Newark Mayor Quotes Jay-Z While Addressing Hurricane Hype (Video)

Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker didn't mince words throughout a Piers Morgan Tonight appearance Monday when requested when the media and native government authorities had overhyped Hurricane Irene. Going for a signal from Jay-Z's "99 Problems" song, the mayor stated, "For all of us still within the trenches trying to help individuals out, there's an audio lesson that goes, 'I've got 99 problems which's not just one.' "our editor recommendsBox Office Report: Hurricane Irene Takes $25 Mil Bite From Box OfficeDirecTV Launches Hurricane Irene Information ChannelBox Office Update: 'The Help' Braves Hurricane Irene to remain at No. 1Hurricane Irene Bumps Up Rankings, Website Traffic for that Weather ChannelRelated Subjects•Hurricane Irene Shops like the Washington Publish, the Daily Animal and also the Huffington Publish have asked if the storm was blown from proportion a few days ago, thinking about the hurricane was downgraded before landfall and didn't cause severe damage in New You are able to City as anticipated. But Booker, who notoriously shoveled citizens from a significant snow storm last December, stated the alerts were of greater help than harm, "Individuals debates in my experience are academic, we have 1000's of individuals without energy, we have those who are coping with surges, sewage within their houses. "There's a genuine crisis on our hands and that i'm happy the Leader from the U . s . States, our governor yet others known as a condition of emergency because in my opinion it's always better to be ready to have an emergency and never have one than come with an emergency and never be ready.Inch Booker also stated that although social networking is helpful in problems, it doesn't replace an action plan, "Social networking is a superb tool. It shouldn't replace boots on the floor. I was literally available knocking on doorways in areas we thought would ton, getting direct face-to-face conversations with citizens. "It's a effective, effective tool that i can have the ability to make contact with hundreds of 1000's of my citizens and that i can crowd source methods I possibly could not have done a couple of years back.Inch Booker has nearly 1.a million Twitter fans and most 51,000 "likes" on Facebook. Related Subjects Jay-Z Piers Morgan Hurricane Irene

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Discovery Headquarters Evacuated After Earthquake

NEW YORK - The Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. was evacuated after a 5.9 earthquake hit Virginia Tuesday afternoon, with tremors felt as far as New York City. "We evacuated and sent everyone home for the day," a Discovery Communications spokeswoman told The Hollywood Reporter. The cable networks juggernaut employs 1,500 there. "No reports yet of any damage or injuries," she added. Comcast's headquarters in Philadelphia also allowed its employees to go home, closing for the rest of the day Tuesday. "Out of an abundance of caution, we did allow people to go home," a spokeswoman said. "There does not appear to be any damage and no injuries. We are just being cautious and trying to be considerate of our employees." Some members of the Washington, DC government relations staff for cable giant Comcast and its entertainment firm NBCUniversal also left their building a block away from the Capitol, but it wasn't formally evacuated, according to a spokeswoman. She said staff started trickling back in after the quake. Contacts said cell phone service was disrupted in parts of the East Coast immediately after the earthquake, but seemed to be better soon thereafter. Studio and stage operators in New York said their operations were hardly affected by the quake. "Steiner Studios chose to briefly evacuate its building as a precautionary measure while its resident engineer verified that there was no damage," a spokeswoman for the big Brooklyn studio said. Related Topics

