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Dave Matthews Pays Tribute to Band Member

20 August 2008 9:20 AM, PDT

The show went on for the Dave Matthews Band on Tuesday night, with Matthews paying tribute from the stage to saxophonist LeRoi Moore, who died earlier in the day. "We all had some bad news today," Matthews told the sell-out crowd at the Staples Center in Los Angeles after the first song. "Our good friend LeRoi Moore passed on and gave his ghost up today and we will miss him forever." Fans shouted Moore's name in tribute as the band resumed playing. Two songs later, Matthews once again made reference to Moore, saying: "It's easier to leave than be left.

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Movie Reviews: Mirrors

19 August 2008 10:38 AM, PDT

The horror film Mirrors, starring Kiefer Sutherland of 24 fame, which opened without being screened for critics, was reviewed by them over the weekend. It received the expected pans. Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles Times called it "ridiculous" and added, "Mirrors reflects back nothing." Jeanette Catsoulis in the New York Times commented that Sutherland "is believably beleaguered, though not even as Jack Bauer did he ever pull a gun on a nun. It's good to see him stretch." But, addressing Sutherland, Roger Moore wrote in the Orlando Sentinel, "There's got to be more of an (more)

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Johnson's Kiss With Smith

20 August 2008 5:10 AM, PDT

Fashion designer Betsey Johnson once shared a passionate kiss with late model Anna Nicole Smith.

Smith died of an overdose in 2007. And Johnson insists that several years before the star's tragic death, the pair once enjoyed an intimate embrace following one of her fashion shows.

She tells New York gossip column PageSix, "I kissed Anna Nicole. She came to my rocker-chick show. She was wearing one of those dotted net see-through things with roses on her bullet bra underneath... It was when she was doing (dietary supplement) TrimSpa, and she looked really beautiful."

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Final Weekend Tracking: ‘Death Race’ may have slight advantage over ‘Tropic Thunder’; ‘House Bunny’ with likely $8M-$10M; ‘The Rocker’ seems headed for just $9M-$11M for 5 days!

19 August 2008 10:49 PM, PDT

Steve Mason is now on Facebook. There are 4 new wide releases this week, but only of them is likely to top $10M for the traditional 3-day weekend. The Jason Statham vehicle Death Race (Universal) seems to be getting some traction in industry tracking, although a huge breakout (more)

Steve Mason

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Update on the 'Child's Play' Remake

19 August 2008 11:46 PM, PDT

This reminds me of the battle that went on to get the remake of Friday The 13th on the big screen. After AICN posted their incredible interview with Child's Play creator Don Mancini and producer David Kirschner, we got in touch with Mancini who gave us an (more)

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On DVD: Lech Majewski, "Brand Upon the Brain!"

19 August 2008 6:35 AM, PDT

By Michael Atkinson

Who is Lech Majewski? Among other things, he's something of a newfound challenge for the critic and budding cinephile. A tireless and passionate Euro artiste of a kind that gets often relegated to the "underground" or "experimental" categories in this country, but who also employs old-fashioned surrealism (more)

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