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Teens waiting 11 days for Potter book
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_en_ot/harry_potter_fans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070714/capt.fff7558d7ba243608b288c2971c9f7e6.harry_potter_fans_akjr102.jpg?x=83&y=130&sig=xpnFBfafYVxYMWKACsqjsg--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="Chloe Bostian, 18, left, Sydney Bostian, 11, middle, and Graham Toroff, 18, wait in line at Gulliver's Books on Thursday, July 12, 2007, in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the seventh and final Harry Potter book. The Bostian sisters have been waiting outside the bookstore since July 10 and say they will stay there until the book's release on July 21. (AP Photo/Jillian Rogers)" border="0" /></a>AP - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Forget piddling around a mere few days for an iPhone. Two sisters are in the midst of an 11-day vigil for this summer's hottest, "must have" low-tech phenomenon — the latest Harry Potter novel.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ford can still fit into Indy's trousers
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_en_mo/indiana_jones"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070714/capt.72c8a8949f754901a0f096295a33a944.people__ny107.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=qiVMCyd4JoRcgTWuusYu4Q--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Harrison Ford arrives at the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival Tributes held at the Shrine Auditorium on October 6, 2006 in Los Angeles,Ca. Ford, who turned 65 Friday July 13, 2007, still fits into Indiana Jones' tight trousers. Many fans are curious to see if, 18 years after 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,' Ford can live up to the physical rigors of the globe-trotting archaeologist in the long-awaited fourth installment of the epic series. (AP Photo / Kirkland)" border="0" /></a>AP - HILO, Hawaii (AP) — He may be 65, but Harrison Ford still fits into Indiana Jones' tight trousers.</p><br clear="all"/>
L.A. rolls out red carpet for Beckham
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_en_ce/soc_becks__day_in_la"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070714/capt.8c1034461a9e4e5bb0b35f31b7491652.correction_aptopix_mls_galaxy_beckham_arrives_soccer_catg105.jpg?x=120&y=130&sig=iRjxZi1tDOO.za8VvT.PkQ--" align="left" height="130" width="120" alt="England soccer player David Beckham holds up his new jersey as he is introduced as the newest member of the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team, Friday, July 13, 2007, in Carson, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)" border="0" /></a>AP - David Beckham has been dropped on the doorstep of Los Angeles, wrapped in a package of a chic gray suit for fawning fans and anxious media. Now it's time to see what he can do with a jersey on.</p><br clear="all"/>
Snoop Dogg's life to be E! reality show
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_en_tv/people_snoop_dogg"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070714/2007_07_14t012557_450x320_us_snoop.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=zyrY3SwrAW7PMOaMxF3MMA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Snoop Dogg performs during the Live Earth concert at the soccer arena in Hamburg, northern Germany, July 7, 2007. Snoop Dogg and his family are getting their own reality series on E! Entertainment Television. (Christian Charisius/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Snoop Dogg's home and work lives will be on display in a new reality series, E! Entertainment Television said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Paris Hilton's jail time investigated
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070713/ap_en_tv/paris_hilton_sheriff"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070713/i/r123015111.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=uOiXcKvO3Ba0.JAWsU4x5Q--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Paris Hilton leaves the Los Angeles County Correctional Facility in Lynwood, California, in this file photo from June 26, 2007. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has opened an investigation into whether Hilton received special treatment during her 23 days in jail last month, a spokesman for the department said on Friday. REUTERS/Max Morse" border="0" /></a>AP - The Sheriff's Department opened an investigation Thursday into allegations that Paris Hilton received special treatment during her 23 days in jail for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case, authorities said.</p><br clear="all"/>
