AP - Actor David Carradine, a born seeker and cult idol who broke through as the willing student called "grasshopper" in the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" and decades later as leader of an assassin squad in "Kill Bill," was found dead Thursday in Thailand. Police said he appeared to have hanged himself.
Reuters - Many of the finest performers in the classical music world are flocking to Venezuela to get a taste of the country's lauded youth music education system that teaches kids from gritty streets to play in orchestras. -- read full article
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AP - Actor-singer Edison Chen says widely circulated Internet photos of him having sex with female Hong Kong stars were a youthful indiscretion, speaking at length for the first time on a scandal that shocked the Chinese entertainment world last year.
Reuters - Eminem has come clean, saying that he knew what was in store when bare-buttocked comedian Sacha Baron Cohen crash-landed on him at the MTV Movie Awards television broadcast Sunday.
E! Online - No, it isn't 1998. It's just that former Dawson's Creek show runner Tom Kapinos spoke at a Los Angeles Times' Envelope Emmy screening series panel about his current show, Californication, last night, and well, he went off on his former starlets.
AP - The Discovery Channel and the production company Running Subway have teamed up to create a Times Square exhibition space for blockbuster experiential shows such as "Titanic" and "Tutankhamun."
Reuters - U.S. novelist Marilynne Robinson won the Orange Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for "Home," the companion piece to her acclaimed "Gilead." -- read full article
Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:23:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Satellite service provider EchoStar is in contempt of a permanent injunction against using some of TiVo's technology and must pay the DVR pioneer $103.1 million plus interest, a court ruled Tuesday.
Reuters - Forty-four years after he and the rest of the Beatles played the first major arena show in rock history at New York's Shea Stadium, Paul McCartney will perform next month at the new baseball field that replaced it.
AP - To hear the folks in Hollywood talk about it, improved 3-D technology and the quality films that are quickly lining up behind it represent nothing short of a moviegoing revolution. Tell that to the folks who still live hours from the nearest 3-D-equipped theater.