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Batman’s joust with the Joker has set another box office record.

Stoked by fan fever over the manic performance of the late Heath Ledger as the Joker, “The Dark Knight” set a one-day box office record with $66.4 million on opening day, Warner Bros. head of distribution Dan Fellman said Saturday.

*Kanye West, Wyclef Jean and N.E.R.D. have been tapped to perform at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver to support the presidential nomination of Sen. Barack Obama

Brenda Walsh is coming back to 'Beverly Hills 90210,' and she's arriving in style.

Shannen Doherty will reprise her role as Walsh in CW's new version of the 1990-2000 series, with her character now a famous director who's invited back to stage a musical at her alma mater, the network said Saturday.

Walsh will guest star in multiple episodes, the network said at a meeting of the Television Critics Association _ which, appropriately enough, was in Beverly Hills.

She'll be reunited with a few members of the old West Beverly High School gang. As previously announced, Jennie Garth will return as Kelly Taylor, now a school guidance counselor, and Tori Spelling will be back as Donna Martin, who owns a boutique.

In this photo released by NBC, host Conan O'Brien reacts as and Republican presidential candidate Sen.

Angelina Jolie and her newborn twins early Saturday left the French hospital where she gave birth, the Fondation Lenval said.

Before dawn, the Hollywood superstar left the clinic in the Riviera city of Nice with twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, according to a hospital statement. It was not immediately clear if the twins' father, actor Brad Pitt, was with them.

'The mother and her babies are doing very well,' the the statement said.

AP Television cameras outside the hospital filmed a large black van with tinted windows leaving one of the hospital's back entrances at that time. No other vehicles left the hospital for the next several hours.

Nothing dark about Batman's first night at the box office. "The Dark Knight" lit up cash registers during its midnight debut, stealing away with a record $18.5 million from 3,040 theaters, distributor Warner ...

Jennifer Garner may want to tell her co-stars to hush up. Garner's 'Alias' dad Victor Garber left the much-speculated cat out of the bag by telling Us magazine that Garner and her husband Ben Affleck are indeed ...

*"The View's" Elisabeth Hasselbeck shed tears during a heated exchange with co-host Whoopi Goldberg during a discussion about Jesse Jackson's use of the N-word in his Fox News interview debacle. Goldberg, who earlier in the broadcast used the N-word repeatedly, argued that the word is only as powerful as a society allows it to be and advocated for using the word to give it new meaning. (Click to see the video)

Amy Poehler confirmed to The Associated Press that she'll be joining the planned "Office" spinoff, paving the way for her eventual exit from "Saturday Night Live" and promoting the comedian to primetime.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson used the N-word during a break in a TV interview where he criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama, Fox News confirmed Wednesday. The longtime civil rights leader already came under fire this month for crude off-air comments he made against Obama in what he thought was a private conversation during a taping of a "Fox & Friends" news show. Jackson is reported to have said Obama was "talking down to black people," and referred to blacks with the N-word when he said Obama was telling them "how to behave."

Will Ferrell Will Ferrell could soon be putting on another face. The star of Columbia's upcoming "Step Brothers" is attached to "2-Face," a comedy from "Hancock" writer Vince Gilligan.

Gilligan's script, which has had a long gestation period at the studio but had not been reported, is a concept comedy involving a character with a split personality: One part of him is a racist, and the other is a bleeding-heart liberal.

*Terrence Howard said he was so angry over being cut from a part in "The Cosby Show" that he confronted the program's famous star to vent his frustration – only to find himself briefly blacklisted in the entertainment business.

If you're looking for Watchmen news, here's a quick note about the movie trailer now in theaters playing at The Dark Knight premiere:

Just a quick note to mention that I just had a chance to see the first Watchmen trailer - in IMAX no less, and it was FANTASTIC! It was shown before the screening of The Dark Knight that I finally had the chance to watch

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This is for all the comic book movie fans out there:

With Marvel Studios' first two releases - " Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk - " notching up some impressive box office receipts, Warner Bros. has taken note, particularly of its competitor’s strategy to integrate its comic book properties.

Her 2005 coming-of-age novel "The Truth About Diamonds" tells the story of twentysomething Chloe Parker, who was adopted by a music superstar when she was 7 and as a young adult finds herself running with an elite Hollywood party crowd in between run-ins with the police, tabloid rumors and a stint in rehab.

This image made from video provided by CNN's "Larry King Live" shows Larry King, left, and former Minnesota Gov.

Khloe Kardashian's next dose of reality will involve the county jail. The youngest daughter of famed defense attorney Robert Kardashian admitted violating her probation stemming from a 2007 drunken driving ...

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, their publicists said Monday. "Jimmy and Sarah have no further comment," Kimmel's spokesman Lewis Kay told The Associated Press, confirming the split that was ...

The Brangelina clan grows to 8 as Angelina Jolie has twins; Brolin, Wright busted with film crew members in bar brawl; Michael Caine takes his spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Heath Ledger 's family is eager to attend The Dark Knight premiere in New York City Monday night in honor of the actor, while other family and friends will get to see ...

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