Category: ‘Entertainment’
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Musician Jeff Healey, 41, has died in Toronto from cancer, it was announced Sunday. Healey is internationally known for his 1988 album See the Light and for his appearance the following year in the movie Road House with Patrick Swayze. His hits included "Angel Eyes".
He was born Norman Jeffery Healey ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
yahoo omg: NEW YORK - As the creator of the Harry Potter books sees it, her kindness to fans might come back to haunt her.
In papers filed for a lawsuit in Manhattan, J.K. Rowling says she feels betrayed by a fan, Steven Vander Ark, for his role in trying to ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
There is a pretty big election coming up in this country, right? It’s kind of big news that Republican hopeful candidate Mitt Romney is stepping aside to clear the way for former POW John McCain to represent the Republican Party in the 2008 election; an election widely regarded as ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
hollywoodReporter.com: WASHINGTON -- Music publishers, the record labels and digital music distribution outlets began a three-way legal wrestling match Monday over just how much songwriters and the publishing houses should get paid for digitally delivered music.
The case before a panel of copyright judges is different from the usual squabbles ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
news.com.au: AFTER years of booming sales supported by videotapes, DVDs and the internet, the adult film industry is being challenged by easy video-sharing websites offering explicit content for free.
"We're dealing with rampant piracy, tons of free content," said Steven Hirsch, co-founder of Vivid, the best-known adult film studio.
Vivid once ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
the independent: It has been a long and winding road, but Israel has at last apologised to the surviving Beatles for banning them from the country in the 1960s as a supposed threat to the morals of the nation's youth.
Visiting the Beatles museum in Liverpool yesterday, the Israeli ambassador ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
yahoo news: LONDON - Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the music industry's global trade body said Thursday.
The International Federation of the Phonographic ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
daily mail: As their bitter divorce heads for the High Court, there appears to have been an eleventh-hour thawing of relations between Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills.
Apparently driven by news of Miss Mills's planned "blitzkrieg-style" tactics of representing herself in court next month, the Beatle has let it ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
(CNN) — He's tackled the assassination of John F. Kennedy and tumultuous presidency of Richard Nixon. Now Hollywood director Oliver Stone is preparing to take an in depth look at how President Bush came to power.
According to Daily Variety, Stone is in the process of developing a script about the ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
telegraph [uk]: As excitement - and uncertainty - mounts over this year's Academy Awards, Hollywood insiders reveal how the studios raise the profiles of their contenders. By Jeremy Kay:
Get your film seen by Academy voters
If there is one mantra that awards consultants will repeat until they are blue in ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
chicagoTribune.com: Radiohead’s latest album, “In Rainbows,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts Wednesday, even though it had been available for months as a digital download from the band’s Web site.
Sales for “In Rainbows” were solid but not spectacular: 122,000 units sold in the United States, down from ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
spin.com: With Radiohead, Madonna, and Nine Inch Nails leading the charge against major labels, one month in 2007 may be remembered as birthing a revolution that shook the industry to its core. But have they truly created a brave new world?
October 10, 2007, is a day that will live ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Sitting here scanning the newswire from my modest home supplied by modest means, I watched pop trainwreck Britney Spears being carted out of her home shackled to a gurney. Shephard Smith was going on and on about how "out of it" Ms. Spears looked in the video of her ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
breitbart.com: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. will begin delivering movies and other programming directly to televisions later this year through a set-top box that will pipe entertainment over a high-speed Internet connection.
The set-top box, to be made by LG Electronics Inc. as part of a partnership ...
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