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ShowBiz Minute:Trebek, Daytime Emmys, Box Office

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:25:00 +0000

L.A. Reid: Britney Would Have WON 'X Factor'

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:20:00 +0000

AP Top Stories

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:35:00 +0000

The Scissor Sisters teach Kylie Minogue to say the word c***!

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:44:00 +0000

Astronauts Enter World's 1st Private Supply Ship

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 26 May 2012 14:04:00 +0000

Art Hindle Inspires Future 'Kid In The Hall' Dave Foley

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:58:00 +0000

Rihanna Without Makeup!

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:32:00 +0000

Corrie's Audrey to suffer heart attack

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:02:00 +0000

DA: Calif. University Shooter a 'Loner'

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0000

FULL INTERVIEW: Chantal Kreviazuk

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:17:00 +0000

FULL INTERVIEW: 'Little Mosque On The Prairie'

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Kim Kardashian Flour Attack Lights Up Web, Star Dusts Off and Re-Emerges...

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:41:00 +0000

Nicollette Sheridan heads into Court.

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:06:00 +0000

Girl Dies After Being Forced to Run for Hours

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:32:00 +0000

Climber: Disaster Looms in Himalayan Mountains

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Seinfeld Actor In Critical Condition After Suicide Attempt

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:27:00 +0000

Raw Video: Scientists Revive Ice Age Flower

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:03:00 +0000

Anne Bancroft on THE AFRICAN QUEEN

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:07:00 +0000

Geore Stroumboulopoulos Tonight: Daniel Radcliffe Post-Potter

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:59:00 +0000

Lindsay Lohan Leaves Court "On the Right Track"

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:43:00 +0000

'Deathly Hallows' charms fans with $61M in one day

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:45:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES – Harry Potter is on the way to his biggest magic act yet.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" conjured up $61.2 million domestically in its first day, positioning it for the best opening weekend ever for the series about the young wizard.

Friday's haul puts "Deathly Hallows" on track to shoot past the franchise's previous high, a $102.7 million opening weekend for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in 2005.

"Deathly Hallows" lands at No. 5 on the box-office charts for biggest opening day, behind "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" at $72.7 million, "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" at $68.5 million, "The Dark Knight" at $67.2 million and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" at $62 million.

It set a record for its own franchise, coming in ahead of the $58.2 million opening day of last year's "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Price."

The franchise has taken in $5.5 billion worldwide in theatrical revenue since the first film debuted in 2001.

The latest film is based on the first part of J.K. Rowling's seventh and final "Harry Potter" novel. The finale, "Deathly Hallows: Part 2," is due out in July.

Billy Ray Cyrus and wife announce divorce

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:30:00 +0000

NEW YORK – Billy Ray Cyrus and wife Tish are ending their 17-year marriage.

The parents of teen sensation Miley Cyrus have filed for divorce. In a statement released Wednesday, the pair said it was a "very difficult time for our family."

They said they were trying to "work through some personal matters" and they appreciated support.

Though 17-year-old Miley is the biggest star in the family now, it was Billy Ray Cyrus who put the Cyrus name on the map in 1992 with the instant classic "Achy Breaky Heart."

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Israel confident as UN poised to launch Gaza flotilla probe

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:45:00 +0000

JERUSALEM — Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expressed confidence that the UN's Gaza flotilla inquiry would satisfy global public opinion, as the panel's Israeli and Turkish delegates were named.

"I believe this committee will direct the important opinion of the international community, and not the committee set up by the anti-Israeli body in Geneva," the Israeli premier told ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting.

Israel said last Monday it would agree to cooperate with a UN committee to probe the deadly May 31 raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship which left nine Turkish nationals dead.

But it has refused to have anything to do with another UN inquiry, launched last month by the Geneva-based Human Rights Council -- a body which Israel perceives as having an in-built bias against the Jewish State.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's four-man team will be chaired by former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer, with outgoing Colombian President Alvaro Uribe as his deputy.

The other two members, a Turkish national and an Israeli, were named by the UN on Saturday as Ozdem Sanberk, former director general of the Turkish foreign ministry, and Joseph Ciechanover, who held the same position in Israel.

"Israel was involved in the process of setting up the committee, writing its mandate and selecting its members," Netanyahu said, informing the cabinet that Ciechanover would be Israel's representative on the panel.

Ciechanover, 77, is a former senior diplomat who has spent many years on the board of big Israeli companies such as national carrier El Al and Israel Discount Bank.

