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WOODSTOCK, N.Y. —Levon Helm, former drummer for The Band, is suing a Manhattan advertising firm over the use of the band's signature song, "The Weight," in a television commercial.
In a lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court in December, Helm asks for information about BBDO Worldwide's profits from the commercial for Cingular cell phone service and for financial compensation for the use of his performance.
Helms attorney, Michael Pinsky, said state law prohibited the use of a celebrity's voice or likeness for profit without his prior written permission.
Pinsky said Helm received a royalty payment from the use of
"The Weight" in the commercial, but doesn't feel he has been adequately compensated.
According to an annual royalty statement from EMI Records, which owns The Band's record label, Helm took home one-fifth of half of the licensing fee that BBDO paid to Capitol for the right to use the song, Pinsky said.
A BBDO spokesman declined comment.
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"It was just a complete, damn sellout of The Band — its reputation, its music; just as much disrespect as you could pour on Richard and Rick's tombstones," said Helm, 66, a longtime Wood-stock resident.
Richard Manuel, vocalist and piano player for The Band, died in 1986. Rick Danko, who played bass, died in 1999.
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Mills to dance for charity
This photo, supplied by ABC, shows Heather Mills and her dance partner Jonathan Roberts posing during their preparations for the "Dancing with the Stars" television reality competition in Brighton, England, last month. Mills, who says she is ready for the contest, will be the first contestant to compete with an artificial limb on the ABC show. Roberts returns for his third season beginning Monday.
NEW YORK — Heather Mills says her decision to compete on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" is no publicity stunt.
Mills, who is divorcing former Beatle Paul McCartney, says she is appearing on the show for charity, not for public sympathy.
"I've been chased and hounded for 10 months and told I a publicity-seeker, yet I've never gone out and done anything," the activist and former model says in an interview that was to air Tuesday on "Access Hollywood."
Mills, who lost her leg in a 1993 motorcycle accident, is the first contestant with an artificial limb to compete on the dance show.
"As much as everyone would love it to go flying, I'm sure it's not going to come off." Mills says. "It can, once it gets hot, start to slide and come off, so I've pulled a sleeve over the top, which doesn't look as cosmeti-
cally good."
McCartney, 64, and Mills, 38,
separated last May after four
years of marriage.
They have a 3-year-old daughter, Beatrice.
Mills said she planned to donate her appearance fee to Viva! — an organization that campaigned on behalf of animals killed for food.
"Dancing With the Stars" returns Monday. The cast includes Olympic skater Apolo Anton Ohno, model Paulina Porikzova, former "Beverly Hills," 90210" star Ian Ziering, former 'N Sync member Joey Fatone and other celebrities.
Mills says her participation on the show is "going to help a lot of kids with disabilities and adults that want to get up and learn to dance, and know that with an artificial leg, you can dance."
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Starbucks launches record label
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SEATTLE — Starbucks Corp.'s push into entertainment moved further from the coffeehouse shelves Monday as the company launched a record label based on its existing Hear Music brand.
LAS VEGAS — The Stardust is now just a memory.
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The world's largest specialty coffee retailer said it would partner with Concord Music Group, which controls several other labels and helped Starbucks sell the Grammy-winning "Genius Loves Company," an album of Ray Charles duets.
"It hurt. We cried," said Sheila Navarro, 51, a school supplies buyer from Oxnard, Calif. She came with three sisters, her mother, an aunt and a brother-in-law to say farewell to the casino she's gambled at for more than 30 years.
The Echelon is to open in late 2010 with more than 5,000 hotel rooms, a production theater, concert venue, shopping mall and more than 1 million square feet of meeting space.
The casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip was imploded early Tuesday in a hail of fireworks to make way for Boyd Gaming Corp's $4.4 billion megastore, Echelon
Hundreds of people partied beneath tents and on makeshift patios before Boyd chairman Bill Boyd's four grandsons pushed a plunger to detonate the building. The blast generated a massive dust cloud that chased the revelers into cars, buses and nearby casinos.
Fireworks are launched from the Starstust Hotel as it is imploded on the Las Vegas Strip on Tuesday to pave the way for Boyd Gaming Corp.'s $4.4 billion megareasy complex, Echelon. The property opened July 2, 1958, billing itself as the world's largest resort hotel with 1,032 rooms. It is credited with being Las Vegas's first mass-market casino, thanks to cheap rates and less-leading food and drinks.
Now, rather than basically lending the Starbucks brand to an album, the Los Angeles-based Hear Music label will sign its own artists and sell records through Starbucks stores and other retailers.
"We're not setting this up so that Starbucks stores would have any advantage over other retailers"
Seattle-based Starbucks has been extending its brand beyond the world of coffee in recent years to embrace music, books and even a movie, "Akeelah and the Bee."
said Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment.
Officials refused to say whether the label had signed any artists, but said they would welcome both emerging and established musicians.
The company also opened four hybrid Hear Music Coffeehouses, where customers can purchase music from thousands of titles and burn the selections to CDs, and it has a branded page at Apple Inc.'s online iTunes store.
Starbucks brand strategy,however,has been publicly debated in recent weeks,following a leaked
memo from Chairman Howard Schultz.
In the e-mail to top Starbucks executives, Schultz said various changes over the years have led to "the watering down of the Starbucks experience, and what some might call the commoditization of our brand."
Some now question whether launching a record label is the right move for Starbucks, said Dan Geiman, an analyst with McAdams Wright Ragen.
But music always has been close to what Starbucks sees as the identity of its brand, even though it remains a relatively small business, generally about 1 percent of all sales, he said.
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