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Pepsi is sponsoring a two-hour contest special on the WB network in the fall where the top prize is a BILLION DOLLARS: The as-yet unnamed two-hour special promises to give contestants a shot at becoming a billionaire and is being produced by the same outfit behind the ABC hit Who …

A couple of days ago we mentioned the blockbuster hippie-fest Bonnaroo Music Festival coming to Tennessee this June – there’s another camp and jam extravaganza featuring some of the same artists coming to West Virginia in May: Thursday, May 15 to Sunday, May 18, 2003 7th Annual ALL GOOD MUSIC …

In its (totally legitimate) fight against real pirates – in this case Asian gangs – the Motion Picture Association is looking for informants: Hollywood is seeking informers to combat hi-tech and often heavily armed Asian pirate gangs, which are flooding the world with cheap DVDs and robbing U.S. cinema of …

While I am fully behind the War on Terror, I am absolutely against the War on Americans that is Patriot Act 2. So is law professor Anita Ramasastry: On February 7 of this year, a January 9 draft of Patriot II was revealed to the public – but not by …

The poets, the celebs, the musicians all have large anti-war segments. Good for them – war in general is bad. But THIS SPECIFIC war isn’t a generic war, isn’t Vietnam or imperialism, or for the corporations, or some vague aggressive muscle-flexing. It’s proactive self-defense catalyzed by the hideous shock of …

Own a label? Interested in starting one? Maybe you’re just interested in how indies operate – if so, check out this program in LA on the 26th: The National Association of Record Industry Professionals presents: “INDEPENDENTS’ DAY: Indy Labels Charting A New Standard For Success” Managing independent labels to stability …

AC/DC will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10. To celebrate, Epic is rereleasing their entire AC/DC catalog AND giving away tickets to the only AC/DC show in the US this year: AC/DC TO MAKE THEIR ONLY US PERFORMANCE FOR 2003 ON MARCH 11TH! …

For a show whose premise was to turn the tables on grasping gold diggers by faking a $50 million fortune, Joe Millionaire sure went the way of a Disney fairy tale at the end. The masquerading lummox had to choose between Sarah the bitch, and Zora the schoolteacher: sophisticated, blonde, …

Fed up with the conservative “monlogue” on national talk radio, a group of $$ libs is tryong to create its own network starring Al Franken: The group, led by Sheldon and Anita Drobny, venture capitalists from Chicago who have been major campaign donors for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, is …

Brendan I. Koerner writes in the Washinton Monthly that Democrats are smooching entertainment industry glute to their own and the country’s detriment: These proposed laws are bad enough for consumers. But the greater evil is their long-term impact on economic growth. By yielding to Big Entertainment’s every whim, Democrats are …