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Today's Entertainment News: `This Is It' tops charts with $101M worldwide New film to sponsor Fox's 'Family Guy' special HBO filmmakers get inside Obama campaign Limbaugh: Obama wants to take big chunk of economy Cash bail offer to be filed for Polanski on Monday Founder of Dead Poets Society visits bards' graves Bad-guy president returning to Fox's "24" Morgan Freeman down with "Dirty" comedy "Twilight" sequel soundtrack hopes to make killing Hit streaming service Spotify eyes U.S. music fans Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl mark Berlin Wall's fall Scandal does not hurt David Letterman's ratings Oscar de la Renta Given "Super Star" Award Book: White House 'the American house next door' `This Is It' tops charts with $101M worldwide Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:45 pm PST AP - "Michael Jackson's This Is It" pulled in $101 million worldwide in its first five days, and distributor Sony is extending the farewell performance film beyond its planned two-week run. Full Story Top New film to sponsor Fox's 'Family Guy' special Sun, 1 Nov 2009 07:26 pm PST AP - Fox network says an upcoming movie has stepped in for Microsoft to sponsor next Sunday's "Family Guy" special. Full Story Top HBO filmmakers get inside Obama campaign Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:49 am PST AP - Pivotal presidential campaigns are frequently defined in retrospect by documentaries. Full Story Top Limbaugh: Obama wants to take big chunk of economy Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:35 am PST AP - Rush Limbaugh says President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul the health care system is a government attempt to seize control of a big chunk of the country's economy. Full Story Top Cash bail offer to be filed for Polanski on Monday Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:34 am PST AP - A French lawyer for director Roman Polanski, imprisoned in Switzerland, says a new bail offer will be filed Monday and it will be a "very, very significant" cash amount. Full Story Top Founder of Dead Poets Society visits bards' graves Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:11 pm PDT AP - On the big screen, the leader of the Dead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams. Full Story Top Bad-guy president returning to Fox's "24" Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:02 pm PST Reuters - One of "24's" favorite villains, former President Charles Logan, is coming back. Full Story Top Morgan Freeman down with "Dirty" comedy Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:01 pm PST Reuters - Morgan Freeman is attached to star in and executive produce an untitled comedy feature previously dubbed "Dirty Old Men." Full Story Top "Twilight" sequel soundtrack hopes to make killing Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:44 pm PST Reuters - Just in case you've been in a sight-, sound- and Twitter-deprivation tank for the past two years, here's the lowdown on the "Twilight" franchise: It's a series of four books written by Stephenie Meyer about Bella, a human girl who hearts Edward, a vampire boy. This is awkward, due to Edward's predilection for snacking on platelets, but also because high school relationships are invariably angsty and messy. Full Story Top Hit streaming service Spotify eyes U.S. music fans Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:26 pm PST Reuters - MTV Urge ... Yahoo Music Unlimited ... Virgin Digital ... Since 2003 -- when iTunes launched in the United States -- all of these digital music services have come and gone, without challenging Apple's market dominance, despite the backing of resource-rich parent companies. Full Story Top Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl mark Berlin Wall's fall Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:34 am PDT Reuters - George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl paid their respects to the ordinary people who were behind the peaceful revolution of 1989 that brought down the Berlin Wall at an emotional ceremony in Berlin on Saturday. Full Story Top Scandal does not hurt David Letterman's ratings Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:59 pm PST Reuters - Several weeks after David Letterman was shaken by a sex-and-extortion scandal, CBS' "Late Show With David Letterman" has shown little sign of weakening audience support. Full Story Top Oscar de la Renta Given "Super Star" Award Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:09 am PDT Fashion Wire Daily - In case you were wondering, before Oscar de la Renta turned to fashion, he was the proprietor of a hot Parisian nightclub, Le Sexy J'adore. Full Story Top Book: White House 'the American house next door' Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:16 am PDT AP - Lady Bird Johnson said walking through the White House was like walking "through history." Hillary Clinton called the home "a repository of America's storied past." Michelle Obama has called it "awe inspiring." Full Story Top

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