AEG bows Axs ticketing venture

AEG officially steps into the ticketing fray this week with the initial rollout of Axs.com, a ducat service in which the venue and concert promotion giant is partnered with Outbox Technologies. So-called "white label," venue-based, online-driven sales strategy will seek to take a bite out of competitor Ticketmaster's centralized approach. The partnership with Outbox "delivers technology that gives us flexibility to sell, market and package in lots of different ways," said AEG senior VP of digital Todd Sims. "We're looking at creating digital and mobile platforms that leverage our assets." Proprietary online sales will begin at Axs.com with a group of forthcoming shows at two AEG venues, Denver's Ogden Theater and Bluebird Theater. Dates will go on sale this Saturday. Tickets will be sold under both Axs and venue brands. "The consumer can transact with a venue brand, look and feel," Sims said. "There's a lot of brand loyalty with particular venues." Service will be introduced at San Francisco's Warfield and Regency Ballroom later this year and will expand to other U.S. and international markets and sales at larger venues, and AEG sports franchises, through 2012. Specifically addressing frequently voiced consumer gripes about Ticketmaster's service, Axs will show the full ticket price and eschew home-printing fees. Availabilities will be updated in real time on the Axs website. Consumers will be able to opt for mail, will-call or eticket delivery. Fans can also share ticketing info with friends on Facebook. AEG will establish Axs-branded mobile ticketing services this year and a video content service due next year. Earlier this month, AEG appointed Bryan Perez, formerly topper at Live Nation's digital division, as president of digital, ticketing and media. Last year, an antitrust settlement with the Justice Dept. that set up approval of the Ticketmaster-Live Nation Entertainment merger contained a proviso for just this sort of competitive venture (Daily Variety, Jan. 26, 2010). Settlement-mandated licensing of Ticketmaster's ticketing software to AEG is rendered moot with the establishment of Axs. Sims said the transition from the Ticketmaster platform to Axs will be completed on a market-by-market and venue-by-venue basis over the next 18 months. AEG was Ticketmaster's No. 1 client in 2010, accounting for $55 million in service fees, according to the Wall Street Journal. Montreal-based Outbox, headed by former Ticketmaster CEO Fred Rosen, announced its plans to launch a ticketing service with AEG last year (Daily Variety, Oct. 10). AEG's venues include L.A.'s Staples Center, Nokia Theater and Club Nokia, New York's Best Buy Theater and London's O2 Arena. Company's Goldenvoice division mounts the annual Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Hot Trailer: 'Johnny British Reborn'

Universal Pictures and dealing Title are out with a brand new trailer for Johnny British Reborn, the fumbling spy character performed by Rowan Atkinson. Rosamund Pike and Dominic West also star. The film is going to be launched October 28. Why's the studio making another installment of the franchise? Though Atkinson's little-known in america, the 2003 original made $161 million worldwide, and $132 million was overseas revenue. Oliver Parker directed that one.

'West Memphis 3' Freed After Plea Deal, And Toronto-Bound Docu Directors Need Ending Change

