I The Behrend Beacon piste - n. - a trail, especially a downhill ski trail. Tom and his two sons took a wrong turn at Peek 'n Peak and soon found themselves very piste off. Entertainment News in Brief 2/22 - 2/28 Final Harry Potter book to be split into two films The seventh and final Harry Potter hook. Harry Hotter and the Deathly Hallow s, will be transmuted into two seperate movies, say produeers. "It was horn out of purely ereative reasons." said David Hey man. the series' produeer to the limes. "Unlike every other book, you eannot remov e elements of this book." The first movie w ill be released in Nov. 2010. and the second part will fol low in Mav 2011. Miley Cyrus to change her name t 0... Miley Cyrus Miley Cy rus, originally mimed Destiny Hope Cyrus by her par ents. has filed the paperwork in Los Angeles to change her legal name to Miley Ray Cyrus. Her father. Billy Ray Cyrus, says the request was to "make her commonly used name the same as her legal name." The father and daughter w ill host the Country Music Television Awards together in Nashville on April 14. McCartney's ex-wife awarded $5O million Heather Mills. Paul McCartney's ex-wife, announced Monday that she received approx. £25 million (S5O million) from divorce proceedings. Mills said that the $70,000 she will receive each year in chilli support is "not enough for school tuition, private securi ty. or first-class airfare." Source: CNN.com , Beacon Entertainer of the Week Sf- P- ( ()NTKIHl"H:l) l J lIt)T() Upcoming releases: Movies r Run , Fat i Boy ; Run -March 28- Simon Pegg (Sltawn of the Dead, Hot Faz:,) plays Dennis, a slightly over weight average guy trying to get back his true love. Rating: PG-13 Music Counting Crows -March 25- Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings R!‘ /yp| T|y|”p r | T r p fURIt Jf S»‘ x -March 28- A genius M.I.T. student, played by Jm Sturgess ( The Other Boleyn Girl, Across the Universe), resorts to counting cards in blackjack to pay his $300,000 tuition. Rating: PG-13 The B-52s -March 25- Funplex Idol once again dominating TV of all genres Two shows in one week dou ble viewers of any other show By Connor Saltely cnteriaiimwnt editor ciO()6(K rt psu.etlu All genres of TV. from news to entertainment, has lately been bowing down to the ratings deity that is American Idol. After con- sistently owning the top spot of the ratings over its years of pro duction. Idol is still in the num- ber one slot From March 10 through 16. the popular talent search show held the top two spots. Its Tuesday show, which featured Beatles music, had just under 30 million viewers. The next show, on Wednesday, rolled in with over 27 million viewers. The third spot on the Nielson Media research viewership numbers was Survivor: Micronesia, at 13.2 million viewers, less than half of Idol's less successful Wednesday show CBS's 60 the most vva news show of week, arrived with just ovt 11 millic viewers. It w; beaten by boi Idol show Survivor, 1.0 /-. v I r c in OONTRIBUTKI) PHOTO Idol favorite David Archuleta MaAco r v r . Home lulition Law ct Order, Two and a Half . fixture hosts Men and Deal or No Deal. „ ~ , , , .. Simon Cowell, the infamous ABC s Dam-ini' With the Stars, .... . , critical judge, is also at it again. Return of Friday Night Lights secured Popular TV show faces doubts on post-writer strike 2008 return Bv Connor Sattelv entertainment editor cisSOWXo psu citu Last year. lans of Friday Night Lights were leli w ith a suspense i'ul preparation for the Dillon Tigers’ playoff run. When the Writers Guild of America went on strike last year, the show had to put on hold the final seven of 22 shows which it had scheduled to air in the view- ing season However, according to an arti cle on Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood, the show is set to take the field for a third season. NBC, in coordination with DirecTV, will be airing FNL in the fall. "It’s an innovative deal where NBC found a partner who will share costs and exhibition window s." reads the article. When news broke that the football based show' may be one show with its head on the chop- Friday Night Lights, which created an enthusiastic fanbase amongst viewers, is supposed to return in fall Above, from left: Simon Cowell. Ryan Seacrest. Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson, the four Idol hosts not included with this week's rat ings. returned Monday to the audience of 20 million viewers. After narrowing down the field to ten contestants, the ratings arc sure to rise as the competition reaches the finale. Wednesday's show, which featured a perform season-l'ive Kellie ler. saw the initiation of idiana native in a n d a wermyer "It's been a n... number 11 of all them iple is more in 1 eould expect." she told Ryan Seaerest. one of the show 's ping block tor the changing schedule in fall. viewers responded in outrage. Faithfuls of the show created a website dedicated to saving the show and mass mailed NBC’s Ben Silverman with support to con tinue the show in fall. They also mailed hundreds of miniature plasie footballs to NBC’s execu tives. The show was based around a Texas town where high school football is the main event. If the show is continued, it will be its third season. Filming will begin as early as July. Executives considered culling Fans of the show mailed NBC’s exec utives hundreds of plastic footballs. the show because despite posi tive reviews, it Hopped in ratings and never generated as much of an audience as shows such as U)st. One possibility that appeared earlier this year, says TV Squad. most specifically narrowing his latest criticism at Kristy Lee Cook, one of the singers expect ed to soon be eliminated from the competition. You're like musical wallpa- per. insomuch as you notice it. but you can’t remember it." CNN reports Cowell as saying. "And that's what vou're dome week Archuleta’s poor per formance will proba bly only make the rat- mgs improve. after week: making no impact A poll by TV Guide places singer David Archuleta first, with 63 percent of votes, among the favorites to win the competition. Carly Smithson and Brooke White are virtually deadlocked in the poll for second place, while Michael Johns came in fourth. However. Archuleta’s per- an entertainment website, was the possibility of a dual hroad- The idea was that the show would be broad casted on NBC. its owner station, and re-broadeasted on another network, such as CW or TNT. The same thing happened for NBC’s Heroes, which broadcast ed both on NBC and Sci-Fi in its opening season However, with the advent of the DirecTV deal, such a dual broadcast idea is extremely unlikely to happen. Some v iew ers are worried as to whether they will be able to view the show. One comment on Deadline Hollywood's article worries about the deal. "Will FNL be exclusive content of DirecTV under this deal? I woud hate to lose it because I have Time Warner." "I can’t say whether the fans’ campaign to save the show by sending all those mini-footballs to NBC bigwigs worked the magic,’’ says Finke. "But I do know the execs got them.” The hand had to leave the country and travel to Turkey, where they can follow their dream of making music. The hand is currently residing in Turkey, according to their vvehsite. For more information about the hand, visit their web- CONTRIBUTED PHOTO | s j te at Friday, March 21. 2008 formance in Wednesday's show elicited a largely negative response from many reviewers. "One doesn't need experience in nuclear energy to know a melt down when one sees it." says point-spreads.com. a site which tracks odds for who will win. "And indeed. David Archuleta's performance of the Beatles' clas sic We Can Work h Out was a melt-down." Archuleta, previously thought to be the obvious front-runner in the race, now laces his opposi tion as thev narrow his lead. Fox. the network which pro duces the show, is likely happy to see him slow Ins momentum, as the show will once again be able tii excite fans with a memorable run to the finale. Other shows will have to sit on their hands as thev will continue to get slammed by Mol in the ratings. Documentary fea tures an Iraqi heavy metal band By Connor Sattely entertainment editor cisslM)(p psu.edu Heavy Metal in Baghdad, whieh premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year, elironi eles the rocking of a band whieh calls itself "Iraq's only heavy metal band." Acrassicauda. named alter a deadly desert scorpion, is known around Iraq as one of the only hard bands in the country. The documentary, directed by- Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi. follows the struggle of musi cians in Iraq. The feelings of Iraqis are reflected in their music, says drummer Marwan. "You feel like there's chains all around you." he says. The documentary, originally aimed at being a small feature piece about the band, turned into a lull length piece detailing the lives of average Iraqis in a tur bulent time. http://acrassicauda.ss.eom.
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