AP – The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors has voted to approve a plan to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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Screen Actors Guild votes to approve merger plan
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“Can you produce a killer video with a budget less than 750 euros?” That was the question new Dutch band Soulstar asked themselves. Well, with a lot of creativity, hard work and motivating the right people… Together with director Pol Cercós Güell from Barcelona they started storyboarding. A story about an artist trying to find [...]
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AP – The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors has voted to approve a plan to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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Screen Actors Guild votes to approve merger plan
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Things are going to start heating up on the Billboard 200 next week. On Nielsen SoundScan’s Building chart (below), we’re getting a sneak peak at what could debut in the Billboard 200′s top 10, and it’s looking like there may be up to five new albums taking a bow in the region.
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Debuts Poised to Litter Top 10 Next Week
AP – Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning composer who wrote scores for television and movies and worked with legendary musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, has died. He was 83.
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Grammy-winning composer Clare Fischer dead at 83
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Dutch pianist Ralph van Raat is determined to convert the world – or at least those of us who explore his extensive catalogue of Naxos CDs – to what he describes as “the classical music of today”.The man himself fell under the spell…
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Album Reviews: Arvo Part, Piano Music
Drew Carey recently split from his fiance of four years, Nicole Jaracz, but he has reportedly already moved on to bombshell babe Kelley Whilden.
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Drew Carey Rebounds With Blonde Bombshell
Reuters – Power couple Jay-Z and Beyonce joined a list of top music executives, led by Live Nation Entertainment chairman Irving Azoff, on Billboard magazine’s first Power 100 chart on Friday.
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Jay-Z, Beyonce make Billboard industry power list
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On the call, someone called ‘Ru’ was asked to provide an address for emergency responders.
By Kara Warner

Demi Moore with daughter Rumer Willis
Photo: Getty Images
Ever since news of Demi Moore’s hospitalization broke, more details have emerged each day to paint a clearer picture of the circumstances that led to the actress’ ambulance ride to the ER on Monday night.
Some reports have claimed Moore was inhaling nitrous oxide from aerosol cans, also known as whip-its, the night the 911 call was placed from her home in Los Angeles, the recording and details of which were released Friday (January 27). Several people were heard on the call describing various symptoms the actress was experiencing at the time, as well as a few comments that seemed to indicate that Moore’s friends were just learning of her alleged substance abuse.
Photos: Demi Moore through the years.
One question that is causing a buzz online is whether Moore’s 23-year-old daughter, Rumer Willis, was present during the ordeal. Careful listening of the 911 call reveals an exchange between one of the callers and someone named “Ru,” who is asked for the specific address and instructions for how the paramedics can get to the house.
“Hey, Ru, what’s the name at the gate so that we can buzz them in from here?” a man is heard asking on the call.
There has been no confirmation regarding Rumer’s presence at the scene, but she reportedly goes by the “Ru” nickname and references it on her Twitter account.
Sources told E! News that Moore’s three daughters are doing fine since their mom’s health scare. Rumer reportedly visited her mother several times at the hospital before she was discharged earlier this week. Tallulah, 17, is with her dad, Bruce Willis. “She’s doing great,” the source said. “Her grandmother [Bruce's mom] is also there with her.” Moore’s other daughter, 20-year-old Scout, goes to Brown University in Rhode Island and reportedly hasn’t been home since the incident.
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Demi Moore 911 Call: Was Rumer Willis There?
Effects work ‘frighteningly well’ but ‘premise is so devoutly ridiculous,’ critics say.
By Kara Warner

Sam Worthington in “Man on a Ledge”
Photo: Summit
If your impressions about the new action thriller “Man on a Ledge” are based on the film’s very-literal title, you’re very likely correct in assuming to know a decent amount about the film before entering the theater. “Ledge” is the story of ex-cop and fugitive Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington), whose seemingly obvious suicidal plan to jump off a building is slowly revealed to be something much more.
Thus far, the critical reception for the film is very different from initial audience reactions. The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer has “Ledge” at a 22 percent fresh rating from critics, versus a 65 percent fresh audience rating.
