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Parking-lot fender bender for Britney
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_en_ce/spears_parking_lot_crash"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070809/capt.d16eac03354e48ebb8e4f5fd6ac67727.people_britney_spears__nyet191.jpg?x=99&y=130&sig=cq0cnC0PhB.iqvFFTKMi5A--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="Britney Spears watches the Houston Rockets play the Los Angeles Lakers during their NBA basketball game in this March 30, 2007 file photo in Los Angeles. Paparazzi took pictures and videos of a puppy-toting Spears reportedly smashing her car into another as she tried to turn into a stall in a Studio City,Calif., parking lot. That's how the owner of the parked car found out who left the scrapes on her silver Mercedes-Benz. The car's owner told the entertainment Web site CelebTV.com on Wednesday, Aug. 8,2007, that nobody from Spears' camp had contacted her about the damaged car. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - Oops, she dinged it again. Paparazzi took pictures and videos of a puppy-toting Britney Spears steering her car into another one as she tried to turn into a spot in a Studio City parking lot. Then assessing the damage to her own car only. Then heading off to shop.</p><br clear="all"/>
AT&T errs in edit of anti-Bush lyrics
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_en_mu/at_t_pearl_jam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070809/i/r1425780863.jpg?x=130&y=109&sig=CVwpIpL4E2Twp1xrGzpPoA--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="Eddie Vedder performs at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, May 9, 2006. REUTERS/Mike Cassese" border="0" /></a>AP - Lyrics performed by Pearl Jam criticizing President Bush should not have been censored from a webcast by AT&T Inc., a company spokesman acknowledged Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Unknown to be cast as Notorious B.I.G.
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070809/ap_en_ot/film_notorious_b_i_g__movie"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070809/capt.8a4e5a3bc9ad42ca91444918a3a5cd14.film_notorious_b_i_g__nyet184.jpg?x=120&y=130&sig=44Yviq1_6EWC8vFsfWz3wQ--" align="left" height="130" width="120" alt="Notorious B.I.G., whose real name is Christopher Wallace, left, gestures as he and producer Sean 'Diddy' Combs leave a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles late Saturday evening, March 8, 1997, shortly before Wallace was shot to death. The role of Notorious B.I.G. for an upcoming biopic on the rapper will be found by open casting call, the film's producers told The Associated Press on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2007. The as-yet-titled movie project, which has been in the works for nearly seven years, will seek its star through a nationwide casting call .(AP Photo/Venus Bernardo-Prudhomme)" border="0" /></a>AP - The role of Notorious B.I.G. for an upcoming biopic on the rapper will be filled through an open casting call, the film's producers told The Associated Press on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Bricks for sale from `Sopranos' set
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070809/ap_en_ot/odd_sopranos_pork_store"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070809/capt.2e10946b4a9840f8b55646d67e506f98.sopranos_pork_store_ny118.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=PoFageLK9E.0qm_EL6l3HQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Actors Tony Sirico, left, who plays Paulie Walnuts and James Gandolfini, right, who plays Tony Soprano, shoot a scene from the mafia drama, 'The Sopranos,' outside the fictional Satriale's pork store in Kearny, N.J.,in this Wednesday, March 21, 2007 file photo. The owner of the Satriale's building is selling the white stones online before the structure is demolished in Sept. 2007. Condominiums named The Soprano will be built on the site. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)" border="0" /></a>AP - The meats and sandwiches are long gone, but fans of HBO's "Sopranos" can comfort themselves with some of the rocks that made up the facade of the fictional Satriale's Pork Store, one of Tony Soprano & Co.'s favorite hangouts.</p><br clear="all"/>
Robin Roberts back Monday on `GMA'
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070809/ap_en_ot/tv_robin_roberts"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070809/capt.2ec1d2ea427741fa8048b96381e201e6.tv_robin_roberts_nyet190.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=NbUZZNeMzMtQkkKJS002IQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="This photo, supplied by ABC, shows ABC 'Good Morning America' television show co-anchor Robin Roberts on the show's New York set on July 9, 2007. The show's spokeswoman says Roberts is expected back on the show on Monday,Aug. 13, 2007, only 10 days after undergoing surgery for breast cancer. (AP Photo/ABC, Ida Mae Astute )" border="0" /></a>AP - Robin Roberts is expected back on ABC News' "Good Morning America" on Monday, only 10 days after undergoing surgery for breast cancer.</p><br clear="all"/>
