AP - NEW YORK (AP) Jim McKay elegantly covered competitions from badminton to barrel jumping. Yet he may best be remembered for that grim day at the Munich Olympics when he broke the news with three simple words: "They're all gone."
AP - The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for a 2005 movie that won three Academy Awards. -- read full article
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:07:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Television networks that will broadcast the Beijing Olympics to billions around the world are squaring off with local organizers over stringent security that threatens coverage of the games in two months.
AP - Leaders of Hollywood's second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that grants actors more money for Internet work an issue that sparked a crippling writers strike this year.
Reuters - Film director Dino Risi, who chronicled
the bittersweet and lighter side of Italy's post-war economic
boom, died on Saturday. He was 91. -- read full article
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:44:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Leaders of Hollywood's second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that grants actors more money for Internet work an issue that sparked a crippling writers strike this year.
AP - Jim McKay elegantly covered competitions from badminton to barrel jumping. Yet he may best be remembered for that grim day at the Munich Olympics when he broke the news with three simple words: "They're all gone."
AFP - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi fell ill briefly as he finished addressing a business conference Saturday, prompting one of the organisers to ask if their was a doctor in the room, journalists on the scene said.
Reuters - Film director Dino Risi, who chronicled
the bittersweet and lighter side of Italy's post-war economic
boom, died on Saturday, the residence where he lived said.
AP - WASHINGTON (AP) The actress who played Wonder Woman on TV in the 1970s says she didn't do anything extraordinary when she discovered a body this week on the Potomac River in Washington.
AP - NEW YORK (AP) Jim McKay, the venerable and eloquent sportscaster thrust into the role of telling Americans about the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics, has died. He was 86.