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(UPI Entertainment News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Simpsons call Springfield, Vt., homeSPRINGFIELD, Vt., July 10 (UPI) -- Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and all the other Springfield residents live in ... Vermont.
By popular online voting, Springfield, Vt., population 9,300, will host the official The Simpsons Movie premiere -- complete with yellow carpet -- at its own Springfield Movie Theater July 21, USA Today reported Tuesday.
We're so excited, said Patricia Chaffee, vice president of the Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce. We came in at the last minute, and for us to win, we feel like the underdogs, which makes this so big and so great for us.
Fourteen Springfields across the United States participated in the 20th Century Fox-sponsored competition to prove why their town should be chosen as the real Springfield for the fictious family. Each submitted a video posted on USA Today's Web site and readers voted for their favorite. Voting ended Monday.
The 13 other Springfields don't need to have a cow. They'll each be given small screenings of their own the night before the movie's domestic release July 27
XM-Sirius merger comment period endsWASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. federal regulators got an earful as the deadline closed for initial comments on the proposed merger of XM and Sirius satellite radio.
The National Association of Broadcasters' opinion -- a months-old formation petition to deny the merger -- said the Federal Communications Commission should not countenance this assault on competition Monday when the comment deadline ended, Broadcast and Cable reported.
Also urging the FCC to reject the merger were Common Cause, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union and Free Press. They said XM and Sirius' contention that satellite radio is one of many players in a large digital audio market hid the truly anti-competitive and anti-consumer nature of the proposed merger.
Public Knowledge, which promotes fair use rights, conditionally supported of the merger as long as the merged company set aside 5 percent of its capacity for non-commercial educational programming over which it has no control, provided tiered programming and did not raise prices for three years.
Officials from XM and Sirius promised not to raise prices and to provide some form of a la carte programming. The programming pledge earned them support of a family-values group that applauded the move.
Innkeeper Spelling is an ordained ministerFALLBROOK, Calif., July 10 (UPI) -- Beverly Hills, 90210 alum and Fallbrook, Calif., bed-and-breakfast owner Tori Spelling has another bullet for her resume: ordained minister.
Spelling, who owns Chateau La Rue with husband Dean McDermott about 100 miles south of Los Angeles, obtained her certificate online so she could marry a gay couple staying at the inn, E! News reported Tuesday.
I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right. ... Reverend Tori Spelling! I did it last week online and my official certificate is in the mail, Spelling wrote in her blog on MySpace.com.
Spelling said she united Tony and Dex as life partners in love last weekend on the steps of the Chateau La Rue she and McDermott run as featured in their reality series, Tori & Dean: Inn Love.
She said she was beyond nervous because they had bestowed such an honor upon me and I didn't want to let them down.
Spelling and McDermott are filming the second season of Tori & Dean: Inn Love, scheduled to run this summer on the Oxygen network.
Madonna's strumming: Real or air guitar?LONDON, July 10 (UPI) -- Debate on Internet message boards was heated over whether Madonna really played the guitar during her Live Earth performance at London's Wembley Stadium.
Cynics said her fingernails would have been too long to play the guitar properly, the Telegraph reported Tuesday. The transplanted American singer has taken lessons but some posters questioned whether she would have been accomplished enough to perform live.
Was that real? asked Spotnick on the music Web site Neworderonline.com.
A closer inspection of the video showed Madonna's fingernails were clipped, the British newspaper said.
Other fans suggested the less-than-polished sound was ample proof Madonna's performance was real and not the product of technical wizardry.
She did a few mistakes also ... her timing was out. .. perhaps she should stick to singing, Junglejungle wrote on the Yahoo! message board.
On the GuitarZone message board, Kurtlives said, The playing wasn't tough, but the fact she played surprised and impressed me.
Copyright 2007 United Press International
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