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Entertainment is a leisure activity consisting of an event and an audience that views the event and participates. This participation can be subtle, as in Theatres: Film, Opera or stageshows, or Orchestral symphony concerts wherein the applause due the performance or performing artists would be bad manners. In contrast, the sports entertainment industry feeds off audience participation— who can imagine the strange event attending a pro-wrestling bout, basketball or baseball game without cheering or booing the participants would experentially being happy.
The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry, and one distinction between what is meant by the term is the voluntary participation of the party being entertained, which may be passive (Opera) or active (Frantic shoot-em-up computer games) and the whole gamut of industry supported diversions in between (Baseball, Concerts, Football, Books, Television, film , striptease, and events like Karaoke).
Recreation, play, reading, and art appreciation may in some instances be confused with entertainment, but the difference is elementary—entertainments take two or more— even if one of the participants is a programmer for the obsolescent Amiga computer system who now happens to be deceased. Without the 'performance' of the artist and the participation of the viewer the event would and could not occur.
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Thu, 15 May 2008 03:25:02 -0000
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Turner to Offer Marketers Way to Link Ads to Content
Thu, 15 May 2008 03:30:16 -0000
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Wed, 14 May 2008 17:29:43 -0000
Some prominent former advisers to Al Gore say that a coming HBO film dramatizing the ballot battle after the 2000 election unfairly blames them for the Democrats’ failure to secure the White House.
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Harrison Ford's landmark lines were off the cuff
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700
The actor ad-libbed in key scenes from 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'The Empire Strikes Back.' Harrison Ford is back in the fedora with Sunday's world premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, and while it took 18 years to get a script to the liking of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, Ford taught both of them a long time ago that sometimes they should put down the screenplay and let their star take a leap in improvisation.
'Sex and the City' movie may lack wide appeal
Wed, 14 May 2008 15:11:00 -0700
For a film aimed primarily at 'older' women of 30 and up, box-office watchers wonder if it'll have the oomph for a hit. HOLLYWOOD worships so-called four-quadrant films: movies that draw males and females both young and old. "Sex and the City" might appeal to only a single audience slice, but its following among older women already is so robust that the film could soon prove its doubters wrong.
CBS Films options Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp books
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700
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Syesha Mercado's second, third and fourth chances caught up with her tonight as the 21-year-old Florida native was dismissed from the "American Idol" finals.
Death Cab For Cutie On Track For Billboard 200's Top Spot
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Rihanna's 'Bow' Soars 52 Spots To Lead Hot 100
Rihanna will make a near-record rise to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 tomorrow (May 14) with "Take a Bow," which blasts 53-1. Opening-week digital downloads (267,000) are the reason for the sudden surge.
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