Fashion Wire Daily - The Daniel Swarovski collection - the high-end couture collection of Swarovski accessories generally found adorning celebrities on the red carpet - celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and with that come 20 new bag designs and 20 new pieces of jewelry to commemorate the brand's history.
Playbill - Tom Dudzick, the playwright who struck gold in regional theatres with many productions of his Buffalo-set Over the Tavern trilogy, has written a new play that is again set in his western New York hometown. -- read full article
Reuters - BET Networks on Thursday took the wraps off a new basic-cable channel designed to attract an older, more affluent segment of the black television audience. -- read full article
Reuters - Jay Leno checked into a Los Angeles hospital on Thursday with an undisclosed illness, forcing the comedian to cancel a taping of "The Tonight Show" for the first time in his 17-year tenure.
AP - The Rev. Timothy Wright, the Grammy-nominated gospel singer and composer known for his up-tempo praise songs and powerful mass choir sound, has died. He was 61.
Reuters - First-time directors will be center stage at the 48th annual International Critics Week section of the Cannes Film Festival. -- read full article
AP - Jay Leno checked into a hospital with an undisclosed illness Thursday and canceled the taping of the "Tonight" show, but was doing well and planned to return next week, his publicist and NBC said.
Reuters - The New York Times Co will remain publicly traded, build its online business and cut costs despite "brutal" conditions that threaten the survival of newspapers, Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr said at the publisher's annual meeting on Thursday. -- read full article