UPDATE: The West Memphis 3, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were just freed in an Arkansas hearing after being in prison 18 years for the murder of three children in 1993. The three were freed after pleading guilty and drawing a sentence equal to the time they already served. The original conviction, which was derived despite any physical evidence tying the trio to the murders, became a cause celebre and the West Memphis 3 have received moral and financial support from the likes of The Hobbit director Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Johnny Depp, Eddie Vedder and Natalie Maines. The case has also be the subject of two Paradise Lost HBO documentaries by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. A third installment will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month, followed by the New York Film Festival and a January airing on HBO. Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh To Reveal Financial And Legal Support For 'West Memphis 3' Freedom Effort EARLIER, AUGUST 18, 8:20 PM EXCLUSIVE: It's just days before the directors locktheir third documentary on the "West Memphis 3" for premieres at the Toronto and New York Film Festivals. But Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory helmers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky raced to Arkansas to prepare to add a new ending. They'll bring their camera Friday morning to a hearing expected to end with the freedom of Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin, who spent 18 years in prisonon charges they brutally murdered three 8-year old boys in 1993. The first two HBO documentaries that Berlinger and Sinofsky made on the case stirred international outrage over what many feel was a miscarriage of justice and a conviction on flimsy evidence. Echols drew the death penalty and the other two received life sentences even though there was no physical evidence tying them to a crime allegedly committed when they were 18. The jury found them guilty based largely on a prosecutor's scenario that the teens killed as part of a satanic ritual, citing their penchant for wearing dark clothes, listening to heavy metal Metallica songs, and reading Stephen King horror novels as proof of a dark state of mind. Though it took three films, Berlinger and Sinofsky are about to achieve something similar to what Errol Morris accomplished with his 1988 documentary Thin Blue Line, which led to a death sentence being overturned for Randall Adams, who had been convicted of murdering a Dallas policeman in 1976. HBO's broadcast of the first two Paradise Lost led to moral and financial support for the West Memphis 3 from all over the world, including the likes of Johnny Depp, Pearl Jams Eddie Vedder and Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines. The filmmakers said they weren't going to predict what will happen in the morning, but widespread reports and quotes from even the parents of the victims say the West Memphis 3 will be freed shortly. A case that seemed weak in the first film has gotten weaker with the introduction of DNA evidence that doesn't match that of the three who were convicted. Berlinger and Sinofsky did say they will happily change their ending. We always lamented the fact that we had to keep making sequels to this horrifying real life story, Berlinger told me after landing in Arkansas. It's the West Memphis 3, and so stopping at three films seems right. We have just enough time to include what happens in the ending of the film, and its the most incredible feeling knowing that your work had an impact. Berlinger said that when he and Sinofsky were hired to document the original trial, they had only been sent a press clipping about the case by HBO exec Sheila Nevins. It seemed an open and shut case. The crime was brutal--the 8-year-olds were discovered hog-tied and mutilated in a drainage ditch--and since it closely followed the murder of a 2-year old in England by 10-year olds, the filmmakers went to Arkansas to make a movie about the psychology of young killers. Based on the article, we wanted to tell a story of disaffected youth, Berlinger said. How could three kids be so rotten and do such a thing as murderthree children? Then we met Damien and watched what was going on, and quickly realized we were in the midst of an incredible miscarriage of justice. It was a lethal brew. The local press found it much easier to tell a devil worshiping story than to do hard journalism, and in a Bible-thumping part of the country,prosecutors painted this picture of satanic panic. It led to the convictions." The first Paradise Lost created a visual record of a capital trial short on evidence but rife with allegations that police coerced damning testimony; there werealso allegations of jury misconduct serious enough to have warranted a mistrial. When the documentary first aired, the reaction was mild, Berlinger said. But the Internet changed all that. The film got glowing reviews, but never went from the entertainment page to the editorial page, Berlinger said. But that was just when the Internet started being used as this primitive social media tool, and an international movement sprang up. Damien in some ways was his own worst enemy. He was kind of a narcissistic teen who enjoyed the attention because he didn't think it was possible he could be convicted. He was an outsider who would have been normal in New York or LA, but in this fundamentalist religious community, dressing in black and listening to heavy metal made him a weirdo. He was actually a super intelligent kids who just danced to a different tune and rubbed some people the wrong way. The reason people like Vedder and Depp related to him, and the reason why Metallica lent us their music for the film [that relationship led Berlinger and Sinofsky to direct the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster] was they too felt like the freak, the outsider, in high school. The idea that in the right circumstance anyone like this could be on death row was appalling. There was no excuse for what went on in this case. When you sentence someone to death, it has to be beyond all reasonable doubt. This was a weak case. We thought the first film would change things, and then we made a second one, certain it would blow the doors off the case. But the wheels of justice moved so slowly while these guys were left to rot in jail. The directors are crossing their fingers tonight that the trial ends with three men exonerated by tomorrow afternoon. We dont want to come off arrogant or like were patting ourselves on the back," Berlinger said when I asked if the first two films were responsible for what is expected to happen tomorrow morning. "This outcome is due to help from a lot of people. But Damien says in Paradise Lost 3 that he literally would have been dead if not for these films; he said his appeals were exhausted, nobody was coming to his defense and there would have been no funds to investigate new evidence that helped delay delivery of his death sentence. Bruce and I feel grateful to have served as the lucky stewards of a story that just had to be told. But we also believe the films kept these guys alive. Guys like Vedder and Depp funded this case because they saw Paradise Lost and were outraged. Berlinger said the film was also the catalyst for Eccols meeting his wife, Lorri Davis, a Brooklyn architect who saw the first film at a MOMA screening in 1996. She was blown away, started writing to Damien, visited him, and married him on death row, Berlinger said. She spent 14 years fighting for his life, and she was so instrumental in all this happening.

VIDEO: The Kinetic King Constitutes a Triumphant Comeback on America's Got Talent