Court puts off bail decision for Bollywood's Dutt
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/film_nm/bollywood_actor_bail_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_10t055708_450x394_uk_bollywood_actor_bail.jpg?x=130&y=113&sig=LP08CjP8Viqv3kb4JdGYLg--" align="left" height="113" width="130" alt="Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, jailed for getting guns from gangsters involved in India's worst bomb attacks, travels in a police van in Mumbai August 2, 2007. India's Supreme Court put off a decision a Friday to grant bail to Dutt and sought an opinion from the county's top investigation body. (Punit Paranjpe/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - India's Supreme Court put off a
decision a Friday to grant bail to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt,
jailed for six years for receiving guns from gangsters, and
sought an opinion from the county's top investigation body.</p><br clear="all"/>
Italian tenor Pavarotti is doing better, wife says
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/music_nm/italy_pavarotti_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_09t084323_450x300_us_italy_pavarotti.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=dVZY0kdOH5mty1lEfKTT9g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti gestures during a news conference in Beijing, December 8, 2005. Opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti, diagnosed with cancer last year, is doing better after being admitted to hospital two days ago, his wife said on Friday. (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Opera superstar Luciano
Pavarotti, diagnosed with cancer last year, is doing better
after being admitted to hospital two days ago, his wife said on
Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
HBO launches unlikely comedy experiment
(Reuters)
Reuters - Inside the Santa Monica
office building that HBO calls home, Woody Tondorf is ready to
shoot his new series.
Fire hits Italy's "Hollywood on Tiber"
(Reuters)
Reuters - A fire ripped through a section of Italy's
famous Cinecitta film studios late on Thursday, partly
destroying the set for the HBO series "Rome."
Mary and Joseph disco down to Bethlehem
(Reuters)
Reuters - Joseph and Mary boogie on down to
Bethlehem with their loud-mouthed donkey in a disco version of
the Nativity that is pure kitsch.
Court puts off bail decision for Bollywood's Dutt
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/film_nm/bollywood_actor_bail_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_10t055708_450x394_uk_bollywood_actor_bail.jpg?x=130&y=113&sig=LP08CjP8Viqv3kb4JdGYLg--" align="left" height="113" width="130" alt="Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, jailed for getting guns from gangsters involved in India's worst bomb attacks, travels in a police van in Mumbai August 2, 2007. India's Supreme Court put off a decision a Friday to grant bail to Dutt and sought an opinion from the county's top investigation body. (Punit Paranjpe/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - India's Supreme Court put off a
decision a Friday to grant bail to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt,
jailed for six years for receiving guns from gangsters, and
sought an opinion from the county's top investigation body.</p><br clear="all"/>
Fire hits Italy's "Hollywood on Tiber"
(Reuters)
Reuters - A fire ripped through a section of Italy's
famous Cinecitta film studios late on Thursday, partly
destroying the set for the HBO series "Rome."
Bollywood's Ash to star in Pink Panther: report
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/film_nm/bollywood_aishwariya_pinkpanther_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_10t025927_450x367_us_bollywood_aishwariya_pinkpanther.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=POtBQHIT0jGFfcMScT62XA--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai arrives for an evening gala screening of Chinese director Wong Kar Wai's in-competition film 'My Blueberry Nights' at the 60th Cannes Film Festival May 16, 2007. Rai is to star alongside Hollywood actor Steve Martin in the upcoming sequel to the 2006 movie 'The Pink Panther', an Indian newspaper reported on Friday. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai is to
star alongside Hollywood actor Steve Martin in the upcoming
sequel to the 2006 movie "The Pink Panther," a newspaper
reported on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
More "Sex" puts Mr. Big on big screen
(Reuters)
Reuters - Carrie Bradshaw and Mr.
