The furor surrounding Roman Polanski's arrest hasn't hindered his latest film project - the movie will be distributed by the studio behind the hit Twilight franchise.

The Rosemary's Baby auteur is currently under house arrest after being taken into custody by Swiss authorities in September. He is waiting to see whether the country will extradite him to the U.S. to face sentencing for a child sex charge.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Bomb and arson detectives say a suspicious package discovered outside Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios in Chicago is harmless.

Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak says security personnel found a dark backpack with wires hanging out of it early Friday in a flower bed near the studios.

Police blocked off nearby streets as bomb and arson detectives investigated early Friday.

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NEW YORK (Billboard) – The cult of personality will be revived this fall, when purveyors of hard funk-rock Living Color return with "The Chair in the Doorway" -- the band's first set of new material in nearly six years.

Due September 15 on Megaforce Records, the 11-song set was recorded in numerous locations over the last few years, with a majority of the sessions taking place at Sono Studios outside Prague in the Czech

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11 cds of French progressive jazz rock concerning itself with the future fate of the human race, sung in a made up language and influenced in equal parts by the choral works of Carl Orff, Bela Bartok, Stravinsky and John Coltrane, anyone? No...come back, there's no reason to be afraid. Really...

In about 1968, Christian Vander, drummer and John Coltrane fanatic had an epiphany. Bored with the ephemeracy of pop, and aghast at what

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Lil Wayne has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty in a New York City gun case.

The Grammy Award-winning rapper was taken away in handcuffs Monday to start serving his term immediately after his sentencing. He pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon and admitted having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007.

He'll serve his sentence in city

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.

In an extremely detailed 148-page brief filed Wednesday, the attorneys cited multiple reasons they believe Spector was denied his right to a fair trial. They asked the California Second District Court of Appeal

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NEW YORK – Jennifer Lopez is off of Sony's block.

The singing and acting diva has confirmed she has split from Sony Music after more than a decade. Sony's Epic Records put out her first CD, "On The 6," in 1999. Since then, she's sold millions, but also had a couple of CDs with disappointing sales.

A new album called "Love?" was due to be released by the label this spring. But in a statement released Tuesday night,

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