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		<title>Jennifer Hudson: A Class Act All the Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 20:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Hudson and her sister got the right news yesterday: William Balfour was convicted of killing their mother, Jennifer&#8217;s nephew, and her brother. Balfour was Julia Hudson&#8217;s estranged husband. He was angry that she was seeing someone else, after they had separated. This unimaginable loss for the Hudsons has been met with quiet dignity. Jennifer has never once used her celebrity in the cause of justice. She is a class act, and incredibly courageous. You can tell what a good job her mother did raising her, so it&#8217;s even sadder that she has not been able to see what a great success and lovely young woman Jennifer has turned out to be. Here&#8217;s the statement from Jennifer and her sister Julia, who lost a child in this tragedy: &#8220;We have felt the love and support from people all over the world, and we&#8217;re very grateful. We want to extend a prayer from the Hudson family to the Balfour family. We have all suffered terrible loss in this tragedy.&#8221;They also quote Scripture: &#8220;It is our prayer that the Lord will forgive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Travolta&#8217;s Situation is Getting Worse: New Accusations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 20:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Travolta&#8217;s scandal is getting worse, not better, and I&#8217;m surprised. I thought after the lawyer for Travolta&#8217;s first accuser dumped his client, things would start to straighten out. Then a former employee of Royal Caribbean Cruise lines claimed Travolta propositioned him, for $12,000. That seemed unlikely on many counts. I made many calls to Royal Caribbean; no one called back. Now the New York Daily News has a former masseur from the Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue. He claims Travolta was banned from the hotel for a while for harassing the staff. Here&#8217;s the story: http://tinyurl.com/ck9k4w5. Travolta&#8217;s lawyer Marty Singer is an infamous pit bull. The lawyer for the two John Doe&#8217;s is no match for him. Singer will just obliterate his clients&#8217; stories. But if more people keep turning up, it will be like a boat springing little leaks. After a while, you can&#8217;t contain them. And all of this must be driving the Scientology people crazy, since they deplore homosexuality. In the end, the sad part of all this is: Travolta is not Mel Gibson. He&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trudie Styler, Daughter Act up A Storm in Off Broadway Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 05:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can catch one more performance tonight, Saturday, at 45 Bleecker Street Theatre of Chekhov&#8217;s &#8220;The Seagull&#8221; as adapted by famed British director Max Stafford-Clark. It&#8217;s really a master class that&#8217;s been going on as open rehearsals for the last couple of weeks. Last night, and tonight, are the only set performances for now. Stafford Clark and playwright Thomas Kilroy have revived a 30 year old adaptation of &#8220;The Seagull&#8221; set in Ireland instead of Russia. It was acclaimed then and it still works beautifully. Last night, Alan Rickman&#8211;who&#8217;d been in the original production&#8211;was in the audience, along with Sting, who came to see wife Trudie Styler and daughter Mickey Sumner&#8211;a very hot, up and coming serious actress&#8211;play major roles. (He brought Trudie roses, of course.) This production is done as a staged reading, but it is never boring. On the contrary, the casting is so perfect, and Stafford-Clark has waved a magic wand. Even in this early version, theatre fanatics will be sorry to miss tonight&#8217;s show. It&#8217;s simply mesmerizing. It&#8217;s not just Styler and Sumner, but a strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rita Wilson&#8217;s Pop Debut Brings Back 70s Crowd: Geffen, Jimmy Webb. J.D. Souther</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 06:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rita Wilson&#8211;if she had decided to become a pop star in her 20s, she could have been Linda Ronstadt or Bonnie Raitt. As it happened, she waited a while. On Thursday night, the actress took the stage at Joe&#8217;s Pub and in front of friends, family and a few strangers. With a tight Southern California band, she showcased songs from her new Decca album, &#8220;AM-FM.&#8221; They are all covers of songs she loved from the early 70s. She had quite an audience, too: David Geffen, Nora Ephron, Brian Williams, Brian&#8217;s daughter Allison from &#8220;Girls&#8221; on HBO, Carole Bayer Sager and Bob Daly, Gayle King, movie and theatre star producer Neil Meron, music producer Jay Landers, and Renee Zellweger were among her guests. Jimmy Webb was there; on the album he plays piano on his famous &#8220;Wichita Lineman.&#8221; JD Souther appeared on stage, and sang on two of his songs that were Ronstadt staples, &#8220;Faithless Love&#8221; and &#8220;Prisoner in Disguise.&#8221;Husband Tom Hanks is off somewhere shooting a movie. But her 21 year old rapper actor son, aka Chet Haze, was in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madonna &#8220;MDNA&#8221; Tour Will Have No Album on the Charts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 05:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And that&#8217;s it. Madonna&#8217;s &#8220;MDNA&#8221; is gone from the top 50 of any charts as of this week. Hitsdailydouble.com has dropped it out of its top 50. Amazon.com has the physical CD at number 63. All versions of the downloadable album are gone from view. iTunes has it around number 250. Apparently, very few people downloaded the album at all. Madonna, though she likes a youthful outlook, belongs to the class of artists who are not big on the digital side. &#8220;MDNA&#8221; is now officially gone, three weeks before Madonna begins her international tour in Israel. The only way to have saved &#8220;MDNA&#8221; would have been to reissue it with something new. But Madonna wouldn&#8217;t have much time to rehearse her show and cut new tracks. The tour will go on without a promotional tool or a song on the radio. It&#8217;s not the best way to do things, but if Madge features a lot of hits in the show, she&#8217;ll be alright. If the tour set list is heavy with songs from &#8220;MDNA,&#8221; it may be a problem. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josh Brolin Wanted for Erin Brokovich-Type Movie about Ford Trucks and Firestone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 05:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: The landmark settlement of cases from the Ford-Firestone lawsuits of 2000 is coming to the big screen at last. Originally Michael Douglas had optioned Adam Penneberg&#8217;s book, &#8220;Tragic Indifference,&#8221; with the idea that he&#8217;d play maverick attorney Tab Turner. But time has passed, Douglas is older and busy with other projects. The film was originally at Warner Bros., but is now in turnaround. 2929 Productions and Douglas&#8217;s company, I am told, are going forward now that they have a great script. They&#8217;re hoping Josh Brolin will play Turner, the lawyer who would not stop until he got justice for the victims of the rollover cases&#8211;Firestone tires were blowing out and making Ford Explorers rollover. There were several famous victims including Donna Bailey, who is now 51 and completely paralyzed. All the players are hoping to get the film made this year as Bailey&#8217;s health is always precarious. The role is Oscar bait for 40 year old actresses&#8211;and names mentioned already are Cate Blanchett, Laura Linney, and Nicole Kidman. Douglas is also said to be very keen to get &#8220;Tragic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Old Timer Harry Dean Stanton Steals &#8220;The Avengers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 05:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Avengers&#8221; : I can&#8217;t tell you exactly what happens plot wise, other than Nick Fury calls in his favorite Marvel super heroes to fight something&#8211;aliens, I guess. Loki, half brother (or step, not sure) of Thor, is the lurking enemy, played at a higher level than any cartoon character before him by Tom Hiddleston. And frankly, that&#8217;s the beauty of Joss Whedon&#8217;s blockbuster of a movie. All the actors are top notch. Their characters have been drawn very sharply, with just enough background given to each one that the audience can identify with them whether or not they&#8217;ve ever read a Marvel comic. There are lots of &#8220;Easter eggs&#8221; too&#8211;85 year old Harry Dean Stanton nearly steals the movie as a security guard who stumbles on The Hulk as he falls into a building from space. Stan Lee himself makes Hitchock like appearance toward the end. Veteran actor Robert Clohessy is a perfect New York cop. Gwyneth Paltrow makes a couple of cameos as Pepper Potts, shoeless for reasons unexplained. Clark Gregg has a nice turn as a federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive Birthday Pic of Mariah Carey-Nick Cannon Twins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a cute photo (click inside) sent by Mariah Carey. Happy Birthday to her twins: &#8220;Monroe and Moroccan celebrated their first birthday party with Mommy, Daddy and several close friends at the Plaza Athenee in Paris on April 29. Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon made sure a festive time was had by all. The memorable occasion was complete with custom made French pastries, lots of balloons, toys and confetti. Mariah is wearing a beautiful J Mendel gown and photo was taken by Bill Boatman.&#8221; Previously:Mariah Carey is in Paris right now celebrating her wedding anniversary with Nick Cannon and the first birthday of her twins. She might as well just stay there. I am told that amfAR, the AIDS research fundraising group, wants her as their big celebrity performer next month in Cannes. Past performers have included an eclectic range from Kylie Minogue to Wyclef Jean, Dita von Teese, and Janet Jackson. (The best one was in 2002 with Elton John and Sam Moore, among others.) Carey&#8217;s received the amfAR offer, but so far nothing&#8217;s been decided because she&#8217;s finishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greed Loses: Golden Globes Put In Their Place by Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hollywood Foreign Press has lost its lawsuit against Dick Clark Productions. The HFPA&#8211;paid over $6 million a year to license its name by NBC&#8211;had contended that Dick Clark had no right to negotiate with NBC without them. Today senior US District Judge A. Howard Matz ruled that he disagreed with them. The ruling follows. This is a blow to the HFPA, a greedy group that has suffered numerous scandals over the years. The ruling means The Golden Globes are now in the backseat. Dick Clark Productions can produce the show through 2018, and continue to make deals with NBC as long as the network wants  the  show. The HFPA will have to accept their deals. In the end, it was just a story of greed. The HFPA consists of about 80 people, many of whom have no credentials and don&#8217;t see all the movies every year. In past decades, they were broadcast on cable, then moved to CBS. CBS kicked them off the air during a scandal involving &#8220;actress&#8221; Pia Zadora, and NBC picked them up. I&#8217;ve written over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Soul Man Not Happy with TV Land Version</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 12:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Moore is not happy. My friend (and one of the subjects of a documentary I helped make 10 years ago) is known throughout the world as the &#8220;Original Soul Man.&#8221; In 1966, he and Dave Prater, as Sam and Dave, had a massive hit called &#8220;Soul Man.&#8221; It became the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend&#8217;s moniker, and keynote song. If Aretha Franklin is the Queen of Soul, and James Brown is the Godfather of Soul, Sam Moore is the Soul Man. That&#8217;s it. Now TVLand is launching a new comedy series called &#8220;The Soul Man&#8221; starring Cedric the Entertainer. When Moore and his manager wife Joyce caught wind of it, they immediately sent a cease and desist letter through their respected Washington lawyer, Bruce Fein. The Moores are already in litigation with The Weinstein Company over a 2009 movie called &#8220;Soul Men.&#8221; The TV Land people assured Fein that &#8220;The Soul Man&#8221; would not be promoted until both sides at least negotiated some kind of license agreement. But last night &#8220;The Soul Man&#8221; was featured heavily during [...]]]></description>
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