Big's happily ever after (or lack thereof) will play out on the
big screen.
Swayze, Kristofferson darken "Blue" indie
(Reuters)
Reuters - Patrick Swayze and Kris
Kristofferson have joined Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel and Ray
Liotta in the ensemble drama "Powder Blue."
Love is in the air for Hayek, Disney
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/film_nm/hayek_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_10t040638_300x450_us_hayek.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=gcqW3zi3WVj_N_R1xrMZ2w--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Salma Hayek arrives at the 64th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 15, 2007. Hayek will star in and produce an untitled romantic comedy for Walt Disney Pictures. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Salma Hayek will star in
and produce an untitled romantic comedy for Walt Disney
Pictures.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Simpsons," "Bourne" score surprising numbers
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/film_nm/analysis_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_10t043506_450x325_us_analysis.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=zP3eGINe8jVa_0k957LytQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Homer and Bart Simpson characters pose for film crews at the UK premiere of The Simpsons Movie in London July 25, 2007. During the past couple of weeks, Hollywood has watched as a couple of movies that most expected to open in the $50 million range shot up to the $70 million mark. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - During the past couple
of weeks, Hollywood has watched as a couple of movies that most
expected to open in the $50 million range shot up to the $70
million mark.</p><br clear="all"/>
Indie "Door" opens for "Scissors" star
(Reuters)
Reuters - Joseph Cross ("Running With
Scissors") and Sarah Roemer ("Disturbia") are set to play
mismatched lovers in the indie comedy "The Golden Door."
Alec Baldwin starring in "Bachelor" comedy
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/film_nm/baldwin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_10t041754_450x356_us_baldwin.jpg?x=130&y=102&sig=2DlbhMPrsSkkvSYd6E.FLw--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="Alec Baldwin holds the award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles January 28, 2007. Baldwin has signed on to join Dane Cook and Kate Hudson in the comedy 'Bachelor No. 2.' (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Alec Baldwin has signed
on to join Dane Cook and Kate Hudson in the comedy "Bachelor
No. 2."</p><br clear="all"/>
"Rocket Science" maker defies Hollywood boxes
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/film_nm/rocketscience_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_09t145802_450x299_us_rocketscience.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=XX1tI7OJmVuTwL8UxJNsTA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Actor Reece Thompson (L) and director Jeffrey Blitz are seen on the set of his film 'Rocket Science' in this undated publicity photo released to Reuters August 9, 2007. The movie, about a teenage stutterer on a high school debate team, exited January's Sundance Film Festival with huge fan buzz, good reviews and a best director award for Blitz. (Jim Bridges/Picturehouse/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Jeffrey Blitz does not want his
work stuffed into a neat little Hollywood box, which is one
reason the director of "Rocket Science" has jumped from
documentaries to feature films to television and back again.</p><br clear="all"/>
Italian tenor Pavarotti is doing better, wife says
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/music_nm/italy_pavarotti_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_09t084323_450x300_us_italy_pavarotti.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=dVZY0kdOH5mty1lEfKTT9g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti gestures during a news conference in Beijing, December 8, 2005. Opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti, diagnosed with cancer last year, is doing better after being admitted to hospital two days ago, his wife said on Friday. (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Opera superstar Luciano
Pavarotti, diagnosed with cancer last year, is doing better
after being admitted to hospital two days ago, his wife said on
Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
AT&T errs in edit of anti-Bush lyrics
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_en_mu/at_t_pearl_jam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070809/i/r1425780863.jpg?x=130&y=109&sig=CVwpIpL4E2Twp1xrGzpPoA--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="Eddie Vedder performs at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, May 9, 2006. REUTERS/Mike Cassese" border="0" /></a>AP - Lyrics performed by Pearl Jam criticizing President Bush should not have been censored from a webcast by AT&T Inc., a company spokesman acknowledged Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Universal to sell songs without copy protection
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/music_nm/universal_downloads_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_10t010828_450x300_us_universal_downloads.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=SCLsCbRqUQCUpc_EbnwwXg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Jean-Bernard Levy, chairman of the management board and chief executive of Vivendi, speaks during a news conference to present the company's 2006 full year results in Paris March 7, 2007. Vivendi's Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label, on Thursday said it will test the sale of songs from artists such as Amy Winehouse, 50 Cent and the Black Eyed Peas, without customary copy-protection technology. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Vivendi's Universal Music Group, the
world's largest music label, on Thursday said it will test the
sale of songs from artists such as Amy Winehouse, 50 Cent and
the Black Eyed Peas, without customary copy-protection
technology.</p><br clear="all"/>
Porter Wagoner returns from obscurity
(AP)
AP - Porter Wagoner looks right at home in the marble lobby of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel. He wears a dark Western suit and tie and holds a shiny black cane. The glare from the crystal chandelier reflects off his eyeglasses as he tilts his head back, trying to remember the last time he played Madison Square Garden.
