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Las Vegas, Nevada (September 1, 2010)–First came the announcement that 2010 Hall-of-Fame Inductee Emmitt Smith will play in the Championship Pro-Am of the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Now tournament management for Las Vegas’ PGA Tour event has announced Jerry Rice is scheduled to play on Wednesday October 20, at Las Vegas golf course TPC Summerlin, in the same group as Smith. Rice is generally regarded as the best receiver in the history of the NFL, and looks forward to his day in Las Vegas. “I’m thrilled to be a part of the Pro-Am to support such an amazing organization,” said Rice in a statement. “The Shriners Hospitals for Children provide outstanding care for children every day and this event is a great way to show support while playing a sport I enjoy.”–By Brian Hurlburt.

The Las Vegas Golf Region is the home to more than 50 Las Vegas golf courses, and several have played host to PGA Tour events over the years. The host course for the Timberlake event is the private TPC Summerlin, but certain events surrounding the PGA Tour event also take place at TPC Las Vegas, a resort Las Vegas golf course. Other Las Vegas golf courses that have played host to the PGA Tour over the years include Bear’s Best Las Vegas, Las Vegas National Golf Club, Southern Highlands Golf Club, and Las Vegas Country Club, among others. Click now for more information on Las Vegas golf courses from this website, and/or to schedule your Las Vegas golf tee times.

During his 15-year career with the San Francisco 49ers, Rice won three Super Bowls (Super Bowl XXIII (‘88), Super Bowl XXIV (‘89), Super Bowl XXIX (‘94)) and one Super Bowl MVP. He enjoyed three seasons with the Oakland Raiders, including a Super Bowl appearance and one season with the Seattle Seahawks before retiring in 2005. Rice was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010, his first year of eligibility. Rice has played in several PGA Tour pro-am events, but earlier this year took his involvement with the PGA Tour to another level when he served as a host for the Nationwide Tour’s Fresh Express Classic at TPC Stonbrae, which is played near San Francisco. Part of his hosting duties included playing as a competitor in the event. He fired rounds of 83-76 and missed the cut in his Nationwide Tour debut. Rice is said to be a scratch player with some recent reports indicating that he is a plus handicapper. Click now for more Las Vegas PGA Tour event information from this website. Or click now to reserve your special spot in this Championship Pro-Am. As with Smith, the golf pros at TPC Summerline helped persuade Rice to put the Las Vegas tournament on his schedule.

“The addition of Jerry to the MGM Resorts International Championship Pro Am goes a long way towards strengthening our efforts to create a world class event here in Las Vegas,” says Tournament Director Adam Sperling. ”We have a wonderful venue at TPC Summerlin, some of the greatest golfers in the world courtesy of the PGA TOUR, another Hall of Fame celebrity to participate in the Pro Am (Emmitt Smith having already committed), and in my opinion, the most worthy charity there is, the Shriners Hospitals for Children.  The ability to combine all of those elements should continue to put us in a strong position to grow our event and increase the local impact that this event has on our community. The fact that Jerry is as good of a golfer as he is tells the public that while we’re trying to create new ways to enjoy the game as a spectator, we’re not getting away from what our core product is – championship caliber golf.”

The 2010 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open is the ongoing commitment between Timberlake and Shriners Hospitals for Children® to continue the tradition of a PGA TOUR event in Las Vegas.  The collaboration between Shriners Hospitals for Children® as Title Sponsor and Host, along with Celebrity Host Justin Timberlake, creates a truly unique and world-class event for players and fans alike.  A variety of well-known golfers will participate in the competition and help support the mission of Shriners Hospitals for Children®, while enjoying the signature flair that Las Vegas has to offer.  The 2010 tournament is October 17-24 at the TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas. As part of a three-year agreement, MGM Resorts International will have a heightened presence at the Pro-Am as well as have the opportunity annually to utilize a different property as the host venue of the pairings party. This year’s host for the Tuesday evening pairings party will be ARIA Resort & Casino at CityCenter, which also will serve as the host hotel for those amateurs participating in the Championship Pro-Am.

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It’s a sweeping romantic moment set against the grandeur of New York’s Grand Central Terminal, venue to countless poignant moments of tearful farewells.

