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Box Tops, Big Star Frontman Alex Chilton Dies
The influential singer, songwriter and guitarist was scheduled to play at SXSW this weekend.
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Sheen Expected to Enter Not Guilty Plea
The ‘Two and a Half Men’ star’s hearing will be short and to-the-point: not guilty, your honor
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Trial in J-Lo Case Now Seems Unlikely
The judge decided not to split the case against her ex-husband and his lawyer after all
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J.Lo Moves a Step Closer to a Jury Trial
Hopes for a private arbitration in her attemtp to stop former husband from making a movie about their time together
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Sarah Palin’s Just Right for an America of ‘Two and a Half Men’
HOLLYBLOG: News shows, bestsellers and now a docudrama with Mark Burnett … she’s building the perfect presidential race for our times
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Cryer’s Ex-Wife Wins One in Hitman/Custody Case
She hopes to keep payments coming; he finally opens up on reports of death threats against him
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Doug Fieger, Singer for The Knack, Dies
Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit " My Sharona," died Sunday. He was 57. Fieger, a Detroit-area native, died at his home in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles after battling cancer, according to The Knack's manager, Jake Hooker. Read more by The Associated Press.
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10 Hollywood Apps You Must Have
Some actually can help you get your job done — both on-set and at home
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Celebrating Xmas With X
The band plays its second annual Christmas concert at L.A.’s Wiltern this weekend
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Farewell to the Poet With the Snarl and Prickly Pen
One can only hope that some of Leo’s fans actually decided to read Jim Carroll’s “Basektball Diaries.”
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‘Watchmen’ Director’s Cut: Bigger, Longer, Still Dull
The fanboys will weep, but it looks like "The Watchmen" was and is going to remain one of those movies that just couldn't live up to its hype — on screen or on the new DVD. Released on March 6, the adaptation of the acclaimed distopian graphic novel, which Time magazine once called one of…
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Cronkite & the Men on the Moon
My grandmother once told me that when she heard on the BBC that America had dropped an atomic weapon on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, she suddenly thought how, with man now possessing the true might of Gods, the world had fundamentally changed. She would say that there was a pre-Hiroshima world and a post-Hiroshima…
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The Best of L.A. on a Summer’s Night
It’s one of those nights when Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal cruise on by and you find yourself thinking “what a cute couple” instead of “don’t stare at the movie stars.” There was no denying that, with the flagellation of the Michael Jackson Memorial and mourning, it had been a week where it sometimes felt…
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Air Guitaring: The Best and Worst Thing You’ve Ever Seen
To paraphrase Jon Landau’s famous quote about Bruce Springsteen, I have seen the future of rock’n’roll and its name is Air Guitar. The thing is, unlike Landau’s praise of New Jersey’s finest, it sort of snuck up on me. I’d seen the odd news item and heard a story or two, but I’d never given…