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  • Proyas bringing Heinlein story to big screen
    Reuters - 2 hours, 18 minutes ago
    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The sci-fi saturation of the film business shows little sign of letup. The latest project is a feature based on a Robert Heinlein novela and written and directed by Alex Proyas.

  • Director Peter Jackson poses as he arrives for the British premiere of his movie 'King Kong' in London's Leicester Square December 8, 2005. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters)
    Jackson and del Toro to pen "Hobbit" screenplays
    Reuters - Wed Aug 20, 4:53 AM ET
    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro's search for writers for "The Hobbit" and its companion film has ended, with the filmmakers deciding that no one is better suited for the task than they are.

  • Charity puts best foot forward at Venice festival
    Reuters - Wed Aug 20, 4:51 AM ET
    ROME (Hollywood Reporter) - Stars attending the Venice Film Festival had better watch where they step this year. A group plans to sell the red-carpet footprints of top actors and filmmakers to raise money for the restoration of the Italian city's St. Mark's Basilica.

  • James McAvoy arrives at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in Santa Barbara, California January 30, 2008. (Phil Klein/Reuters)
    McAvoy, Blunt give voice to "Gnomeo"
    Reuters - Wed Aug 20, 4:31 AM ET
    NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - James McAvoy and Emily Blunt might soon discover that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence -- if you're a garden gnome in love.

  • A man walks by a poster in front of the Royal Alexandra Theatre where Mamma Mia! is presently being performed in Toronto, June 5, 2003. (Mike Cassese/Reuters)
    "Mamma Mia!" seeks audience participation
    Reuters - Wed Aug 20, 3:04 AM ET
    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Moviegoers who can't resist singing along to "Dancing Queen" are in luck.


  • Music News

  • Memphis airport not ready to be renamed for Hayes
    AP - 29 minutes ago
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Officials of Memphis International Airport say they probably won't change the airport's name to honor the late singer Isaac Hayes.

  • In this June 11, 2008 file photo, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo makes a pass during drills at NFL training camp at the Cowboys training facility  in Irving, Texas.  Romo was still an unknown backup quarterback who had never thrown a pass in a real game when the Cowboys were last in California for training camp.  That was only two years ago. Romo has since been to two Pro Bowls, set team records for passing yards and touchdowns, and seen his No. 9 jersey, like the one worn by Jessica Simpson, become a top seller.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
    Jessica Simpson to market beer for Dallas brewer
    AP - Wed Aug 20, 6:26 AM ET
    DALLAS - Jessica Simpson is now selling beer. The singer and actress has signed on as spokeswoman for Stampede Light Plus, made by Dallas' Stampede Brewing Co.

  • In this Monday, May 9, 2005 file photo, LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band performs with the band at New York's Roseland Ballroom. Moore is recovering from an ATV accident on his Virginia farm. According to the band's Web site, Moore was taken to the University of Virginia Health System for treatment after the Monday, June 30, 2008 wreck in Charlottesville. A publicist for the Dave Matthews Band said on Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008 that sax player LeRoi Moore died Tuesday, of injuries suffered in the June accident, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. Moore was 46.  (AP Photo/Michael Kim, File)
    DMB sax player dies at 46 from ATV wreck injuries
    AP - Wed Aug 20, 5:42 AM ET
    LOS ANGELES - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.

  • Avril Lavigne of Canada performs on stage during her concert in Budapest July 7, 2008. (Karoly Arvai/Reuters)
    Malaysia asks Avril Lavigne to postpone concert
    Reuters - Wed Aug 20, 3:32 AM ET
    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia's government has told promoters of a concert by Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne to postpone the show because it could mar the country's independence day celebrations, an official said on Wednesday.

  • In this March 3, 2006 file photo, former British rocker Gary Glitter smiles at journalists prior to his verdict and sentencing at Ba Ria-Vung, Vung Tau province People's Court in Vietnam. Authorities freed Glitter from prison in southern Vietnam on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008, sending the convicted child molester into an uncertain future after nearly three years of confinement. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
    British glam rocker Gary Glitter freed in Vietnam
    AP - Wed Aug 20, 2:34 AM ET
    BANGKOK, Thailand - British glam rocker Gary Glitter was refused entry into Thailand, officials said Wednesday, a day after the convicted child molester was freed by Vietnam following nearly three years in prison.

