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Jennifer Lopez is negotiating to star in “The Chambermaid,” a modern retelling of the Cinderella story. John Hughes, best known as the director of such dramas as “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” will write and produce the romantic comedy for Revolution Studios, with a tentative start date of winter 2002. Hughes was also initially set to direct the film, which would have been his first time behind the camera since 1991’s “Curly Sue.” Lopez will play a young dreamer who takes a job as a chambermaid in a luxury hotel in an attempt to better her life.… Read more »

After nine on-and-off years, Emo-rock trailblazers Sunny Day Real Estate have called it quits. The band had been at work on the follow-up to last year’s The Rising Tide but, because of business woes, has decided not to continue. According to the band’s statement on its official Web site (www.sunnydayrealestate.net), a “string of bad luck” with management companies and Arista Records ceasing to distribute the band’s label Time Bomb Recordings made a “European tour and advertising for a new album near impossible. As frustrations built, progress on the new album became stagnant at times. Not wanting to build personal tensions,”… Read more »

Jon Bon Jovi is to follow in the footsteps of Mother Teresa and Kermit The Frog – the rock superstar is to address the famed Oxford Union debating society. Jon Bon Jovi, more used to performing before crowds of up to 60,000 wildly cheering fans in the world’s biggest stadiums, will talk to the august chamber in one of Britain’s most famous universities on June 15. “I do have a bit of experience performing in front of crowds but this audience does present a whole new set of challenges,” he said in a statement on Thursday. “In a way, that’s… Read more »

Thousands turned out Saturday for the opening of a city festival despite calls from some black activists for a boycott of the event to protest a police shooting that ignited days of rioting. Small groups of demonstrators moved through the crowds at the 22nd annual Taste of Cincinnati festival event passing out leaflets and chanting, “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now.” The demonstrators said a boycott would pressure city officials to address racial tensions heightened by the April 7 shooting of a black man, 19-year-old Timothy Thomas, by a white officer. But the demonstrators were… Read more »

Grammy-winning rapper Jay-Z and three other men were arrested early Friday outside a Manhattan nightclub and held on weapons charges after a plainclothes officer saw one of the men take a loaded handgun from the rapper’s vehicle, police said. Jay-Z said Friday night that his mother can hold her head high because he’s innocent of a gun possession charge against him. “That’s my mom,” he said, motioning to this mother outside Manhattan Criminal Court. “She can go anywhere in the world and hold her head up – because her son is 100 percent innocent.” The rapper, whose real name is… Read more »

Most major rock bands are good for one or two live albums during their careers. As of this week, Pearl Jam have 73 live albums to their credit. The Seattle rockers, now in their 11th year together, took the unprecedented step of releasing a budget-priced “official bootleg” CD from almost every show on their 2000 tour in order to combat pirates and to give fans a good deal. The roll-out occurred in three stages, ending Tuesday with the retail release of 24 CDs from the second half of the U.S. tour. Already in stores were 25 CDs from Europe and… Read more »