HL’s Entertainment Blog

MicroStrategy Announces Record Revenues of $351 Million in 2007 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
MicroStrategy® Incorporated , a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced financial results for the three-month period ended December 31, 2007 .

Police continue hunt for killers of 31-year-old North Hollywood man (Los Angeles Daily News)
NORTH HOLLYWOOD – Officials today were comparing six 9 mm shell casings found at two separate crime scenes with the hope they will lead to the killer of a 31-year-old man shot in a drive-by, a detective said today.

E! News Anchor Giuliana Rancic Dishes on Young Hollywood and Marriage to TV's First Apprentice (PR.com)
Giuliana Rancic On January third, E! News Anchor Giuliana Rancic was an hour late for our interview. Not because tardiness is something of which she makes a practice. Giuliana is known in industry circles as being a meticulous professional. January third was the day that the news of Britney Spears’s infamous child custody stand off, emotional breakdown and subsequent ambulance ride to Los …

Weekend Beat/LIFESTYLE: Overseas, it's cool to eat Japanese (Asahi.com)
Japanese food and Japanese cooking ingredients are rapidly becoming worldwide staples. The Japanese food boom that started in Europe is spreading through Asia, Russia, the Middle East–just about everywhere, in fact, where economic growth is accompanied by a rising preoccupation with healthy dining.

Entertainment Partners buys Axium assets (Los Angeles Times)
Less than a month after Axium International Inc. collapsed, the Hollywood payroll services company's remaining assets were sold at auction Thursday for $7.05 million to Entertainment Partners, one of its former competitors.

Hollywood A-listers pressure TV shows to nix Ledger drug video (New Kerala)
Washington, Feb 1 : Continuous pressure from some of Hollywood's biggest names forced Entertainment Tonight and The Insider to nix a video allegedly showing Heath Ledger on a drugs binge, it has been revealed.

Television – Entertainment (Scoop.co.nz)
No Country for Old Men is a great book and author Cormac McCarthy is a brave man for giving Hollywood another bite of a book after All the Pretty Horses.

More News (San Bernardino Sun)
In the movie "The Bucket List," Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play dying men who make a list of madcap things to do before they kick the bucket. And then they do them.

Striking: The Real Hollywood (Newsweek)
Hollywood's Secrets: What the picket lines reveal.

Movie Star, Inc. Announces Completion of Frederick's of Hollywood Merger and $20 Million Rights Offering; Effects 1 … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES—-Movie Star, Inc. and FOH Holdings, Inc. , the parent company of Frederick's of Hollywood, Inc., announced today the completion of their merger, a $20 million rights offering and a one-for-two reverse stock split.

Directors' deal with Hollywood studios unanimously recommended; members must now ratify
LOS ANGELES : The board of directors of the Directors Guild of America voted unanimously Sunday to recommend ratification of a deal with Hollywood studios.

Restaurant inspections find more making the grade
Jose Cervantez's last words to the health inspector hung in the air like the smell of diced onions and garlic he had just sauteed.

Australians jailed in bungled burglary
Two Australian robbers were sentenced Tuesday for their April Fools Day heist at the Cuckoo Restaurant, where they thought they were hauling away a big sack of cash that turned out to be bread rolls.

GM Style event kicks off Detroit auto show
Former Detroit Lions' great Robert Porcher summed it up best: "I hate when people say this doesn't seem like Detroit.

Heath Ledger video pulled from ‘Entertainment Tonight after Hollywood lobbying effort (The Daily American)
NEW YORK (AP) – It was a striking example of Hollywood protecting its own: After an aggressive lobby from powerful film industry figures, “Entertainment Tonight” decided against airing a video that shows the late Heath Ledger hanging out at a party where drugs were being taken.

UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News (UPI)
Celebrities helped nix Heath tape … McCartney denies heart surgery report … 'Juno' passes $100M mark … Actress Julie Christie weds … News from United Press International.

Is Aurora theater ready for its close-up?
Courier News – Entertainment … Biograph Theatre where Dillinger was killed in 1934. file | The Courier News … that he is glad to see the painstakingly preserved theater appreciated by Hollywood …

Pregnant Jessica on the red carpet
Western Telegraph – Entertainment News … Pregnant Jessica Alba was positively glowing when she hit the red carpet in Hollywood for the premiere of her new film …