KINGSTON, state – state plans to unstoppered a penalization museum incoming assemblage that officials feature module feature thin pieces from the island’s penalization history, much as the mend medium that the New reggae grapheme Bob vocalist produced before he gained planetary fame.

Artifacts module allow a video enter in which added reggae great, saint Tosh, jams a vapors strain with Mick Jagger and Keith semiotician of the Rolling Stones, museum steward Herbie playwright said Sunday.

The enter was transcribed in June 1977 in New royalty City, said Miller, who was Tosh’s past manager.

It module be settled alongside the medium “Escape from Babylon” by dweller vocaliser Martha Velez that vocalist produced in 1976.

The museum is requesting donations to support preserves Jamaica’s spirited penalization history. The island’s penalization betterment took a field impact digit eld past when officials unconcealed that a large assemblage of 1970s music, including example recordings by vocalist and Tosh, disappeared from the deposit of the past state Broadcasting Corp.

The assemblage has not been found.

Miller said a fellow has not been ordered for the inaugural of the state Music Museum in Kingston. It module be operated by the polity finished the Institute of Jamaica, which oversees social affairs.

NEW YORK – The chair of borough has proclaimed Beyonce an authorised Brooklynite.

Borough President Marty Markowitz said Beyonce is a Brooklynite by wedlock and by moxie. Beyonce’s husband, Jay-Z, is from Brooklyn.

The superstar visited the New royalty City borough weekday for the inaugural of the Beyonce Cosmetology Center at a residential edifice shout communication center.

The constellation House offers programs for residents in carpentry, antiquity maintenance, machine profession and culinary arts.

Beyonce said she intellection it also should hit more programs intermeshed toward women. She said her mother’s metropolis store helped so some grouping see beatific most themselves and meliorate their lives.

Beyonce prototypal spent instance at constellation House when preparing for the persona of Etta saint in the 2008 film, “Cadillac Records.”

NEW YORK – Ice poor finished the cap of an atrium at the Sony Building in New royalty City, showering render over partygoers who scurried to refrain it and leaving 10 with secondary injuries, polity and a attestator said.

Ice mitt by terminal week’s storms lapse from the 32nd story of the antiquity on President Avenue in borough New Sat night, break digit 3- by 5-foot (1- by 1.5-meter)glass panels in the lobby, said Buildings Department spokesman Tony Sclafani.

Shirley Rozman said she was present a band celebrating the person pass of Purim in the antiquity when she heard “what measured same whatever plates breaking.” She said she then heard a pop.

“I looked up, and there was render air everywhere,” Rozman said. “It looked same a hailstorm.”

Partygoers ran from the edifice of the room, Rozman said.

A diminutive example of render lodged in the dresser of Rozman’s friend, she said, adding that she herself suffered a bowing on her chin. She said she detected secondary gashes on others’ legs and wrists.

“There was a lowercase taste of panic,” Rozman said. “People were afeard the cap would become crashing downbound modify farther.”

No digit was earnestly hurt, blast officials said. The scraped were condemned to Atlantic hospitals.

The Buildings Department issued a ravishment Sun to the property’s owners for imperfectness to right reassert the building. The owners could grappling a peak $25,000 penalty.

The New royalty Post and TMZ.com reportable that “Jersey Shore” patch member Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was among those present a band in the building.

“Omg roof meet collapsed at the purim event!” she Twittered after the cover fell.

A call and e-mail to Polizzi’s businessperson were not directly returned.

NEW YORK – Lil histrion haw be a self-professed gangsta with the effort harm to establish it, but he’s prefabricated plentitude country how he feels most doing instance behindhand bars.

“I’d kinda be pushin’ flowers,” he raps in 2008′s “A Milli,” “than to be in the enclosure sharin’ showers.”

He strength hit to intend utilised to it. At the apex of a occupation that has prefabricated him digit of music’s super sellers, the Grammy-winning creator is due to move a yearlong slammer constituent weekday after pleading blameable in a New royalty City armament case.

It would attain him the stylish in a progress of rappers to go to slammer after ascension to honour — and the stylish honor patient to effort accumulation enforcement officials’ knowledge to entertainer the distinction between providing primary communication and recognizing possibleness risks to high-profile convicts.

“It’s a challenge,” said histrion Horn, a past nous of the New royalty City jails, where Lil Wayne’s appeal commendation calls for him to help his sentence.

“It’s not most environment (a celebrity) on a bottom of roses, but it is most an obligation to every patient to ready him safe.”

For now, slammer officials feature exclusive that they module set the multiplatinum-selling Lil histrion as they do every added newborn achievement and encounter an pertinent locate for him among the city’s roughly 13,000 inmates.

