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TV producer admits attempting Letterman shakedown (AP)
date: 2010 03 10
AP - A former television producer pressured by debt and riven by jealousy admitted Tuesday he tried to extract vengeance and money by shaking down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers.
Sequel to 'Phantom of the Opera' opens in London (AP)
date: 2010 03 10
AP - Will the magic of the Phantom strike twice for Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Fawcett omission from Oscar segment no accident (AP)
date: 2010 03 10
AP - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
Leibovitz can keep portfolio under new debt deal (AP)
date: 2010 03 10
AP - Annie Leibovitz, the photographer who mismanaged her fortune so badly that she faced losing legal rights to some of pop culture's most enduring images, has reached a long-term agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt and market her vast portfolio, both sides said Tuesday.
Lindsay Lohan takes swipe at E-Trade babies (AP)
date: 2010 03 10
AP - Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.
Andy Richter calls 'Tonight' exit frustrating (AP)
date: 2010 03 10
AP - Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien's sidekick at "The Tonight Show," is acknowledging some ill will toward NBC and Jay Leno in the wake of the network's late-night upheaval.
TV producer admits attempting Letterman shakedown (AP)
date: 2010 03 10AP - A former television producer pressured by debt and riven by jealousy admitted Tuesday he tried to extract vengeance and money by shaking down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers.
Review: `Our Family Wedding' surpasses stereotype (AP)
date: 2010 03 10
AP - One enters a movie like "Our Family Wedding" bracing for cheesiness.
Sequel to 'Phantom of the Opera' opens in London (AP)
date: 2010 03 10AP - Will the magic of the Phantom strike twice for Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Murdoch has ambitions for original Arab content (Reuters)
date: 2010 03 10Reuters - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has ambitions to produce original Arab content to serve the Arab world's 335 million people in the region and abroad, helped by its partnership with Saudi-based media group Rotana.Paice, Luker, Dvorsky and Petkoff Set for 'Enchanted April' Musical Reading (Playbill)
date: 2010 03 10Playbill - Jill Paice, Rebecca Luker, George Dvorsky and Robert Petkoff will take part in a reading of the new musical adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's 1922 novel Enchanted April.Fawcett omission from Oscar segment no accident (AP)
date: 2010 03 10AP - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
Chanel's Fake Fur Ice Maidens (Fashion Wire Daily)
date: 2010 03 10
Fashion Wire Daily - One season after staging a Chanel runway show in a reconstructed Normandy farm, the house's designer Karl Lagerfeld presented its latest collection Tuesday, March 9, in Paris, in the midst of a custom-built iceberg, literally imported from Scandinavia.
Booksellers fighting Amazon's Canadian bid (Reuters)
date: 2010 03 10
Reuters - Fearing an apparent assault by Amazon.com on Canadian culture, the Canadian Booksellers Association is urging the federal government to block the U.S. Internet retailer from establishing a physical presence north of the border.
Fashion's latest fixation: 3D (The Newsroom)
date: 2010 02 27
The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)