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As Chris Brown keeps putting chairs through windows to remind everyone, he has moved beyond his violent past, and would really like it if all of his many enemies stopped their underhanded attempts to mention those factual things that he did. Like his latest album shows, Brown would just like to get back to the business of romancing the ladies who dont hold grudges or read the papers, and thats exactly what he plans to do in the new romantic-comedy Think Like A Man, the film adaptation of comedian Steve Harveys best-selling book Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Former “Two and a Half Men” star Charlie Sheen is planning a return to series television in “Anger Management,” a new sitcom based on the 2003 film of the same name.

No network is attached to the series, which will be produced by Lionsgate Television and distributed by a subsidiary, Debmar-Mercury, the company announced Monday.

No co-stars or production start date were disclosed.

Sheen will retain a “significant ownership stake” in the series, said Lionsgate.

In the film, which starred Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler, a mild-mannered man is ordered to attend group anger-management sessions led by a therapist who needs therapy himself.

On Saturday we shared the sad news of the passing of Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott’s grandmother.  

Today, Music Row magazine reported these additional details: Linda Davis’ mother and Hillary’s grandmother, Lois “Onita” Davis, died July 14 in Carthage, Texas. She was 80 years old and her family describes her as a wonderful homemaker and devoted mother to three children, including Linda, daughter Vernell Owen (husband Jimmy), and son Troy “Tator” Davis (wife Sonya).

According to Music Row, Mrs. Davis worked for years in the local school cafeteria and was a longtime member of Carthage Missionary Baptist Church. The funeral was hel

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It took a long time for Big Bois fantastic 2010 album Sir Lucious left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty to get out from under the boot of record-label chicanery, but that apparently hasnt souredB.B. on making new music. Pitchfork (via Australian website Junior Online) reports that 17 new Big Boi tracks are already completed for a new record, said to be titled Daddy Fat Sax: Soul Funk Crusader. “It’s going to be S-A-X-X-X triple unadulterated funk to the extremest level, Big Boi told Junior Online. Straight lyrical assassin, and the beats are going to be as hard hitting as always.

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Hartford’s Comcast Theatre Hosts Day-Long Event

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As it has been, subtlety was absent. The Warped Tour is so massive it spills from the concert grounds into the dirt-and-gravel parking lot. Seven stages, separated by a bazaar of merchandise vendors and welcome charities, support scores of acts that range from the radio-friendly pop-punk sounds of A Simple Plan to the aggressive modern metal assault of August Burns Red.

Indeed, with more than 70 performances the sonic torrent was as inescapable and blistering as the 90-plus degree heat on a blindingly bright day. Read the rest of article…