Teens waiting 11 days for Potter book
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_en_mo/harry_potter_fans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070714/capt.fff7558d7ba243608b288c2971c9f7e6.harry_potter_fans_akjr102.jpg?x=83&y=130&sig=xpnFBfafYVxYMWKACsqjsg--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="Chloe Bostian, 18, left, Sydney Bostian, 11, middle, and Graham Toroff, 18, wait in line at Gulliver's Books on Thursday, July 12, 2007, in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the seventh and final Harry Potter book. The Bostian sisters have been waiting outside the bookstore since July 10 and say they will stay there until the book's release on July 21. (AP Photo/Jillian Rogers)" border="0" /></a>AP - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Forget piddling around a mere few days for an iPhone. Two sisters are in the midst of an 11-day vigil for this summer's hottest, "must have" low-tech phenomenon — the latest Harry Potter novel.</p><br clear="all"/>
Who's written a new rock opera? Pete Townshend
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070714/music_nm/townshend1_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070714/2007_07_14t022919_450x307_us_townshend_1.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=24ZLIU41DF5mPcovo_j4qg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Roger Daltrey (L) and Pete Townsend from the British band The Who perform during the Paleo festival in Nyon, Switzerland, July 21, 2006. More than 30 years after his seminal 'Tommy' and 'Quadrophenia,' The Who's Pete Townshend has written a new rock opera that will be given a test run at a theater festival in New York this weekend. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - More than 30 years after his seminal
"Tommy" and "Quadrophenia," The Who's Pete Townshend has
written a new rock opera that will be given a test run at a
theater festival in New York this weekend.</p><br clear="all"/>
BBC boss tells staff to root out inaccuracies
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070714/tv_nm/media_bbc_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070714/2007_07_14t055359_450x332_us_media_bbc.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=EQe8j6lI9KKGUUxjbiPxeg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Queen Elizabeth takes part in a commemoration ceremony for the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele near Ypres, July 12, 2007. BBC boss Mark Thompson has ordered staff to root out inaccuracies after the public broadcaster was hit by two embarrassing blunders and had to apologize to Queen Elizabeth. (Virginia Mayo/Pool/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - BBC boss Mark Thompson has ordered staff
to root out inaccuracies after the public broadcaster was hit
by two embarrassing blunders and had to apologize to Queen
Elizabeth.</p><br clear="all"/>
Black found guilty of criminal fraud
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070714/media_nm/black_trial_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070714/2007_07_13t140309_272x450_us_black_trial.jpg?x=78&y=130&sig=x2Th4XFonEJvoaQRVM89nA--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="Mark Kipnis, a co-defendant with Conrad Black, enters the Dirksen Federal Court Building for his fraud and racketeering trial in Chicago, Illinois in this June 21, 2007 file photo. A U.S. jury on Friday found former media mogul Conrad Black guilty of multiple counts of criminal fraud and a single count of obstruction of justice but acquitted him of racketeering and tax charges. (Stephen J. Carrera/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A U.S. jury on Friday found Conrad
Black guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice in a
grim Friday the 13th verdict that could send the former media
baron to jail for up to 35 years.</p><br clear="all"/>
PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: They Are "Magic"
(Playbill)
Playbill - So this is how it feels when Hell freezes over.
