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Entertainment is a leisure activity consisting of an event and an audience that views the event and participates. This participation can be subtle, as in Theatres: Film, Opera or stageshows, or Orchestral symphony concerts wherein the applause due the performance or performing artists would be bad manners. In contrast, the sports entertainment industry feeds off audience participation— who can imagine the strange event attending a pro-wrestling bout, basketball or baseball game without cheering or booing the participants would experentially being happy.
The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry, and one distinction between what is meant by the term is the voluntary participation of the party being entertained, which may be passive (Opera) or active (Frantic shoot-em-up computer games) and the whole gamut of industry supported diversions in between (Baseball, Concerts, Football, Books, Television, film , striptease, and events like Karaoke).
Recreation, play, reading, and art appreciation may in some instances be confused with entertainment, but the difference is elementary—entertainments take two or more— even if one of the participants is a programmer for the obsolescent Amiga computer system who now happens to be deceased. Without the 'performance' of the artist and the participation of the viewer the event would and could not occur.
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Jackson's father seeks allowance
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:45:13 -0000
Joe Jackson asks for an allowance from the estate of his late son Michael, saying the star supported him before he died.
Aretha to perform at Motown gala
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:12:00 -0000
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:02:15 -0000
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FunnyorDie.com: 'SNL' for the online crowd
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800
The sketch comedy website started as a lark for Will Ferrell and his friends. Now it's become a brand-name powerhouse Second in a series of occasional articles about how alternative comedy is fueling Hollywood.
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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:19:59 -0800
Pre-release surveys had indicated the movie would open to at least $40 million domestically over its first three days.
Beatles catalog is temporarily banned from music website BlueBeat
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800
Capitol Records this week filed a suit against BlueBeat, which says that songs produced by digital regeneration are akin to songs performed by cover bands and do not run afoul of copyright law. A federal court in Los Angeles this week issued a temporary restraining order against a music website that recently had been offering the entire Beatles catalog for downloading at 25 cents per song. The Santa Cruz-based BlueBeat earlier in the week was hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit by EMI's Capitol Records, the group's U.S. label.
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By CHRIS BRUMMITT Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:36:38 -0000
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders - and tattoos - exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts....
Joe Jackson seeks stipend from Michael's estate
By ANTHONY McCARTNEY Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:22:12 -0000
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Jackson's father is seeking an allowance from his son's estate to help cover expenses that exceed $15,000 a month, according to court documents filed Friday. The request seeking an unspecified amount for Joe Jackson was filed by lawyer Brian Oxman, who said there was no apparent reason for the administrators of the estate to not seek an allowance for the Jackson family patriarch....
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The world that Stanley evokes is fast fading. It's neither an insult nor a joke to call him the Last Hillbilly. He doesn't mind the word, he says, although now he's proud to be called Dr. Stanley, in acknowledgement of the honorary degree he received from Lincoln Memorial University in 1976. In his singing, songwriting, and playing, you hear the sounds of a world gone by, and you hear it plainly in the wistful tone of this account. "We were the last generation from these mountains to live from the earth," he says. "It was a hard life and there was a lot of suffering. But the music we made couldn't have come from any other place or time. The suffering was part of what made the music strong, and I reckon that's why it's lasted … What's real doesn't die."
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Next up: Jeong Ji Hoon, a.k.a. Rain, a pop superstar in much of Asia but still little-known on the global stage. On Nov. 25, Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers will release their latest big-budget martial-arts thriller, , starring Jeong as the title character, who seeks revenge on the secret society that raised and trained him and killed his best friend.
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