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Heartfelt tributes define BET Awards
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_en_mu/bet_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.e106e406ef9d46cf8bcfdae6d274157f.aptopix_bet_rehearsals_la107.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=f6YOPlhoo8.f32s6WpYGFA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Musician Robin Thicke performs during rehearsals for the BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Monday June 25,2007. Black Entertainment Television's annual awards show honors musicians, actors and athletes, this year's show, will be broadcast live Tuesday night from the Shrine Auditorium and promises an A-list roster of performers, including Beyonce, 50 Cent, Diddy, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - Although the BET Awards doled out awards to some of entertainment's most celebrated performers on Tuesday night, from Beyonce to Jennifer Hudson, it was the show's tributes to living legends and recently departed giants that evoked the most emotion.</p><br clear="all"/>
Freed Paris gets back to being Paris
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_en_ce/paris_hilton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.baf28579cbe143beab9ccb41108127ea.aptopix_paris_hilton_ksd101.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=2UkQbreVMlAHV55ynQ29fA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Paris Hilton walks out of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif. , Tuesday June 26, 2007. Paris Hilton has been released from jail after serving about three weeks for an alcohol-related reckless driving case. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)" border="0" /></a>AP - Paris Hilton got out of jail Tuesday and immediately got back to being Paris Hilton, summoning a hair-salon van and, by her mere presence, creating a huge traffic jam that angered the neighbors.</p><br clear="all"/>
US Weekly blacks out Hilton coverage
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_en_ce/paris_hilton_ban"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.0b1d4fa80cb14c75bef363bb6477dc88.paris_hilton_ksd109.jpg?x=104&y=130&sig=T1bJ1nTo7_qeyLqpuIbGDA--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="Paris Hilton walks out of the Angeles County Sheriff Department's Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., Tuesday June 26, 2007. Paris Hilton has been released from jail after serving about three weeks for an alcohol-related reckless driving case. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)" border="0" /></a>AP - Paris Hilton gets out of jail on Tuesday and she won't be on the cover of US Weekly on Friday? How, short of the Apocalypse, is this possible?</p><br clear="all"/>
Fans camp out for free McCartney show
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_en_mu/people_mccartney"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.c38d180c69a34d39b964e1ca634281a6.people_mccartney_cars204.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=BJQA5VS9KsWxL9uQxrD_Ow--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Toni Johnson, who came all the way from her home in Chicago, is among the first in line for tickets to a special concert by Paul McCartney at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles Tuesday, June 26, 2007. McCartney is to perform Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0" /></a>AP - Equipped with folding chairs and sleeping bags, hundreds of Paul McCartney fans lined the street outside a funky Hollywood record store on Tuesday to secure a seat for a free show there by the ex-Beatle.</p><br clear="all"/>
'A Catered Affair' set for Broadway
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_en_ot/theater_catered_affair"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.3fe9575ec9f44de4baf354ef00c0ad90.theater_catered_affair_ny112.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=16G9PnerdZLB7CfugmJNeQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Actor Harvey Fierstein arrives for the Drama Desk Awards which honors excellence in theater on May 21, 2006, in New York. Fierstein will return to Broadway as the author and star of 'A Catered Affair,' a musical about the wedding plans of a Bronx family in 1953. A spring 2008 opening in New York is planned. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)" border="0" /></a>AP - Faith Prince will be the mother of the bride, Tom Wopat the father and Harvey Fierstein the uncle in "A Catered Affair," a new musical by Fierstein and composer John Bucchino planned for Broadway next spring.</p><br clear="all"/>
Hitchcock specialist takes in "Lodger" remake
(Reuters)
Reuters - Alfred Hitchcock's first
film, "The Lodger," is being remade as an urban thriller set in
Los Angeles.
Heartfelt tributes define BET Awards
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_en_mu/bet_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.e106e406ef9d46cf8bcfdae6d274157f.aptopix_bet_rehearsals_la107.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=f6YOPlhoo8.f32s6WpYGFA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Musician Robin Thicke performs during rehearsals for the BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Monday June 25,2007. Black Entertainment Television's annual awards show honors musicians, actors and athletes, this year's show, will be broadcast live Tuesday night from the Shrine Auditorium and promises an A-list roster of performers, including Beyonce, 50 Cent, Diddy, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - Although the BET Awards doled out awards to some of entertainment's most celebrated performers on Tuesday night, from Beyonce to Jennifer Hudson, it was the show's tributes to living legends and recently departed giants that evoked the most emotion.</p><br clear="all"/>
BET Awards honor Beyonce, Hudson
(Reuters)
Reuters - "Dreamgirls" co-stars
Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson were the big winners Tuesday at the
BET Awards, an event honoring black actors, singers and sports
stars. The event was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los
Angeles, and broadcast on the BET cable channel.
Eisner's new-media studio rocks out
(Reuters)
Reuters - Former Walt Disney Co.
chairman Michael Eisner's new-media studio Vuguru said Tuesday
it is producing its second original series.
