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Innovation on display at Games Conference
(AP)
AP - Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives.
Authorities: Haim's name on illegal prescription
(AP)
AP - The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring.
Strong ratings for Leno's return to late-night
(AP)
AP - After a smashing return, Jay Leno appears headed to a battle with David Letterman for late-night television supremacy.
`South Park' begins 14th season by taking on Tiger
(AP)
AP - Golf clubs in hands or not, the kids of "South Park" are ready to take on Tiger Woods.
ABC's Kate Snow makes jump to NBC News
(AP)
AP - ABC News reporter and "Good Morning America" weekend host Kate Snow is jumping to NBC News.
The Stooges gain entry into Rock Hall — finally
(AP)
AP - Iggy Pop was starting to feel like the Susan Lucci of rock 'n' roll.
Guests for the Sunday TV news shows
(AP)
AP - Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
Hong Kong awards to honor Indian actor Bachchan
(AP)
AP - The Hong Kong International Film Festival plans to honor Indian screen legend Amitabh Bachchan with a lifetime achievement award at the event's Asian Film Awards.
Public Enemy's Chuck D still fighting the power
(Reuters)
Reuters - At the end of "Pirate Radio" -- the 2009 feature film about a '60s illegal rock 'n' roll radio station in Europe's North Sea -- an array of albums is displayed: iconic symbols of musical independence that bucked the status quo. Among the albums on display is Public Enemy's 1990 treatise, "Fear of a Black Planet."
Disney to close Zemeckis studio, lay off 450
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Walt Disney Co plans to close director Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital facility in Northern California, laying off 450 workers there, or more than 5 percent of its movie studio division.
Attic Theatre's 'Side by Side by Sondheim' Begins Limited Run
(Playbill)
Playbill - Prior to the Broadway arrival of Sondheim on Sondheim, the Attic Theatre in California presents the earlier Sondheim revue, Side by Side by Sondheim, beginning March 12.
Late Corey Haim linked to prescription drug ring
(AFP)
AFP - Prosecutors in California have said they are looking into a possible link between the death of Canadian actor Corey Haim and an illegal trade in prescription drugs.
Miu Miu's Regal Pop
(Fashion Wire Daily)
Fashion Wire Daily - It was 1960s modernism meets Louis XIV at the latest collection of Miu Miu, the final show of Paris fashion week that ended Wednesday evening, March 10.
Author Lewis equates Wall Street bonuses with "theft"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Author Michael Lewis, known for exposing the culture of excess at Solomon Brothers with his book "Liar's Poker," says Wall Street bonuses at banks bailed out by Washington are "a very elegant form of theft."
Fashion's latest fixation: 3D
(The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)
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