AP - Give us your tired, your poor, your clowns who work with balloon animals, yearning to breathe free.

AP - Guy talk. Not easy to credibly capture on stage.

AP - Ever been to one of those weddings that just will not end?

Reuters - You can't keep a good Jedi down, or so it would seem from the latest incarnation of "Star Wars," a weekly half-hour series whose animation gets as close to 3-D as you can without wearing those dorky glasses.

AP - Jennifer Hudson, "Jennifer Hudson" (Arista Records)

AP - Kellie Pickler, "Kellie Pickler" (19 Recordings/BNA Records)

AP - "The Forever War" (Alfred A Knopf. 384 pages. $25), by Dexter Filkins: For generations, war correspondence has been a hallowed art of journalism, a specialty craft in which even the most deft and skilled writers often fail — or for good reason never endeavor to try.

AP - Ani DiFranco, "Red Letter Year" (Righteous Babe)