Bon Jovi

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• The Wackness and the documentary Man on Wire were audience favorites at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, Variety writes.
• Neal McDonough is the latest actor to join Desperate Housewives as a possible love interest for Edie, Zap2it reports.
• Billboard announces that Bon Jovi will play a free show in Central Park on July 12.
• Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and Google are teaming up for an Internet-only animated series that will be released this Fall, writes the New York Times.

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New Jersey, Bon Jovi — what could Triumph the Insult Comic Dog possibly make fun of? Let's check in and see.

• Just when we thought it was gone, "According to Jim" is back from the dead for 18 more episodes, TV Guide reports.
• Reuters is reporting on a remake of Hitchcock's 1927 movie The Lodger, this time as an "urban thriller set in Los Angeles" and directed by documentarian David Ondaatje.
• Blood Diamond's Djimon Houndsou has been cast in the drama Get Some about an underground fight club, Variety reports.
• Zap2It reports that Molly Shannon has signed on for a Lifetime original movie titled More of Me about a woman so busy she splits into three people.
• Billboard tells us that for the first time since 1988, Bon Jovi takes the No. 1 spot on The Billboard 200.
• Lots of casting news: Zap2it reports that Oliver Platt and Lauren Hutton will guest-star on "Nip/Tuck," and the Hollywood Reporter says Portia De Rossi will join them. The Hollywood Reporter also says Sofia Myles is the new female lead in "Moonlight," while DW Moffett is the new star of the CW's "Life is Wild."
• NME gets word that Lily Allen has started working on her second album in New York.
• I'm not sure if we really needed another online video site, but MySpace will launch one this week anyway, the New York Times reports.
• Slate wonders: Did Die Hard spawn the greatest one-liner in movie history?

MTV's occasional "Unplugged" series is back — big time.

The series, which features rock stars performing in a more stripped-down style, returns tonight with Bon Jovi, the act most often credited with starting the series in the first place after an acoustic performance at the 1989 Video Music Awards. In all, three different versions of the set will air: one tonight on MTV, one Saturday on VH1 and one Sunday on CMT. Bon Jovi is expected to draw heavily from its new country-tinged album, Lost Highway, though each of the three versions of the performance will be tailored to the particular channel's audience.

Upcoming "Unplugged" concerts this summer include The Police, Kenny Chesney, Mary J. Blige and John Mayer. Though air dates for those shows haven't been announced, The Police are reportedly filming their special in mid-July in Miami.

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The 2007 CMT Awards are country music's version of the MTV Video Music Awards: The winners are chosen by fans, and the ceremony is more about the spectacle than the actual winners. At last night's awards ceremony, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy and held in Nashville, Carrie Underwood beat out the Dixie Chicks to win Video of the Year, and the "American Idol" winner also took home the award for Best Female Video. I was probably most excited to see legendary singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson on stage to accept the Johnny Cash Visionary Award.

The show also included performances from big Nashville names — including Hank Williams Jr. and Martina McBride — as well as one very non-Nashville name: Bon Jovi. The band was there to show off its new single, "(You Want To) Make a Memory," from the upcoming album the band recorded in Nashville. To see the full list of winners, read more

Easter is upon us!!!! As you all can tell I like to make themed music mixes. So I went with the theme of Easter and kind of ran with it (no pun intended). I have to say this mix is very, very loosely inspired by Easter. I do think it will make you want to get up and move.

There is 35 minutes of music to make you want to move and and two nice songs for cooling down and stretching post workout.

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• Ryan Adams will guest on Minnie Driver's second album, says NME.
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