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• Love beats action as 'The Vow' bows with $41.7M

  Love triumphed over action at the weekend box office with a No. 1 debut for the romantic drama "The Vow."Studio estimates Sunday show that the love story starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum took in $41.7 million to come in ahead of two new action   Read more »

• Lakers had interest in Lin but passed

  Who could better appreciate The Jeremy Lin Story, this pro basketball version of "Rocky" and "Rudy" together, than the team from Hollywood ? Yes, the Lakers know a lot more about Lin than they did at this time last week, and yes, they appreciate the scri   Read more »

• Symone Black's fall overshadows strong Hollywood Week opener for 'American Idol'

  Symone Black 's sudden fall off the stage near the end of "American Idol's" first Hollywood Week show is all anyone is going to be talking about -- especially since Fox thought it was appropriate to end the show on that, forcing us to tune in next time t   Read more »

• 'American Idol' chief says viewer fatigue has hurt show

  Nigel Lythgoe, "American Idol" chief, held a conference call yesterday - on the eve of the Hollywood rounds - pretty much admitting what everyone had suspected would happen: "The X Factor" and "The Vocie" have hurt the show's numbers. Per Nigel: "Concern   Read more »

• Knicks' sensation Lin takes it all in

  GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Point guard Jeremy Lin has taken New York by storm with a pair of games right out of a Hollywood script -- and he may have saved the Knicks' season in the process."The way he's been playing," center Tyson Chandler said, "has been unbe   Read more »

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• Recap: 'American Idol' - Hollywood Week, Part 3 - Live-Blog

  I think this happens on tonight's "American Idol." If not, I'll change the image a bit later. Last Thursday's "American Idol" was a bit like "Torchwood: Miracle Day." The plot of the series was "What happens in one day, people just stop dying?" Death is, a 8:18 PM from HitFix Read more »

• Liam Hemsworth: Miley makes me 'really happy'

  and co-star Liam Hemsworth pose at the Hollywood premiere of "The Last Song" on March 25, 2010. Miley Cyrus clearly knows the way to Liam Hemsworth's heart: The actor tells Details magazine that he's smitten. The couple got together on the set of their movie 8:03 PM from KSAT San Antonio Read more »

• More splashes of color coming to downtown Hollywood

  plan is to still regulate what goes up, but try to make it a little less cumbersome. In early December, David Erickson, a downtown Hollywood resident and Realtor, Alex Terife, owner of Pizza Rustica on Hollywood Boulevard, and Nick Pereira, Terife’s business 8:02 PM from Miami Herald Read more »

• 'Idol' Contestant Heejun Han of Queens

  - "American Idol" is about to make the steepest cuts so far: 185 singers who survived the initial Hollywood rounds will face the ominous group rounds. By the end of this week, only 70 will head to the Las Vegas round. Hopefully, one of those will be Queens 7:52 PM from WNYW | Fox 5 New York Read more »

• Contest: Machine Head At Avalon Hollywood

  that need their Heavy Metal fix, we have the show for you to kick off the weekend. Machine Head will be performing live at Avalon Hollywood this Friday, Feb. 17 in support of their recent release, Unto The Locust. If you want to throw your devil horns into 7:49 PM from the scene star Read more »