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THOUSANDS ATTEND BROOKLYN BASH FOR MJ: Spike Lee's party in Prospect Park includes dancing, singing and lots of rain.

       *Thousands of people crowded into a Brooklyn park late Saturday afternoon for Spike Lee's big party honoring what would have been Michael Jackson's 51st birthday.
      
       Amid periods of rain, folks sporting fedoras, white gloves and other MJ-influenced outfits danced and sang in Prospect Park as a DJ spun nothing but Jackson's hits. Also, dozens of hawkers wandered through the crowd with T-shirts, buttons, posters and homemade memorabilia, according to the Associated Press.
      
       "Fifty-one years ago, he was born into the world," said Lee, who directed the "They Don't Care About Us" music video for Jackson in 1996.
"I'm like everybody else - somebody who loved his talent," he said. "We're here to celebrate Michael Jackson."

       There was a giant white birthday cake that read "Happy Birthday Michael Jackson" in red frosting. Balloons were released into the sky.
      
       "30 Rock" star Tracy Morgan also attended the bash. "I don't even remember life without him," he told the New York Daily News. "Michael Jackson was everything."
      
       The day was also designated Michael "King of Pop" Jackson Memorial Day by Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz.
      
       "We all know Michael Jackson had fans around the world, but we all know the best fans come from Brooklyn," Markowitz boasted to a roaring crowd that grew as heavy rain in the morning lightened to a drizzle by mid-afternoon.
      
       The event, originally planned as a block-party-style gathering for 2,000 in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park, was moved to Prospect Park to accommodate a bigger crowd.
      
       Rev. Al Sharpton and Ed Lover were also in attendance.

PUBLICITY BLITZ ON FOR WHITNEY'S COMEBACK: Singer has 'Oprah,' 'GMA,' and Ebony cover in the coming weeks.

       *With today's release of her first studio album in seven years, Whitney Houston is gearing up to sell the heck out of it with a string of broadcast and print appearances in the coming weeks.
      
       As previously reported, the 46-year-old pop sensation will promote "I Look to You" with an appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that will air on Sept. 14. Next Tuesday, she'll tape a performance in New York's Central Park for ABC's "Good Morning America."
      
       And according to Reuters, several magazine cover stories are in the works, including the next issue of Ebony. A tour may also be on the horizon for next year.
      
       Industry sources expect the Arista album will sell between 300,000 and 400,000 copies across the United States during its first week, easily taking the No. 1 spot during a late-summer slump. Such a start would outpace first-week tallies for recent releases by Kelly Clarkson (255,000) and Madonna (280,000) but fall short of those for Mariah Carey (463,000), Beyonce (482,000) and Britney Spears (505,000).

       "This is a cultural event," said Scott Seviour, the label's senior VP of marketing and artist development. "The enthusiasm and the energy for this release is palpable."

MIJAC ART EXHIBIT OPENS IN VIENNA: Show features 30 artists with works depicting various aspects of singer's career.

       *An exhibition of thirty young Austrian artists displaying works that explore various facets of Michael Jackson's life opened Saturday in Vienna, Austria.
      
       The show at Jennyfair gallery includes provocative paintings, film clips and mixed-media works highlighting Jackson's music as well as some of the scandals that plagued him throughout his career, reports the Associated Press. 
      
       The exhibition runs through Sept. 19 and is part of the buildup to a major Sept. 26 tribute concert being staged in front of an ornate 17th century palace in the Austrian capital.
      
       Jackson's brother Jermaine has said he is trying to get some of the world's best-known artists to perform. He is expected to announce the lineup soon. (AP)

BOLLYWOOD RECORDS MIJAC TRIBUTE VIDEO: Stars of the industry appear in clip to honor King of Pop.
 
       *A Michael Jackson tribute video featuring some of Bollywood's biggest stars was made available for free download on Saturday to mark what would have been the late star's 51st birthday.
      
       The video, called "Make It Large -- A Tribute to Michael Jackson", features introductions from actors including Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra as well as Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh.
      
       The Hindi-language song, written by leading film composer Vishal Dadlani, is sung by top Indian stars like Shankar, Shaan, KK and Shreya Ghoshal as dancers perform Jackson's trademark steps in the background.
      
