http://www.thesunnews.com/766/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from TheSunNews.com en-us Copyright 2009 TheSunNews.com Ad Ops Test 60 07/10/09 00:49:51 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys online@MyrtleBeachOnline.com http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974924.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974924.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:04 EDT Weekly charts for the nation's most popular videos as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission:<p/>Top VHS Sales<p/>(Sales data compiled by Nielsen/VideoScan.) http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974926.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974926.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:04 EDT Weekly charts for the nation's best-selling recorded music as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission. (Platinum signifies more than 1 million copies sold; Gold signifies more than 500,000 copies sold.):<p/>Billboard Hot 100: Top 20<p/>(Airplay monitored by Nielsen/BDS. Sales data compiled by Nielsen/SoundScan.) http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974722.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974722.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:34 EDT Detectives investigating the death of Michael Jackson are looking at his prescription drug history and trying to talk with his numerous former doctors, the Los Angeles police chief said Thursday.<p/>Chief William Bratton told CNN that police are waiting for the coroner's report before ruling out any possibilities in their "comprehensive and far-reaching" investigation into the sudden death of the 50-year-old pop star two weeks ago.<p/>The coroner's report will determine the cause of death and hinges on time-consuming toxicology tests. http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974730.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974730.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:58 EDT The New York Philharmonic is headed to Cuba to explore the communist nation after being invited to perform there in the fall.<p/>Orchestra president Zarin Mehta says he's part of a delegation traveling to Havana on Friday. The delegation will examine Cuba's concert halls and hotels.<p/>The United States has restrictions on travel to Cuba. But orchestra officials say the U.S. government has agreed to grant them travel licenses for the tour. http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974608.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974608.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:59 EDT Patricia Arquette and Thomas Jane will remain married.<p/>Court records show the "Medium" star requested and was granted a dismissal of the couple's divorce case, which she filed in January.<p/>The one-page dismissal didn't indicate a reason for the 41-year-old actress seeking a dismissal. Records show her request was filed on Tuesday and approved on Thursday. http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974604.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974604.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:39 EDT A city council member on Thursday called on AEG Live to pay some of the estimated $1.4 million cost for policing Michael Jackson's memorial service at the Staples Center.<p/>Dennis Zine told Fox 11 that the city's taxpayers "are getting ripped off" because the owner-operator of the Staples Center profited by charging media up to $50,000 to use risers outside the venue.<p/>AEG President Tim Leiweke had said Zine was out of line for asking AEG to pay for policing because it helped solicit donors for the Los Angeles Lakers' NBA victory parade last month. http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974587.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974587.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:04 EDT David Arquette is going to live in a box in New York City to raise money for the hungry.<p/>The 37-year-old actor plans to stay in a Plexiglas box above the Madison Square Garden marquee on Tuesday and Wednesday to raise $250,000 for Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger relief charity. He'll stay in the box each day for about eight hours.<p/>Donations can come on site or through text messages or a Facebook page set up by Mars Inc., the company that makes Snickers candy bars. http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974539.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974539.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:39 EDT Even Michael Jackson knew the masks and veils would have to come off one day.<p/>After a lifetime of hiding from the media glare at the insistence of their impossibly famous father, Jackson's children are front and center. Though their inevitable debut came a way no one could have predicted, those close to Jackson and the family say his three kids may be better prepared for the onslaught of attention than anyone could expect.<p/>"They are going to grow up in the limelight," said Al Malnik, a former Jackson financial adviser and friend, "but I think because they way that Michael has brought them up and that they have the capacity to deal with it." http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974425.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974425.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:59 EDT Death won't still the voice of Billy Mays or his mighty powers of persuasion. Viewers will continue to find the boisterous, bearded TV pitchman hawking household products for the indefinite future. And at least one of his commercials is being introduced posthumously.<p/>"Just stretch, wrap and it fuses fast," says Mays, demonstrating a product called Mighty Tape on a kitchen drain pipe in the new commercial. Moments later, he's seen, still wearing his signature sport shirt and khaki slacks but accessorized with scuba gear, as he repairs a hole in another diver's air hose underwater using Mighty Tape.<p/>The commercial will begin airing July 20. Mays' advertising for other products in the Mighty brand line returned to the air earlier this week. The commercials were pulled after Mays' death June 28 of an apparent heart attack. http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974416.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974416.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:05 EDT Imagine rooting through a shoe box of faded photographs of folks you know or thought you knew. Memories tumble out in an almost dreamlike haze - sad, funny and more than a little wistful.<p/>Similar sensations abound while watching "Les Ephemeres," Ariane Mnouchkine's haunting - and lengthy - parade of vignettes that conjure up the past, particularly as it affects the present. This dazzling cavalcade of events is the opening attraction of Lincoln Center Festival 09, an arts celebration on view at various city venues through July 26.<p/>"Les Ephemeres," a collaborative effort between Mnouchkine and her more than three dozen actors, certainly is ambitious. Running nearly seven hours, the show is in French with English supertitles. It can be seen over two evenings or in one all-day marathon at the ornate Park Avenue Armory where Mnouchkine, a leading figure in the French avant-garde, has set up her Theatre du Soleil. Her makeshift performance space exudes a festive, circuslike atmosphere. http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974330.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974330.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:06 EDT George Clooney has toured the ruins of Italy's recent earthquake and told the survivors he'll shoot a film in their mountain region.<p/>The actor inspected crumbled buildings during a visit on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in L'Aquila. The April 6 quake left thousands homeless and killed nearly 300 people.<p/>Italy is holding the summit there to show solidarity with the victims. http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974274.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974274.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:35 EDT For several years now director Michael Bay has been the favorite whipping boy of movie fans and critics. The man behind "Armageddon," "Pearl Harbor," "Bad Boys" and "Bad Boys II" is regularly lambasted for his pumped-up, showboating style and utter lack of restraint. These stylistic tendencies haven't hurt him at the box office - most of his movies have earned hundreds of millions worldwide, making him one of the most consistently successful filmmakers in the last 10 or 15 years.<p/>The critics' appraisal of Bay has often been brutal. Salon.com's Charles Taylor called Bay's career "some sort of reverse triumph, the whomping emergence of illiterate filmmaking." In reviewing Bay's latest, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," David Denby of the New Yorker described the director as "stunningly, almost viciously, untalented."<p/>Bay has lashed out at his critics. When "Bad Boys II" met a hostile reception on 2003, he told reporters the movie's very existence was a pointed message to film reviewers, the brief content of which can be summed up as a crude verb describing coitus and the personal pronoun "you." He has said, in so many words, that critics are a bunch of elitist jerks who don't appreciate popular entertainment because their lofty opinions are so out of synch with audience taste. http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974186.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974186.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:41 EDT Michael Moore's latest documentary now has a title - and a theme that resonates with recession-weary audiences.<p/>Moore's look at the consequences of big business will be called "Capitalism: A Love Story." The documentary is due in theaters Oct. 2.<p/>Distributor Overture Films said "Capitalism" examines the disastrous effects of corporate profiteering. http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974044.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974044.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:00 EDT Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback<p/>1. "Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions) (NF-P)<p/>2. "My Sister's Keeper: A Novel" by Jodi Picoult (Pocket) (F-P) http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974045.html http://www.thesunnews.com/766/story/974045.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:00 EDT HARDCOVER FICTION<p/>1. "Swimsuit" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) (F-H)<p/>2. "Finger Lickin' Fifteen" by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's)