The Cure record postponed again
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/music_nm/thecure_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_10t042118_450x328_us_thecure.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=692V0846umhkZgJ9xjZekg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Robert Smith, singer of British band The Cure, performs during the Live 8 France concert at the Chateau de Versailles near Paris July 2, 2005. The Cure's 14th studio record has been postponed for a second time and will not hit stores until next spring, the band's record company said on Thursday. (Thierry Roge/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Cure's 14th studio record has
been postponed for a second time and will not hit stores until
next spring, the band's record company said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Beastie Boys party in the Park
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/music_nm/review_music_beastie_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_10t040940_450x291_us_review_music_beastie.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=q2x_LvjFn6Ld4kvczANgXA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Members of the Beastie Boys (L-R) Adam (Adrock) Horovitz, Michael (Mike D) Diamond, and Adam (MCA) Yauch arrive to attend the 11th annual Webby Awards honoring online content in New York June 5, 2007. The Beastie Boys managed to raise the temperature of an already sweltering Central Park on Wednesday night, where the hip-hop veterans delivered a show that was rapturously received by their hometown fans. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Beastie Boys managed to
raise the temperature of an already sweltering Central Park on
Wednesday night, where the hip-hop veterans delivered a show
that was rapturously received by their hometown fans.</p><br clear="all"/>
"Punk" documentary offers humorous overview
(Reuters)
Reuters - Coming after several other
similarly themed films about the topic, Susan Dynner's
documentary about the past 30 years of punk music doesn't
exactly break any new ground. But it does offer an entertaining
overview that is leavened with humorous philosophical
digressions about what it actually means to be punk, especially
in an age when its music, fashions and practices have been
co-opted by the mainstream.
Scorsese's Rolling Stones film delayed until 2008
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/music_nm/stones_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_10t042357_450x320_us_stones.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=9t81C8iao2mlYfaKkjLUbg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Rolling Stones perform during a concert on the band's 'A Bigger Bang' European tour in Warsaw, July 25,2007. The theatrical release of Martin Scorsese's concert documentary about the Rolling Stones has been postponed by seven months to sometime next April, distributor Paramount Classics said on Thursday. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The theatrical release of Martin
Scorsese's concert documentary about the Rolling Stones has
been postponed by seven months to sometime next April,
distributor Paramount Classics said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ella Fitzgerald on album chart after 38 years
(Reuters)
Reuters - Jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald is back
on the U.S. pop album charts for the first time in just under
38 years.
Lennon-McCartney tune rocks country chart
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/music_nm/beatles_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070810/2007_08_09t165427_450x358_us_beatles.jpg?x=130&y=103&sig=lV3HwACnyK.dMNaQjeKD6g--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="Rascal Flatts members Jay DeMarcus (L), Gary LeVox (C) and Joe Don Rooney perform 'Hotel California' at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, February 11, 2007. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - John Lennon and Paul McCartney
returned to the U.S. country music charts for the first time in
12 years Thursday thanks to a cover of "Revolution" by
Nashville trio Rascal Flatts.</p><br clear="all"/>
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