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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scott MacIntyre was sent packing from 'American Idol' on Wednesday after his poorly received performance of 'The Search Is Over,' leaving seven finalists in the hit talent show's competition.

Twilight author Stephenie Meyer dominated USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list through the first quarter of 2009. And Michael ...

About 700,000 Americans were sacked in March. In the past month three men who recently lost their jobs went on gun rampages, killing a total of 26 people. What to do with such grim news? Turn it into a reality TV show, of course.Bright sparks at Endemol USA, the American branch of the brand that brought you Big Brother, have come up with a new idea: to wallow in the misery of America's threatened workers.Each week, the show, Someone's Gotta Go, sets itself up in a small business where times are hard and redundancies have to be made. The employees - usually 15 to 20 of them - will be allowed to see the firm's books, and will be told how much each of them earns.Then they will reveal what they think of each other. They will be fighting for their livelihoods, for at the climax of the episode the employees will vote to decide which of them is added to the pile of unemployed. And you thought Alan Sugar's 'You're fired!' was brutal.Not since a Dutch TV company had the stroke of genius two yea

Brittany Murphy has been cast in a new movie role and the actress will star opposite a Golden Globe winner -- read on for more details. Murphy will play Mickey Rourke's girlfriend in 'The Expendables,' says The Hollywood Reporter. Sylvester Stallone and Jet Li will also appear in the film which centers around a group of mercenaries who travel to South America in an attempt to overthrow a dictator, THR reports.

Good thing, too, because Soulpepper's regular company doesn't really have the stones for Mamet's profanity-spewing, hyper-masculine Americans

Miley Cyrus' new film 'Hannah Montana: The Movie' hits theaters this Friday but you can also catch the Disney star next week on "American Idol", and she will be joined by another big star!On Tuesday's "American Idol" the top seven finalists will perform cinema tunes in a special "Idols at the Movies" themed show. Then on Wednesday, Cyrus will perform along with former "Idol" finalist and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson on the results show.Tune in to Fox Tuesday April 14 to see the top seven perform movie themed songs under the guidance of famed director Quentin Tarantino.

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The most satisfying production at the 33rd Humana Festival of New American Plays, a two-act drama by Zoe Kazan called "Absalom," was also the most traditional.

Business News: Ari Emanuel to head up new enterprise -- While the heated merger rumors between William Morris and Endeavor cooled slightly during the week, news broke Wednesday about the formation of a venture that would put Endeavor chief Ari Emanuel at the center of an enterprise to advise companies on raising coin for media ventures.

The actress-journalist, 'who transformed the art of solo performance in the 1990s by embodying dozens of characters in her plays Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, is returning to the New York stage this fall for the first time in nine years with a new production about medicine and health care, Let Me Down Easy.'...