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Live Earth audiences urged to go 'green'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070707/ap_en_mu/music_live_earth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070707/capt.syd10107070211.australia_live_earth_syd101.jpg?x=130&y=70&sig=1DHCT7Iu3rvOAieXAmk8pw--" align="left" height="70" width="130" alt="Australian Aboriginals dance on stage while the band Blue King Brown perform during the first Live Earth concert in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, July 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)" border="0" /></a>AP - Concerts in Sydney and Tokyo on Saturday kicked off 24 hours of music by more than 150 artists in a round-the-globe series of shows designed to raise awareness about climate change.</p><br clear="all"/>
Former 'Lost' actress stars in Western
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070707/ap_en_tv/people_cynthia_watros"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070707/capt.6e13f288949644ec919f1430e664ea1f.people_watros_ny107.jpg?x=96&y=130&sig=ANFGUf_L8NV38vSJMXpMkA--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="Cynthia Watros at The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Pressroom held at The Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2006 in Los Angeles, Ca. Watros ignored the old Hollywood adage about working with children and animals in her latest movie. The 38-year-old former 'Lost' actress plays a barmaid and former prostitute carving out a hardscrabble life for herself and her young daughter in 'Avenging Angel,' airing Saturday on the Hallmark Channel. (AP Photo/Luis Martinez)" border="0" /></a>AP - In her new movie, Cynthia Watros ignored the old Hollywood adage about not working with children and animals because they steal the scene.</p><br clear="all"/>
Tony Parker and Eva Longoria get married
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_en_tv/parker_longoria"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070706/capt.7036f2b518c54718b9719c635fc3770e.france_parker_longoria_ldj106.jpg?x=130&y=113&sig=VHW9GKJLUrQig1qb38n7Qg--" align="left" height="113" width="130" alt="U.S. actress Eva Longoria, a star on the U.S. television series 'Desperate Housewives,' waves as she arrives at a Paris City Hall, Friday, July 6, 2007, for her civil wedding with NBA player Tony Parker. The religious wedding is expected to be celebrated on Saturday July 7, 2007, followed by a reception planned at a historic chateau outside Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)" border="0" /></a>AP - Professional basketball star Tony Parker married "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria at a civil ceremony in Paris on Friday — a prelude to their expected star-studded weekend wedding bash at a lavish and storied chateau.</p><br clear="all"/>
2d effort made to ban Live Earth concert
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_en_mu/brazil_concert_canceled"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070704/capt.9ad5d0ae19674392be86094e9a4929ec.brazil_live_earth_rio101.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=wD7c42Pnf6Ic8MX7XW17QA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="People walk past the stage of the Live Earth concert at the Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, July 4, 2007. A judge has canceled a Live Earth concert planned for Saturday because police said they did not have enough officers to guarantee crowd safety. Organizers of the free show said they were trying to overturn the order to prevent Latin America from being left out of the global music fest aimed at stopping global warming. (AP photo/Ricardo Moraes)" border="0" /></a>AP - A public prosecutor has appealed a court's decision to allow South America's Live Earth concert to go ahead as planned, arguing that police can not guarantee the safety of the 700,000 people expected to attend the open-air show on Rio's famed Copacabana beach.</p><br clear="all"/>
Spears sorry for attacking photog's car
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_en_mu/people_spears"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070706/capt.89c5c33bf616405dab428d8d650873a7.people_spears_ny109.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=2BWMFmZhpaZqval7JQbzeA--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Singer Britney Spears watches the Houston Rockets play the Los Angeles Lakers during the first hlf of their NBA basketball game, Friday, March 30, 2007 in Los Angeles. Spears writing on her Web site Wednesday July 4, 2007 has apologized for attacking a photographer's car with an umbrella several months ago, saying at the time she was preparing to try out for a movie part and got carried away. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)" border="0" /></a>AP - Britney Spears apologized for attacking a photographer's car with an umbrella in February, saying at the time she was preparing to try out for a movie part and got carried away.</p><br clear="all"/>
Gilmour's Albert Hall "Night" heading to DVD
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070707/film_nm/gilmour_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070707/2007_07_07t025354_283x450_us_gilmour.jpg?x=81&y=130&sig=MO8qGb5fxzlvpKFXLzAL9A--" align="left" height="130" width="81" alt="David Gilmour of Pink Floyd performs at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park in London, July 2, 2005. Gilmour wowed audiences on his 2006 world tour with a band that featured keyboardist and fellow Pink Floyd member Rick Wright and a set list tilted toward the hardcore Floyd fan. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Guitarist David Gilmour wowed