Teens waiting 11 days for Potter book
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_en_mo/harry_potter_fans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070714/capt.fff7558d7ba243608b288c2971c9f7e6.harry_potter_fans_akjr102.jpg?x=83&y=130&sig=xpnFBfafYVxYMWKACsqjsg--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="Chloe Bostian, 18, left, Sydney Bostian, 11, middle, and Graham Toroff, 18, wait in line at Gulliver's Books on Thursday, July 12, 2007, in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the seventh and final Harry Potter book. The Bostian sisters have been waiting outside the bookstore since July 10 and say they will stay there until the book's release on July 21. (AP Photo/Jillian Rogers)" border="0" /></a>AP - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Forget piddling around a mere few days for an iPhone. Two sisters are in the midst of an 11-day vigil for this summer's hottest, "must have" low-tech phenomenon — the latest Harry Potter novel.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ford can still fit into Indy's trousers
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_en_mo/indiana_jones"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070714/capt.72c8a8949f754901a0f096295a33a944.people__ny107.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=qiVMCyd4JoRcgTWuusYu4Q--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Harrison Ford arrives at the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival Tributes held at the Shrine Auditorium on October 6, 2006 in Los Angeles,Ca. Ford, who turned 65 Friday July 13, 2007, still fits into Indiana Jones' tight trousers. Many fans are curious to see if, 18 years after 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,' Ford can live up to the physical rigors of the globe-trotting archaeologist in the long-awaited fourth installment of the epic series. (AP Photo / Kirkland)" border="0" /></a>AP - HILO, Hawaii (AP) — He may be 65, but Harrison Ford still fits into Indiana Jones' tight trousers.</p><br clear="all"/>
Harrison Ford fit for fourth Indy
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_en_mo/indiana_jones_hawaii"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070714/capt.9770ab422b51458290a37910ce91f473.indiana_jones_hitw101.jpg?x=130&y=79&sig=_.LKGFIhg0Zy.pewuKE2rQ--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Janae Pacheco, a fourth grader at Christian Liberty School, stands next to a sign on Friday, July 13, 2007, in Keaau, Hawaii, she made to wish actor Harrison Ford a Happy Birthday. Ford who turned 65 is filming near her Keaau, Hawaii School on the Big Island of Hawaii. (AP Photo/Tim Wright)" border="0" /></a>AP - He may be 65, but Harrison Ford still fits into Indiana Jones' tight trousers.</p><br clear="all"/>
Genre cleverness eludes "Captivity"
(Reuters)
Reuters - A lot of horrific things
happen in "Saw 4," uh, I mean, "Captivity," the new horror
flick about a supermodel being terrorized and tortured by a
mysterious assailant.
Ali Landry Delivers
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070713/en_movies_eo/b179da5c8360_4819_8abd_50f64ee77225"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20070714/capt.ed2333df1b5b7bde078f4327aaf71e15.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=vbssHAA2BTFbYkdPsyZ8DQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Ali Landry Delivers(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Life couldn't be more Bella for Ali Landry right now.</p><br clear="all"/>
Hollywood, movie fans shy away from "torture porn"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Torture, it seems, doesn't pay at
movie theater box offices like it used to.
Leo Lands on Planet Green
(E! Online)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070713/en_movies_eo/d2f1718420ff_4f75_b7e0_914d685ee58f"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20070714/capt.e9ec108eef110b8bcfc87f78256d8065.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=WuE4mZQ_bZYGPZx_CP0Kow--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Leo Lands on Planet Green(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Leonardo DiCaprio is taking one small step for an A-list celebrity, and one giant leap for the environment.</p><br clear="all"/>
Canadian nurses admitted to "Sicko" for free
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070713/film_nm/sicko_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070713/2007_07_13t154938_450x299_us_sicko.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=R2HP1Hr17cYCupIJtrjpKg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Director of 'Sicko', Michael Moore, attends a special screening of the film held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California, in this file photo from June 26, 2007. Canadian distributor Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution is nursing its way to bigger box office for Moore's 'Sicko.' (Phil McCarten/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Canadian distributor
Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution is nursing its
way to bigger box office for Michael Moore's "Sicko."</p><br clear="all"/>
H'wood mural gets ready for its close-up
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070713/ap_en_mo/hollywood_mural"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070712/capt.0ffe762c7a744d2eb25acf43692295b0.hollywood_mural_la501.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=HehFn0dNjLrKqyc_Wy1roA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Thomas Suriya, from Taos, N.M., retouches his mural, painted on the side of a building on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Twenty four years of Los Angeles sun and smog wasn't kind to his mural, so Suriya has returned to renovate the mural which pays tribute to 90 years of movie history. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's not your typical night at the movies: Fred and Ginger dance in the aisle, King Kong hangs out with Frankenstein, Liz and Dick are together, again, surrounded by dozens of other old-time movie idols. And all are fading into history on a drab corner of Hollywood.</p><br clear="all"/>
Chinese writer loses lawsuit against Fox
(AP)
AP - A court ruled Friday that a Chinese science fiction writer did not have enough evidence to prove that 20th Century Fox stole his ideas when making the 2004 movie "The Day After Tomorrow."
