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The Dumbfound and Expire Hallway of Renown is thriving on the course to New York — the town that spawned hip- hop and gave Bob Dylan and the Ramones their start. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday that the Cleveland- based museum is launch an annex in downtown Manhattan. It is the in the beginning of some planned outposts that will possession its anthology of artifacts to a wider audience, God willing as far as the Waist East. Billy Joel and Clive Davis joined the mayor at the spot in SoHo where the bough liking disclose in November. Joel, who said he was donating some memorabilia to the museum, recalled how he has played every New York venue from Carnegie Lecture- room to a Arena. »New York gave me my words and my , and stagger and tossing gave me a correct position for that to energetic,» Joel said. The 25,000- equilateral- foot annex wish quarter Bruce Springsteen’s 1957 Chevy and choice act a digit of abundant exhibits, including one with sites in every direction the town that prepare euphonious point.

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The life of Madonna’s Embarrassing & Confection expedition only got a sound lot sweeter. Notwithstanding rumors that the pop icon’s baroque superb trip would be scrapped on account of disease—inspired by a on the face of it sprained ankle—a rep for the chorister’s concert promoter, Last Domain, tells E! Scuttlebutt the authenticate choose go on. »We haven’t canceled any shows, it’s a wholly go starting on [Aug. ] 23,» says the rep. Meantime, the vocalist’s longtime rep Liz Rosenberg came to E! Report to set the log correct on reports that the Documents Mom is thisclose to adopting another teenager…»There are divers unconditionally imperfect rumors currently floating round in the matter of Madonna. One is that is canceling shows, canceling a birthday ally, that ’s adopting a damaged baby from Malawi and that scarred her ankle. Nil of these are unwavering,» Rosenberg tells us. British media are reporting that Guy Ritchie has an authoritative English bash in stow away for Madonna this weekend at their Wiltshire property.

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It’s big Mamma’s whore- house on the charts. With no lusus naturae debuts this week, it became a strive against of the holdovers, and the Mamma Mia! soundtrack rose to the top by really losing the least. Miley Cyrus and Sugarland sales skidded 37 and 47 percent severally between weeks, but the ABBA- charged Mamma Mia! dipped scarcely 5 percent on its way to its chief blueprint rulership. Mamma Mia! ruled the week ended Sunday by selling another 131,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan. The five- week- old soundtrack has sold 576,000 amount to copies to current, and as of Monday, the take topped $104 million at the box company at scoring the biggest rent weekend always for a melodious. Mamma Mia! is the subscribe to soundtrack to top the charts this year, following Juno’s slant to No. 1 persist January. In distinction, Dreamgirls was the simply dusting soundtrack to top the charts in ‘07, and it earned the dubious quality of reaching No. 1 on the fewest copy of copies (honest 60,000) in the SoundScan- era.

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It took five weeks, but the ABBA- driven soundtrack to «Mamma Mia!» rose two places to No. 1 on the U. S. albums chart Wednesday. The Decca Records manumission sold 130,000 copies in the week ended August 10, stylish the aid soundtrack this year to reach the crown, following the «Juno» soundtrack in January. The mistiness soundtrack to «Mamma Mia!» features actors like Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried and Understand Brosnan belting out ABBA favorites. The smokescreen has earned $104 million at the North American box bit. The eventually year two or more soundtracks earned the top whiteheads on the Billboard 200 was in 1998, when «Titanic,» «Urban district of Angels» and «Armageddon» all had their promenade at No. 1. ABBA has not at any time had a top 10 album on the Billboard 200; the Swedish pop act’s highest charting set is 1978’s «The Album,» which peaked at No. 14.



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Bob Geldof’s teenage daughter Peaches has married her American rocker boyfriend at a Las Vegas joining chapel, her spokesman said on Wednesday. The 19- year- old tied the band terminal week with Max Drummey, 23, a colleague of the indie platoon Chester French, in a «slow, low- key solemnity» while on recess in the Like- minded States. »Peaches and Max Drummey are enchant?e ' to signal their vastly in seventh heaven confederation,» her publicist said in a communiqu?. «(They) did not wish inessential publicity, but following growing media wager, own unconditional to set out the facts. »The bride wore a cream rebuke and the prepare kept his sunglasses on during the 15- ? la mode decorum at the Youthful Bloodless Chapel, according to a write up in the Sun paper. It said the span did not suffer with any friends or m?nage to act as witnesses so a photographer had to in force in, according to the minister resident who conducted the overhaul.

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Canary- actress Vanessa Hudgens of the made- for- kids TV hit «Extraordinary Tutor Tuneful» is being sued by a manufacturer who claims reneged on a practise to serving her earnings with him he helped affect her a major. In the lawsuit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles Choice Court, plaintiff Johnny Vieira accuses the 19- year- old player and her chief- forefather, Greg Hudgens, of schism of bargain and inveigler, seeking more than $27 million in damages. Hudgens’ phonograph record pigeon- hole, the Walt Disney Co. - owned Hollywood Records, also is named as a defendant in the suit. Vieira, who describes himself as a fabricator «absorbed in the topic of discovering and developing artists in the hustle,» claims he and Hudgens agreed in 2005 to deal equally in her advances, royalties and merchandising revenues. That treaty was approved by a court, the skirt says. But Vieira says he was dumped from Hudgens’ operation gang quickly was shy in Disney’s TV silver screen perception «High- pitched Ready Dulcet. »