audiences on his 2006 world tour with a band that featured
keyboardist and fellow Pink Floyd member Rick Wright and a set
list tilted toward the hardcore Floyd fan.</p><br clear="all"/>
Tokyo, Sydney kick off climate change concerts
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070707/music_nm/concert_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070707/2007_07_07t050410_450x305_us_concert.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=vR3kIjXq0wg.ifvJZq75_Q--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Japanese R and B singer Ai performs at the Live Earth concert in Chiba, Japan July 7, 2007. (Michael Caronna/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Pop stars in Tokyo and Sydney
kicked off a global chain of climate change concerts on
Saturday aimed at persuading the world to go green.</p><br clear="all"/>
Former 'Lost' actress stars in Western
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070707/ap_en_tv/people_cynthia_watros"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070707/capt.6e13f288949644ec919f1430e664ea1f.people_watros_ny107.jpg?x=96&y=130&sig=ANFGUf_L8NV38vSJMXpMkA--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="Cynthia Watros at The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Pressroom held at The Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2006 in Los Angeles, Ca. Watros ignored the old Hollywood adage about working with children and animals in her latest movie. The 38-year-old former 'Lost' actress plays a barmaid and former prostitute carving out a hardscrabble life for herself and her young daughter in 'Avenging Angel,' airing Saturday on the Hallmark Channel. (AP Photo/Luis Martinez)" border="0" /></a>AP - In her new movie, Cynthia Watros ignored the old Hollywood adage about not working with children and animals because they steal the scene.</p><br clear="all"/>
Walden and Newman reach top of 20th TV
(Reuters)
Reuters - Eight years after they
took the reins of 20th Century Fox Television as presidents,
Dana Walden and Gary Newman have been upped to chairmen at the
studio.
Ex-Gay Recovery Group Gets a Poke in the Eye in 'H.A.!' in NYC
(Playbill)
Playbill - Actor-writer Perry Ojeda's <i>H.A.!</i>, a developing new comedy with songs, will be seen in a reading July 9 as part of the Dixon Place HOT! Festival in Manhattan.
Gilmour's Albert Hall "Night" heading to DVD
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070707/film_nm/gilmour_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070707/2007_07_07t025354_283x450_us_gilmour.jpg?x=81&y=130&sig=MO8qGb5fxzlvpKFXLzAL9A--" align="left" height="130" width="81" alt="David Gilmour of Pink Floyd performs at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park in London, July 2, 2005. Gilmour wowed audiences on his 2006 world tour with a band that featured keyboardist and fellow Pink Floyd member Rick Wright and a set list tilted toward the hardcore Floyd fan. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Guitarist David Gilmour wowed
audiences on his 2006 world tour with a band that featured
keyboardist and fellow Pink Floyd member Rick Wright and a set
list tilted toward the hardcore Floyd fan.</p><br clear="all"/>
Jim Carrey to play Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070706/film_nm/carrey_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070706/2007_07_06t155814_450x302_us_carrey.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=vGGGRTg_vtxzxZTIHiVNAQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Actor Jim Carrey and girlfriend Jenny McCarthy pose for photographers during the premiere of ''The Number 23'' in Los Angeles, in this file photo from February 13, 2007. In a new big-screen version of Charles Dickiens' 'A Christmas Carol,' Carrey will play Scrooge, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Future. (Gus Ruelas/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Jim Carrey, who brought Dr. Seuss'
Grinch to life on the big screen, will soon play another
holiday curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, and three ghosts who
haunt him, in a computerized remake of "A Christmas Carol," the
Walt Disney Co. said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Film industry blooms in volatile Haiti
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_en_mo/film_haiti_goes_hollywood"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070706/capt.6f404e45da21411582542d65805d9a21.film_haiti_goes_hollywood_xac301.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=AtLbqZCj2nlJsmiNs3X1Ag--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Vendors sit before a poster,center, promoting the Haitian film 'Chome-Co' at the entrance of Capitol Theater in Port-au-Prince, Monday, July 2, 2007. In 'Chome-Co,' two broke protagonists struggle to find work from employers who look down on their poorly spoken French, highlighting Haiti's rich-poor divide. The movie's lighting is bad, the camera work wobbly and the acting hardly Oscar-worthy, but fans say the low-budget comedy beats a slick Hollywood blockbuster any day. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)" border="0" /></a>AP - Even in hard times, Haitians go to the movies. Now they're also making them in record numbers — about 10 feature films a year — rivaling Cuba as the Caribbean's biggest movie producer and often outselling better-financed imports.</p><br clear="all"/>
Elton Brand becoming a Hollywood player
(AP)
AP - The Lakers have always been the more Hollywood basketball team in town, the one that draws the celebrities to those pricey courtside seats to see and be seen.
