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 Jeopardy
Comedy |
Reuters reports: Comedy Central is developing
a game show featuring Ken Jennings, the former "Jeopardy!" champion who
shattered game-show records last year by winning $2.5 million.[see full
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| Summer
Reality |
AP reports: Get ready for Tommy Lee as an
undergrad, two separate dance contests and apprentice rock stars, apprentice
chefs, apprentice fashion designers, apprentice scholars, apprentice slackers
and apprentice Hiltons.
With your favorite television series hibernating
for the summer, television networks are uncorking a flood of reality programming.
Summer starts soon; the WB begins its heavily
promoted "Beauty & the Geek" on June 1. As the title suggests, the
series takes some socially challenged smart guys and couples them up with
dimwitted lookers. [see full story for a run down of reality shows that
will air this summer in the US]- Click
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| DeLay
Vs NBC |
AP reports: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
is upset that a popular NBC crime drama used his name as part of its show.
DeLay wrote NBC to complain that one of
the characters on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" invoked his name in
a story line about the shooting death of a federal judge. "Maybe we should
put out an APB for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt," the fictional police
officer said.
DeLay, in a letter to NBC Universal Television
chief Jeff Zucker, called that reference a "slur." [see full story for
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| Star
Wars Leak Plugged By Feds |
Reuters reports: Federal law enforcement officers
continued their crackdown on illegal copyright piracy as the U.S. departments
of Justice and Homeland Security announced the first-ever criminal-enforcement
action against BitTorrent network users Wednesday.
Agents of the FBI and the U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed 10 search warrants throughout the
U.S. against leading members of a sophisticated peer-to-peer network known
as Elite Torrents. Federal agents also took control of the main server
that coordinated all file-sharing activity on the Elite Torrents network.
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| Tarantino's
Grind House |
Hollywood Reporter reports: Miramax Films
golden children Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are teaming up to
make a film for the new company established by the studio's founders, Bob
and Harvey Weinstein.
Tarantino and Rodriguez will each write
and direct a 60-minute horror film, and the two films will be packaged
under the title "Grind House," which is planned for a spring 2006 release
through the Weinstein Co. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Child
Porn Stings Director |
AP reports: The director of a TV art auction
program was arrested Wednesday and charged with receiving and distributing
child pornography over the Internet, federal officials said.
Anthony Logan, 62, was arrested by U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents early Wednesday at an apartment
in the city's Van Nuys area after an extensive child pornography sting,
according to a statement from ICE. He was arraigned later in the day, said
spokeswoman Lori Haley. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Porn
Bank Scam |
AP reports: A former adult movie star used
her good looks and acting experience to scam more than $40,000 from six
North Jersey banks before being arrested this week, authorities said.
Joy Marquart, 30, known simply as "Farrah"
when she starred in dozens of porn films during the 1990s, was arrested
Monday after a teller at a Washington Mutual bank branch in Emerson recognized
her driver's license as a fake. [see full story for more]-
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| Breakfast
Club Reunion |
AP reports: Don't you forget about "The Breakfast
Club." At the 2005 MTV Movie Awards, to air June 9, the network plans to
reunite the cast of the classic '80s movie, the cable channel said Friday.
Though Emilio Estevez, who played Andrew
Clark, isn't confirmed, in attendance will be Molly Ringwald (Claire Standish),
Ally Sheedy (Allison Reynolds), Anthony Michael Hall (Brian Johnson) and
Judd Nelson (John Bender). [see full story for more]-
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| Sopranos
Will Continue |
Contact Music reports: THE SOPRANOS is to
return for a seventh series, despite previous assurances by TV bosses that
the forthcoming sixth season would be the mafia drama's last.
Creator DAVID CHASE has so many storylines
left to bring to a conclusion he has now decided to write another series
of the New Jersey mobster drama, which stars JAMES GANDOLFINI and MICHAEL
IMPERIOLI. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Paltrow
Snubs Queen |
Contact Music reports: OSCAR-winning actress
GWYNETH PALTROW and her husband CHRIS MARTIN have turned down an invitation
from British monarch QUEEN ELIZABETH II to attend a garden party at Buckingham
Palace this summer (05).
The high-profile couple, whose daughter
APPLE celebrated her first birthday earlier this month (MAY05), have decided
attending the royal bash would not be to their taste. [see full story for
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| Lohan's
Dad Sentenced |
Contact Music reports: Hollywood beauty LINDSAY
LOHAN's father MICHAEL will serve up to four years in prison, after pleading
guilty to drink driving, attempted assault, aggravated harassment and criminal
contempt. Nassau County prosecutor JOY WATSON has confirmed the FREAKY
FRIDAY star's father received the jail sentence on Friday (27MAY05) for
crimes including crashing his car into a utility pole in Long Island, New
York in February (05). [see full story for more]- Click
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| Hunter
Remembered With A Bang |
ABC News reports: Organizers of a memorial
for Hunter S. Thompson plan to erect a 150-foot structure courtesy of actor
Johnny Depp to shoot the gonzo journalist's ashes onto his ranch near here.
Friends and acquaintances gathered Thursday
to discuss the Aug. 20 invitation-only service, which will be six months
after Thompson shot himself in his Woody Creek home. [see full story for
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| Eddie
Albert RIP |
Washington Post reports: Eddie Albert, a versatile
actor best known to '60s-era TV viewers as the befuddled lawyer-turned-farmer
on the comedy "Green Acres," died of pneumonia May 26 at his home in the
Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. He was 99 and suffered from Alzheimer's
disease.
He appeared in more than 100 movies, beginning
with the film adaptation of the Broadway play "Brother Rat" (1938) with
Ronald Reagan, a comedy about life at Virginia Military Institute. He was
nominated for Academy Awards as best supporting actor in "Roman Holiday"
(1953), in which he played Gregory Peck's pal with a camera, and "The Heartbreak
Kid" (1972). [see full story for more]- Click
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| Dramatic
End to Testimony in Jackson Trial |
antiTainment reports: Testimony came to a
surprising end in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial on Friday.
It has been described as a scene right out of a silver screen court drama.
The prosecution showed the jury a videotape of the underage accuser being
interviewed by police and stating that the pop singer had masturbated him
after giving him alcohol.
The real dramatic moment came following
the viewing of the tape when lead defense attorney Tom Mesereau announced
that the defense was resting, going back on their vow to call at least
four witnesses in rebuttal to the tape, including the accuser and his mother.
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| Oliver
Stone Busted For Drugs/DUI |
antiTainment reports: Controversial film director
Oliver Stone has a new conspiracy theory to contemplate following his arrest
Friday night in Beverly Hills for drug possession and driving while intoxicated--a
sequel to his 1999 arrest on similar charges.
Although Stone may recreate the scene later
in film with an officer jumping out of a grassy knoll with a gun shouting
"Say hello to my little friend", Stone was actually arrested by Beverly
Hills police around 11:45 p.m. Friday after being pulled over at a police
checkpoint on Sunset Blvd. [see full story for more]-
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