Fergie to headline benefit concert during DNC
Also in Tattle: Will Smith returns as Ali, Call of Duty Con and Ed Sheeran and Ellen DeGeneres sued
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ONE OF the messages at this year's DNC:
"Big Girls Don't Cry."
We're not referring to likely nominee Hillary Clinton, but to Fergie, who'll be performing July 27 in a charity-benefit concert for the Creative Coalition, a group formed to bring together artists and entertainers to learn about important issues so they can better inform and influence.
Fergie is an old pro at the convention show. She also performed with the Black Eyed Peas at the 2008 Convention in Denver, the Washington Post reports.
The venue for the concert is yet to be announced and sponsorship ticket packages are crazy expensive so don't worry your fergilicious little heads about attending.
The Creative Coalition will also be hosting a benefit concert at the RNC a week earlier in Cleveland, entertainment to be determined.
(We hope our Republican friends appreciate our restraint here.)
'Ali' returns
If you missed Overbrook's own Will Smith in his 2001 star turn as Muhammad Ali in the Michael Mann-directed biopic Ali, the movie will return to theaters this weekend to celebrate the late boxing legend.
Sony Pictures said Wednesday that Ali will play in a few hundred theaters nationwide. It earned Oscar nominations for Smith and supporting actor Jon Voight as Howard Cosell.
Following Ali's death Friday at 74, numerous theaters have also scheduled screenings of When We Were Kings, the 2006 Oscar-nominated documentary chronicling the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" between Ali and George Foreman.
* In other local celeb news, Cherry Hill's Cristin Milioti (How I Met Your Mother) and Nina Pedrad have sold an untitled comedy pilot to FX.
A 'Call' to arms
Activision is re-enlisting "Call of Duty XP."
The video game publisher is organizing a second edition of the fan-focused convention to celebrate the popular military shooter franchise. "Call of Duty XP" will be held Sept. 2-4 at the Forum in Inglewood, California.
The three-day event will feature this year's "Call of Duty" championship and the unveiling of the multiplayer modes from the upcoming "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare."
Activision will also bring "Call of Duty" to life with such real-world activities as a paintball battle modeled after the Nuketown map from "Black Ops III."
The inaugural "Call of Duty XP" event was held in 2011 and featured the debut of the "Modern Warfare 3" multiplayer mode and a performance by Kanye West.
Sheeran share alike
E! News reports that Ed Sheeran has become the latest songwriter hit with a lawsuit.
This one was filed by Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard and their publishing company HaloSongs, who claim Sheeran ripped off their 2009 song "Amazing" in his 2014 song, "Photograph."
While not well known here, "Amazing" was sung by British X Factor winner Matt Cardle during the show's 2010 season.
Harrington and Leonard's case is being handled by Richard Busch, the attorney who blurred the lines between the Robin Thicke hit and Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give it Up." Busch represented the Gaye family.
According to court docs obtained by E! News, "the songs' similarities reach the very essence of the work. The similarities go beyond substantial, which is itself sufficient to establish copyright infringement, and are in fact striking."
* Also being sued is the producer of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, by a Georgia real estate agent who claims the comedian mispronounced her name to make a joke about breasts.
Titi Pierce alleges in the lawsuit filed against Warner Bros. last week that Ellen displayed one of Pierce's real estate signs during the Feb. 22 show that was rerun April 15. It says Ellen led into the joke about Pierce's name after showing a sign for the unrelated Nipple Convalescent Home.
The suit also says the sign included Pierce's cellphone number and she was subjected to "ridiculing and harassing" phone calls.
The suit claims invasion of privacy, defamation and emotional distress. It seeks unspecified monetary damages.
As stated in previous columns, Tattle is not a lawyer, and we're not able to comment on the charges of defamation and emotional distress (although defamation seems far-fetched). But it is hard for us to see how you can claim invasion of privacy when your name and phone number are on signs displayed on public streets.
- Daily News wire services
contributed to this report.
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