"Transformers" audiences get peek at new disaster pic
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070706/film_nm/cloverfield_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070706/2007_07_06t022048_450x334_us_cloverfield.jpg?x=130&y=96&sig=BDMMj5m5eJKDGZLbylrOpQ--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="'Cloverfield' producer J.J. Abrams arrives at the Children Defense Fund's 16th Annual 'Beat the Odds' Awards in Los Angeles, October 12, 2006. While unleashing 'Transformers' onscreen this week, Paramount also lifted the lid on a top-secret project in the form of a teaser trailer for a new film, 'Cloverfield.' (Max Morse/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - While unleashing
"Transformers" onscreen this week, Paramount also lifted the
lid on a top-secret project in the form of a teaser trailer for
a new film, "Cloverfield."</p><br clear="all"/>
Disney taps writers for 2nd go at "First Ascent"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Screenwriter-turned-comic-book publisher Andrew Cosby and
Johanna Stokes have been hired to do a rewrite on Walt Disney
Pictures' "First Ascent."
'Sex and the City' movie in the works
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_en_mo/film_sex_and_the_city_movie"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070705/capt.ca07d26832ba4dd59b753be921e8104d.film_sex_and_city_nyet143.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=qlLPU_KEJFKaIP2lRd1GhA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="The cast of the former HBO series, 'Sex and the City,' from left: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall, arrive for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, on March 11, 2001, in Los Angeles. New Line Cinema is close to inking a deal to finance and distribute a 'Sex and the City' film in association with HBO, John Smith, a representative at New Line, confirmed Thursday, July 5, 2007.(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)" border="0" /></a>AP - Are Carrie and Mr. Big still together? Did Charlotte adopt a baby from China? How is Miranda liking motherhood? Is Samantha still, uh, keeping things interesting?</p><br clear="all"/>
"Soapbox" a fascinating but unfocused family saga
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070706/film_nm/film_bronner_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070706/2007_07_06t035711_450x322_us_film_bronner.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=Brman3VCdjRhGf6VrMb1Lw--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="An image of Emanuel H. Bronner holding his soap, from the film 'Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox,' released to Reuters on July 6, 2007. The title figure is the German-born Bronner, who left Germany in 1929, years before his Jewish family's highly successful soap factory was seized by the Nazis and his parents were killed in a concentration camp. (Stewart Nelson/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Sara Lamm's documentary
tells the tale of a highly successful, multigenerational family
business, but "Dr.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Liberty" rings true as small-scale but potent drama
(Reuters)
Reuters - Audiences have shied
away from gritty dramas about September 11 and its aftermath,
as evidenced by the lackluster boxoffice response to "A Mighty
Heart." So there are challenges facing "Liberty Kid," a
powerful drama that had its premiere in the narrative
competition section at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
"Billy" a haunting portrait of a teenage misfit
(Reuters)
Reuters - Many memorable dramatic
films about adolescence have been made over the decades, but
few of them can match the impact of "Billy the Kid," a
striking, heartfelt documentary that deserves to have a long
shelf life.
