E! Online - Here's a city that knows what's cool.

E! Online - If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Or, use their star power to enhance your own name-recognition.

Reuters - Verizon Communications Inc said it hopes to start selling its FiOS video service in New York City in around two months after obtaining a key approval earlier on Tuesday.

AP - Sydney Pollack found mainstream success with smart films for grown-ups — a rarity today.

AP - ABC, CBS and NBC have set aside a prime-time hour on the Friday after Labor Day to simulcast a fundraiser for cancer research.

AP - The glossy, big-city world of "Gossip Girls" is far afield of the modest, small-town doings of "Farmer Wants a Wife."

AP - Eva Longoria Parker took time to dish out Frostys and french fries at a Wendy's on Tuesday.

Reuters - The fate of brutal North Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano may have been unclear when HBO's mafia drama "The Sopranos" ended last year, but his wardrobe is headed for a certain ending: it's being auctioned for charity.

AP - Earle H. Hagen, who co-wrote the jazz classic "Harlem Nocturne" and composed memorable themes for "The Andy Griffith Show," "I Spy," "The Mod Squad" and other TV shows, has died. He was 88.

Reuters - Now you know networks are hurting: Reality-show budgets are being cut.

AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sydney Pollack was remembered by some of the elite actors he directed in films such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "Absence of Malice," not only for his Academy Award-winning direction, but also for his acting talents.

E! Online - Speculation about Blake Lively and Penn Badgley has been running thiiiiis high. Well, the cute couple isn't hiding it anymore.

E! Online - When in Roman's Empire...

AP - Hanging suspended from the ceiling all night long might not appeal to your average actor. But the feat was freaky fun for Jesse Plemons, who stars in NBC's new horror anthology series "Fear Itself."