A forlorn young woman, suitcase in hand, buys her train ticket from the kiosk when her lover appears from out of the shadows to present her with a bouquet of flowers. The couple embrace and leave together on a horse and buggy waiting outside the station. Cut.

The scene, from the Justin Timberlake romantic comedy “Friends With Benefits,” is supposed to unfold in New York’s renowned example of Beaux-Arts architecture. But the scene will in fact be filmed this week in downtown Los Angeles at Union Station, just the latest in a long line of movies, TV shows and commercials that have showcased the Mission-and-Modern-style station.

“It’s an homage to all the great films that have shot at Union Station,’’ said Glenn Gainor, head of physical production at Sony Pictures Entertainment film unit Screen Gems, which is producing the movie, a bicoastal production shot in both New York and L.A.

The movie started filming in L.A. earlier this month and highlights many of the City of Angels’ landmarks, including the Hollywood sign, the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre – and Union Station.

“Union Station is one of the more beautiful locations in L.A, from its Art Deco 1930s tiles to its vacant ticket station, “ Gainor said. “It has superior architecture and was built at a time [1939] when people really sweated the details. It’s always on my radar.”

And apparently on that of many others. The station has become a bustling film destination thanks to its distinctive architecture,  wide open spaces – including a  vacant 12,000-square-foot former ticketing concourse and 65-foot-high ceilings – and a reputation for being “film friendly.”

In recent years, the station has been the site for dozens of car commercials, feature films including “Drag Me to Hell,” “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan”  and the upcoming adaptation of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” as well as such TV shows as “CSI: New York,” “Cold Case” and the reality program “Top Chef.”

Owned by Denver, Colorado-based commercial real estate company ProLogis, the station has filming activities on about 100 days of the year, said Jeff Cooper, a portfolio manager for Hollywood Locations, whose principals co-own and manage Los Angeles Center Studios and represent for filming various properties around L.A., including Union Station.

“We make it easy for movie companies to come in here,’’ said Cooper, who charges up to $10,000 a day or between $1,500 and $2,000 an hour for filming at the station.

Hollywood has longstanding ties to 71-year-old Union Station, which has been featured in such classic movies as “Blade Runner,” and even had a film named after it: the 1950 film noir “Union Station,” starring William Holden. It often appears in period movies like “Pearl Harbor.”

“People love the way it looks,’’ Cooper said. “You couldn’t build a soundstage like this.”

Large, available space is another draw, he said, recalling how the producers of “Charlie’s Angels” converted a vacant concourse into a bedroom set in a European castle.

In “Friends With Benefits,” the Union Station scene unfolds as a movie within a movie. Justin Timberlake’s character is watching a romantic comedy on TV with his girlfriend, played by Mila Kunis. Timberlake’s character notices palm trees in the background, and remarks that the station is in fact in L.A., not New York.

The line is partly an inside joke about how Hollywood often disguises L.A. for other locations, and partly a tribute to one of L.A.’s signature locations, said Doug Dresser, the film’s location manager.

 “It’s one of the timeless treasures of L.A.,” he said.

– Richard Verrier

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Oscar de la Renta, Diane Von Furstenberg, Justin Timberlake, Tory Burch and Anna Wintour will be among the many fashion industry stars featured in FASHION’S NIGHT OUT 2010, a one-hour primetime special that takes viewers behind the scenes of the world’s largest fashion celebration, to be broadcast Tuesday, Sept. 14 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.  The special will be hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris, star of the CBS comedy series, “How I Met Your Mother.”

The upcoming special will focus on year two of Fashion’s Night Out, including “Fashion’s Night Out: The Show,” the largest public fashion show in New York City history with more than 150 models, at Lincoln Center on Sept. 7, 2010, and the actual Fashion’s Night Out event three days later on Sept. 10, taking place in New York City and more than 100 cities across the country and 17 nations around the globe.  Featured fashion luminaries include Anna Wintour, Vogue editor-in-chief; design icons Oscar de la Renta, Diane von Furstenberg, Tory Burch and Tommy Hilfiger; Justin Timberlake, co-founder of William Rast; emerging designers Alexander Wang, and David Neville and Marcus Wainwright from Rag & Bone; and fashion executives Terry Lundgren, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Macy’s, Inc., and Steven Kolb, executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).  Cameras will follow these celebrities, designers, editors and retailers as they prepare for one of the most anticipated events of the year, providing a unique view of the creative and logistical work that goes into coordinating an event of this scale.