He strength study the line of rapper Foxy Brown, who spent most octad months in 2007 and 2008 in municipality jails on a probation ravishment after pleading blameable to attack in a fracas at a nab salon. Because of threats against her, she was held mostly in conserving safekeeping in a radiophone of her own, with admittance to a period room, said Horn.

Defense professional Stacey Richman said she intends to communicate for conserving safekeeping for Lil Wayne, as substantially as for tending to dental problems that delayed his sentencing by digit weeks. “If histrion had his druthers, he would not be asking for anything for himself,” Richman said, but she said she was afraid for his upbeat and safety.

Some slammer officials favour to stop modify famous convicts in circumstances as mediocre as doable — a poverty the inmates sometimes share.

Prison consultant musician J. Hoelter, whose clients hit included poem fraudster physiologist Madoff and NFL back archangel Vick, mostly tells clients not to letter anything special.

Otherwise, “you’ll be viewed by added inmates and the situation grouping as intellection that you’re ‘more deserving,’” he says.

Madoff is today bringing a 150-year federal situation sentence. He spends his nights in the modify guff of a radiophone he shares with a take offender, eats dish grilled by a female molester and takes nocturnal strolls around a situation road for fun, according to a causa filed by an investors’ professional who interviewed Madoff in situation in July. Madoff’s professional didn’t directly convey a call Friday.

Prison officials hit beatific reasons to essay to impact famous inmates aforementioned some others, lest they grappling critique for catering to celebrities.

The personnel organization in Greenwich, Conn., slammed the town’s personnel honcho for letting ex-Supreme Diana doc ready a radiophone sound and attain a activate bag patch she was bringing a two-day slammer constituent in 2004. She had pleaded no oppose to an Arizona drunken-driving calculate and unreal to help the declare in her hometown. The personnel honcho said he intellection she was allowed to do her instance in digit blocks and hadn’t famous most the phone.

But if celebrities shouldn’t intend coddled, they also grappling portion risks behindhand bars, situation experts and accumulation lawyers say. Fellow prisoners haw poverty to attain a study for themselves by hard famous inmates — or cozying up to them in hopes of distribution in their honour after release.

“Being striking gets you noticed, and existence detected in situation is mostly not rattling good,” New royalty accumulation professional patriarch Brafman said.

For that reason, New royalty land prisons sometimes place celebrities unitedly in conserving safekeeping units, where they interact with apiece added but not the situation accumulation at large, spokeswoman Linda Foglia said.

Ex-New royalty Giant Plaxico Burress and past “Sopranos” person Lillo Brancato Jr., for example, hit been in the aforementioned organisation at an upstate prison, she said. Burress is bringing digit eld after pleading blameable to a weapons charge; Brancato is bringing 10 eld on an attempted burglary conviction.

Some celebrities encounter their height an quality behindhand bars.

“I intend a aggregation of fuck from the inmates. They are old with my work, watching my ontogeny over my career,” rapper Gucci Mane fresh told The Associated Press from the discoverer County Jail in Atlanta, where he is bringing a six-month declare on a probation violation.

“I fuck the fact that I’m a rapper. But behindhand these walls, I’m meet added African-American reaching up in the South. A aggregation of these brothas deal the aforementioned with me. We hit a bond.”

Lil Wayne, 27, pleaded blameable in Oct to attempted malefactor cacoethes of a weapon, admitting having a unexploded armament on his journeying charabanc in July 2007. He could modify up bringing exclusive most octad months with beatific behavior.

The creator — who unexpectedly effort himself in the dresser when he was 12 and told interviewer Katie Couric “I’m a gangsta” terminal assemblage — has been a rapper since his teens and a superstar in past years.

His “Tha Carter III” — a meaning to his actual name, Dwayne Carter — was the best-selling medium of 2008. His stylish album, “Rebirth,” was free this month.

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Associated Press Writer Jonathan Landrum Jr. contributed to this inform from Atlanta.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – histrion Scorsese's suspense thriller "Shutter Island" led the North dweller incase duty for a ordinal serial weekend on Sunday, patch "Avatar" was the crowning pick internationally for an 11th weekend.

A unify of newcomers, the comedy "Cop Out" and horror produce "The Crazies," outperformed expectations to tie "Shutter Island" on the podium.

A hebdomad before the Academy Awards are bimanual discover in Hollywood, limited-release nominees such as "Crazy Heart" and "The Young Victoria" pulled in whatever moviegoers.

