Def Jam's 25th Anniversary Collection, a five-disc crate, features a 59-page color booklet and tracks spanning from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee LL Cool J's "I Need a Beat" and the Beastie Boys' "Paul Revere" to Rihanna's "Umbrella" and Young Jeezy's "Put On."

Elizabeth Taylor tweeted "I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart. It's very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better.

McDonald's plans to open its 1,142nd outlet in France next month to celebrate its 30th anniversary in that country, and the location is at the pinnacle of all things cultural and classy: the Louvre. Visitors to the museum will soon be able to enjoy their Le Big Macs after studying the likes of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" at McDonald's new burger bar and a McCafe.

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning missed practices this week. Manning's streak of 82 straight starts seemed a bit more in jeopardy on Thursday when he was not on the field. Backup David Carr again worked with the first team offense in preparation for Sunday's game at Giants Stadium against the Oakland Raiders. Manning has said he could play even if he did not practice this week. He insisted Wednesday that the inflammation in his heel is progressing. However, he also said he would not play if either he could not run the entire game plan or he would risk making his injury worse.

Oakland @ Giants 1PM / Jets @ Miami Monday Night 8PM

Vegas picks Yanks & Cards to meet in World Series

Yankees @ Twins Sunday Game 3
Phillies @ Rockies 9:30 tonight & tomorrow night Games ¾

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh grew up in Missouri and he apparently wants to come back to the Show-Me State. He is reportedly teaming up with St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts to try and buy the St. Louis Rams, according to the New York Times.

Due to strong advance demand, the upcoming return of Paul Reubens' "The Pee-wee Herman Show" has moved venues, switching to Club Nokia @ LA Live for a four-week run, Jan. 12-Feb. 7.

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is releasing his fifth solo album on Tuesday and readying plans to take his solo band, the Joe Perry Project, back out on the road. The album, Have Guitar, Will Travel, was recorded in the wake of Aerosmith's hiatus due to injuries suffered by lead singer Steven Tyler when he fell off of a stage during a show in Sturgis, South Dakota.

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne is collaborating with dance music specialist Fatboy Slim on a concept album and musical based on the life of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines. The project is expected to be like the musical Evita.

NBC has canceled Southland.

Playboy magazine is appealing to the younger generation with its first-ever newsstand cover and centerfold of a cartoon character -- Marge Simpson of "The Simpsons" -- in its November issue. The magazine, which appears on newsstands Oct. 16, will feature Simpson in a three-page pictorial that a Playboy spokeswoman described as "sexy" with "implied nudity." Subscribers, who make up 40 percent of Playboy's readership, will get a celebrity on the cover rather than Marge. The move is a sign of changes to come from new CEO Scott Flanders, a former Freedom Communications Inc. CEO who was hired June 1 to succeed Christie Hefner to lead Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises Inc. The Marge Simpson centerfold is "obviously somewhat tongue-in-cheek," Flanders said in an interview Thursday. "It had never been done, and we thought it would be kind of hip, cool and unusual."

In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of "Good Vibrations," the other the Jazz Age creator of "Rhapsody in Blue," former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been authorized by the estate of George Gershwin to complete unfinished songs Gershwin left behind when he died in 1937. He plans to finish and record at least two such pieces on an album of Gershwin music he hopes to release next year.

The Cure will reissue its 1989 masterwork Disintegration in an expanded and remastered 3CD edition next spring, Robert Smith announced today, the first salvo in what appears to be a flood of new archival releases from the legendary band - including the first-ever DVD release of 1987's long-out-of-print "In Orange" concert film.

The Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ Presents:
Ray Davies on Nov. 24 / From Good Homes Dec 18-19

Billboards 200 pop chart:

Mariah Carey's new album "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" was considered a disappointment, starting at No. 3 with 168,000 copies.

Pop-rock band Paramore, No. 2 with sales of 175,000 for "Brand New Eyes."

Barbra Streisand scored her ninth No. 1 album on Wednesday with a jazz release that overshadowed high-profile releases by some much-younger artists. Streisand's "Love Is the Answer," her first studio recording in four years, sold 180,000 copies during the week ending October 4, according to her Columbia Records label, a unit of Sony Corp.

President Barack Obama today won the Nobel Peace Prize for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." The president was awakened with the news and said he was humbled by the honor. Obama had not been mentioned as a front-runner, and reporters gasped when he was named.

Will Eric Braeden, the actor who's played Victor on 'The Young and the Restless' leave the show after 27 years? Refusing to take a cut in pay that may be the case.

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