http://news.net/Copyright (c) 2012 Publishing Services International Limited. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks, brands and domain names are the property of their respective owners. A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations has sold for 150,000 pounds ($228,000) at a London auction. Sotheby's said the work, offered as part of a charity book sale jointly organized with t...http://news.net/article/293795/Entertainment2013-05-21 20:37:51 Bolivia's culture minister calls it actor-activist Sean Penn's "worst performance" ever. He isn't talking about a movie. Minister Pablo Groux is slamming Penn's proposal to a U.S. congressional subcommittee Monday that Bolivia be cut out of the Dakar motor sport rally unless...http://news.net/article/293881/Entertainment2013-05-21 21:49:57 Police in suburban Atlanta say rapper Chief Keef, whose name is Keith Cozart, has been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Dunwoody police spokesman Timothy Fecht says officers arrested Cozart after responding to a call about illegal drug activity at the Le Méridien...http://news.net/article/293751/Entertainment2013-05-21 19:22:05 Burt Bacharach knew writing a memoir would be emotional — not because of his never-heard backstage tales or his tumultuous marriages. He knew that being honest would force him to come to terms with the death of his daughter. "It was very tough because I had to revisit what that p...http://news.net/article/293695/Entertainment2013-05-21 18:40:24 CBS has taken the scheduled season-ending episode of "Mike & Molly" off the air because its plot line revolved around a tornado threatening the couple. The network said it replaced the comedy with a rerun on Monday out of sensitivity to victims of the deadly tornado in Oklahoma. CB...http://news.net/article/292825/Entertainment2013-05-21 01:31:11 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's sent a letter to Khloe Kardashian's (KLOH'-ee kar-DASH'-ee-uhnz) informing the reality star the logo on her T-shirt line may be violating copyright law. The governor confirmed his administration sent what he called a "pro forma" letter advising Kard...http://news.net/article/292586/Entertainment2013-05-20 22:33:48 An accounting executive for AEG Live LLC testified on Monday that the company spent $24 million producing Michael Jackson's ill-fated "This Is It" concerts. The tally involved expenses compiled through October 2009, roughly three months after the singer's death, said Julie Holla...http://news.net/article/292390/Entertainment2013-05-20 19:29:49 There's always glitz and glamour at Cannes, France, during its annual film festival, and it's no different this year. But there's still a heavy infusion of gold to come this week at Thursday's amfAR gala, which will treat its celebrity guests to 40 of the world's top models in "The Ultimate Gold Col...http://news.net/article/292405/Entertainment2013-05-20 19:49:50 Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. He had been stricken by bile duct cancer. Manzarek foun...http://news.net/article/292503/Entertainment2013-05-20 21:18:30 The Coen brothers' resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village serenaded Cannes with its period music and melancholy tale of a self-destructive, feline-toting musician. "Inside Llewyn Davis" was met rapturously at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered...http://news.net/article/291445/Entertainment2013-05-19 17:53:34 Sofia Coppola was just 8 years old when she first came to the Cannes Film Festival. Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, was there to premiere a work-in-progress cut of a film he had spent years wrestling with: "Apocalypse Now." "I have nice memories of Cannes," Coppola said in ...http://news.net/article/286868/Entertainment2013-05-16 18:46:35 Sydney Theatre Company (STC) has signed a 45-year lease with the NSW Government to secure its long-term future at Walsh Bay.Minister for the Arts George Souris on Wednesday announced the new lease and committed $5 million over 10 years to support the STC's Hickson Road and Wharf 4/5 theatres.The arr...http://news.net/article/294234/Entertainment2013-05-22 01:17:52 Rain has forced a last-minute change for an opening performance of the Come Out youth arts festival in Adelaide....http://news.net/article/294018/Entertainment2013-05-21 11:26:13 Police in suburban Atlanta say rapper Chief Keef, whose name is Keith Cozart, has been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Dunwoody police spokesman Timothy Fecht says officers arrested Cozart after responding to a call about illegal drug activity at the Le Méridien...http://news.net/article/293864/Entertainment2013-05-21 19:22:05 Ken Venturi was a 14-year-old with a camera trying to get a picture of Byron Nelson when he first met the golfer who would become a mentor and dear friend. "He was, like, getting under the ropes a little bit, " Nelson's widow, Peggy, recalled Saturday of that moment during the...http://news.net/article/293774/Entertainment2013-05-18 20:06:18 Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies, sports and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price. For t...http://news.net/article/293421/Entertainment2013-05-21 23:19:34 There was a movie star moment high above Melbourne on Tuesday as theatre promoters re-enacted one of cinema's most famous scenes....http://news.net/article/293326/Entertainment2013-05-21 09:25:00 Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He had until midnight Friday to produce those docum...http://news.net/article/293298/Entertainment2013-05-21 07:48:00 Bills defensive end Mario Williams isn't any closer to getting back his $785,000 diamond engagement ring from his former fiancee, Erin Marzouki. And Marzouki's attorney, Tony Buzbee, upped the ante on Friday by releasing a series of text messages he said were between his clien...http://news.net/article/293082/Entertainment2013-05-18 06:19:50 Former U.S. Open champion Ken Venturi has died just 11 days after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, says he died Friday afternoon in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for a spinal infection, pneumon...http://news.net/article/292675/Entertainment2013-05-18 02:11:44