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An entertainment is any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is typically passive - as in watching opera or a movie. Activities which involve participating in games or sports a... ~Wikipedia

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online games, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, PlanetSide, Star Wars Galaxies and Vanguard: Saga of Her... ~Wikipedia

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Blizzard Entertainment is an American video game developer and publisher headquartered in Irvine, California. It is a division of Activision Blizzard. Blizzard is the creator of several successful PC games, including the Warcraft, StarCraft and Diabl... ~Wikipedia

Sony Computer Entertainment, Incorporated (株式会社ソニー・コンピュータエンタテインメント, Kabushiki Gaisha Son&... ~Wikipedia

AMC Theatres, officially known as AMC Entertainment Inc., is the second largest movie theatre chain in North America and one of only three (National Amusements, Inc. Dedham, Ma. & Cinemark Theaters being the others) of the 12 largest on the conti... ~Wikipedia

Brigadier John E B Smedley is Private Secretary to the Earl of Wessex, younger son of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. ~Wikipedia

Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (largely established by former Vice President Hubert Humphrey). He was the forty-second Vice President of the ... ~Wikipedia

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (SPE) is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese media conglomerate Sony. Its group sales in 2007 has been reported to be of $8.58 billion. ~Wikipedia

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Qantas Airways Limited (IPA: /ˈkwɔntəs/) (ASX:QAN) is the national airline of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an acronym for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Nicknamed "The Flyi... ~Wikipedia

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Nicholas Scott "Nick" Cannon (born October 8, 1980) is an American actor and rapper. ~Wikipedia

Live Nation NYSE: LYV is a live events company based in Beverly Hills, California. Live Nation formed in 2005 by a spin-off from Clear Channel Communications. The present CEO of the company is Michael Rapino. ~Wikipedia

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Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was a two-term U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of Minnesota and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is affiliated with the national Democratic Party. Before being elected t... ~Wikipedia

Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom then United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "inappropriate relationship" while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. The tawd... ~Wikipedia

Universal Music Group (UMG) is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Big Four record labels. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi; Universal Studios, the mo... ~Wikipedia

Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American recording artist and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles ... ~Wikipedia

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991),... ~Wikipedia

Shahrukh Khan (Hindi: शाहरुख़ ख़ान, Urdu: شاہ رخ خان), born 2 November 1965, is a highly acclaimed Indian actor who works in Bollywood f... ~Wikipedia

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Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was a Grammy Award-winning American rock singer-songwriter and musician. He was noted for his offbeat, sardonic view of life which was reflected in his dark, sometimes humorous songs, ... ~Wikipedia

Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. In 1988, Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records, Inc. for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the ... ~Wikipedia

Sony Computer Entertainment, Incorporated (株式会社ソニー・コンピュータエンタテインメント, Kabushiki Gaisha Son&... ~Wikipedia

Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. is a holding company which owns, operates and manages casinos/hotels in the United States The company was formed in 2005 as a result of the restructuring of its predecessor Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts. Donald J... ~Wikipedia

Paramount Pictures Corporation is a major global American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. Founded in 1912, it is the oldest running movie studio in Hollywood, beating Universal Studios by a month. P... ~Wikipedia

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy Disney as an animation studio, it has become one of the biggest Hollywood studios, ... ~Wikipedia

Virgin America is a U.S. based low-cost airline that began service on 8 August 2007. The airline's stated aim is to provide low-fare, high-quality service for "long-haul point-to-point service between major metropolitan cities on the Eastern and... ~Wikipedia

Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major American motion picture company. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, Cali... ~Wikipedia

The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York, New York, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Playing their home games at Madison Square Ga... ~Wikipedia

Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (Hindi: सलमान ख़ान, Urdu: سلمان خان, pronounced [səlˈmɑːn ˈxɑːn]; born December 27... ~Wikipedia

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Massive Entertainment is a Swedish video game company based in Malmö, Sweden. The company is fully owned by Sierra Entertainment. They are best known for the Ground Control series of real-time tactics video games. Their latest project is World i... ~Wikipedia

