Tropical Storm Remnants Pound Eastern Seaboard

Tropical Storm Remnants Pound Eastern Seaboard Widespread Flood Watches in Place for Much of East Coast as Driving Rain, Winds Drench Region The remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole is drenching much of the eastern seaboard with driving rain and prompting widespread flood watches, reports CBS News weather anchor Dave Price. In south Florida, severe thunderstorms […]

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Box Office Weekend: A Christmas Carol Wins — And Loses

It’s Sunday morning in Hollywood, and the experts have declared the winners and losers of the weekend box office, for which the celebrity contenders were Jim Carrey in Disney’s A Christmas Carol, George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats and Cameron Diaz in The Box. Headline in The Wrap: “$31M Lump of Coal for ‘Christmas Carol’.” And from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood: “Happy Holidays?

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Five young adults charged in burglaries of celebrity homes

They’ve been called the Hollywood Hills Burglar Bunch and the Bling Ring. Now, five of the six young adults accused of burglarizing celebrity homes can be known as “booked.” “Shooting began several days ago [on the pilot] and will continue for the next few weeks,” E! told CNN

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Documents: ‘Balloon boy’ dad had hoax in mind, wife says

The wife of a Colorado father at the center of the “balloon boy” saga told authorities that the giant helium balloon was specifically created for a hoax to draw media attention, according to court documents released Friday. Mayumi Heene told Larimer County investigators that she and her husband, Richard Heene, knew that their 6-year-old son Falcon was hiding at their Fort Collins home the entire time, even as police and military scrambled to search for the boy, according to the documents.

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Google to launch music search service

Google plans to launch a music service, Wired.com has confirmed with sources familiar with the situation. Next to nothing is known about the service at this point, rumored to be called “Google Music,” “Google Audio,” or “One Box,” although we have confirmed that it will be announced next Wednesday, and that it will link out to two music services: Lala and iLike

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The Screening Room’s top 10 movie shoots from hell

Budgets spiraling out of control; cast and crew on the verge of collapse; sets destroyed: Just a few of the catastrophes to afflict the ill-fated productions in The Screening Room’s Top 10 movie shoots from hell. From “Cleopatra” to “Apocalypse Now,” these infamous productions have all been struck by extreme weather, tragedy, illness and sometimes death.

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