Reuters - French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard has
scrapped plans to attend a Tel Aviv film festival after a
Palestinian group urged him to boycott Israel.
AP - Tourists applauded firefighters Monday as Universal Studios reopened, while investigators examined the ruins of some of the most famous sets in Hollywood to find the cause of the spectacular weekend blaze.
E! Online - A horrific fire tore through Universal Studios in the predawn hours this morning. Despite the extensive damage, the famed theme park will remain open today and tonight's MTV Movie Awards will go on as planned in Universal's Gibson Amphitheatre.
E! Online - The only thing hotter than the predawn blaze that closed down the area surrounding the Gibson Amphitheater before the 2008 MTV Movie Awards was double-threat Johnny Depp.
E! Online - A celebrity finally arrives at 4 p.m., an hour after they were supposed to start arriving. It's Jon Voight. Yup, had to ask about Angelina Jolie. "She has a big day coming up," he tells me. "She's happy, then I'm happy."
Reuters - "Sex and the City" fashioned a
surprisingly strong opening at the North American box office on
Sunday, as frenzied female fans used the romantic comedy as an
excuse for a big party.
AP - Like the stoners they play in the upcoming "Pineapple Express," Seth Rogen and James Franco stumbled unkowingly into trouble Sunday at the MTV Movie Awards.