AP - Macy's stores across the country are renovating their Tommy Hilfiger shops and expanding how much of the designer's sportswear they carry. But fans of the brand soon won't be seeing those items at other department stores.
Reuters - Last September, Nikki Sixx's
harrowing memoir of addiction, "The Heroin Diaries: A Year in
the Life of a Shattered Rock Star," debuted at No. 7 on the New
York Times Book Review nonfiction best-seller list. -- read full article
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.