Entertainment News

March 11, 2010

Australian authors protest China visa refusal (Reuters)

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Reuters - More than 90 Australian authors signed a letter on Thursday decrying China's refusal to grant a visa to one of the country's most celebrated writers because he was HIV-positive, a move that Beijing defended.

Corey Haim dies of overdose in Los Angeles (Reuters)

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Corey Haim, a 1980's heartthrob whose Hollywood career was derailed by wild parties and drug abuse, died Wednesday aged 38 in Los Angeles after an apparent overdose, police said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Buckner)Reuters - Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent prescription drug overdose. He was 38.


CW eyeing dance, weight-loss competition series (Reuters)

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Reuters - The CW is developing two competition series using popular unscripted subject matter: dancing and weight loss.

Witherspoon: First lady is DC’s top fashionista (AP)

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Actress Reese Witherspoon, Avon global ambassador, speaks at the  International Women of Courage Awards Ceremony at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Actress Reese Witherspoon says her "Legally Blonde" character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation's capital by first lady Michelle Obama.


‘Big Mike’ draws tears, cheers on ‘American Idol’ (AP)

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Simon Cowell (R) and Mezhgan Hussainy arrive at the 18th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Viewing Party in West Hollywood, California March 7, 2010.  REUTERS/Gus Ruelas    (OSCARS-PARTY)(UNITED STATES (ENTERTAINMENT)AP - Michael "Big Mike" Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the "American Idol" judges giddy with a moving performance of "This Woman's Work."


Census campaign targets tech-savvy Hispanic youth (AP)

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Voto Latino co-founder and actress Rosario Dawson, second from right, participates in a news conference with actor Wilma Valderrama, right, California Community Foundation president Antonia Hernandez, far left, and Voto Latino executive director Maria Teresa Kumar at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Dawson announced a plan by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund) and Voto Latino to build momentum for the 2010 census by launching an interactive, multimedia campaign targeting young California Latinos. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP - Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census announced a new campaign Thursday that aims to reach the hard-to-count demographic through its smart-phone-toting youngsters.


Da Vinci — painter, inventor and now action hero (Reuters)

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Reuters - Warner Bros. is turning Leonardo into an action-adventure hero. No, not DiCaprio, but Da Vinci.

Conan’s lone Twitter followee: ‘It’s totally nuts’ (AP)

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Sarah Killen poses with her new computer in Conway Township, Mich. on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Last week, Killen had three Twitter followers. In early March 2010, she had three Twitter followers. A week later, she has 20,000 - as well as the new computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her wedding. The unsuspecting rural Michigan woman has one out-of-work late-night talk show host to thank for her newfound online popularity — Conan O'Brien. O'Brien decided last week to pick Killen as the only person he would follow on Twitter, turning the 19-year-old's life upside down. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)AP - Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers.


Thai thriller straddles homophobia, homoerotica (Reuters)

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Reuters - In the slasher-thriller "Slice," a cop-turned-convict tracks down a serial killer by delving into his own troubled childhood memories.

“2012″ debuts atop three video charts (Reuters)

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Cast member John Cusack poses at a red carpet event for the movie Reuters - The end-of-the-world drama "2012" debuted at the top of all three home video charts the week ending March 7, the first release in nearly a month with a box office pedigree of more than $100 million.


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