Reuters - With Pixar's newest blue-chip animated movie "Wall-E" hitting theaters Friday, the 2008 Oscar race is finally off and running.

AP - Within the rumbling, stumbling hunk of junk that is WALL-E beats the sweetest, warmest heart — a robotic representation of humanity's highest potential.

Reuters - The triple-digit heat hitting you in the face is like opening the door to hell and getting slapped.

E! Online - Here's what we love: TV Guide, the magazine devoted to sitting on our butts watching TV, wants to give us tips for getting in shape.

Reuters - MSNBC wants to become more of a player in feature-length documentaries.

E! Online - Steven Spielberg is having a Clues encounter of the 39 kind.

Reuters - In the spring of 2006, Neil Young was just a year removed from a near-fatal aneurysm when he became so enraged with the war in Iraq that he quickly wrote, recorded and released the protest album "Living With War."

E! Online - Sometimes a nose is just a nose. As Tom Cruise knows.

AP - When Werner Herzog stood at the South Pole, he had the odd sensation of knowing every direction was north. Whichever way he stepped was a different time zone: 2 p.m. to the left, 3 a.m. to the right.

AP - The movie is called "Wanted" and the star is Angelina Jolie. No, it is not a documentary.

AP - A multimedia-multi-author narrative being planned by the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books has picked up a famous patron: Steven Spielberg.

Reuters - Scottish actor James McAvoy bursts onto Hollywood's blockbuster movie scene on Friday with his new film "Wanted," but don't expect the actor best known for art-house cinema to start playing the part of a Tinseltown superstar.