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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Headmistress vs. Oprah: Chat-show queen sued
BY MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0600
The ex-headmistress of Oprah Winfrey’s school for girls in South Africa sued the talk show host for defamation, claiming Winfrey falsely suggested she tried to cover up abuse at the school. In widely reported remarks last year, Winfrey suggested that Nomvuyo Mzamane, 39, of Philadelphia, knew about alleged abuse by a dorm matron and tried to cover it up, Mzamane says in the lawsuit. Her lawsuit seeks more than $250,000 on five defamation counts.
Disneyland closes — for Miley Cyrus' sweet 16 party
BY DERRIK J. LANG Associated Press Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0600
Miley Cyrus’ 16th birthday party was more boisterous than sweet. Cyrus celebrated the hallmark birthday at an over-the-top Disneyland celebration Sunday — even though she doesn’t actually turn 16 until Nov. 23. The theme park was closed for the supersized soiree, which included a four-song performance by the teen queen and a fireworks display. What else does Cyrus want for her birthday? A new car? Perhaps a later curfew? ‘‘My parents shut down Disneyland for me, so I’m good for a while,’’ Cyrus said.
Step by step, NKOTB indulges nostalgic fans
BY CHRISTINA COUCH Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0600
After a 15-year hiatus, the self-professed "first white boy band" is back, a little older, a little more polished, and armed with a new album that valiantly struggles to put the New Kids on the Block back on the pop music map.

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