AP - Plans to build the tallest building in Ireland with new recording studios for Irish supergroup U2 on top were suspended Friday because of Dublin’s slumping property market and slide into recession.
Reuters - Over the course of 48 hours in October, mega-manager Irving Azoff, Ticketmaster chairman Barry Diller and a team of attorneys and business people worked almost around the clock to hammer out the details of a Ticketmaster-Front Line merger that could change the music business.
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E! Online - From the looks of it, there’s not much clowning around in Britney Spears’ Circus…despite the “Come one, come all!” lettering and primary-color palette.
AP - A Los Angeles jury has begun deliberating a paparazzo’s claim that actor Keanu Reeves knocked him down with his Porsche and permanently injured his wrist.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Samual L. Jackson is set to star as a bad guy in Columbia Pictures’ remake of Berry Gordy’s 1985 cult classic “The Last Dragon.”Jackson will play Sho’nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, a role played in the original by the late Julius Carry, whose spiel included asking ego-driven questions like “Am I the baddest mofo lowdown around this town?” Each time his gang of thugs answered, “Sho ‘nuff!”Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and Gordy’s son Kerry Gordy are producing.Penning the screenplay as well as producing is Dallas Jackson, who heads up the urban family label DJ Classicz with Davis. Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA is co-producing.The updated plot will be along the same lines of the original, centering on young martial arts student Leroy Green in his quest through the streets of New York to achieve the highest level of martial arts accomplishment, known as the Last Dragon. Those who achieve the high ranking possess the Glow, making them the greatest fighter alive.The project, announced by Columbia presidents Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, will take a new look at “Last Dragon” coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Motown next year.
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AP - John McCain supporters who believe they haven’t gotten a fair shake from the media during the Republican’s candidacy against Barack Obama have a new study to point to.
AP - Police confirmed Friday they found the gun used in the killings of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew, as the family’s South Side community prepared a public memorial to say goodbye.
Reuters - In a story seemingly ripped from current headlines, “Law & Order” begins a new season next week with an episode featuring a New York stockbroker who is beaten to death in broad daylight.
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This past March, Lauren Conrad told MTV News that she and the rest of “The Hills” cast had talked about bringing the absurdly popular reality television show to the big-screen. But just outside of two weeks later, Heidi Montag told us in no uncertain terms that Conrad was out of her mind with delusions of [...]
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AP - Joaquin Phoenix is quitting movies to focus on music.
