Beastie Boy recovering from cancer surgery

Beastie Boy Adam "MCA" Yauch is recovering from surgery to treat a tumor and gearing up for radiation treatments, according to an e-mail he sent to his fans. Yauch recently sent the e-mail with the subject line “What I did over my summer vacation” after having revealed in July that he had a cancerous tumor in a salivary gland. “So I’m about a week and a half out of surgery now and rapidly recovering from it,” the e-mail said

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Box Office Weekend: G-Force Overruns Potter

Draco Malfoy and the slimy kids of Slytherin couldn’t have wreaked more damage on Harry Potter than a bunch of commando guinea pigs did to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince this weekend. G-Force, the live-action and CGI action comedy, earned $32.2 million this weekend at the North American box office, besting the $30 million take of the sixth Potter film, according to the usual movie-studio estimates of the weekend frame. Final numbers are posted Monday.

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How Terry Gilliam saved Heath Ledger’s final movie

Is there a filmmaker in the world with worse luck than Terry Gilliam? He was directing Heath Ledger in "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus," when the actor died — and it’s not the first time he has lost a leading man. Jean Rochefort didn’t die eight years ago, but Gilliam had to abandon “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” after a few days when 70-year-old star Jean Rochefort became seriously ill and a flash flood washed away the entire set.

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Jackson’s death stuns fans at Glastonbury

As the news of Michael Jackson’s death slowly filtered through the crowds at the world’s largest music festival this evening, there was a feeling of confusion and shock among fans. Festival goers at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England could not quite believe the news as it was sent by text message and email from friends and relatives on mobile phones. “It’s totally weird,” Sally Anne Aldous, 29, told CNN over the phone from Glastonbury.

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Million-selling artist intimidated by ‘Idol’

For someone who claims to be incredibly laid back, Jason Mraz is certainly piling up the accomplishments. The singer-songwriter was the recipient of the Hal David Starlight Award at last week’s Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee ceremony in New York. The honor typically goes to newcomers striking a chord in the music industry

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The Journalism of David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace was young enough when he published his first novel, The Broom of the System, in 1987, that critics who read his witty marathon sentences and then flipped to the author photo of a young man willing himself to look older — like every fake I.D. picture ever taken — were powerless: they had to dub him the next literary voice of his generation.

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Paul McCartney to give Mets’ home its first show

Paul McCartney, whose Beatles gave Shea Stadium its first concert in 1965, will inaugurate the New York Mets’ new home, Citi Field, with two shows next month, promoters said. McCartney’s Citi Field concerts are set for July 17 and 18, one year after he made a surprise guest appearance at Billy Joel’s “Last Play at Shea” show that closed the baseball stadium. “So to be the first to play this stadium is incredible,” McCartney said in the announcement

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