Netflix, Inc., often just Netflix, (NASDAQ: NFLX) is a company that offers online flat rate DVD and Blu-ray Disc rental-by-mail and video streaming in the United States and Canada (streaming only in Canada). ~Wikipedia

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Tyler Perry (born September 14, 1969) is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor and director and producer of indie films and stage plays. His best-known character is "Madea", who is a physically imposing and overbearing, but well-inten... ~Wikipedia

Hulu is a website offering commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States. In order to ensure that no internati... ~Wikipedia

James William "Jimmy" Buffett (born December 25, 1946) is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritavill... ~Wikipedia

Viacom (NYSE: VIA) (NYSE: VIAB), short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), and movie product... ~Wikipedia

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. was a global financial services firm which was acquired by Bank of America. This article describes both the historical Merrill Lynch and its ongoing operations as a subsidiary of the bank. Merrill Lynch provides capital ... ~Wikipedia

Katrina Kaif (Hindi: कत्रिना कैफ़; born July 16, 1984) is a Hong Kong-born Indian film actress who has appeared in Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam films. ~Wikipedia

Chennai Super Kings is the Chennai based franchise of the Indian Premier League. The team is led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, currently the highest-paid IPL Player, and coached by Kepler Wessels. The M.A.Chidambaram stadium (often referred to as Chepauk)... ~Wikipedia

Atlantic City is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo guitar album Nebraska, which is generally considered one of Springsteen's darker albums musically. ~Wikipedia

Kenneth Arnold (Kenny) Chesney (born March 26, 1968) is an American country music artist. Since 1993, Chesney has recorded thirteen albums, eleven of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than thirty Top Ten ... ~Wikipedia

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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland ro... ~Wikipedia

Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977), better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam R... ~Wikipedia

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Kansas City is a city in the US state of Missouri encompassing parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is situated at the junction of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers (Kaw Point) and sits opposite Kansas City, Kansas. It is the largest ci... ~Wikipedia

Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942 as Barbara Joan Streisand), is a two-time Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. She has won Oscars for Best Actress and... ~Wikipedia

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Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. is a private gaming corporation that owns and operates casinos, hotels, and six golf courses under several brands. The company, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the largest gaming company in the world, with yearly revenues ... ~Wikipedia

Paradox Entertainment is a Swedish company (with an office in Los Angeles, USA) that owns many intellectual properties, the most famous of which is Conan the Barbarian. Other properties include Bran Mak Morn, Kull, Solomon Kane, Mutant, Mutant Chroni... ~Wikipedia

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Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game publisher and developer. ~Wikipedia

Humongous Inc. is an American video game developer. The company is known for its line of educational adventure games and sports games for children. ~Wikipedia

The PlayStation 3 (officially marketed PLAYSTATION 3, commonly abbreviated PS3) is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 compe... ~Wikipedia

Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC) is the largest movie theatre chain in North America, operating 6,423 screens in 529 locations in 41 U.S. states. It was formed in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2002, when billionaire investor Phillip Anschutz acqu... ~Wikipedia

Shiny Entertainment is a video game developer based in Newport Beach, Southern California, and is the creator of several hits such as Earthworm Jim, MDK, Sacrifice and The Matrix: Path of Neo. Shiny was founded by David Perry in October 1993 and is c... ~Wikipedia

Backbone Entertainment is an independent video game development company with offices in Emeryville, California, Vancouver, British Columbia, and formerly Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. ~Wikipedia

Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: PNK) is a gaming and hospitality company based in Las Vegas, Nevada that was created in 1938. It owns and operates casinos in the United States and Argentina. ~Wikipedia

Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast... ~Wikipedia

New Kids on the Block (also known as NKOTB by their fans) is an award-winning American pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They won two American Music Awards in 1990 for Favourite Pop/Rock Band, Duo, or Group and Favouri... ~Wikipedia

Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. (b. 8 October 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts ) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder, CEO, president and chairman of the board of Netflix. ~Wikipedia

Mario López, Jr. (born October 10, 1973), is an American actor and author who appeared on several television series. He first became well known for his portrayal of the character A.C. Slater on Saved by the Bell. ~Wikipedia

Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England), is an English rock singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the English rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo car... ~Wikipedia