       None of the stars charged for starring in the video, which fans can download from the website of Khan's production company, Red Chillies Entertainment (http://www.redchillies.com/home/index.asp). 
      
       In it, Khan says of Jackson, who died suddenly in June, "We've lost a part of our history; some of us have lost a part of our growing up.
      
       "Some people teach by their words, others by their lives. Thanks for being with us for ever."
      
       Roshan adds: "We love you MJ. Your legend will never die."

PRODUCERS TACKLE MJ SONGS FOR REMIX ALBUM: Neptunes, Polow Da Don, Rodney Jerkins among talent recruited for project.

       *Universal Motown Records is releasing a Michael Jackson tribute album featuring today's hottest producers reinterpreting some of the King of Pop's early work, reports Billboard.com.
      
       "Michael Jackson: The Remix Suite" features 25 of Jackson's classic Motown material as a solo artist and with the Jackson 5, re-imagined  by such marquee producers as Chris "Tricky" Stewart, the Neptunes, Polow Da Don, Rodney Jerkins, Stargate and Paul Oakenfold.
      
       The tracks will be released gradually, in five-song digital bundles, before the physical album arrives October 27. Each bundle, which began with the August 25 release of "The Remix Suite I," has been designed as an homage that emphasizes Jackson's influence on modern pop production.
      
       "The Remix Suite" was spearheaded by Universal Motown president Sylvia Rhone, who opened the label's archives and asked each producer to remix a Jackson or Jackson 5 song that had inspired him.
      
       "We came up with a long list (of producers), expecting people to be unavailable," Rhone said. "But there was literally not one 'no' answer.
People dropped everything they were doing to help out with this."
      
       The final list is a diverse group, from reggae specialist Salaam Remi to house music guru Frankie Knuckles. Blink-182's Mark Hoppus, who remixed "ABC," said he was shocked that Universal Motown asked him to contribute a track, but added, "Just to be included in a project like this is a huge honor."
      
       Dallas Austin, whose remix of "I Wanna Be Where You Are" integrates fresh bass guitar and funky synthesizers, slightly altered the instrumentation in order to "futurize" the song and "see what it would sound like today." His take appears on the first bundle along with remixes by the Neptunes, Stargate, Remi and Polow Da Don.
      
       Other highlights include Stargate's electro-tinged remix of "Skywriter," Steve Aoki's stylish take on "Dancing Machine" (also covered by Polow Da Don) and Akon's heartfelt reimagining of "Ben." Remi also contributes a reggae remix of "ABC."

COMPANIES DROP BLACK MODELS DUE TO RECESSION?: Naomi Campbell has accused industry of using economy as an excuse to avoid non-white faces.

       *Naomi Campbell is accusing the advertising business of using the recession as an excuse to avoid using black models to sell their products.
      
       "This year, we have gone back all the way that we had advanced," she says, according to UK's Telegraph newspaper. "I don't see any black woman, or of any other race, in big advertising campaigns."
      
       Campbell, who was born in London to a mother of Caribbean descent, refers to the publication last year of a special edition of Italian Vogue dedicated to non-white models.
      
       "That made some noise, but, unfortunately, we are the same as before," she says. "People, in the panic of the recession, don't dare to put a girl of color in their campaign, full stop. Nor of any other race. It's a shame. It's very sad."
      
       In 1988, Campbell appeared on the cover of French Vogue as its first black cover girl after Yves St Laurent, her late friend and mentor, threatened to withdraw all of his advertising from the magazine following its refusal to place Campbell, or any black model, on its front page. She also became the first black model to appear on the cover of British Vogue.
      
       Earlier this year, she described the fashion industry as "racist." In a magazine interview, she was quoted as saying "You know, the American president may be black, but, as a black woman, I am still an exception in this business. I always have to work harder to be treated equally."

JERSEY HAS FORBES' RICHEST NEIGHBORHOOD: Diddy, Chris Rock Stevie Wonder among residents in the 07620. 

       *Alpine, New Jersey, home of hip hop stars such as Sean "Diddy"
Combs, has just topped Forbes.com's list of the most expensive zip codes in the United States.
      