Who's written a new rock opera? Pete Townshend
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070714/music_nm/townshend1_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070714/2007_07_14t022919_450x307_us_townshend_1.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=24ZLIU41DF5mPcovo_j4qg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Roger Daltrey (L) and Pete Townsend from the British band The Who perform during the Paleo festival in Nyon, Switzerland, July 21, 2006. More than 30 years after his seminal 'Tommy' and 'Quadrophenia,' The Who's Pete Townshend has written a new rock opera that will be given a test run at a theater festival in New York this weekend. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - More than 30 years after his seminal
"Tommy" and "Quadrophenia," The Who's Pete Townshend has
written a new rock opera that will be given a test run at a
theater festival in New York this weekend.</p><br clear="all"/>
Maverick Malo puts personal spin on country classics
(Reuters)
Reuters - Nashville-based, Miami-born Raul
Malo has never been part of the country mainstream. Even when
his seminal band the Mavericks was scaling the country airplay
and sales charts in the early '90s, he was on another plane.
Live Nation, Maroon 5 ink for the long run
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070714/music_nm/maroon5_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070714/2007_07_14t040233_450x277_us_maroon5.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=mnT9h9D4FXpA4TX6t_Ga.w--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Maroon 5 performs on NBC's 'Today' show in New York May 28, 2007. Billboard has learned that Live Nation has not only cut a deal to produce rock act Maroon 5's 28-city fall arena tour, but both parties have also committed to a full-blown Live Nation amphitheater tour for summer 2008. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Live Nation is now in the live
Maroon 5 business. And not just for one tour.</p><br clear="all"/>
Exchanged for computer, Bychkov conducts in freedom
(Reuters)
Reuters - Russian-born maestro Semyon Bychkov, 54,
is courteous, amiable, conducts all over the world and owns
Sergei Rachmaninov's briefcase.
Friday the 13th bad-luck day for singer
(AP)
AP - You can't blame country singer Gene Watson if he's a little superstitious about Friday the 13th.
Nick packs for Web "Camp"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Nickelodeon is testing
the waters of original online content with the July 22 launch
of its first broadband series.
Billboard CD reviews: Charles Mingus Sextet
(Reuters)
Reuters - More than 40 years after it was put
to tape, the double-disc live set "Cornell 1964" by Charles
Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy is finally seeing the light of
day.
New 50 Cent album pushed back another week
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070713/music_nm/dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070714/i/r2810591201.jpg?x=130&y=109&sig=MnhquI3Ha1Y5XK3H9ZaVcg--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="50 Cent answers questions from reporters after he announced nominations for the Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards '07 during a news conference in Hollywood, May 16, 2007. 50 Cent's new album, "Curtis," has been pushed back another week, from September 4 to September 11, according to Interscope, which declined to give a reason for the move. REUTERS/Fred Prouser" border="0" /></a>Reuters - 50 Cent's new album, "Curtis," has
been pushed back another week, from September 4 to September
11, according to Interscope, which declined to give a reason
for the move.</p><br clear="all"/>
Frank Gehry to design stage for Mariza
(AP)
AP - Architect Frank Gehry will design a set for a performance by Portuguese fado singer Mariza later this year.
Ritter gets more aggressive with "Conquests"
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070713/music_nm/ritter_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070713/2007_07_13t022041_450x311_us_ritter.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=muNtaDaAv.V6rn2dnK4mFw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Musician Josh Ritter performs during a tribute to Bruce Springsteen's music career at Carnegie Hall in New York April 5, 2007. Ritter didn't have a label home when he started crafting his newest effort, 'The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter,' but that didn't keep him from moving forward full force. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Josh Ritter didn't have a label home
when he started crafting his newest effort, "The Historical
Conquests of Josh Ritter," but that didn't keep him from moving
forward full force.</p><br clear="all"/>
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