For more about the FASHION’S NIGHT OUT 2010 special on Tuesday, Sept. 14 – including exclusive video and photo galleries, as well as information on CBS.com’s live webcast of “Fashion’s Night Out: The Show,” hosted by André Leon Talley and Hanneli Mustaparta, on Sept. 7 at 7:00 PM, ET – please visit http://www.cbs.com/FNO

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With help from Justin Timberlake and his friends, the PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF) recently completed a major overhaul of the Angono Regional Pilot School for the Arts (ARPSA) music room in Angono, Rizal.

The P1-million project was made possible by the recent “Changing Lives” benefit concert organized by concert producer Francis Lumen, Smart Infinity and PSF featuring international artists Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, and Jojo.

The newly-renovated and refurbished music room was repainted, rebuilt with a stage for performances, and given new recording equipment and an air-conditioning system with the help of the Philippine Constructors Association and Architect Carla Suiza.

The PSF also donated instruments including violins, a cello, a double bass, an electronic piano, and a complete sound system.

“The music room fulfilled our promise to Justin Timberlake that we help budding musicians and artists affected by Ondoy and Pepeng. We want ARPSA to be a center for the arts,” said PSF president Butch Meily.

“Timberlake wanted to help kids with their music programs and musical instruments since music is close to his heart. Smart Customer Care identified the beneficiary,” added Meily.

A pioneering arts school, ARPSA is government-run high school dedicated to developing students through a curriculum that emphasizes performing, musical and visual arts.

Last year, the school was devastated by super typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, which damaged parts of buildings, destroyed books and instruments, and even caused the death of one student in a landslide.

The music room’s unveiling, hosted by ARPSA principal Amihan Reynes-Fenis, featured performances by ARPSA’s dance troupe, chorale, and orchestra.

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DIRECTOR Quentin Tarantino wants Justin Timberlake to star in one of his movies!

Insiders say the Pulp Fiction filmmaker is considering the SexyBack hitmaker for a new violent epic based around a trainee hitman.

“It’s a kind of dark comedy, very much in the Tarrantino style,” reports a Hollywood mole.

“Justin is a new raw talent when it comes to acting but Quentin feels he could be ideal for the lead role. He’s excited about taking a teen heartthrob and turning him into a cold-blooded killer.”

Timberlake recently admitted he’s “insecure” about his talent.

“I think I’m equally insecure about both of them,” he said. “I’ve been doing this for two thirds of my life and I still consider myself pretty young but I think that’s the part you battle with all the time.

“When you’re creating your art, that’s the best part. Your senses are on a creative high and then the part where everyone gets to see it and comment on it, that’s the part I think you battle with until you die.

“It’s absolutely terrifying.”

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’The Social Network‘ DVD & Blu-Ray release details is now on Amazon UK

Product details:

• Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara, Rashida Jones, Malese Jow
• Directors: David Fincher
• Format: PAL
• Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Classification: To be announced
• DVD Release Date: 28 Feb 2011
• ASIN: B003NE4S9O

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From The LA Times

It wouldn’t really be the New Yorker Festival without a little Malcolm Gladwell, would it? Today the New Yorker announced the lineup for its October festival of culture, arts and the written word.

Who’s taking part? A lot of the usual suspects, regular and high-profile contributors to the magazine: Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Orlean, Alex Ross and Atul Gawande.  Editor David Remnick has dibs on the most-likely-to-be-fun panel,  “Live From New York,” with Seth Meyers and other staff from “Saturday Night Live.”

Those are some of the writers — but there are also the people they write about. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma; actors Alec Baldwin, Patricia Clarkson and Steve Carell; economist Paul Krugman; fashion designer Maria Cornejo; and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin with “The Social Network” stars Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake.

Is the appearance of Stephen King surprising? Maybe not — the once genre-bound writer has appeared in the magazine’s pages in recent years. So have poets John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Cynthia Cruz, Jorie Graham and Tracy K. Smith, all of whom will be participating.

If there were any way I could be in New York City for the festival, I would be very tempted to join Calvin Trillin’s tasting walk from Greenwich Village to Chinatown.

