AP - When I was a kid, I never understood why my older sister got so giddy whenever we saw this middle-aged guy in tight jeans and a white T-shirt zipping around town on a bright blue motorcycle.

AP - Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money" — followed by a second act as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario — has died. He was 83.

AP - Dave Matthews has acted in a few films, but the Grammy-winning musician has been playing a behind-the-scenes role in Hollywood of late — that of film producer.

E! Online - Jennifer Aniston is so finished! Why doesn't she stop smoking, have a baby (anybody's baby) and give it up already?!

E! Online - The entire Disney empire is turning into a one-man show. Luckily, that man is Johnny Depp.

AP - Musicians will.i.am and Angelique Kidjo, actress Kristin Davis and model Elle Macpherson helped launch a new campaign Thursday to cut global poverty in half by 2015.

AP - "It was funny because tonight I didn't expect to be nervous because we've done all the previews, we've had all the critics here," Radcliffe said after Thursday's performance. "I thought, `Oh, we'll do it tonight, it won't be so bad.' But I was terrified before we went out. I was like, `Omigod, this is it.'"

Reuters - North Korea and erstwhile friend China may not be as close as "lips and teeth" anymore following Pyongyang's 2006 nuclear test, but a Chinese film has won best picture title at a festival in the reclusive Communist state.

AP - "I didn't expect to be nervous because we've done all the previews, we've had all the critics here. ... But I was terrified before we went out. I was like, `Omigod, this is it.'" — Daniel Radcliffe, on the Broadway opening of "Equus."

AP - The legal crusader portrayed by Julia Roberts in the Oscar-winning film "Erin Brockovich" is now working for a Manhattan personal injury law firm that specializes in asbestos cases.

AP - A judge has barred the estate of "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien from seeking punitive damages against the studio that brought the trilogy to the big screen.