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 Smashing Pumpkins set 20th anniversary tour
The “reunited” Smashing Pumpkins (two of the original four members) have found another milestone to celebrate and base a tour on: the band’s 20th anniversary.
Chicago Sun-Times | Detail

 Nick Hogan Set for Early Release
The former reality star and son of Hulk Hogan will be released three months earlier than expected from Pinellas County Jail thanks to credits for behind-bars working and good behavior, E! News has confirmed.
E! Online | Detail

 Simpson friend says guns at Vegas hotel were OJ's idea
Jae C. Hong, pool / AP Prosecution witness David Cook speaks in court during the OJ Simpson trial Tuesday in Las Vegas. Cook is an attorney representing Fred Goldman, father of murder victim Ron Goldman.
Los Angeles Times | Detail

 The sap rises high in ‘Rodanthe’
By Alonso Duralde There’sa newly released Diane Lane movie that’s an absolute must-see. She stars as a teenager who escapes her grim town by forming a punk band and eventually inspiring young girls everywhere with her anti-authoritarian music and… ...
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 ‘THE GODFATHER: THE COPPOLA RESTORATION’
Many of Francis Ford Coppola’s films, including the recent “Youth Without Youth,” have been haunted by the passing of time and an acute awareness of its destructive handiwork - the sense that once a treasured moment has been lost, nothing can be done ...
New York Times | Detail

 Richard Armstrong Named Next Director of the Guggenheim
By ARTINFO NEW YORK—The board of trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has unanimously approved the appointment of Richard Armstrong as the foundation's new director.
ARTINFO | Detail

 Dancing With the Stars Returns: Lance Kills It, Brooke and Toni ...
Dancing With the Stars kicked off its three-night seventh-season premiere extravaganza tonight, with all the sequins, tuxes, pre-dance jitters, trips to the emergency room and Bruno Tonioli metaphors that such an endeavor entails.
E! Online | Detail

 People Profiles: Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg is the latest high-profile donor giving money to fight California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that would ban gay marriage in the state.
People Magazine | Detail

 60th Primetime Emmys
One question: Did Josh Groban owe the Emmy producers a huge favor? Because his performance of a medley of various TV theme show songs (The Simpsons, Friends, The Andy Griffith Show, Gilligan's Island, Golden Girls, South Park, Happy Days, ...
Gothamist | Detail

 Emmys elect to get political
BY MISHA DAVENPORT mdavenport@suntimes.com In case Americans needed reminders that we are in the midst of a presidential election, the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards were there Sunday night to beat the election drum again and again and again.
Chicago Sun-Times | Detail