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  • Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group's founding members, died Tuesday from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. (Aug. 20)
    Dave Matthews Band sax player, LeRoi Moore, dies
    AP - Wed Aug 20, 12:57 AM ET
    Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group's founding members, died Tuesday from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. (Aug. 20)

  • They're giving two thumbs up to the bronze Fonz in Milwaukee. Dozens of people cheered as a bronze statue of the "Happy Days" character was unveiled Tuesday. "Fonz" actor henry Winkler talked to the Associated Press. (Aug. 19)
    First Person: The 'Fonz' in bronze
    AP - Tue Aug 19, 5:20 PM ET
    They're giving two thumbs up to the bronze Fonz in Milwaukee. Dozens of people cheered as a bronze statue of the "Happy Days" character was unveiled Tuesday. "Fonz" actor henry Winkler talked to the Associated Press. (Aug. 19)

  • Showbiz Tonight's Brooke Anderson has the latest on Ellen DeGeneres' California marriage to Portia de Rossi.
    DeGeneres marries in California
    CNN - Tue Aug 19, 4:00 PM ET
    Showbiz Tonight's Brooke Anderson has the latest on Ellen DeGeneres' California marriage to Portia de Rossi.

  • Rainn Wilson sheds his "Office" image to play "The Rocker."
    Rock n' Rainn
    ABC News - Tue Aug 19, 10:01 PM ET
    Rainn Wilson sheds his "Office" image to play "The Rocker."

  • Author Sean Williams explores events and characters between Episodes III and IV in the companion book to the blockbuster videogame, STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED.
    Inside Star Wars - Force Unleashed
    Expanded Books - Wed Aug 20, 5:36 AM ET
    Author Sean Williams explores events and characters between Episodes III and IV in the companion book to the blockbuster videogame, STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED.


  • Entertainment Industry News

  • Hollywood agency, TV writers settle age bias suit
    Reuters - Tue Aug 19, 9:11 PM ET
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Hollywood talent agency International Creative Management agreed on Tuesday to pay $4.5 million to settle an age-discrimination suit brought by TV writers, the first of 23 such class-action cases to be resolved.

  • An NBC Universal logo is pictured at the NBC Universal Summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California, July 21, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)
    Olympics coverage means more ratings gold for NBC
    AP - Tue Aug 19, 7:30 PM ET
    NEW YORK - NBC is enjoying a taste of what superstar swimmer Michael Phelps savored last week: a clean sweep.

  • List of top 20 shows in prime-time Nielsen ratings
    AP - Tue Aug 19, 6:33 PM ET
    Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Aug. 11-17. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.


  • Dear Abby

  • FIRM MESSAGE, KIND MANNER DETERS PERSISTENT SOLICITORS
    Dear Abby - Tue Aug 19, 7:58 PM ET
    DEAR ABBY: "Hounded in British Columbia" (May 22) asked you how to discourage religious solicitors.

  • MAN WHO HATES ENGAGEMENT RINGS PROPOSES ANNUITY INSTEAD
    Dear Abby - Mon Aug 18, 7:58 PM ET
    DEAR ABBY: I despise wearing rings, which is a problem because I plan to become engaged. I'm OK with a plain wedding band, but baubles on appendages interfere with useful work and creativity, and they turn me off.

  • FRIENDS REFUSE TO PLAY THEIR PART IN DRAMA QUEEN'S ILLNESS
    Dear Abby - Sun Aug 17, 7:58 PM ET
    DEAR ABBY: I'm afraid my best friend's daughter, "Kami," may have Munchausen syndrome. People with this condition consciously fake the symptoms of a physical disorder.