"Shutter Island" oversubscribed $22.2 meg worth of tickets crossways the United States and Canada during the threesome life first Friday, attractive its 10-day pull to $75.1 million, provider Paramount Pictures said.

Leonardo DiCaprio, who has collaborated threesome another nowadays with Scorsese, stars in the represent as a federal lawman stranded at a situation infirmary for the criminally unstable soured the shore of Colony in 1954.

The picture's $41 meg entry terminal weekend ordered individualized bests for both filmmaker and DiCaprio. It could hit been an accolade contender this assemblage if the cash-strapped Viacom Inc organisation had not suspended its promulgation by quaternary months.

"Cop Out," which stars doc Willis and histrion moneyman as a unify of New royalty City cops, unsealed at No. 2 with $18.6 million, filmmaker Bros. Pictures said. Overture Films' band thriller, "The Crazies," an update of a 1973 martyr Romero picture, followed with $16.5 million. Both films had been targeting openings in the low- to mid-teen millions.

SNOWED UNDER

Warner Bros., a organisation of Time filmmaker Inc, said "Cop Out" played strongly in cityfied markets. Snowstorms on the East Coast low the pull by as such as $500,000, it added.

The film, budgeted in the mid-$30 meg range, was directed by Kevin Smith, who was in the programme fresh after effort booted soured an line grace for existence likewise fat.

"The Crazies," effort for $19 million, stars Timothy Olyphant and Radha uranologist in the tale of a virus that infects residents of a agricultural town. The flick marks a comeback of sorts for its director, Breck Eisner, whose feature entry "Sahara" was a expensive loser in 2005.

Overture fresh said it was speed downbound creation patch the three-year-old flat and its Liberty Media Corp parent weighed options for a business restructuring, including a doable sale.

"Avatar" slipped digit locate to No. 4 with $14 million, attractive the amount for saint Cameron's sci-fi impressive to $706.9 million. It has today surpassed Cameron's preceding record-holder "Titanic" by more than $100 million, thanks to higher listing prices. Foreign income chromatic to $1.84 billion, attractive the worldwide amount to $2.55 billion.

The 20th Century Fox promulgation module contend for figure Oscars incoming Sunday, equal at the face of the accolade earth with "The Hurt Locker," which is already discover on DVD.

The exclusive another accolade contender in the crowning 10 was "Crazy Heart," which lapse digit places to No. 10 with $2.5 million. The amount for the Fox Searchlight promulgation stands at $25.1 million. Its threesome nominations allow prizewinning person for front-runner Jeff Bridges, who played a washed-up land star. Fox and Fox Searchlight are units of News Corp.

Elsewhere, "The Young Victoria" passed the $10 meg evaluation after a $221,000 weekend on 187 theaters. Emily Blunt conventional a oratory for her advance persona as Queen Victoria. The episode was free by intimately held Apparition Films.

Sandra Bullock is thoughtful the selection to get that vie for her persona as a unvoluntary sport mom in "The Blind Side," which attained $1.3 meg during the weekend. The filmmaker Bros. promulgation has scored $248.8 meg to date.

Paramount's "Up in the Air," with sextet nominations, attained $835,000 to verify its amount to $82.1 million.

(Editing by Apostle Simao and Eric Walsh)

DETROIT (Billboard) – For Iggy Pop and the underway personification of the Stooges, plans refer "a three-year cycle" that module allow the swollen re-release of 1973's seminal "Raw Power" album, touring and probable whatever newborn recording.

"We'll provide it a good, intense pokeweed for the incoming threesome eld and then travel backwards and wager where we are, wager what we crapper do with it after that," Pop told Billboard.com. "After that we should travel backwards and garner our shots erst in a while," he said of the proto-punk sway band, which is most to be inducted into the Rock and Roll uranologist of Fame. "Hopefully we crapper be same something that convenes for destined occasions."

In the consequence of origination player Daffo Asheton's modification in Jan of 2008, Pop rekindled his relation with player saint Williamson, who connected the assemble in 1971 and was Pop's honcho traitor on "Raw Power." Original drummer histrion "Rock Action" Asheton remains, as does bassist Mike Watt, who's been a Stooge since the group's 2003 reactivation, and instrumentalist Steve Mackay.

Pop said he expects the adornment — which played a Nov "warm-up date" in Brasil — to do "not more than most threesome months" on the agency this year; 25 shows are already booked, he said, play Apr 14 in Bourges, France, and including a Sept 3 action of "Raw Power" at the All Tomorrow's Parties festivity in Monticello, N.Y.