       Located some 20 miles from Manhattan, Alpine (zip code 07620) is a small community of sprawling mansions with a median asking price of $4.14 million, Forbes said on its web site, adding that stars drawn to the neighborhood include musician Stevie Wonder and comedian Chris Rock.
      
       Atherton in California (zip code 94027) was the second most expensive, with a median asking price for homes of $3.85 million, followed by New York City's West Village (zip code 10014) with a $3.5 million median asking price.
      
       Those neighborhoods, however, have not been immune to the recent economic downturn that has hammered real estate prices. Forbes said prices fell 23 percent in the past year in Alpine and Atherton, and by 24 percent in the West Village.
      
       Other prestigious neighborhoods that made the list include Beverly Hills (90210) in fifth place and Aspen, Colorado (81611), in 20th place. All of the top 10 zip codes were in New York, New Jersey or California.

LEVAR BURTON'S 'READING RAINBOW' CANCELED: PBS pulls plug on show after 26 years.

       *PBS has decided that it is over the "rainbow."
      
       The once popular "Reading Rainbow," hosted by LeVar Burton, aired its final episode Friday, wrapping a more than two-decade run of teaching kids how to read.
      
       Production on new episodes stopped several years ago, PBS said. Along with the end of the broadcasts, the "Reading Rainbow" site at pbskids.org will be discontinued in December.
      
       But the program, which premiered in 2003, will remain available for classrooms with off-air educational rights in effect for a year, according to a PBS Web site.
      
       PBS and member station WNED, producer of "Reading Rainbow," are in discussions to create a literacy Web site and to continue the show's local story contests for kids on a national level.

OHIO MEN ATTEND CASTING CALL FOR DENZEL FLICK: Weekly paycheck more of a draw than meeting film star.

       *A casting call took place in Canton, Ohio Wednesday for male extras to fill scenes in the upcoming Denzel Washington movie, "Unstoppable."
      
       While some of the hundreds expressed interest in meeting the Oscar-winning actor, others said the promise of $100-a-day paychecks was a
bigger lure.  
      
       Jeff Hattery came from Strasburg, 17 miles away in northeast Ohio. He told the Associated Press he was laid off and willing to sweep floors if the crew paid him.
      
       Some of the filming of "Unstoppable" will be done at a rail yard in the region, so many applicants came dressed in overalls or engineer's caps.
The movie is about a runaway train, and filmmakers were looking for 50 men to play extras.

HENDRIX CATALOG GOES TO SONY: Family-run company sells masters to media conglomerate in new eight-year deal.

       *Experience Hendrix, the family company that controls Jimi Hendrix's catalog and copyrights, is handing over control of the legendary guitarist's master recordings to Sony Music Entertainment under a new eight-year, worldwide licensing deal.
      
        According to Billboard.com, Sony plans to launch an ambitious reissue campaign in 2010 that will include deluxe editions of the three original albums by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, posthumous releases, the official Dagger Records bootleg line and previously unreleased archival recordings and filmed concerts.
      
       The deal also includes licensing rights outside the United States for the 1970 live set "Band of Gypsys," which EMI Music will continue to distribute stateside. Universal Music Group had held the master licenses for the rest of the Hendrix catalog since 1997. Sony's licensing deal will take effect January 1.
      
       Sony's reissue campaign for the core catalog -- "Are You Experienced," "Axis: Bold As Love" and "Electric Ladyland" -- will encompass deluxe editions with extra material and enhanced packaging. Because plans are being worked out, Sony and Experience Hendrix can't yet provide details on the bonus material.
      
       "There is an obligation that we have to fans that when we reissue material, you have to offer a substantial greater value in the content ...
whether it be audio, visual or packaging," said Adam Block, Sony Music Entertainment Legacy Recordings senior vice president and general manager.
"That is a core fundamental strategy here. I do know that in this case there is an enormous amount of material that Hendrix fans are going to be thrilled to have."
      
       To help promote the reissue campaign, Experience Hendrix will organize a concert tour next year. The company previously has sponsored tours featuring such contemporary artists as Carlos Santana, Paul Rodgers and Robert Randolph performing Hendrix's music.

CALI ATTY GEN OPENS INDEPENDENT MJ CASE: Jerry Brown probing several doctors involved in investigation.

       *California Attorney General Jerry Brown is launching an independent investigation of several doctors whose names are mentioned in a probe of Michael Jackson's death.
      
