FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, July 4, 2005
HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE: A single containing Paul McCartney and U2's Live 8-opening rendition of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and the ex-Beatle's finale of "The Long and Winding Road" rush released to iTunes Music Store and topping the charts in several countries, including Britain, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Belgium. The tracks were top 5 in the U.S., Spain and France.
SPANNING THE GLOBE: An estimated 1 million people attended the nine Live 8 concerts on Saturday, while AOLmusic.com reporting that more than 5 million people watched the concerts live online. The site will make all the shows available for download for the next six weeks.
MOURNED: Grammy-winning R&B crooner Luther Vandross died Friday in a New Jersey hospital. He was 54. The "Here and Now" singer never fully recovered after suffering a stroke in April 2003.
WAR OF THE BOX OFFICE: War of the Worlds won the battle for the Fourth of July weekend, taking in an estimated $77.6 million over the four-day period. But overall revenues were down from the same period last year for the 19th straight weekend.
WAR OF WORDS: Brooke Shields writing an op-ed in Friday's New York Times blasting Tom Cruise's recent tirade on the Today show about antidepressants and saying the drugs helped her overcome postpartum depression after the birth of her child. "I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression," she writes.
TOUGH TASK: Steven Spielberg has begun filming his untitled drama about the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics and the secret Mossad unit sent to assassinate the Palestinian terrorists responsible. The film stars Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush and Mathieu Kassovitz.
DATES, PLEASE: A Chicago judge in R. Kelly child pornographycase asking prosecutors to give more specific dates of alleged crimes. The singer is charged with 14 counts of child pornography between November 1997 and February 2002.
OOPS THEY DID IT AGAIN: The BBC apologizing to viewers after stars including Madonna and Snoop Dogg used swear words to spice up their performances during a live broadcast of Saturday?s Live 8.





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