Gale Anne Hurd (born October 25, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is a Hollywood film producer. ~Wikipedia

The Recording Industry Association of America (or RIAA) is a trade group that represents the major labels of the recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of a large number of private corporate entities such as record labels and di... ~Wikipedia

Tommy Lee (born Thomas Lee Bass; October 3, 1962) is an American musician. He is known as the drummer for hard rock/heavy metal band Mötley Crüe and ex-husband of actresses Pamela Anderson and Heather Locklear. ~Wikipedia

Mattel Inc. (NYSE: MAT) is the world's largest toy company based on revenue. Its imports include Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, American Girl dolls, board games, and, in the early 1980s, video game consoles. It was founded in 1945 b... ~Wikipedia

Sierra Entertainment, Inc. is an Global American computer game developer and publisher headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company is currently a subsidiary of Vivendi Games (a subsidiary of Vivendi SA). Sierra itself owns four in-house dev... ~Wikipedia

Obsidian Entertainment, founded and located in Santa Ana, California since 2003 after the disestablishment of Interplay Productions' Black Isle Studios, is a video game developer for PC and console systems. Obsidian continues to operate under managem... ~Wikipedia

Eva Jacqueline Longoria Parker (born March 15, 1975) is an American Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning film and television actress. She rose to fame by playing Isabella Braña Williams on the CBS soap opera The Young a... ~Wikipedia

Sanjay Dutt (Hindi: संजय दत्त) born July 29, 1959, is an Indian Bollywood film actor. A two time Filmfare Awards winner, Dutt is the son of Bollywood stars Sunil Dutt and Nargis. On July 31, 2007, Sanja... ~Wikipedia

Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1972), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg), is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper, singer, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Co... ~Wikipedia

Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English author and ex-politician. He was a Member of Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and became a life peer in 1992. His political career, h... ~Wikipedia

Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major American motion picture company. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, Cali... ~Wikipedia

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is the largest provider of both local and long distance telephone services, and DSL Internet access. AT&T is the second largest provider of wireless service in the United States, with 74.9 million wireless customers, ... ~Wikipedia

Adopted in June 1989, Tokyo's official symbol has three arcs forming the letter T for Tokyo in the shape of a vivid green ginkgo leaf. It symbolizes Tokyo's future growth and prosperity, charm, and tranquility. ~Wikipedia

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion. In 2006, the magazine Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figu... ~Wikipedia

Deutsche Lufthansa AG (ISIN: DE0008232125) (pronounced [ˈdɔɪtʃə ˈlʊfthanza]) is the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried (second is Air France – KLM), and the flag carrier of G... ~Wikipedia

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as "Lady Ella" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century. ~Wikipedia

Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) (Euronext: UBI) is a French computer and video game publisher and developer with headquarters in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. The company has facilities in over 20 countries, including development studios in ... ~Wikipedia

Rachael Taylor (born July 11, 1984) is an Australian actress. ~Wikipedia

Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is a rock vocalist, songwriter, and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film indus... ~Wikipedia

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Robert A. "Bob" Iger (born February 10, 1951) is the head of The Walt Disney Company. He was the president of Capital Cities/ABC from 1994-1999, has been the president of the Walt Disney Corporation since January 2000 and CEO since October ... ~Wikipedia

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Elizabeth McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and theater actress, who later became a singer songwriter. In 1992, she married English producer and director Simon Curtis, with whom she lives in Chiswick, London, t... ~Wikipedia

Timothy M. Gunn (born July 29, 1953) is an American fashion consultant and television personality. He was chair of fashion design at Parsons The New School for Design from August 2000 to March 2007 and is well-known as on-air mentor to designers on t... ~Wikipedia

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born 24 August 1988) is an English actor best known for playing Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films. In December 2007, Grint was ranked #16 in the list of Forbes Top twenty earners under 25 with an annual earning of US... ~Wikipedia

Kamal Haasan (born November 7, 1954, in Paramakudi, India, Tamilian by birth ) is an Indian film actor and director, considered among the leading method actors of Indian cinema. Kamal Hasan was born in Paramakudi, Ramanathapuram district. His father ... ~Wikipedia

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