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Cleveland, Ohio, United States (AHN Entertainment) – On Friday, May 13, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum debuted its latest exhibit. The display is entitled “Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power.”

Cyndi Lauper, Wanda Jackson, and Darlene Love were just some of the famous faces who turned up at the event. The exhibit features items from artists including Lady Gaga, Aretha Franklin, Cher, and Christina Aguilera.

The exhibit demonstrates the influences of women in rock and roll from years ago to the present day. Over 60 artists are featured and the display takes up two floors in the museum.

The day after the exhibit’s opening, the museum featured its annual benefit concert, “It’s Only Rock and Roll Spring Benefit Concert.” Lauper, Jackson, and Love were all present at this event, this time performing.

The exhibit will be open until February 26, 2012 at the museum in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Canal Winchester, OH, United States (AHN) – Two Ohio boys were kicked off the school bus for passing gas and being a disruption.

The incident happened on Thursday and according to one of the boys’ father caused riders to laugh, heckle and of course roll their windows down.

James Nichols in a report with the Columbus Dispatch said they boys were considered repeat offenders because a driver had warned them after a similar indiscretion weeks ago.

However this time officials at Canal Winchester Middle School intervened and deemed it was an obscene gesture that violated the student code of conduct. They were banned for a day from riding.

Nichols on the other hand calls the whole thing “laughable” the kids would be subject to disciplinary action for something natural and unintentional. His wife who was recently hospitalized with gastro-intestinal issues was offended by the whole thing.

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CA, United States (AHN Entertainment) – “High School Musical’s” Sharpay Evans is going to get her time to shine in Disney’s all new movie “Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure.”

Ashley Tisdale stars in the Disney Channel original movie premiering this month.

When a New York casting director sees Sharpay perform at a charity event, the ambitious teen decides to head to Broadway for an audition.

Sharpay packs her bags and Boi, her Yorki, and leaves for New York City.

Other familiar “High School Musical” stars will appear in the movie, including Jessica Tuck and Robert Curtis Brown.

“Ugly Betty” star Alec Mapa and Gill Samms and Jack Plotnick from “Shake It Up” take on roles in Disney’s new movie as well. Broadway writer Robert Horn is behind this film, along with director Michael Lembeck. “High School Musical” executive-producers Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush team up once again for this Disney film. The movie airs May 22 on Disney Channel.

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Nashville, United States (AHN Entertainment) – Country music stars are coming together to raise money for those reeling from the effects of the recent floods and tornadoes in the South.

The show, CMT One Country, will take place in Nashville this month.

An array of stars will be performing, including Hank Williams, Jr., Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, and Tim McGraw. 100% of the profits from the show will be given to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief.

The idea for the benefit came from Hank Williams, Jr., who offered his idea to CMT. The renowned country singer said, “I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing on TV. Alabama is home- I am really pumped about helping.”

CMT’s president Brian Phillips adds, “We will raise money, and we will shine the brightest possible light on the urgent needs of our courageous neighbors.”

CMT One Country airs Thursday, May 12 at 9 p.m. ET.

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New York, NY, United States (AHN Entertainment) – Chanel hosted its sixth annual TriBeCa Film Festival dinner in New York. Guests included Chloe Sevigny, Rose Byrne and Zoe Kravitz.

Almost everyone was wearing Chanel at the dinner, held at the Manhattan brasserie Odeon. Guests included Naomi Watts, Robert De Niro, Zach Braff, Taylor Badgley, Julia Restoin Roitfeld and Harley Viera Newton, Julian Schnabel, Patti Smith, Jeff Koons, Chiara Clemente, Jimmy Buffett, Lauren Hutton and Mirabelle, Melia and Brice Marden.

Artists honored hotographer Taryn Simon, the painter Clifford Ross and Robert De Niro, who each contributed a work to be awarded, in lieu of a little gold statue, to the film festival winners.

The Tribeca Film Festival runs through Sunday, May 1; the artworks will be on display through Wednesday, May 4 at the New York Academy of Art.

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D.C., Washington, United States (AHN Entertainment) – George Clooney’s father veteran journalist Nick Clooney has been hospitalized.

The 77-year-old Clooney is being treated in Washington, D.C. Wednesday after he fell it while preparing to host a “Reel Journalism” movie program at the Newseum, a museum dedicated to journalism around the world, reports The Cincinnati Enquirer.

“He had a bad headache. They thought it was a bad migrane. They’re just checking him out,” his daughter, Ada Zeidler, said Wed

The newspaper reported that doctors decided to keep him overnight for observation and believe he is suffering from exhaustion.