Authors doing stage presentations on Friday night include Uwem Akpan, Peter Carey, Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, E.L. Doctorow, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mary Karr, Lorrie Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Orhan Pamuk, Annie Proulx, Zadie Smith, Wells Tower, Deborah Treisman and Tobias Wolff. Other authors can be found signing books at McNally Jackson: Dick Armey, Roz Chast, Ian Frazier, Paul Goldberger, Jorie Graham, David Grann, Jaron Lanier, Jill Lepore, Paul Muldoon, and  Michael Specter.

For the complete roster of events, see the New Yorker Festival website.

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New Yorker Festival will take place on October 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, in New York City.

Chelsea Hightower recently stated that her dream dance partner on DWTS is Justin Timberlake, & now PopEater’s FB Fans would also like to see JT getting his dancing on for The DWTS crowd.

From PopEater.com:

With rumors that The Hoff, The Situation and Kirstie Alley are all ready to shake their booties on ‘Dancing With The Stars’ this season, fans are speaking out about whom they want to see hit the dance floor.

It takes two to tango, and our Facebook fans are ready to see Justin Timberlake and Old Spice’s Isaiah Mustafa duke it out. An impromptu beat-box would likely push JT to the top, but if Mr. Old Spice dances as well as he smells, there would be some serious competition. Hey, the official cast list won’t be released until Monday, August 30, so we can still dream.

Of course this is highly unlikely but lol at the thought

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MTV broke the news a few days ago, but since it was an error in the link, I’m posting the news again.

‘The Social Network’ stars Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield will present at the show on September 12.

It was also announced on Thursday (August 26) that the upcoming Facebook flick “The Social Network” will be well represented by stars Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, who were added to a list of presenters that includes Ke$ha, Nicki Minaj, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Trey Songz, Ashley Greene, Selena Gomez and Ne-Yo. MTV will announce additional performers and presenters at a later date.

The 27th annual MTV Video Music Awards will be broadcast live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on September 12 at 9 p.m. ET. Go to VMA.MTV.com (or text VMA to 97979 if they are Verizon subscribers) to vote for the Best New Artist video through September 12.

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Last night (August 24) at Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom, T.I. performed in front of a packed house for the taping of his episode of VH1’s Storytellers.

During the two-hour session, the King performed nearly a dozen records from his lengthy catalogue, speaking candidly to the audience in between each in order to give an added back story.

There were somber moments when Tip delved deep into his personal life, like when he performed “I Still Luv You,” off of 2003’s Trap Muzik. He managed to balance those well, though, with complimentary party moments, such as “Bring Em Out,” and with jokes he cracked when discussing his many run-ins with the law.

The goal was to give his fans a window into some of his songs that they would not have otherwise had, and he was able to do that on many occasions. “When we said we were gonna work together for this project, the record I anticipated us doing is not the record that turned out,” T.I. said of his collaboration with Justin Timberlake, “Dead and Gone,” which peaked at No. 1 on The Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, from 2008’s Paper Trail. “It ain’t always about being gangster,” he continued. “Sometimes, it’s about being a grown man.” There were many other moments like this, including when he explained his thinking behind singing on “Whatever You Like,” which also peaked at No. 1.

VH1 Storytellers: T.I. will premiere on Friday, December 10th at 11 p.m. EST on VH1

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NEW YORK, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ — VH1 goes back to its music roots and revisits the age-old question: “Who is the greatest music artist for all time?” Determined by a poll of well-known music artists and music experts in the industry, VH1 will reveal this definitive (and sure-to-be highly controversial) list declaring who is the greatest of the great. Hosted by Jim Shearer (VH1’s “Top 20 Video Countdown“), the 4-night special, VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of All Time,” premieres Monday, September 6 at 10/9c with a 2-hour premiere.

This definitive countdown covers all genres of music – from rock to pop to rap to metal – to answer who is worthy to possess the title as “the greatest music artist of all time.” Over the 200 musicians including Alicia Keys, Ozzy Osbourne, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Iggy Pop, Nas, Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Geddy Lee (Rush), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Michael Diamond (Beastie Boys), Daryl Hall, John Oates, Noel Gallagher (Oasis), Gene Simmons (KISS), Adam Levine (Maroon Five), 50 Cent, Nelly Furtado, Mandy Moore, Carrie Underwood, Adam Clayton (U2) and many more voted on who they believe deserves this highly coveted title.

