AP - Talya Appelbaum recently had a "High School Musical" birthday party. She got special balloons and a slice of cake decorated with the spoiled Sharpay, her favorite character because "she's with Ryan."

Reuters - The Italian Catholic Church has refused to let a new movie based on a Dan Brown novel be filmed in churches in Rome after the author's "The Da Vinci Code" novel and film outraged the Vatican.

AP - Talya Appelbaum recently had a "High School Musical" birthday party. She got special balloons and a slice of cake decorated with the spoiled Sharpay, her favorite character because "she's with Ryan."

AP - Sara Evans has married former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker.

AP - Deborah Voigt returns to the Royal Opera House stage Monday, four years after the company fired her for being too big for the little black dress chosen for the title character in Richard Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos." The decision sparked a fierce debate about weight discrimination in opera.

AP - A spokesman for Amy Winehouse says the 24-year-old singer has been taken to a London hospital after a fainting spell.

AFP - Egypt's Youssef Chahine, Arab cinema's most celebrated director, was to fly to Paris on an emergency flight on Monday after falling into a coma following a brain haemorrhage.

Reuters - Hot off his pilot directing debut with "Do Not Disturb," actor/director Jason Bateman has inked a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox TV.

AP - Quotes from Tony Award winners and presenters at the 62nd annual Tonys Sunday at Radio City Music Hall.

AP - Tim Russert's chair was empty on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, two days after his unexpected death.

AP - It was a fashion disaster-free night at Sunday's Tony Awards, even though one actress lost her Chanel the night before.

AP - Destination festivals are a universe unto their own where the real world is left in the parking lot. But at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the outside world and its problems — politics, high gas prices — were always lurking just offstage, and sometimes were front and center.