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Today's Entertainment News: 'Titans' battles to No. 1 spot with $61.4 million 'Dynasty' oil tycoon John Forsythe dead at 92 New conductor rescues the Met's 'Traviata' Source: Merkerson leaving 'Law & Order' Lil Wayne thanks fans while launching new Web site Death threats prompt tighter security for Andrews BET nears deal to resurrect "The Game" "Titans" director underwhelmed by 3D conversion Chieftains' new album explores Irish-Mexican ties "Titans" takes lead at foreign box office "Red" a superb rendering of modern art history Soderbergh shoots 'secret' film in Sydney Back-to-Work, Not School, for Fall at Levi's Harryette Mullen wins $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize Fashion's latest fixation: 3D 'Titans' battles to No. 1 spot with $61.4 million Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:10 am PDT AP - The gods of Mount Olympus are the new rulers of the weekend box office. Full Story Top 'Dynasty' oil tycoon John Forsythe dead at 92 Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:15 pm PDT AP - John Forsythe, the handsome, smooth-voiced actor who made his fortune as the scheming oil tycoon in TV's "Dynasty" and the voice of the leader of "Charlie's Angels," has died after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 92. Full Story Top New conductor rescues the Met's 'Traviata' Sun, 4 Apr 2010 07:06 am PDT AP - After suffering the musical equivalent of a train wreck, the Metropolitan Opera got its revival of "La Traviata" back on track for the second performance by switching conductors. Full Story Top Source: Merkerson leaving 'Law & Order' Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:53 am PDT AP - S. Epatha Merkerson, the senior member of the "Law & Order" cast, is leaving after the show's current 20th season. Full Story Top Lil Wayne thanks fans while launching new Web site Fri, 2 Apr 2010 01:56 pm PDT AP - Lil Wayne wants his fans to know that his spirit and love will "never be confined to prison walls." Full Story Top Death threats prompt tighter security for Andrews Sat, 3 Apr 2010 01:18 am PDT AP - First she was secretly videotaped in the nude. Now she's receiving death threats. At least a dozen e-mails had been sent to a media outlet threatening ESPN reporter and "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Erin Andrews since September, her attorney Marshall Grossman said. Full Story Top BET nears deal to resurrect "The Game" Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:13 pm PDT Reuters - BET is inching closer to finalizing the deals for a new "Game." Full Story Top "Titans" director underwhelmed by 3D conversion Sun, 4 Apr 2010 11:37 pm PDT Reuters - Louis Leterrier, the French director behind the Ed Norton version of "The Incredible Hulk" and "Transporter 2," conquered the worldwide box office during the weekend with "Clash of the Titans." Full Story Top Chieftains' new album explores Irish-Mexican ties Sun, 4 Apr 2010 08:15 pm PDT Reuters - The musical border between Latin and Irish culture has been crossed often by artists from both sides of the divide. But the connection has rarely, if ever, been brought to light as carefully as the Chieftains have done with their new album, "San Patricio." Full Story Top "Titans" takes lead at foreign box office Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:21 pm PDT Reuters - "Clash of the Titans" ended the monthlong reign of "Alice in Wonderland" at the foreign box office during Easter weekend, becoming only the third title to take the crown this year. Full Story Top "Red" a superb rendering of modern art history Fri, 2 Apr 2010 02:55 pm PDT Reuters - "What do you see?" painter Mark Rothko (Alfred Molina) asks in the opening line of John Logan's new drama, "Red." It indeed is the central question, as this fascinating theatrical depiction of this complex figure at work should easily make audiences re-evaluate their notions about the artistic process. Full Story Top Soderbergh shoots 'secret' film in Sydney Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:43 pm PDT AFP - Hollywood director Steven Soderbergh has shot a 'secret' film in Australia about a glamorous couple who run a Sydney theatre troupe -- apparently inspired by Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton. Full Story Top Back-to-Work, Not School, for Fall at Levi's Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:55 am PDT Fashion Wire Daily - The mood at Levi's for Fall 2010 is distressing - but only when it comes to denim. Full Story Top Harryette Mullen wins $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:41 am PDT AP - Harryette Mullen has won a $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize for being a poet of "exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition." Full Story Top Fashion's latest fixation: 3D Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:49 am PST The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.) Full Story Top

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