In 1998, VH1 launched the same list as the channel’s first countdown special; however; much has changed since the dawn of the new millennium. VH1 puts this debate up for a vote again to see which rock pioneers still matter and which new acts rate in the age of download-to-own music and ever-changing pop culture. The countdown will include special, rarely-seen performance footage along with brand new, totally original interviews with music’s most famous faces including interviews by Adele, Backstreet Boys, Brandy, Bret Michaels, Chris Daughtry, Hall & Oates, Keane, Ozzy Osbourne, Ray J, Sheryl Crow, Usher, Whitney Houston and many more.

TheGreatest.VH1.com will have exclusive extras including interviews and commentary. Additionally, online visitors will be able to participate by using VH1’s voting tool that allows users to pick their favorite artists, weigh in their opinions and socially broadcast their take on the list through Twitter.com and Facebook.com.

“VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time” List

TOP 5, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

1.  The Beatles

2.  Bob Dylan

3.  Michael Jackson

4.  Led Zeppelin

5.  Rolling Stones

66. Justin Timberlake

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The kinky party scene depicting Napster co-founder Sean Parker will remain in the final cut of “The Social Network.”

Scott Rudin, the producer of the Facebook bio-pic, had mentioned that he might edit out the sequence which follows Parker giving a speech at a party where young women offer lines of cocaine on their bare breasts.

The Hollywood Reporter had the scoop about the full scene remaining.

Parker was a key figure in the early days of Facebook and was a confidant of the website’s founder Mark Zuckerberg. In the film, Parker is played by Justin Timberlake. Matthew Hiltzik, a publicist for Parker, declined to comment on the decision. Parker left Facebook after a cocaine-related arrest in 2005. Rudin was concerned that the sequence would cost him his PG-13 rating.

“The Social Network” will be released by Sony on October 1.

Dan Aykroyd is bringing back a wild and crazy guy from his youth, but it’s not one of the “swinging Czech brothers.”Aykroyd voices the newly digitized Yogi Bear in a 3-D film, set to open Dec. 17, re-creating a childhood influence that nudged the Saturday Night Liveand Ghostbusters star into comedy.

Even when his parents tried to put a limit on his after-school cartoon consumption, “I would sneak and watch them, and my brother would watch. Of course it became ingrained,” he says. “When I heard they were doing this project, I called my agent and said I would love to be a part of this, because it’s a part of me, all those voices.”

Aykroyd co-stars with Justin Timberlake, 29, who voices Yogi’s diminutive, long-suffering sidekick, Boo Boo.

Both came aboard because of their ability to mimic the original sound of the Hanna-Barbera characters: Yogi’s affable bluster and Boo Boo’s nasal pinch.

“Justin, it’s little known, used to imitate cartoon characters when he was younger,” says Yogi Bear director Eric Brevig. “He said when he was learning to sing, doing vocal exercises or singing lessons, part of what he did was imitate these characters. So he came in with a prepared Boo Boo voice that he’d been doing all his life, too.”

Aykroyd, 58, needs zero coaxing to break out his imitation, answering his phone with the talking bear’s familiar “Hey, hey, hey … ”

Yogi, as voiced by the late Daws Butler in the early 1960s, was a takeoff on Art Carney’s Ed Norton from The Honeymooners— itself a character heavily influenced by the Borscht Belt and vaudeville comics.

“It’s about hitting certain notes, going back to those old Lower East Side rhythms, the Catskills, Jersey, Upstate New York,” Aykroyd says. “It’s the Yiddish language, essentially, being spoken in English. It’s the ’setup, delivery, punch’ that sitcoms live on today. That’s where the origin of American humor is.”

Children who go to the family comedy will see just the antics of a silly talking bear. But parents may simply be relieved to see Aykroyd paying homage to their treasured original.

“I have kids, and I remember the characters from when I was young,” Brevig says. “I really wanted this to be a movie that doesn’t make parents feel like they’ve been marginalized by changing the characters, and trying to make them hip and different from who they are.”

Yogi is still smarter than the average bear. Pic-a-nic baskets, consider yourselves warned

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so apparently givenchy play for her will be release next tuesday in new york city and surrounding areas. I put my name down at the macy’s on 34th street to get a call when they got it in, and this morning I got the call.