Kinetic King Two days after his train-wreck performance on America's Got Talent, the guy to whom things are a domino, Kinetic King, could accomplish his behave as intended when he was cut back for Tuesday's wild-card round. His style of stays, cups and strings flattened inside a squence of events also it was ... type of leisurely and anti-climactic? Whatever. A reduced pace is preferable to an autumn on a person's face. VIDEO: A choir that inspired Glee works on America's Got Talent Elsewhere, the Summerwind Skippers stunned using their Double Nederlander-on-fire act. Free Airline Springfield Dance Team's Joker-inspired routine occured back substantially by copyright ("You shouldn't be so serious!" seemed a Heath Ledger-alike sample), and Landon Swank ongoing possessing his pop-culture slot from the most sexy Houdini rip-off ever. A couple of swipes were taken at Piers Morgan over suggestions of his participation in phone-hacking. Lighthearted chuckles abounded. VIDEO: America's Got Talent presents visual nonsense, names its Top 48 Morgan's most open critic was stand-up comic J. Chris Newberg, who spent his entire act roasted the judge ("Anybody within this business will explain that you are nobody unless of course you have been insulted with a nobody on the reality show. So Piers, appreciate being my nobody.") As Morgan may be the type of individual who claims that wacky functions like Individuals Funny Little People create a "mockery" of the show that's not so serious to begin with, and somebody that states, "This isn't personal, it's business" to children (which was his reason behind buzzing the of course cloying Chippettes ringtones Avery and also the Calico Hearts), he warrants whatever flak he will get. VIDEO: America's Got Talent's triumph from the parrot spirit Browse the Kinetic King's triumph:

UFC on Versus 5 Hardy vs Lytle

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Wire Actress Plans To Plead Guilty In Drug Case

BALTIMORE, Md. -- An actress who played a Baltimore drug gang assassin in HBOs The Wire is expected to plead guilty Monday in a drug conspiracy case. Felicia Snoop Pearson, 31, is scheduled to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin, a day before her trial was set to begin, attorney Benjamin C. Sutley said. Pearson was one of 64 people charged in March in Operation Usual Suspects, a joint state-federal prosecution of an alleged east Baltimore drug gang. The federal indictment states that since 2008, members of the conspiracy bought heroin from New York and marijuana from California and sold the drugs on the streets of Baltimore. As part of the conspiracy, the indictment alleges,members discussed how those who failed to perform required tasks were dealt with violently. Pearson did not play a significant role in the alleged conspiracy under scrutiny, and she decided to enter the plea to rid herself of the burden of dealing with the charges, Sutley said. More than anything she wanted to close this matter and move on, Sutley said. The attorney said Pearson was familiar with some people involved in the wider case not necessarily her co-defendants who helped take care of Pearson when she was a teen. She learned a valuable lesson about how some loyalties you keep and others drag you down, Sutley said. He expected Pearson to receive probation and he planned to ask the judge to allow her to travel out of the state to pursue her acting career. The Wire, which ran from 2002 to 2008, was filmed in Baltimore and put a spotlight on the citys struggle with poverty and drug violence through the stories of the citys police, drug organizations, schools, politicians and media. Pearsons character, which shares the nickname Snoop, knocks off several people for the fictitious Stanfield drug gang. This was not Pearsons first brush with the law. She was convicted of second-degree murder in a slaying committed when she was 14. She served five years of an eight-year sentence and was released in 2000. Pearson was arrested on a minor drug charge in 2008 when police went to her home to pick her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial. She was found not guilty. Copyright 2011 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Is Martin Lawrence Coming back to TV?

Martin Lawrence Martin Lawrence might be coming back towards the small screen 14 years following the finish of his self-entitled Fox comedy, Vulture reviews. Martin Lawrence and longtime girlfriend get married Lawrence, 46, is within discussions with CBS for any deal that will begin to see the actor and comedian star in and executive-produce their own series for that network. The show, without any author attached, could be created by CBS Television Galleries and may likely debut sometime throughout the 2012-2013 TV season. Lawrence grew to become an outbreak star about the Fox sitcom, Martin, which went from 1992 to 1997. After departing the series, which still endures in reruns on Wager, he went onto star such film franchises badly Boys and Large Momma's House. Lawrence seemed to be a set regular about the final season of What's Happening Now!! and presently executive-produces the Wager original series Love That Girl! Do you want to see Lawrence back on television?

Cha Cha From 'Grease' Dies at 63

Annette Charles, most widely known on her role as Cha Cha DiGregorio in 'Grease,' died last evening in her own home in La because of complications from cancer. Based on Access Hollywood, Annette's mother, Mary Cardona, stated that her daughter died after being put in the hospital for roughly per month. Charles also made an appearance in Television shows like 'Magnum P.I.' and 'The Incredible Hulk' series. All of us recall the legendary dance scene where Cha Cha arrives and steals the show. You should check out a clip from it below. Image thanks to YouTube