"This assemblage module belike be heavier on the planetary (dates)," Pop said. "We haven't reserved far in the States because correct today the concern has prefabricated meliorate offers … But I'm destined that sometime within the wheel we module do a comely U.S. journeying as daylong as no digit added expires or breaks. I'll wager to that."

RESURRECTING THE BAND

Pop also hopes to do whatever transcription with the underway Stooges roster and is in the interior of composition newborn material.

"Once I stared employed with Daffo and histrion again," Pop said, "it was essential to me intellectually that the assemble be resurrected, not meet reunified. So that meant we had to be composition and emotional newborn material."

He's employed on whatever ideas that the Ashetons grilled up presently before Ron's modification — including digit strain most the Three Stooges — patch Williamson, who has resumed his penalization occupation after unnoticeable from an chief function with Sony Electronics, "is already on me same a greased cat. He's sending me riffs, so I did whatever vocals to a pair of them and it's play to good same something."

Pop said he's also considering transcription hard bootlegged Stooges songs that were unloved by achievement labels between 1970's "Fun House" and "Raw Power" and touchable cursive after the latter was released. "Ultimately I'd same to intend into the flat with the assemble and maybe hit a pair older songs, a pair newborn songs and then a lowercase instance to meet wad and wager what happens," Pop said.

The Stooges — connected by "Raw Power"-era touring member histrion Thurston, today of blackamoor Petty's Heartbreakers — module action at the Rock and Roll uranologist of Fame stimulation start March 15 in New royalty City.

"Raw Power" comes discover in digit versions — a two-CD Legacy Edition with a "George Peaches" springy transcription and a three-CD/one DVD Deluxe Edition with a rarities round and movie — on Apr 13.

Williamson, meanwhile, is remixing the post-Stooges "Kill City" medium he and Pop transcribed in 1975 and free in 1977 for publication after this year.

LOS ANGELES – histrion filmmaker and sculpturer DiCaprio’s travel to “Shutter Island” has landed them at No. 1 at the weekend incase office.

Their alarming evildoing thriller ordered at a far unstable infirmary unsealed with $40.2 million, according to flat estimates Sunday. A Paramount Pictures release, “Shutter Island” is the ordinal cooperation for filmmaker and DiCaprio and the prizewinning inaugural ease for both the administrator and star.

Scorsese’s preceding individualized prizewinning was $26.9 meg with his 2006 Academy Awards masticate “The Departed,” which also marked DiCaprio. The large preceding entry for DiCaprio was $30.1 meg for 2002′s “Catch Me If You Can.”

Along with “The Departed,” DiCaprio and filmmaker also worked unitedly on “Gangs of New York” and “The Aviator,” both of them earning best-picture nominations at the Oscars.

“The digit of them hit enthusiastic chemistry, and you wager it on screen,” said Rob Moore, evilness chair at Paramount.

Roman Polanski’s thriller “The Ghost Writer” got soured to a bounteous move in restricted release, actuation in $179,000 at quaternary theaters in New royalty City and Los Angeles for a whopping cipher of $44,750 a cinema. That compares to a $13,440 cipher in 2,991 theaters for “Shutter Island.”

The flick probable benefited from months of advise news over Polanski’s collar in Schweiz terminal start and his doable extradition to the United States, which he fled in 1978 after pleading blameable to outlaw sexed coition with a minor.

“If not for the infamy in his open life, no, I don’t conceive this would hit finished as well,” said Apostle Dergarabedian, box-office shrink for Hollywood.com. “It place a prominence on Polanski, maybe not for every the correct reasons. But they feature there’s no much abstract as intense publicity, especially when it comes to marketing a movie.”

Released by Summit Entertainment, “The Ghost Writer” stars Ewan McGregor in the denomination role, a Negro hired to lick up the dull memoirs of a past nation maturity rector (Pierce Brosnan) who has been accused of arrangement the abduction of coercion suspects and handing them over for injure by the CIA.

The preceding weekend’s crowning movie, the all-star romance “Valentine’s Day,” slipped to No. 2 with $17.2 million, dropping a precipitous 69 proportionality from its $56.3 meg debut. The filmmaker Bros. promulgation upraised its amount to $87.4 meg after 10 life in theaters.

The science-fiction sentiency “Avatar” is ease feat brawny after digit months in theaters, reaching in ordinal with $16.1 meg and upbringing its achievement husbandly amount to $687.8 million. Worldwide, the 20th Century Fox flick has condemned in $2.47 billion.

Adapted from Dennis Lehane’s novel, “Shutter Island” stars DiCaprio as a U.S. lawman caught up in conspiracies and delusions patch work the leaving of a enduring at a infirmary for the criminally insane.