  • Dear Margo
  • When the "Sex Coupons" Are Not from Your Wife
    Dear Margo - Fri Aug 15, 2:00 AM ET
    08/15/2008 - DEAR MARGO: I found a sexually explicit card and sex coupons from my husband's lover. He insists nothing went on and that it was just a fluke that he received such cards and coupons. If I can't get him to tell me what went on, is it OK to go after the "other woman" and get her to give me some details? I want to work through things to save my marriage, but I need to know what happened in order to do so. --- AT A LOSS FOR WORDS

  • Can You Still Give Presents If You're Dead?
    Dear Margo - Thu Aug 14, 2:00 AM ET
    08/14/2008 - DEAR MARGO: My husband and I have been married for five years.

  • Read the Tea Leaves, Hon
    Dear Margo - Fri Aug 8, 2:00 AM ET
    08/08/2008 - DEAR MARGO: I met an intelligent and absolutely drop-dead gorgeous young woman a few months ago.

  • Odd News
  • A monkey perches on top of a departure board at Tokyo Railway Toyoko Line's Shibuya Station in Tokyo Wednesday morning, Aug. 20, 2008. The animal later climbed down and dashed out of the station, evading scores of net-wielding policemen to escape. (AP Photo/Tokyu Corp. via Kyodo News)
    Monkey eludes dragnet at Tokyo train station
    AP - 21 minutes ago
    TOKYO - Morning train commuters in Tokyo were joined on their way to work by an unusual companion Wednesday: a wild monkey.

  • Armed 85-year-old woman makes intruder call cops
    AP - Tue Aug 19, 11:25 PM ET
    POINT MARION, Pa. - An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said. "I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said.

  • Police: Man says he grew pot in a cost-saving move
    AP - Tue Aug 19, 8:55 PM ET
    TYLER, Texas - A Tyler man accused of growing marijuana in an alleged cost-saving move is jailed on felony possession charges. Bond is $15,000 for 55-year-old John Daniel Miller III, who remained in the Smith County Jail late Tuesday.

  • The body of deceased Angel Pantoja Medina, left, stands leaning against a wall during his wake as unidentified people attend his wake in his mother's home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008.  The last wish of Medina, 24, who was found dead on Aug. 15, 2008 underneath a bridge in the capital, was to be  standing at his own wake, and was embalmed for the occasion. (AP Photo/Juan Alicea Marcado, El Nuevo Dia)
    Corpse kept upright for 3-day wake in Puerto Rico
    AP - Tue Aug 19, 8:48 PM ET
    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing — even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.

  • Wisconsin couple each win $350,000 in lottery
    AP - Tue Aug 19, 8:45 PM ET
    MADISON, Wis. - This couple won't have to argue about how to spend their lottery winnings. That's because the Mount Horeb husband and wife each won their own $350,000 jackpots in this weekend's SuperCash state lottery.


  • Most Popular Entertainment News

  • DMB sax player dies at 46 from ATV wreck injuries
    AP - Wed Aug 20, 5:42 AM ET
    LOS ANGELES - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.

  • Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist Dies(E! Online)
    Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist Dies
    E! Online - Tue Aug 19, 6:13 PM ET
    Los Angeles (E! Online) - The Dave Matthews Band brass has been silenced.

  • In this Jan. 27, 2008 file photo, Christina Applegate is shown at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file)
    Applegate calls double mastectomy a 'tough' choice
    AP - Tue Aug 19, 3:11 PM ET
    NEW YORK - Christina Applegate is taking the long view of her battle with breast cancer — the really long view. Speaking on ABC News' "Good Morning America" in her first interview since announcing her diagnosis earlier this month, the "Samantha Who?" star said she had a double mastectomy three weeks ago. She'll undergo reconstructive surgery over the next eight months.

  • The Dave Matthews Band performs during a free concert in New York's Central Park Great Lawn, September 24, 2003. (Albert Ferreira/Reuters)
    Dave Matthews Band saxophonist dies
    Reuters - Tue Aug 19, 11:17 PM ET
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Saxophonist LeRoi Moore, a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, died on Tuesday of complications from a vehicle accident in June.

  • Jackson and del Toro to pen "Hobbit" screenplays
    Reuters - Wed Aug 20, 4:53 AM ET
    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro's search for writers for "The Hobbit" and its companion film has ended, with the filmmakers deciding that no one is better suited for the task than they are.

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