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Former US President Bill Clinton has put together a
record, 'The Bill Clinton Collection: Selections from the Clinton Music
Room', which contains a selection of his favorite hits. The tracks featured
on the album, include 'My Funny Valentine' by legendary jazz trumpet player
Miles Davis, Nina Simone's 'I Wish I knew How It Would Feel To Be Free'
and 'Chelsea Morning' by Judy Collins, the song he named his daughter
after. The CD is being produced by The William J. Clinton Presidential
Foundation, and will go on sale at the Clinton Museum Store, in Arkansas,
next month. Proceeds from the sales of the record will help fund various
charities Clinton is involved with, including HIV-Aids and economic empowerment
organizations.

Police are reopening the investigation into the death of Rolling
Stones legend Brian Jones after fresh evidence
suggests he was murdered. The guitarist's former girlfriend, Pat Andrews,
has handed over new information of events surrounding Jones' mysterious
death 36 years ago, when he allegedly drowned in his swimming pool at
his British countryside home. The 150-page report - compiled by a team
of private investigators - suggests the musician was murdered over a $14,000
debt. Andrews is now urging for Jones' body to be exhumed. She revealed
to Britain's Daily Express newspaper: "Disturbing new evidence has
emerged which merits a full new police investigation.". The new evidence
coincides with a new movie 'The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones'
which claims the star was killed by a builder, Frank Thorogood, who drowned
him over the debt. Andrews along with The Brian Jones Fan Club decided
to run its own investigations after they were approached by a new witness
who claimed to be working at Jones' home, Cotchford Farm in Sussex, on
the night of his death. The hired investigators - including a former Thames
Valley Police superintendent - claim to have found eight pieces of evidence
which disproves the coroner's original verdict of death by misadventure.
Club spokesperson Mr Hobley said: "We carried out an initial forensic
examination at the end of last year. From that we have approached the
Home Office and police and hope to get the case reopened and Brian's body
exhumed in the near future." Sussex police are investigating the
forensic team's findings before deciding whether to pursue the case further.

"No Direction Home", the first feature-length film biography
of Bob Dylan, will premiere this September, directed
by Martin Scorsese. The two-part film, which focuses on the singer-songwriter's
life and music from 1961-66, includes never-seen performance footage and
interviews. The film features previously unreleased footage from Bob Dylan's
groundbreaking live concerts, studio recording sessions and interviews.
The film's soundtrack, the 7th installment in the acclaimed Bob Dylan
bootleg series, contains 28 Bob Dylan tracks -- 26 of them previously
unreleased -- comprised of rare private recordings, live concert, television
and festival recordings, and 12 alternate takes of songs from his Columbia
LP recording sessions in New York and Nashville during this period. The
two-disc set is packaged in a double jewel case alongside a 60-page color
book in one hardback slipcase.
Christina Aguilera has joined the team of start already
signed up stars for the 'Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil' campaign, which
raises awareness of the spread of HIV and Aids among young people. Christina,
24, is joined by actors Penelope Cruz and Elijah Wood, rapper LL Cool
J, and model Cindy Crawford in starring in a series of high-profile TV
and magazine ads. Celebrities will be shown with duct tape across their
mouth or eyes to enforce the message 'Hear No Evil Speak No Evil' and
will wear 'empowerment tags', a pair of dog tags, one engraved with an
AIDS ribbon and one engraved with the words "Hear", "See"
or "Speak".
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GUNS N’ ROSES REVISITED, consisting of
original GN’R drummer Steven Adler and guitarist Tracii Guns, along
with Sheldon Tarsha (vocals), Keri Kelli (guitar) and Robbie Crane (bass)
had been booked to perform seven shows in Asia, spanning late August into
early September. Those dates are all cancelled Canadian Journalist Aaron
Small spoke with Tracii earlier today: “Sanctuary Management, who
handles Axl (Rose), threatened bloody murder. I thought it was great.
When I saw the logo they were using and the ad over there, it was killer!
How are we getting away with this? I don’t really have anything
to do with the band. Originally, the promoter asked Steven if he could
get Gilby (Clarke) and myself to come with him, so it was more like a
real Guns N’ Roses. But Gilby turned it down. He called me and said
he didn’t want to be involved with it. They offered me a lot of
money and I said, hell yeah. The easiest thing for me to do is play Guns
N’ Roses songs. Pay me and I’ll go play. I don’t have
very many scruples in the music business. Look, it’s there for the
taking. I don’t really care.”

