Feb
14

LA police search for escapee who stalked Madonna

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a man convicted of threatening to kill Madonna who walked away from a Los Angeles-area mental hospital last week.

Los Angeles police say Robert Dewey Hoskins left the state hospital Friday. He had been committed there last year.

Hoskins, 54, is “highly psychotic” and can be extremely violent and should not be approached by members of the public, police said in a news release Thursday. They urged anyone who sees him to call authorities immediately.

Hoskins served a 10-year prison sentence for stalking and threatening Madonna after being convicted by a jury in 1996. Read more…

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Feb
05

In Tune: Bruce Springsteen, Mumford & Sons, Mel B, ABBA

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Bruce Springsteen Plans Busy Month of March

Rock icon Bruce Springsteen will drop his 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball, on March 6. The first single, We Take Care of Our Own, is an anthemic track relating to events in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The rest of the album is classic Springsteen. His manager, Jon Landau, remarked on Springsteen’s website: “Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The

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Jan
20

Eddie Murphy to Host 2012 Oscars

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by Roger Friedman,

Eddie Murphy is the official host of the 84th Academy Awards.

The Academy named him as host much to the delight of the ceremony’s producer, Brett Ratner. Ratner and Murphy will have had a big movie opening in November, “Tower Heist.” Surely a hit, the film will be the wave they can ride right into the February proceedings.

Why announce this so early? It helps promote “Tower Heist” and it eclipses what the Golden Globes will do with Ricky Gervais. I’m excited because with tributes to Oprah Winfrey and James Earl Jones, the Oscars will finally feel like a ceremony for everyone. It’s abou Read more…

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Jan
12

Colbert preps prez run, transfers PAC to Stewart

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NEW YORK (AP) – Stephen Colbert isn’t running for president – at least not yet.During Thursday night’s episode of “The Colbert Report,” Colbert legally transferred his super political action committee to his friend and Comedy Central cohort Jon Stewart. Dropping by from “The Daily Show,” Stewart happily signed the documents and accepted the post, which was ceremonially observed by the two holding hands and bodily transferring the PAC powers.The move potentially paves the way for Colbert to enter the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina, his home state.

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Jan
11

Sony Classical Releases Met Broadcasts

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Sony Classical, in partnership with the Metropolitan Opera, continues its popular series of releases drawn from the legendary Met archives. Four multi-disc sets represent the first official release on CD of these historic Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts. 

In August, Sony Classical issued complete live recordings—freshly remastered from the original sources—of four great Verdi operas: “Don Carlo” (1964), “Il Trovatore” (1961), “Rigoletto” (1964), and “Un Ballo in Maschera” (1955). These live recording

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