       Brown released a statement Friday saying his investigation comes at the request of the Los Angeles Police Department.
      
       The statement says that on Aug. 20 police met with representatives of the attorney general's Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Administration to discuss information uncovered in the Jackson death investigation. Bureau agents now plan to review relevant records and documents, reports the Associated Press.
      
       The attorney general says the investigation is in its earliest stages and no conclusions can be drawn at this point. The statement did not identify the doctors.

WOODBINE, HOWARD IN POST-KATRINA THRILLER: Actors cast in supernatural film set in New Orleans.

 *Bokeem Woodbine joins Terrence Howard, Josh Lucas and Lake Bell in the supernatural thriller "Little Murder" from Mind in Motion Entertainment.

       Peter Jason, Noah Bean and Deborah Ann Woll have also joined the post-Hurricane Katrina mystery about a disgraced New Orleans police detective trying to find the killer of a beautiful cellist -- with the girl's ghost assisting.
      
       Mind in Motion's Silvio Muraglia is producing the film, which is shooting in Detroit and New Orleans.
      
       Woodbine has appeared in "Ray," "The Rock" and "Dead Presidents."

MARIJUANA FOUND IN MICHAEL'S HOME AFTER DEATH: Plus, family members say they discovered tar heroin in his bedroom.
      
       *People magazine is reporting that marijuana was found along with numerous empty drug bottles during a police search of Michael Jackson's rented home shortly following his death, according to search warrants unsealed on Thursday.
      
       Two bags of marijuana, a bottle of temazepam (used to treat sleeplessness), empty bottles of the sedatives lorzaepam and diazepam were discovered during the search, reports People.com. They also found four other empty pill bottles with no indication as to what may have been in them.
      
       The warrant also says that, on the day of Jackson's death, as investigators were at the house, "family members of the decedent notified Los Angeles County Coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter that they had located a quantity of tar heroin in [Jackson's] bedroom on the second floor of the residence. Winter notified LAPD detectives of the found evidence." There is no mention in the warrant if the evidence really turned out to be heroin.

       Detectives were concerned that, when Jackson died, he had "received injection of an unknown medication, prior to his death," the warrants say.
Other documents revealed that Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, had been giving the singer the anesthetic propofol intravenously.

NBA STARS SUE TOPPS OVER AUTOGRAPH DEALS: Athletes claim trading card giant hasn't paid them in full.

       *Nine NBA stars have filed a lawsuit against Topps trading card company claiming they have yet to receive full payment for their autograph deals.
      
        The litigants are Tracy McGrady, Deandre Jordan, Brandon Roy, Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, D.J. Augustin, T.J. Ford, Antawn Jamison, Anthony Randolph and DeAndre Jordan, reports TMZ.com.
      
       The combined total of the lawsuit is $300,000. Below is a list of how much Topps paid per autograph.

McGrady -- $50
Rose -- $25
Roy -- $18
Westbrook -- $10
Jamison -- $10
Ausgustin -- $8
Randolph -- $7
Ford -- $6
Jordon -- $3

JACKSON GETS VEGAS WALK OF FAME STAR: Singer posthumously awarded honor at Palms Casino Resort.

       *In yet another deed honoring what would have been Michael Jackson's 51st birthday on Saturday, the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas awarded the singer a star on its Walk of Fame.
      
        Papa Joe Jackson and a handful of fans looked on during the ceremony, which recognized the years in which he and his family lived in Las Vegas.
      
       "I wish he was here to see this take place," said Joe Jackson, according to People.com. He smiled and posed for pictures as the star was unveiled in front of the Brenden Theatres. A drum line performed and Michael's hit "Thriller" was played during the festivities.
      
       The ceremony was actually two years in the making, organizers said, adding that Michael Jackson wanted to coordinate the unveiling with some type of major event.
      
       "The plan was that Michael would accept the star after the run of London shows," said emcee Robin Leach.

ANOTHER 'THRILLER' WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT: UK group of 500 gathers to recreate video for Guinness Book. 

 *Another group of people attempted to set a world record for the most amount of folks recreating Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video.

       The latest took place in Leicester, U.K.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0t29dp6JOA&feature=player_embedded) on Saturday, which was Jackson's birthday.
      