Madonna fell from a new horse, she was not used to riding
and suffered major injuries.

Patricia Heaton: The Emmy-winning star of Everybody
Loves Raymond is finding someone else to love for TNT. Heaton will star
in the cable network's original movie The Engagement Ring as a woman who
learns the true value of love and friendship when she takes delivery of
lost mail that was intended for her mother. The missing missive comes
with a marriage proposal and the ring. Lainie Kazan and Vincent Spano
also star in the tale. Heaton last worked for TNT in 2004 when she starred
with Jeff Daniels in the remake of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl. She
earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for that work. The Engagement
Ring is already in production and should be ready for broadcast later
this year.

Oliver Stone has pleaded no contest in a Beverly Hills
Court this week after he was caught in possession of cannabis when his
car was pulled over by police at a drink-driving checkpoint on Hollywood's
Sunset Boulevard. Initially no charges were brought against him; however
Stone exhibited suspicious symptoms and was arrested. This is not the
first time the director has been caught with drugs - in 1999, police discovered
various substances, including cannabis, diet drug fenfluramine and anxiety
drug Meprobamate, when they pulled over his car in Los Angeles. 
Rumor has it that Oscar winner Julia Roberts will quit
making movies in order to pursue a Broadway career and handle family matters.
Her latest TV appearance will be in the new Dave Matthews Band video titled
Dreamgirl, which premieres on VH1 Wednesday, August 17. Roberts is shown
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Bon Jovi hits time square, then the road: The NJ boys
will give a performance at the Nokia Theatre Times Square one day before
their new Album “Have a nice day” hits the stores. Get a date
and join them on Sept. 19th, 9 pm ET, no matter where you live, this thing
will be simulcast live in movie theatres across US, on the AOL Music website
and XM Satellite Radio. And watch our for tourdates coming in fall !!!

SHARON STONE has been bombarded with so many bad pick
up lines over the years, that she is considering to write a book filled
with all of the quips. The thrice-divorced BASIC INSTINCT star admits
some of the lines she's found the most ridiculous have ended up luring
her in at some point. "I actually thought about writing a book (containing)
every line I've ever heard in my life. You wont believe the stuff people
say to you … some of them just walk right up say they wanna sleep
with you; Or they dumb stuff like 'You've seem like a sister to me.' And
then you think, 'Really? You sleep with your sister a lot? Ewww!'".

Actor-comedian Eddie Murphy's wife has filed for divorce,
citing irreconcilable differences. Murphy and his wife, Nicole,
married in 1993 and have been separated since July. They have four daughters
and one son, ages 3 to 15, according to divorce papers filed in Los Angeles
Superior Court. "The welfare of our children is our main concern,
and their best interest is our first priority," the 44-year-old actor
said in a statement issued through his publicist, Paul Bloch. Nicole is
apparently asking for both child and spousal support and half the couple's
assets.

Colin Farrell has won a preliminary injunction ruling
that the steamy sex video he filmed with Playboy model Nicole Narain,
cannot be sold, distributed or posted on the internet. The Irish singer
is suing Narain for breach of “oral” contract ($%#@) and invasion
of privacy. Farrell said in a statement: "We offered to drop the
case and not seek damages if she would join us in our action, but she
refused" The 14-minute tape shows a naked Narain performing positions
from the Kama Sutra while Farrell enjoys the view... doesn’t seem
all that bad to me; and for the record … why tape it if you don’t
want it to be seen? |