Reuters - Australian singer Jason Donovan, who
made his name alongside Kylie Minogue in the soap opera
"Neighbours," is to release his first album in 15 years after a
roller-coaster career. -- read full article
AP - The Bayreuth Festival board on Monday named half-sisters Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier to replace their father at the helm of the German festival dedicated to the music of composer Richard Wagner.
Reuters - The lucrative summer moviegoing
season in North America ended on a lackluster note on Monday as
ticket sales limped to a new record while attendance slumped to
a three-year low.
AFP - Oscar-winner Helen Mirren admitted she loved snorting cocaine and only stopped due to the capture of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, in an magazine interview out this month.
Reuters - "The Dark Knight" led
the foreign box office for a third consecutive weekend -- and
fourth overall -- as its international sales hit $417 million.
AP - As she inspected the stage where she would later address the Democratic National Convention, a look of recognition flickered across Hillary Rodham Clinton's face when she peered out to see who had asked how she was.
Reuters - In "The Duchess,"
actress Keira Knightley's latest period picture, a lavish
melodrama of aristocratic foolishness and betrayal is designed
around the colorful though not always happy life of an 18th
century socialite.
AP - Television networks rapidly shifted focus and personnel away from the Republican national convention to Gulf Coast communities in the path of Hurricane Gustav on Sunday, wondering how much of their political planning will be for naught.
Reuters - Action film parody "Tropic Thunder"
held onto the top spot at the North American box office for a
third straight week as the summer moviegoing season drew to a
close, Hollywood studios reported on Sunday.