       About 500 people took part, which would beat the April 2009 record set by William and Mary College http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiVutlz9Yzs,
which had 242 students reenacting the iconic clip. 

       As previously reported, MJ fans in Mexico had signed up 10,000 people who agreed to take part in a "Thriller" world record on Jackson's birthday, but only 50 had shown up at a rehearsal earlier this month.

SEAN KINGSTON PREPARES TO TOUR: Reggae-flavored pop star headed out this fall to plug new album.

       *Reggae/pop performer Sean Kingston will spend fall on a headlining tour to support his forthcoming sophomore studio set, "Tomorrow."
      
       The outing kicks off Sept. 15 in St. Johns, New Brunswick, the first of 12 Canadian dates before dipping Stateside on Oct. 8 in Seattle. The 36-city tour continues through a Nov. 13 show in Decorah, IA. Dates are below.
      
September 2009
15 - St. Johns, New Brunswick - Harbour Station
16 - Sydney, Nova Scotia - Centre 200
18 - Toronto, Ontario - Guvernment
19 - Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
27 - Thunder Bay, Ontario - Rock House
28 - Winnipeg, Manitoba - Blush Nightclub
29 - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - TCU Place 30 - Medicine Hat, Alberta - Cypress Centre

October 2009
1 - Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Hall
2 - Edmonton, Alberta - The Events Centre
3 - Kamloops, British Columbia - ISC Centre
4 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Vogue Theatre
8 - Seattle, WA - Showbox
9 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
10 - Medford, OR - Main 1 Arts Center
12 - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
13 - Los Angeles, CA - Club Nokia
14 - Salinas, CA - Fox Theatre
15 - Scottsdale, AZ - The Venue
16 - San Diego, CA - Cane's
17 - Las Vegas, NV - Pure @ Caesars
18 - Ventura, CA - Ventura Theatre
20 - Ft. Collins, CO - Aggie Theatre
21 - Denver, CO - The Ogden
24 - Austin, TX - Emo's
25 - Houston, TX - House Of Blues
26 - Dallas, TX - House Of Blues
28 - Cleveland, OH - House Of Blues
29 - Madison, WI - Alliant Energy Center

November 2009
1 - Natick, MA - Healy Auditorium
4 - New York, NY - Blender
6 - Allentown, PA - Crocodile Rock
7 - Washington, DC - Venue to be announced
8 - Chicago, IL - House Of Blues
11 - Detroit, MI - Emerald Theatre
13 - Decorah, IA - Luther College

OBAMA PLEDGES CONTINUED HELP FOR NEW ORLEANS: President vows not to forget lessons of Katrina.

       *In his weekly address, President Barack Obama promised Saturday that his administration would not forget what he called a tragic response to Hurricane Katrina, and that he would visit the still-recovering New Orleans before the end of the year.
      
       Obama has already sent 11 members of the Cabinet to the region to inspect progress and to hear directly local ideas on how to speed up repairs to a region destroyed by flooding four years ago last weekend.
      
       "None of us can forget how we felt when those winds battered the shore, the floodwaters began to rise and Americans were stranded on rooftops and in stadiums," Obama said during his weekly radio and Internet address, released while he is vacationing on Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts.
      
       "Whole neighborhoods of a great American city were left in ruins.
Communities across the Gulf Coast were forever changed. And many Americans questioned whether government could fulfill its responsibility to respond in a crisis."
      
       Katrina invaded the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, killing more than 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi and leaving behind more than $40 billion in property damage. Hurricane Rita followed almost a month later, with billions of dollars in additional damage and at least 11 more deaths.
      
       Obama acknowledged that recovery has not come at an acceptable pace despite recent moves to speed up the process.
      
       "I have also made it clear that we will not tolerate red tape that stands in the way of progress or the waste that can drive up the bill," said Obama. "Government must be a partner - not an opponent - in getting things done."
      
       Obama's FEMA chief, Craig Fugate, has been cited by Gulf Coast officials and Obama administration officials alike for breaking through the gridlock that has delayed recovery. Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., recently said he had a lot of respect for Fugate and his team. "There is a sense of momentum and a desire to get things done," he said of the career emergency official.
      
