Reuters - Liberty Media Corp will spin off its
stake in DirecTV Group and other assets into a publicly traded
company called Liberty Entertainment Group SA, taking the first
step to simplify ownership of the satellite TV provider. -- read full article
AP - In a Sept. 2 obituary of former CBS television newsman Ike Pappas, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of Pappas' daughter. She is Sara Thomason, not Sarah. -- read full article
Reuters - A Paris music festival will offer
discounts to disappointed Amy Winehouse fans after the troubled
British soul singer cancelled a gig at the last minute,
organizers said on Wednesday.
E! Online - Angelina Jolie has the ability to glamorize many things—all one British media watchdog group is asking is for her to use her powers for good instead of evil.
AP - A judge in Los Angeles says a lawsuit filed by a celebrity reporter over a video that purportedly shows Heath Ledger doing drugs fails to adequately state legal claims.
AP - Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday. -- read full article
Playbill - Manhattan Theatre Club's new production of Nick Whitby's To Be or Not to Be - a comedy about a European theatre troupe shut down by the Nazis - will begin two days later than expected at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. -- read full article
Reuters - The government of Gulf Arab oil state Abu
Dhabi will invest $1 billion in a media firm that will produce
eight feature films a year in ventures with Hollywood,
Bollywood and local producers, media reported on Wednesday. -- read full article
Reuters - A number of high-profile
movies are hoping to beat the odds and find receptive buyers at
the Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off
Thursday.
E! Online - Jessica Simpson has returned to her Southern roots. If ya haven't heard by now, the former pop-singing, reality-television star is about to release her first country album, Do You Know.
