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Tensions mount inside actors union over contract
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES - Tensions within the Screen Actors Guild mounted on Monday as the union 's Hollywood-based leaders r...

Laurence Fishburne joining "CSI" cast
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES - Stage and screen star Laurence Fishburne 's last turn as a series regular on network television was...

Influential Brazilian singer-songwriter Caymmi dies
SAO PAULO - Brazilian singer-songwriter Dorival Caymmi, who rose to fame in the 1930s by writing a hit song for Carmen Miranda and becam...

New porn channel lets Canadians strut their stuff
By Ashleigh Patterson TORONTO - Canadians who may have become tired of being passed over as porn stars will have a new, home-grow...

Rhythm and blues pioneer Jerry Wexler dead at 91
By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES - Pioneering music executive Jerry Wexler, who helped build Atlantic Records into a rhythm and bl...

Guns N' Roses in talks for exclusive album release
By Ed Christman NEW YORK (Billboard) - The June leak of nine allegedly "mastered, finished " tracks from Guns N ' Roses ' long-de...

LL Cool J sees more music projects in his future
By Karen Jacobs ATLANTA - Rapper-actor LL Cool J finished his last album under a contract with Def Jam Records that spanned two d...

Gilmour goes for live glory in "Gdansk"
By Gary Graff DETROIT (Billboard) - David Gilmour 's upcoming concert album, "Live in Gdansk, " turned out a little different tha...

"Twilight" moves into "Potter's" old date
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The highly anticipated adaptation of the Stephenie Meyer teen vampire romance novel "Twilight " has b...

Rocker Jackson Browne sues McCain over a song
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES - Rock star Jackson Browne has sued U.S. presidential candidate John McCain for copyright infringemen...