In 1997, he headed an inquiry into Israel's failed attempt to assassinate Hamas' Khaled Meshaal in Jordan during Netanyahu's first term as premier. The committee concluded that Netanyahu had managed the affair in "a responsible manner."

His name was recently raised as a possible chairman of the internal committee to examine the flotilla raid -- a position which went to former supreme court head Yaakov Tirkel.

The UN committee is due to begin work on August 10 and submit a first progress report by mid-September.

It will review reports on the internal investigations by both Israel and Turkey and will draw conclusions about the facts, circumstances and context of the incident, and issue recommendations on steps to prevent a recurrence of such incidents, the UN said.

In Israel, the Tirkel Commission began looking into the legality of the raid in June, with the five-man panel due to hear testimonies from Netanyahu, Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Gaby Ashkenazi this week.

Turkey reportedly began its own inquiry within days of the botched raid, with prosecutors in Istanbul launching an investigation into the actions of the same three Israeli leaders with a view to charging them with murder and piracy.

Israel says its commandos used force after they were attacked as they rappelled onto the deck of the Turkish passenger ferry Mavi Marmara. But the activists on board say the troops opened fire as soon as they landed.

Atom smasher set for high speed bash by early April

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:25:00 +0000

GENEVA — The world's most powerful atom smasher will be brought up to unprecedented power by early April, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Wednesday.

"We hope to have collisions at 7.0 TeV (teraelectronvolts) at the end of March or the beginning of April," CERN spokesman James Gillies told AFP.

The 3.9 billion euro (5.6 billion dollar) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was restarted after a winter break two weeks ago to ready it for collisions at unfathomed energy levels.

The particle collider -- inside a 27-kilometre (16.8-mile) tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva -- is aimed at understanding the origins of the universe by recreating the conditions that followed the Big Bang.

"During this first physics run, the LHC experiments will open up the biggest range of potential new discovery that particle physics has seen in over a decade," CERN said in a statement.

Gillies reiterated that the experiments would run for 18 to 24 months before another technical shutdown.

That halt would last for eight to 10 months while the LHC is prepared for the next stage, full power operation with beams running at 14 TeV, he added.

CERN's engineers decided in January to change the annual cycle they followed with its previous, smaller, accelerator, which used to be shut down for four months in winter for maintenance.

Instead they were aiming for longer period of continued operation with the LHC followed by a longer shutdown when needed, because of the total of two months its takes to heat up then cool down the huge cryogenically cooled colliders before and after maintenance.

The collider was revived from a 14-month breakdown last November, following a technical glitch that put it out of action days after it was launched in September 2008.

'Avatar' unstoppable at North American box office

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:41:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES — Science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" ruled the North American box office for the fifth consecutive week to maintain its charge towards an all-time record, estimated figures showed Sunday.

Oscar-winning director James Cameron's groundbreaking 3-D spectacular, which is already the second-highest grossing film in history, added to its haul with another 41.3 million dollars, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

The movie has raked in more than 1.3 billion dollars worldwide since its release and is on course to overtake Cameron's 1997 Academy Awards best picture winner "Titanic," which remains the highest-grossing film of all time.

The enduring appeal of "Avatar" proved too much for Denzel Washington vehicle "Book of Eli", an action movie set in a post-apocalyptic world which debuted with a respectable 31.6 million dollars.

In third place was "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson's latest film, "The Lovely Bones", an adaptation of Alice Sebold's acclaimed 2002 novel about a murdered schoolgirl who helps her family catch the man who killed her from the afterlife. The film, starring Irish actress Saoirse Ronan and Susan Sarandon, picked up 17 million dollars in its first weekend on wide release.

In fourth was family film "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," which added another 11.5 million dollars to its four-week haul of 192.6 million.

Fifth place was occupied by "Sherlock Holmes" with 9.8 million dollars.

Director Guy Ritchie's high-octane take on the adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary London detective, played by Robert Downey Jr, has taken 180 million dollars in four weeks.

Hong Kong film legend Jackie Chan weighed in at sixth place with his slapstick comedy "The Spy Next Door", which took 9.7 million dollars.

Love triangle comedy "It's Complicated," starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, dropped to seventh, taking 7.7 million dollars.

Falling two spots to eighth was "Leap Year," a romantic comedy starring Amy Adams and Adam Scott, which took 5.9 million.

Ninth belonged to "The Blind Side," about a white couple who give an illiterate black teen a home and a new lease on life, earning 5.6 million dollars.

"Up in the Air," starring George Clooney in the acclaimed story of a corporate downsizer who questions his role in life, rounded out the top 10 with with 5.5 million dollars.