       In half a year, Obama's team says it has cleared at least 75 projects that were in dispute, including libraries, schools and university buildings.

EUR FILM REVIEW: Inglourious Basterds
Tarantino's WWII Saga Sends Revenge-Minded GIs on Sadistic Scalping Spree 
Film Review by Kam Williams

      *Quentin Tarantino took over ten years to finish writing the script for Inglourious Basterds, and fans of his grisly brand of splatter fare will undoubtedly find the film well worth the wait.

      This gruesome World War II saga stars Brad Pitt as Lieutenant Aldo Raine, a half-breed hillbilly from Tennessee who assembles an all-Jewish unit of American GIs for a Nazi scalp-hunting party across occupied France.

      Superficially, the storyline resembles that genre of classic war flicks from the Sixties which revolved around a ragtag team of irregulars undertaking a dangerous mission behind enemy lines, pictures like The Dirty Dozen (1967), Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Train (1964), Von Ryan's Express (1965), The Devil's Brigade (1968) and The Guns of Navarone (1961).

      The difference in this case is that Tarantino has, in his trademark fashion, upped the ante in terms of gratuitous gore while devoting considerable time to character development in service of a fanciful tale of sweet revenge that's partly historical, partly the product of his own fertile imagination.

      The film opens in 1941 in a rural region of France where we find a notorious Nazi colonel known as "The Jew Hunter" (Christoph Waltz) intensely interrogating a dairy farmer (Denis Menochet) suspected of hiding Jews. To save his own skin, the frightened Frenchman points out the precise spot under the floorboards of his home where the Dreyfus family lies huddled together breathlessly. Soon, soldiers with machine guns are surreptitiously summoned, and the only survivor of the ensuing carnage is a daughter, Shoshanna (Melanie Laurent), who miraculously escapes into the countryside.

      By 1944, the traumatized young woman has resurfaced under the moniker Madame Mimieux as the manager of a modest movie theater she operates with the help of her black boyfriend, Marcel (Jacky Ido), the projectionist. Later, when she is informed that Hitler himself (Martin Wuttke) will be attending the premiere of a new Nazi propaganda film she's hosting, she decides to make the most of a golden opportunity to avenge the murder of her relatives. So, she and Marcel hatch a plan to kill the Fuhrer, Goebbels (Sylvester Groth) and hundreds of their henchmen by burning the place down to the ground in the middle of the screening.

      Meanwhile, Aldo the Apache and his Hebrew-heritaged recruits exact their own measure of revenge for the Holocaust as they embark on a sadistic reign of terror during which they gleefully gut German soldiers in a variety of ways, including bashing brains with a baseball bat, slicing off scalps and carving swastikas into foreheads. The parallel plots finally merge when the gang gets word of Hitler's coming to the theater from a spy (Diane Kruger), and they concentrate on assassinating him too, setting up a spaghetti Western-style showdown straight out of Sam Peckinpah.

      Don't be put off by all the explicit gore, for it is ultimately vindicated by Inglourious Basterds' disturbing, self-referential way of delivering a thought-provoking message not only about war and man's inhumanity to man, but about our insatiable lust for movies about war. Let the debate begin over whether Tarantino is ultimately sanctioning or condemning the exploits of Aldo and company by juxtaposing them against the utterly reprehensible behavior of the dastardly Jew Hunter, the most despicable screen villain since that creep in No Country for Old Men.

      Regardless, Quentin again proves himself a master yarn-spinner adept at keeping his audience both entertained and on edge for the duration, ever so deliberately milking the maximum amount of tension out of each of his tautly-edited five acts. Quentin Tarantino's best yet, a seamless, tour de force not to be missed. 

Excellent (4 stars)
Rated R for profanity, graphic violence and brief sexuality. 
Running time: 153 minutes
Studi The Weinstein Company

To see a trailer for Inglourious Basterds, visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vCiyy7Cibc 

EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE

 "Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more." — Mother Teresa

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS  

       Aug. 31: Keyboardist Larry Waddell of Mint Condition is 46. Actor Chris Tucker ("Rush Hour") is 37. Singer Tamara of Trina and Tamara is 32.

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BLACK HISTORY
    
   Aug. 31, 1979: Donald McHenry was named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador. (Source: www.BlackFacts.com)