"Romeo and Juliet" makes splash in Central Park
(Reuters)
Reuters - As one of the Bard of
Avon's most popular tragedies, "Romeo and Juliet" has been
interpreted in incarnations as eclectic as Franco Zeffirelli's
reverential 1968 film, Baz Luhrmann's 1996 modern-day update,
musical variations like "West Side Story" or the gay-themed
off-Broadway production "R J."
Hitchcock specialist takes in "Lodger" remake
(Reuters)
Reuters - Alfred Hitchcock's first
film, "The Lodger," is being remade as an urban thriller set in
Los Angeles.
"Transformers" director firing on all cylinders
(Reuters)
Reuters - "Transformers" director
Michael Bay got so involved in the movie's marketing that he
filmed commercials for three promotional partners.
De Niro exports Tribeca film fest to China
(Reuters)
Reuters - A mini version of Robert De
Niro's Tribeca Film Festival will launch in China next month in
a factory compound-turned-modern art gallery district
reminiscent of the New York neighborhood where the actor began
his annual cinema fundraiser in 2002.
Heartfelt tributes define BET Awards
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_en_mo/bet_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.e106e406ef9d46cf8bcfdae6d274157f.aptopix_bet_rehearsals_la107.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=f6YOPlhoo8.f32s6WpYGFA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Musician Robin Thicke performs during rehearsals for the BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Monday June 25,2007. Black Entertainment Television's annual awards show honors musicians, actors and athletes, this year's show, will be broadcast live Tuesday night from the Shrine Auditorium and promises an A-list roster of performers, including Beyonce, 50 Cent, Diddy, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - Although the BET Awards doled out awards to some of entertainment's most celebrated performers on Tuesday night, from Beyonce to Jennifer Hudson, it was the show's tributes to living legends and recently departed giants that evoked the most emotion.</p><br clear="all"/>
Winners of the 2007 BET Awards
(AP)
AP - Female R&B artist: Beyonce
Djimon Hounsou gets some action
(Reuters)
Reuters - Oscar-nominated "Blood
Diamond" star Djimon Hounsou has joined the cast of "Get Some,"
an indie action drama that starts shooting later this month.
Toronto festival backs off "world premiere" tag
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Toronto International
Film Festival is getting out of the premiere game.
Filmmaker Moore wishes Bush well at L.A. rally
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070627/film_nm/movies_moore_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070627/2007_06_26t212039_450x303_us_movies_moore.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=u5.IID88Rxqz0KgTyFAe8A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="File photo shows Michael Moore at the Uptown Theater for the Washington premiere of his movie 'SiCKO' June 20, 2007. 'SiCKO' is Moore's controversial new documentary about America's health-care industry. Moore on Tuesday launched into the final days before the U.S. debut of his movie 'SiCKO' with two things that might surprise his detractors: a call for compassion for others and well wishes for President George W. Bush. (David Snyder/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Filmmaker Michael Moore on Tuesday
launched into the final days before the U.S. debut of his movie
"SiCKO" with two things that might surprise his detractors: a
call for compassion for others and well wishes for President
George W. Bush.</p><br clear="all"/>
Moore likes Austrian health-care system
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070626/ap_en_mo/people_michael_moore"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.49e137d22dc04443a8f438a2fbab4ea9.people_moore_cars102.jpg?x=96&y=130&sig=eTVBM6fP7hPM43Ly6dzVUQ--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore talks about the state of the U.S. health care system at a news conference outside Los Angeles City Hall Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Moore's latest documentary film, 'Sicko,' was to premiere Tuesday evening in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0" /></a>AP - Michael Moore has a suggestion to help California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger bring universal health care to the nation's largest state: Just do it the Austrian way.</p><br clear="all"/>
The ups and downs of being Potter-film child stars
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070626/film_nm/potter1_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070627/2007_06_26t185521_450x315_us_potter1.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=j0Xg8J5MC5TBzQZL6zcZxg--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Actors Daniel Radcliffe (R), Rupert Grint (L), and Emma Watson pose during a photocall to promote the new film 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' at County Hall in London, June 25, 2007. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Dodging paparazzi and juggling homework
with filming are just some of the drawbacks of being a teenaged
movie star, the young actors from the "Harry Potter" film
series said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Heartfelt tributes define BET Awards
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_en_mu/bet_awards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.e106e406ef9d46cf8bcfdae6d274157f.aptopix_bet_rehearsals_la107.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=f6YOPlhoo8.f32s6WpYGFA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Musician Robin Thicke performs during rehearsals for the BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Monday June 25,2007. Black Entertainment Television's annual awards show honors musicians, actors and athletes, this year's show, will be broadcast live Tuesday night from the Shrine Auditorium and promises an A-list roster of performers, including Beyonce, 50 Cent, Diddy, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - Although the BET Awards doled out awards to some of entertainment's most celebrated performers on Tuesday night, from Beyonce to Jennifer Hudson, it was the show's tributes to living legends and recently departed giants that evoked the most emotion.</p><br clear="all"/>
Fans camp out for free McCartney show
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_en_mu/people_mccartney"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.c38d180c69a34d39b964e1ca634281a6.people_mccartney_cars204.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=BJQA5VS9KsWxL9uQxrD_Ow--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Toni Johnson, who came all the way from her home in Chicago, is among the first in line for tickets to a special concert by Paul McCartney at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles Tuesday, June 26, 2007. McCartney is to perform Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0" /></a>AP - Equipped with folding chairs and sleeping bags, hundreds of Paul McCartney fans lined the street outside a funky Hollywood record store on Tuesday to secure a seat for a free show there by the ex-Beatle.</p><br clear="all"/>
Winners of the 2007 BET Awards
(AP)
AP - Female R&B artist: Beyonce
Carlton, hip-hop mogul link for comeback album
(Reuters)
Reuters - In an unlikely pairing between two
music stars on the comeback trail, singer/songwriter Vanessa
Carlton has joined forces with hip-hop entrepreneur Irv "Gotti"
Lorenzo for her next album.
