Saturday, February 28, 2009

2/28 Yahoo! News: Entertainment News




France's Cesars hail "Seraphine" best film (Reuters)
February 27, 2009 at 10:30 pm

Reuters - Martin Provost's "Seraphine" brushed through a very colorful 34th annual Cesar Awards, taking the prize for best film at the Friday night ceremony in Paris.

Depeche Mode debuts season-pass model on iTunes (Reuters)
February 27, 2009 at 10:24 pm

Reuters - iTunes has long been a double-edged sword for the music industry -- on one hand, it provided a model for selling digital music. On the other, the dominance of singles sales over album sales leaves a revenue gap that labels are still trying to close.

Real Housewives' Kim Peeved at Ex-Publicistâ€"and Vice Versa! (E! Online)
February 27, 2009 at 10:01 pm

Real Housewives' Kim Peeved at Ex-Publicistâ€E! Online - Kim Zolciak is having an image crisis—with the guy who used to be responsible for her image.


Chris Brown Getting Face Time With Rihanna? (E! Online)
February 27, 2009 at 9:32 pm

Chris Brown Getting Face Time With Rihanna?(E! Online)E! Online - Word is, Rihanna and Chris Brown are back together.


Publishers dust off vintage songs for new audiences (Reuters)
February 27, 2009 at 9:12 pm

Reuters - There's no telling when lightning will strike a song.

Coen brothers take aim at `clean coal' in TV ad (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 8:06 pm

In this Feb. 2, 2008 file photo, directors and producers Joel Coen, left and Ethan Coen, are shown at the 2008 Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif.  (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)AP - The Coen brothers, who won Academy Awards for "Fargo" and "No Country for Old Men," have turned their sardonic sights on the coal industry.


'Idol' finalists not fazed by lack of screen time (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 7:35 pm

This photo released by Fox shows Kris Allen  performing in front of the judges on American Idol on  Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/FOX, Michael Becker)AP - Out of the first six finalists, "American Idol" viewers have seen the least of Kris Allen this season.


'Plow' producers plan to file for arbitration (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 7:05 pm

In this Sept. 4, 2008 file photo, actor Jeremy Piven attends a screening of the film 'RocknRolla' during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)AP - Jeremy Piven is not off the hook yet.


Tentative settlement reached in NY piracy suit (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 6:15 pm

AP - Lawyers have reached a tentative settlement in a music piracy lawsuit filed by the recording industry against the children of one of its best-known opponents, both sides said Friday.

Ed McMahon in Intensive Care (E! Online)
February 27, 2009 at 6:13 pm

Ed McMahon in Intensive Care(E! Online)E! Online - Ed McMahon is in intensive care at a Los Angeles hospital.


Another One Bites the Dust: Virgin Megastore in Union Square Will Shutter (Playbill)
February 27, 2009 at 5:59 pm

Playbill - Show-tune buyers in New York City will soon have fewer brick-and-mortar places to buy music. Manhattan will be without a large-inventory music store by this summer, with the planned May or June closing of the Union Square Virgin Megastore.

Ed McMahon hospitalized in Los Angeles (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 2:57 pm

In this July 24, 2007 file photo, Ed McMahon arrives at the premiere of The Simpsons Movie in Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)AP - Ed McMahon, former sidekick to Johnny Carson on "Tonight" and a familiar TV commercial pitchman, was hospitalized in intensive care, a spokesman said Friday.


Leonardo "Codex" reveals youthful self-portrait (Reuters)
February 27, 2009 at 2:51 pm

Reuters - A sketch obscured by handwriting for five centuries in one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks may be a youthful self-portrait, according to Italian experts who "aged" the sketch to compare to confirmed later self-portraits.

Head of book trade association is stepping down (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 2:40 pm

AP - The longtime head of the book publishers' trade association is stepping down.

Gilmore Girl Lauren Graham is Broadway's New Doll (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 2:04 pm

In this Sept. 7, 2008 file photo, actress Lauren Graham poses for a portrait during the International Film Festival in Toronto. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, file)AP - At Lauren Graham's first rehearsal for her Broadway debut in "Guys and Dolls," the star of TV's long-running "Gilmore Girls" felt a twinge of insecurity when the actors were asked how many times they've been cast in a Broadway show.


Jennifer Hudson: Performing is 'like therapy' (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 12:59 pm

In Feb. 12, 2009 file photo, actress and singer Jennifer Hudson poses backstage at the 40th NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)AP - Jennifer Hudson says she's found getting back to work to be a healing force in her life.


Model: "Monster" Chris Rock Ruined My Life (E! Online)
February 27, 2009 at 11:39 am

Model: E! Online - There is seemingly no end to Chris Rock's daddy issues.



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