Tokyo, Sydney kick off climate change concerts
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070707/music_nm/concert_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070707/2007_07_07t050410_450x305_us_concert.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=vR3kIjXq0wg.ifvJZq75_Q--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Japanese R and B singer Ai performs at the Live Earth concert in Chiba, Japan July 7, 2007. (Michael Caronna/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Pop stars in Tokyo and Sydney
kicked off a global chain of climate change concerts on
Saturday aimed at persuading the world to go green.</p><br clear="all"/>
Live Earth audiences urged to go 'green'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070707/ap_en_mu/music_live_earth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070707/capt.syd10107070211.australia_live_earth_syd101.jpg?x=130&y=70&sig=1DHCT7Iu3rvOAieXAmk8pw--" align="left" height="70" width="130" alt="Australian Aboriginals dance on stage while the band Blue King Brown perform during the first Live Earth concert in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, July 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)" border="0" /></a>AP - Concerts in Sydney and Tokyo on Saturday kicked off 24 hours of music by more than 150 artists in a round-the-globe series of shows designed to raise awareness about climate change.</p><br clear="all"/>
Gilmour's Albert Hall "Night" heading to DVD
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070707/music_nm/gilmour_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070707/2007_07_07t025354_283x450_us_gilmour.jpg?x=81&y=130&sig=MO8qGb5fxzlvpKFXLzAL9A--" align="left" height="130" width="81" alt="David Gilmour of Pink Floyd performs at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park in London, July 2, 2005. Gilmour wowed audiences on his 2006 world tour with a band that featured keyboardist and fellow Pink Floyd member Rick Wright and a set list tilted toward the hardcore Floyd fan. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Guitarist David Gilmour wowed
audiences on his 2006 world tour with a band that featured
keyboardist and fellow Pink Floyd member Rick Wright and a set
list tilted toward the hardcore Floyd fan.</p><br clear="all"/>
MTV service seeks revenue from fan remixes
(Reuters)
Reuters - In a nod to the ever-evolving world of
Web 2.0, MTV is turning to a new source for cutting-edge music
videos -- fans.
The Roots, Brandi Carlile to headline VH1 tours
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070707/music_nm/vh1_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070707/2007_07_07t032415_450x305_us_vh1.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=jbSshCtikXDu_5WC43EdEA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson performs with The Roots at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California, April 29, 2007. VH1 is preparing to announce two multi-artist tours, Billboard has learned. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - VH1 is preparing to announce two
multi-artist tours, Billboard has learned.</p><br clear="all"/>
2d effort made to ban Live Earth concert
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_en_mu/brazil_concert_canceled"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070704/capt.9ad5d0ae19674392be86094e9a4929ec.brazil_live_earth_rio101.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=wD7c42Pnf6Ic8MX7XW17QA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="People walk past the stage of the Live Earth concert at the Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, July 4, 2007. A judge has canceled a Live Earth concert planned for Saturday because police said they did not have enough officers to guarantee crowd safety. Organizers of the free show said they were trying to overturn the order to prevent Latin America from being left out of the global music fest aimed at stopping global warming. (AP photo/Ricardo Moraes)" border="0" /></a>AP - A public prosecutor has appealed a court's decision to allow South America's Live Earth concert to go ahead as planned, arguing that police can not guarantee the safety of the 700,000 people expected to attend the open-air show on Rio's famed Copacabana beach.</p><br clear="all"/>
Steve Earle wraps next "Serenade"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Singer/songwriter Steve Earle will
release his New West debut, "Washington Square Serenade," on
September 25,. The 12-track set was produced by the Dust
Brothers' John King and features a duet with Earle's wife,
Allison Moorer, on the track "Days Aren't Long Enough."
PJ Harvey to release "White" album
(Reuters)
Reuters - PJ Harvey will return with her first
studio album in three years, "White Chalk," this fall. The set
is due September 24 internationally via Island; a North
American release date has yet to be announced.
Smashing Pumpkins set fall tour plans
(Reuters)
Reuters - As the July 10 release of their
comeback album approaches, the reconstituted Smashing Pumpkins
have revealed their fall tour itinerary.
Billboard CD reviews
(Reuters)
Reuters - The long, weird saga of the Smashing
Pumpkins opens a new chapter with "Zeitgeist," their first disc
since splitting in 2000.
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