Read on to see what has the two viewing bodies so divided as we sift through the “Man on a Ledge” reviews:
The Premise
“It’s an arresting image, Sam Worthington out on that 40th-story ledge. He’s a fairly tough-looking guy, after all, and we know him best as the tooth-gritting blockbuster hero of ‘Avatar’ and ‘Clash of the Titans,’ so it’s head-spinning to see the man’s beefy figure as a speck hovering so precariously close to New York’s infinite sky. The camera swirls around Worthington’s disgraced former cop Nick Cassidy, inching out past that thin strip of architecture, then back in. What if he trips, or jumps? For a while, anything seems possible, and it’s both exhilarating and terrifying. Then the wool comes off, and it’s clear that director Asger Leth and screenwriter Pablo Fenjves have ambitions considerably less grand than their protagonist’s perch. Cassidy’s ledge game — with all the studio-unfriendly moral ambiguities it entails — is just a con, a photo op for the crowds, and Nick’s apparent desire to exit the material world is a front. What he truly, passionately wants to do is steal some jewelry.” — Andrew Lapin, NPR
The Impact of Practical Effect
“I, on the other hand, was gripping anything in reach, palms dripping, thinking I might not have survived the effects had they been 3-D. Though there were other production sites, serious time was spent actually shooting on that 14-inch ledge wrapping the 21st floor of the Roosevelt Hotel to create the vicarious sensation of being there. Which worked frighteningly well, at least for the vertiginous among us. Oh, that the actual human dynamics of the unfolding story could have been as dramatic, as on the edge as that ledge.” — Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
The Direction
“Mr. Leth, the son of renowned Danish documentarian Jorgen Leth, has directed only one other film, ‘Ghosts of Cit
Billboard brings you the 10 worst national anthem performances ever, after which you’re welcome to purge your ears by listening to the five all-time best.
Dick Kniss, a bassist who performed for five decades with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-wrote the John Denver hit “Sunshine on My Shoulders,” has died. He was 74.
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Peter, Paul & Mary Bassist Dick Kniss Dies
This weekend in 1964, Buck Owens had a very historic recording session, and the success he enjoyed with the material will not likely be duplicated by any other artist.
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Friday Flashback: A Double Shot of Buck Owens
Hong Kong-born and Yale-educated Perry So is thrilled to be back in the country, taking the podium with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra next Friday.It will be the orchestra’s first visit of the season and, as with the conductor’s…
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Conductor thrills to NZSO’s Chinese New Year celebration
It was 1982, or perhaps it was 1984, I can’t quite remember. Iva Davies, the frontman and mainstay of Australian synth-rockers Icehouse is a little foggy about the exact concert date too. One thing he does remember about their show…
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Icehouse: Warming to a new ice age
Gaultier designs a runway collection that pays homage to Amy Winehouse, but Winehouse’s dad is insulted. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/starr-raving
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Do you think Gaultier’s Amy Winehouse runway tribute was in bad taste?
On the heavily redacted recording, one of Moore’s friends argues with the dispatcher amid confusion over which agency should be sending paramedics.
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Demi Moore 911 call: ‘She smoked something’
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New Trent Reznor Interview
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The Cab/The Summer Set Tour Update #2
1) Drive-Thru Records
2) Lights
3) Two Lights
4) fun.
5) blink-182
6) Say Anything
7) Soundgarden
Set Your Goals
9) Anthony Green
10) Paramore
And there we have it: this week’s rankings. Hope everyone had a great week around the website, I know it’s been one of the more memorable for me. Hope you’re finding something great to listen to, and that everyone has a great weekend. And with that … I’m out.
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AP.net Artist Power Rankings (January 27th)
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Dick Kniss, longtime bassist for famed folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-writer of the John Denver hit ‘Sunshine on My Shoulders,’ passed away after a bout with pulmonary disease, tje Associated Press reports. He was 74 years old.
The famed trio’s Peter Yarrow said that Kniss was “our intrepid bass player for almost as long as we performed together.”
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Dick Kniss Dead: Peter, Paul and Mary Bassist and Co-Writer of ‘Sunshine on My Shoulders’ Dies at 74