Myspace and Sony launch Minisode Network

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LOS ANGELES, June 19 (UPI) -- Myspace and Sony Pictures Television have teamed up to the launch The Minisode Network.

Minisodes are about three to five minutes long and follow the same story arc as the full episode of the TV show they came from, according to a news release from the companies.

Http://www.myspace.com/minisodenetwork opened Tuesday for all Myspace Video users.

"Now MySpace users can discover classic TV shows in a stylized, modern format," said Chris DeWolfe, MySpace's chief executive officer. "Teaming with Sony to debut The Minisode Network exclusively on MySpace gives our millions of users yet another reason to make MySpace Video a daily destination."

The Minisode Network will launch with episodes from "Partridge Family," "Starsky & Hutch," "TJ Hooker," "Charlie's Angels," "Diff'rent Strokes," "Facts of Life," "Silver Spoons," "Who's the Boss?," "What's Happening!!," "Dilbert," "Sheena," "Fantasy Island," "Police Woman," "VIP" and "Ricki Lake."

This was found at United Press International.

Ind. Teen Dead After Shooting 2 Officers

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By RYAN LENZ, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

(06-19) 13:25 PDT Georgetown, Ind. (AP) --

A 15-year-old boy who had been arguing with his mother shot at deputies arriving at the family's home, killing one and seriously wounding the other, authorities said.

The teen, Tyler Dumstorf, was found early Tuesday inside the home, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot, police said.

Prosecutor Keith Henderson said that minutes after the deputies were shot late Monday, Dumstorf posted a message on his MySpace page saying: "I just killed two cops. Goodbye."

The deputies had gone to the southern Indiana home Monday evening to investigate a call from the teen's mother about a confrontation with her son.

"There was nothing to indicate to the officers that it was anything more than a routine domestic call," Henderson said. He said the boy had been due in court Tuesday on a misdemeanor marijuana charge, adding that hearing was part of the discussion with his mother.

As the officers were talking to his mother and an aunt in the driveway, the boy fired from an upstairs window, striking each deputy in the back, Henderson said.

Deputy Frank Denzinger, a four-year veteran of the sheriff's department, died hours after the shooting, Floyd County Sheriff Darrell Mills said. Deputy Joel White, who has been with the department 17 months, was hospitalized Tuesday in serious condition, Mills said.

Sheriff's Lt. Frank Loop said the boy's mother was not injured.

Dumstorf had just completed his freshman year at Floyd Central High School in nearby Floyds Knobs, said school spokesman Dave Rarick. He gave no other information about the boy, citing federal privacy laws.

Entries on Dumstorf's MySpace page indicated he was an honors student and that he liked classic rock.

 

This was found at SFGate.com

New Order breaks up

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British rock band New Order, which arose from the ashes of post-punk band Joy Division in the early 1980s, has broken up, according to a Web posting by the group's bass player.

"I'm relieved really hated carryin on as normal with an awful secret so lets move on shall we?" Peter Hook wrote in a blog published on Wednesday on his MySpace page.

Hook first revealed the split as an aside during an interview last weekend with Manchester radio announcer Clint Boon, when he said, "... me and Bernard (Sumner, New Order singer/guitarist) aren't working together."

Hook and Sumner have been working together since the mid-1970s, when they co-founded Joy Division, the gloomy combo best known for the mournful single "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

After singer Ian Curtis hanged himself in 1980, the pair -- along with Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris -- formed New Order, and recruited Gillian Gilbert on keyboards.

The group issued its debut album in 1981, and went on to enjoy enormous success throughout the decade with such singles as "Blue Monday" and "Bizarre Love Triangle," and albums like "Power, Corruption and Lies" and "Low-Life."

New Order was less prolific during the 1990s, as its members took on side projects. The band's most recent album, "Waiting for the Siren's Call" -- a follow-up to 2001's "Get Ready" -- debuted at No. 46 on the U.S. pop album charts in May 2005. It did better in Japan, opening at No. 3, and in Britain, at No. 5.

Reuters/Nielsen

This was found at Reuters.