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Pope Backlash |
Reuters reports: France's media council has
sharply reprimanded a private television channel for satirizing Pope Benedict
as "Adolf II" and saying he blessed Catholics "in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Third Reich."
The Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA)
warned Canal Plus that it faced stiff monetary fines if it again violated
a rule to "respect the different political, cultural and religious sensitivities
of the public," a CSA spokesman said on Wednesday. [see full story for
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| Benifer
Baby |
Contact Music reports: The creator of TV show
ALIAS, JJ ABRAMS, has inadvertently let it slip that his star JENNIFER
GARNER is indeed pregnant.
The actress and her fiance BEN AFFLECK
have been keeping quiet about the baby news, but Abrams is happy to talk
about what he'll be doing to make sure pregnant Garner is as comfortable
as possible on the set of his hit drama. [see full story for more]-
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| Chappelle
On Hold |
New York Times reports: Amid press reports
that the popular comedian Dave Chappelle is in a mental health center in
South Africa, executives at Comedy Central are saying that, for the moment,
it is time for the network to move on.
"We're now approaching life and the year
as if the Dave Chappelle show doesn't exist, because it doesn't," said
Doug Herzog, president of Comedy Central. "We don't know what to plan for,
so we're not planning for it. I keep on telling my guys that we're now
the San Francisco Giants, and Barry Bonds, our clean-up hitter, is not
available." [see full story for more]- Click
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| Paris
Burger |
AP reports: Paris Hilton likes her burgers
spicy. The hotel heiress, actress, jewelry designer and entrepreneur will
star in a television commercial next week in which she will slap suds on
the side of a Bentley automobile and chomp on a thick burger while clad
in a skimpy black bathing suit. The ad for the fast-food chain Carl's Jr.
will feature Hilton's signature tag line, which doubles as a reference
to the barbecue sauce and jalapenos-pepper laden sandwich � "that's hot."
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| Corey
Clark Lands Deal |
Contact Music reports: AMERICAN IDOL reject
COREY CLARK's recent allegations he bedded the show's judge PAULA ABDUL
have paid off for him - he's landed a big album deal with hip-hop mogul
SCOTT STORCH.
Clark, who was kicked off the second season
of the show for not revealing details of his criminal past to producers,
claimed he enjoyed a fling with Abdul while he was a contestant on the
show. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Bridget
Jones Marries |
E! reports: Renée Zellweger is a singleton
no more.
After a whirlwind four-month courtship,
the erstwhile Bridget Jones' Diary spinster was hitched to country star
Kenny Chesney Monday in the Virgin Islands, her publicist confirmed to
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| Star
Wars Scalping |
AP reports: From San Francisco to New York
on Thursday, hundreds of "Star Wars" fanatics turned out in 10 cities and
paid up to $500 apiece to attend the premiere of the final film in the
series, "Star Wars: Episode III � Revenge of the Sith."[see full story
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| Cobain
Movie |
AP reports: Gus Van Sant's new movie is a
fictional reflection on how Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain might have spent
the days before his 1994 suicide: Watching television, wandering through
his mansion, hiding from everyone who tries to help.
The impressionistic "Last Days" is competing
for the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival two years after Van Sant
won the honor with "Elephant," loosely based on the 1999 massacre at Columbine
High School. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Greenlight
Redlighted |
E! reports: Chris Moore, who masterminded
the Bravo reality show with pals Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, said Friday
that the movie-making documentary series has likely aired its final episode.
The synergistic Greenlight finds neophyte
directors and screenwriters via an Internet contest and shoots them as
they try to make a movie for a TV reality show. The film is then released
theatrically once the season ends. [see full story for more]-
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| Piracy
Victory |
Reuters reports: A federal appeals court has
dealt the entertainment industry a blow by tossing out the Federal Communications
Commission's "broadcast flag" regulation designed to guard against piracy
once the nation's broadcast TV stations convert to digital in the coming
years.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Moses
TV |
Reuters reports: An international cast led
by Scottish actor Dougray Scott, Egyptian veteran Omar Sharif and "Lost"
co-star Naveen Andrews has signed up for "The Ten Commandments," ABC's
ambitious miniseries about Moses.
Production is slated to begin May 23 in
Ouarzazate, Morocco. The premiere of the two-part, four-hour epic is targeted
for next season. The budget is estimated at more than $20 million. [see
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| Jury
Still Out |
Reuters reports: NBC insists it has yet to
render a final verdict on the future of its highly touted "Law & Order:
Trial By Jury," but Hollywood's leading show business papers reported on
Friday the struggling show appears headed for the slammer.
The fourth, and least watched, edition
of the venerable "Law & Order" franchise from producer Dick Wolf has
lagged in viewership numbers since its mid-season premiere in March. [see
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| No
More Miller Time |
AP reports: CNBC is canceling comic Dennis
Miller's low-rated political talk show after less than 16 months.
Miller's prime-time program, featuring
a mixture of comedy, interviews and his conservative political opinion,
was seen by an average of 168,000 viewers since its January 2004 launch,
according to Nielsen Media Research.
His show, seen at 9 p.m. EDT, will be replaced
by a rerun of "Mad Money with Jim Cramer," three hours after its original
airing. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Apprentice
For Kids |
AP reports: Guess you're never too young to
say "you're fired." Bill Rancic, the first season winner of NBC's "The
Apprentice," is writing a children's advice book titled, "Beyond the Lemonade
Stand: Starting Small to Make It Big," to be published by Razorbill, an
imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group.[see full story for more]-
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