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Sideshow: Rap earns raves at Bonnaroo fest

Eminem's performance to thunderous ovations Saturday is being hailed as "the day rap took over at Bonnaroo," the four-day festival in Manchester, Tenn. The rapper played for more than an hour, but returned when nearly 80,000 fans chanted, "

Eminem

's performance to thunderous ovations Saturday is being hailed as "the day rap took over at Bonnaroo," the four-day festival in Manchester, Tenn. The rapper played for more than an hour, but returned when nearly 80,000 fans chanted, "Shady!" The day began with sets from

Big Boi

and

Lil Wayne

shortly after

Arcade Fire

's Friday night finale, and the takeover continued with

Wiz Khalifa

during a hot afternoon set before Eminem's Bonnaroo debut. The event is known more for its granola-flavored ethos than its urban cool, but

Jay-Z

gave a memorable set in 2010, raising expectations for Saturday's takeover - the most concentrated collection of star MCs ever at Bonnaroo.

Help for Joplin

Brad Pitt

and

Angelina Jolie

are donating $500,000 from their foundation to help Joplin, Mo., rebuild after the deadly tornado May 22. The Community Foundation of the Ozarks says the gift from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation will go to mid- and long-term needs, according to a news release. Pitt grew up in southwest Missouri and knows the people to be "especially resilient," the release said. The tornado destroyed more than 8,000 homes and 400 businesses, killing 151 people as of Friday, including those who died as a result of injuries.

Good luck

Filmmaker

Wayne Wang

is ready to move on from his successful 1993 adaptation of the

Amy Tan

novel

The Joy Luck Club

to another film focused on relationships between Chinese women. He promoted

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

at the Shanghai Film Festival in China on Sunday. It comes 13 years later and is based on

Lisa See

's novel of the same name.

Snow Flower

marks Wang's reunion with

Joy Luck Club

actress

Vivian Wu

, a native of Shanghai. Oscar-winning screenwriter

Ronald Bass

, who cowrote the

Joy Luck

screenplay, also worked on the script for

Snow Flower,

scheduled to open here in July.

"I think it's very different from Joy Luck Club," Wang said. "I don't want to make another movie like Joy Luck Club. Joy Luck Club is about mother-daughter relationships. This is the story of two female friends."

Weekend box office

Super 8

, the science-fiction thriller from

Steven Spielberg

and

J.J. Abrams

, led all films, with $37 million in ticket sales for Paramount Pictures, according to estimates.

X-Men: First Class

, dropped to second place, with $25 million.

The Hangover: Part II

fell to third, and

Kung Fu Panda 2

and

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

rounded out the top five.