AP - Hollywood wisdom through the ages has always been that no technological innovation — the transition from silent film to sound, black-and-white to color, hand-drawn animation to digital images — could ever make a bad movie into a good one.

AP - The Baseball Project, "Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails" (Yep Roc)

AP - Little Jackie, "The Stoop" (S-Curve Records)

AP - Like "Definitely, Maybe" from earlier this year, the coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness" asks us to dig deep within our nostalgia wells and reminisce about the mid-1990s.

AP - "Well Enough Alone: A Cultural History of My Hypochondria" (Riverhead Books. 256 pages. $23.95), by Jennifer Traig: In our current age of anxiety, medical-themed TV shows and WebMD, most of us — at one time or another — have inflated a pimple into cancer or a stomachache into appendicitis.

Reuters - Only one guy has mounted a full tour of outdoor stadiums during this economically shaky summer, and that lone figure, Kenny Chesney, brought his show to about 45,000 fans at Nashville's NFL stadium Saturday.

Reuters - He is a rock star, an exhibitionist and a vengeful god. He is Dionysus as played by stage and film star Alan Cumming in a vibrant production of Euripides' "The Bacchae," courtesy of the National Theatre of Scotland.

AP - Beck, "Modern Guilt" (Geffen)

AP - Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, "Two Men with the Blues" (Blue Note)

AP - Jean Grae, "Jeanius" (Blacksmith Records/ Warner Bros.)

Reuters - Because his records so rarely sound like anyone's but his own, it's easy to forget how much Beck thrives on collaborating with name-brand producers like Nigel Godrich and the Dust Brothers.