Kevin Costner will lead the Endymion Parade at Mardi Gras. The annual celebration will return to its traditional city route for the first time since Hurricane Katrina next year.

Actress Kimberly Elise has officially become Denzel Washington's big screen wife - the movie star picked her to play his spouse in new film The Great Debaters after the couple played man and wife in John Q. Elise also appeared in Washington's The Manchurian Candidate.

Reformed indie rock icons the Jesus & Mary Chain have recorded a new song for an upcoming episode of Heroes. The tune will appear on the group's untitled new album, their first since 1998's Munki.

Real Love, the John Lennon tune the Beatles recorded for their Anthology CD package in the mid 1990s, is being used to promote JC Penney this Christmas.

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