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Another Bond film, another debate about the role of women in the long-running franchise. In "Quantum of Solace," Olga Kurylenko's character Camille has been held up as a model female foil for today's 007 -- tough, independent, modern. Slideshow | Full Article
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Daniel Craig moves into "Dream House"
TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Daniel Craig is headed to Canada early next year to star in Irish director Jim Sheridan's psychological thriller "Dream House." Full Article
Wall Street Meets "The Wire"
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Shady hedge fund honchos, beware. That's the message the business press declares this morning in its coverage of new charges brought down yesterday against 14 money managers, Wall Street lawyers, and other well-connected investors with ties to the Galleon insider-trading probe.
Full ArticleMGM studio common in CLOs, but losses limited-S&P
NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's failure to make an interest payment on its loans is likely to have only a limited affect on structured deals, in spite of MGM being among companies most commonly included in the structures, Standard & Poor's said on Tuesday. Full Article
Mel Gibson's girlfriend delivers baby girl
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mel Gibson has become a father for the eighth time after his Russian girlfriend gave birth to a daughter, the actor's spokesman said on Monday. Full Article
Songwriters lure Bassey back for "The Performance"
LONDON (Billboard) - One of Britain's most beloved entertainers, with global career sales estimated at 135 million by her label, Shirley Bassey hardly needs to make albums anymore. Full Article
Billboard CD reviews: Air, Devendra Banhart
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Few bands live up to their names as well as Air. The French electronic duo makes gravity-defying disco-pop that can be as foreboding as it is frothy (see the 2000 soundtrack to "The Virgin Suicides"). Air's fifth studio album, "Love 2," hinges on Joey Waronker, a percussionist who toured with the band on its last outing. His delicate playing helps bring all of those potentially spacey piano arpeggios back down to earth, resulting in a sound that resembles the lo-fi pop for Full Article
MGM studio CDS triggered by loan payment miss-ISDA
NEW YORK, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Payments on credit default swaps protecting the loans of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will need to be made after the Hollywood studio failed to make a payment due on its loan on Sept. 30, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association said on Monday. Full Article
Billboard CD reviews: Alice in Chains, Michael Buble
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley is gone but hardly forgotten -- at least not as an integral component of the band's murky, melodic brand of hard rock. The quartet returns 14 years after its last new studio album (and seven years after Staley's death), with an 11-track set that sounds like it could well have been recorded in the same session as the 1995 "Alice in Chains." New singer William DuVall's voice boasts the same kind of cadence and weight as Staley's, and more Full Article
MGM studio buys more time with lender agreement
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has secured a forbearance agreement with its lenders, winning some breathing room and liquidity as it continues to grapple with looming debt payments. Full Article
MGM studio buys more time with lender agreement
LOS ANGELES, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has secured a forbearance agreement with its lenders, winning some breathing room and liquidity as it continues to grapple with looming debt payments. Full Article