“They’re running tests to determine what it is, and when they determine what it is, his son George will make an announcement to the media,” said Judi LaFreniere, Montgomery Town Hall lecture series chairwoman. Nick Clooney was to speak Wednesday and Thursday in Cincinnati as part of that lecture series.

Clooney, author of “The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen” and a former TV anchorman and newspaper columnist, has hosted the Newseum movie series for three years.

It is not clear yet when Clooney will be released from the hospital.

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Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN Entertainment) – It’s “Boardwalk Empire” star Paz de la Huerta versus “The City” and its former star Samantha Swetra. Swetra has officially filed a lawsuit against Paz following their headline-grabbing fight.

Swetra said that Paz punched her and then hit her in the leg with a drinking glass during a party at New York’s Standard Hotel last month. The lawsuit describes it as having been “assaulted, beaten and battered.”

According to TMZ, Swetra says she’s suffered severe physical and emotion injuries, “some of which injuries are permanent in nature.”

The lawsuit doesn’t go into detail as to the injuries, but sources close to the reality star say they include swelling, pain in her nose, and trouble breathing.

She is suing for unspecified damages. Meanwhile, the HBO star appeared in criminal court earlier this week where she was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon, attempted assault and harassment.

Paz de la Huerta is due back in court May 19th.

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Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – A Boeing 737 from the fleet of presidential passenger jets carrying the First and Second Ladies aborted a landing on Monday to narrowly avoid a 200-ton military cargo jet on the runway of Andrews Air Force Base, according to reports.

The jet was carrying First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, who were returning from an appearance on ABC’s “The View” in New York, when the aircraft was forced to circle the airport.

Confirming the reports, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a statement late Tuesday saying, “FAA controllers at Andrews Air Force Base instructed an incoming Boeing 737 on approach to Runway 19 to perform a ‘go around’ on Monday, April 18, 2011, just after 5 p.m. because the plane did not have the required amount of separation behind a military C17.”

The FAA’s statement didn’t address the role of air traffic controllers in the mishap although according to reliable sources the controllers gave the go-ahead to land even when the distance between the planes was less than five miles. The agency requires a separation of five miles between planes at that lower altitude because turbulence off of the wings can be dangerous to following planes.

Announcing that it was “investigating the incident,” the FAA statement noted, “The Boeing 737 landed safely after executing the go around. The aircraft were never in any danger.”

The White House did not comment on the incident.

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Bielefeld, Germany (AHN) – A German father was sentenced to six years in jail for castrating the 58-year-old man who seduced his school age daughter and then slept with her for six months.

According to court documents the victim who has five children and nine grandchildren, must now take hormone supplements for the rest of his life to maintain normal levels and not start developing female traits.

Helmut Seifert, the girl’s 48-year-old father was convicted of serious assault and also ordered to pay financial restitution of $116,000.

“You did something incredibly cruel,” Judge George Zimmermann said.

In November when the father learned his 17-year-old daughter had a lover nearly three times her age he became incensed.

Seifert tried to get police to intervene and end the romance but they refused. So he and two friends found the man, Phillip Genscher in his apartment, stripped of his clothes then bound and gagged him before cutting off his testicles. They then called an ambulance to pick up the victim.

Genscher narrowly avoided bleeding to death.

“I was only trying to protect my child,” said the defendant, who is a cleaner. “I’m sorry. I over-reacted.”

What made the case even more shocking was the fact the victim was the grandfather of the girl’s best friend in school. Reportedly she used to call him “Grandpa.”

The victim contends he was in love with the teen and she was the reason why he ended his 36-year marriage.

The victim insisted he had been in love with her, and had ended his marriage of 36 years to be with her.

The judge however wasn’t impressed and said he had been living in a “fantasy world” and his affair with the girl had been a “dead-end street.”

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Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN Entertainment) – Hollywood couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have launched an anti-sex trade video as part of their campaign against slavery and human trafficking.

Kutcher and Moore released a series of online video clips Monday with the slogan “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls” to raise awareness, reports USA Today.

“Modern-day slavery is such a complicated issue, but we’re trying to do what we can to make men think twice before they engage in this,” says Moore. “The message to the guys is, t, which also features Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, Jaime Foxx and Justin Timberlake, among others, is part of the couple’s nonprofit organization called The Demi and Ashton Foundation (DNA).

According to the organization’s website, almost 300,000 children are enslaved and sold for sex in the United States alone. The entire industry generates $39 billion annually around the world.

Kutchers said he hopes the videos and its message goes viral and insists the ongoing campaign is not a career move.

“Our doing this is not some sort of career strategy thing,” Kutcher said. “In fact, I’d probably be doing a lot better in my career if I focused a little more on that and less on this stuff.”

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