Report: Gore to attend Live Earth in NJ
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070626/ap_en_mu/live_earth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.14bb3508bbbb499f96901220837aeb99.live_earth__nyet195.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=J3JW0QoOjkl4JaUeYZLCdA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Al Gore talks during a press conference to promote the July 7 Live Earth concerts, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 12, 2007. Gore will attend the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium. Concerts are also scheduled for Tokyo; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; Sydney, Australia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Hamburg, Germany. The concert slated for Istanbul had to be scrubbed because of a lack of sponsors and interest. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)" border="0" /></a>AP - Al Gore will rock out at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium on July 7, one of eight worldwide shows designed to draw attention to global warming.</p><br clear="all"/>
New CD to feature `Dead' symphony
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070626/ap_en_mu/music_dead_symphony"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.2346934b9b7b4ea194e6025ce31842bb.music_dead_symphony_nyet355.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=d0D7JgX7.DxCfusFgojLDg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Composer Lee Johnson poses in the music department at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Ga., Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Johnson, a classical music composer-conductor, has constructed an entire symphony from selected Grateful Dead songs and recorded it with the Russian National Orchestra. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)" border="0" /></a>AP - It may be the longest, strangest trip the Grateful Dead's music has endured — a performance by a symphony orchestra under the baton of a classical composer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Dream Night for BET Awards
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070626/en_music_eo/c32e25f632e7_432c_a43b_65aba7835c3b"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20070627/capt.8d39432bbd1757a766ede97d9e2081af.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=kgJEiovOsO2I3_AexrfjYg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Dream Night for BET Awards(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - It was a regular Dreams reunion Tuesday at the 2007 BET Awards.</p><br clear="all"/>
Defense opens case in Phil Spector murder trial
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070626/music_nm/spector_trial_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070627/2007_06_26t170920_450x335_us_spector_trial.jpg?x=130&y=96&sig=hxhHmuW.YVP0T.grSVDisg--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="Music producer Phil Spector (C) gets ready to leave for the day at the end of the afternoon session of his murder trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California June 25, 2007. Spector is accused of fatally shooting actress Lana Clarkson at his home in February 2003. (Damian Dovarganes/Pool/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Lawyers for Phil Spector called
their first witness on Tuesday in his murder trial, a forensic
expert who told jurors that an actress the pioneering rock
producer is accused of shooting dead probably committed suicide
instead.</p><br clear="all"/>
Istanbul won't hold Live Earth concert
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070626/ap_en_mu/live_earth_istanbul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.14bb3508bbbb499f96901220837aeb99.live_earth__nyet195.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=J3JW0QoOjkl4JaUeYZLCdA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Al Gore talks during a press conference to promote the July 7 Live Earth concerts, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 12, 2007. Gore will attend the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium. Concerts are also scheduled for Tokyo; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; Sydney, Australia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Hamburg, Germany. The concert slated for Istanbul had to be scrubbed because of a lack of sponsors and interest. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)" border="0" /></a>AP - Istanbul will not be among the cities set to hold a Live Earth concert next month.</p><br clear="all"/>
Paris Hilton released from L.A. jail
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070626/ap_en_mu/paris_hilton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.baf28579cbe143beab9ccb41108127ea.aptopix_paris_hilton_ksd101.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=2UkQbreVMlAHV55ynQ29fA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Paris Hilton walks out of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif. , Tuesday June 26, 2007. Paris Hilton has been released from jail after serving about three weeks for an alcohol-related reckless driving case. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's back to the not-so-solitary-life for Paris Hilton, who walked out of jail early Tuesday into a gathering of cameras and reporters, flashing a beaming smile and waving to the frenzied crowd.</p><br clear="all"/>
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