friday May 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0" /></a>AP - Josh Turner didn't think his spiritual song "Me and God," which is nominated for an Academy of Country Music award, would ever be recorded.</p><br clear="all"/>
Linkin Park grows up with new album
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070514/ap_en_mu/music_linkin_park"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070514/capt.ff1a5946cce54ae694c41a8016df9bf0.music_linkin_park_nyet352.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=TlANVt_Bfyn.EQ_Od25ZMw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Rock Band Linkin Park, from left, Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell, Joe Hahn, Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Chester Bennington and Rob Bourdon are photographed in New York on May 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Hands Held High," one of the most powerful songs on Linkin Park's new album, includes lyrics about bombs blowing up mosques, a bumbling leader, high gas prices and general world confusion — an obvious missive against President Bush and the war in Iraq.</p><br clear="all"/>
Witness: Spector-Plus-Rifle Equaled Elmer Fudd
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070514/en_music_eo/ea63dce5_d5fc4b41_91d5_327a6abd4b85"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20070515/capt.f3970e50b1b5fb3d7d93ae8400fa56d8.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=AESxx3q_tbZPTHAsvDoEBw--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Witness: Spector-Plus-Rifle Equaled Elmer Fudd(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - The night Lana Clarkson died, Phil Spector didn't seem particularly drunk, according to the woman who he took to the House of Blues and, after meeting Clarkson, sent on her merry way before the night was over.</p><br clear="all"/>
`Idol' finalist feeling Sparks of fame
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070514/ap_en_mu/american_idol_sparks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070512/capt.68a9fb047cab4fb78bcd9118242b39b1.american_idol_sparks_azrf105.jpg?x=84&y=130&sig=6b1vPNk6vgpv3gLP8FNiOg--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="Jordin Sparks, 17, of Glendale, Ariz. and one of three finalists for American Idol, sings to fans at Westgate City Center in her hometown Friday, May 11, 2007, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)" border="0" /></a>AP - At some point, "American Idol" producers must have shaken their heads, wondering how they passed over Jordin Sparks, whose soulful singing and girl-next-door likableness have gained fans week after week.</p><br clear="all"/>
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