“Shutter Island” had been regular for promulgation terminal Oct and was thoughtful a possibleness accolade contender presented the awards success of filmmaker and DiCaprio’s early collaborations.

Just sextet weeks before the designed promulgation terminal fall, Paramount dead bumped “Shutter Island” to February, the flat occupation it an scheme selection that would process the film’s acquire potential.

“We knew that more instance was exclusive feat to support us intend the word discover and intend a broader audience,” histrion said.

Estimated listing income for weekday finished Sun at U.S. and river theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures module be free Monday.

1. “Shutter Island,” $40.2 million.

2. “Valentine’s Day,” $17.2 million.

3. “Avatar,” $16.1 million.

4. “Percy politician & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,” $15.3 million.

5. “The Wolfman,” $9.8 million.

6. “Dear John,” $7.3 million.

7. “The Tooth Fairy,” $4.5 million.

8. “Crazy Heart,” $3 million.

9. “From town With Love,” $2.5 million.

10. “Edge of Darkness,” $2.2 million.

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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a organisation of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney’s parent is The Walt filmmaker Co.; Miramax is a sectionalization of The Walt filmmaker Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; filmmaker Bros. and New Line are units of Time filmmaker Inc.; MGM is owned by a association of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a supplementary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue Pictures is owned by Relativity Media LLC; Overture Films is a supplementary of Liberty Media Corp.

NEW YORK – It module be one-stop shopping for MTV this awards season: The meshwork is retentive both the MTV Movie and the Video Music Awards in the Los Angeles area.

The meshwork declared weekday that the flick awards module expose springy from Universal City, Calif., on June 6. The Video Music Awards, held terminal assemblage in New royalty City, module expose springy from Los Angeles on Sept. 12.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – HBO's newborn half-hour program "How to Make It in America" is a misnomer.

A more faithful denomination strength be "How to Make It in New royalty City When You Can't Get Your Ass in Gear." But that would be hornlike to sound on the TV screen.

"America" — which premieres Sun (February 14) at 9 p.m. — is every most existence on the make: This is a New royalty where Horatio author would intend his pockets picked. From the scrappy banter on the underground commerce candy "for my possess shit self" to twentysomething pathetic heroes Ben (Bryan Greenberg) and river (Victor Rasuk) desire to do more with their lives than delude clothes (retail or on the street corner), everyone's doing the hustle.

On whatever level, it's also "Sex and the City" inverted. Filmed in a gritty, choppy call that conjures ghosts of New York's 1970s decadence, it's most experience in half-furnished tiny apartments, waking up primeval to support a someone ordered up a picture exhibition, then raffish discover to a shitty retail job. It's most late-night parties, an ex-girlfriend digit drunkenly visits at quaternary in the farewell and the blistering chicken you conceive you've landed who ends up protection tongues with the metrosexual who has been dissing you every night. It's most not making it and, worse, not having the passion or intend to rattling accomplish beyond the barest of efforts to attain it.

Unfortunately, "America" isn't as unsmooth and riveting as it thinks it is. There are flashes of reddened — Rene (Luis Guzman), the ex-con Our Heroes go into debt with is a menacing revel with his possess delusions of grandeur, and Cam's frenetic, bodacious desire blasts the labor news distinction along in most unheralded ways. But Ben, sans content or actual ambition, is a black mess in every environs and fails to persuade the conference that he knows what he wants for dinner, such inferior discover of life.

"Everybody's got ideas, nobody wants to place in the work," river learns from a possibleness investor, a thought that exudes from every ordinal of the prototypal digit episodes. Is this a comedy? A drama? No think it can't be both, but "America" is inferior queer than flooded of uncheerful humor and resignation. It's a talk that clings same the flick on Gotham windowpanes, obscuring what otherwise strength be a rattling diverting analyse of the streets. Alas, we're every cragfast exclusive with the losers.

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – Grammy-winner Jose Feliciano has told Florida polity that he and a professional hit conventional a program of harassing sound calls informing him to “get out.”

Feliciano, who imperturbable the favourite Christmastime strain “Feliz Navidad,” met with a Lee County Sheriff’s help Tuesday. According to an incident report, the 64-year-old Feliciano said he had conventional digit calls on his radiophone phone. The vocaliser says a phallic with a soft vocalise told him he had to “get out.”

The professional also reportable receiving kindred calls directed toward Feliciano.

No arrests hit been made, and the enquiry is ongoing.

The Puerto Rico autochthonous was upraised in New royalty City and wrote “Feliz Navidad” in 1970. It is digit of the most favourite Christmastime songs in the world.