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Jackson Jurors Go Home Without Verdict (AP)
AP - Michael Jackson's fate is in the hands of a jury. Jurors received the child-molestation case against the pop star Friday afternoon and deliberated for about two hours before adjourning for the weekend.
Chappelle Performs at Two Comedy Clubs (AP)
AP - Is Dave Chappelle back? The AWOL comedian dropped in unannounced at two popular comedy clubs Wednesday night, saying he had just arrived in Los Angeles and felt like performing.
Louis-Dreyfus to Return As Sitcom Mom (AP)
AP - Get out! Former "Seinfeld" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus will play the title role in a new CBS sitcom "Old Christine," which is on the network's midseason roster.
Tom Sizemore Seeks to Overturn Conviction (AP)
AP - Actor Tom Sizemore filed a petition Friday to throw out his conviction of domestic violence against former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
Rod Stewart Files for Divorce From Hunter (AP)
AP - Singer Rod Stewart has filed for divorce from actress Rachel Hunter, citing irreconcilable differences.
'Hogan's Heroes' Actor Leon Askin Dies (AP)
AP - Leon Askin, the actor who played Gen. Albert Burkhalter in the 1960s television comedy "Hogan's Heroes," has died, Austrian officials said Friday.
Jackson Jurors Go Home Without Verdict (AP)
AP - Michael Jackson's fate is in the hands of a jury. Jurors received the child-molestation case against the pop star Friday afternoon and deliberated for about two hours before adjourning for the weekend.
Chappelle Performs at Two Comedy Clubs (AP)
AP - Is Dave Chappelle back? The AWOL comedian dropped in unannounced at two popular comedy clubs Wednesday night, saying he had just arrived in Los Angeles and felt like performing.
Amazon.com Plans Audio Book Download Store (AP)
AP - On its Web site, Amazon.com Inc. is asking publishers for audiobooks for a new download store it says it plans to open. But the Internet retailer is being coy about such key details as a launch date.
'Spamalot' takes aim at Broadway's Tony Awards (Reuters)
Reuters - Broadway bestows its top honors on
Sunday with big-budget hit musical "Monty Python's Spamalot"
jousting with the likes of gloriously geeky "The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee" for the Tony Awards.
'Hogan's Heroes' Actor Leon Askin Dies (AP)
AP - Leon Askin, the actor who played Gen. Albert Burkhalter in the 1960s television comedy "Hogan's Heroes," has died, Austrian officials said Friday.
'Dogtown' turns skateboarder's life into fiction (Reuters)
Reuters - Once skateboard champion Stacy
Peralta had seen Catherine Hardwicke tumble into an empty
swimming pool, he knew she was the right person to direct his
script for the male-dominated movie "Lords of Dogtown."
30 Years After 'Jaws,' a Return to Beach (AP)
AP - Cue the ominous bass line and close the beaches. This weekend, some 30 years after "Jaws" premiered on the big screen, hundreds of movie buffs have flocked to Martha's Vineyard off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts to celebrate the great white shark that terrified millions of moviegoers.
"X3" Doesn't Mark Spot for Director (E! Online)
E! Online - Just weeks before production was set to begin, British filmmaker Matthew
Vaughn became the second helmer to drop directing duties on the third
edition of the blockbuster superhero franchise.
Director Hardwicke, Skater Peralta Friends (AP)
AP - Like the gravity-defying skateboarders in her new film, Catherine Hardwicke is somewhat of a daredevil herself.
Artie Shaw documentary gets rare L.A. screening (Reuters)
Reuters - In 1987, director
Brigitte Berman won an Academy Award for best documentary
feature for "Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got," a portrait of
the jazz clarinetist. It has been virtually unseen since then
-- thanks largely to a legal confrontation with the film's late
subject over control of the picture.
'Cinderella Man' in fighting form at box office (Reuters)
Reuters - This might be the
weekend that the box office turns around.
'Crash' draws crowds as box office stumbles (Reuters)
Reuters - "Crash," a film about
race relations in Los Angeles with a cast including Don
Cheadle, Sandra Bullock and Matt Dillon, did not seem the
obvious choice for an early summer success story.
Warners casts spell over 'Potter' satire (Reuters)
Reuters - Tuesday evening in a small
Brooklyn club, about 50 hipsters gathered to sip ale and dabble
in illegality: They watched "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone."
MTV Films has winning season with 'Longest Yard' (Reuters)
Reuters - Ten-year-old MTV Films
enjoyed its biggest opening ever when "The Longest Yard" bowed
over the four-day Memorial Day weekend with ticket sales of
$58.6 million.
Jackson Jurors Go Home Without Verdict (AP)
AP - Michael Jackson's fate is in the hands of a jury. Jurors received the child-molestation case against the pop star Friday afternoon and deliberated for about two hours before adjourning for the weekend.
'Little Noises' puts poet's work to music (Reuters)
Reuters - She has "always been a words and
music person," but until her two-disc "Little Noises" project
came about, Marcia Pelletiere admits she "never thought they
would come together."
Jazz musician, activist Oscar Brown Jr. dies at 78 (Reuters)
Reuters - Oscar Brown Jr. -- singer,
composer, lyricist, playwright and black-culture activist --
died May 29 in Chicago from complications from a blood
infection. He was 78.
Radio riding the growing reggaeton wave (Reuters)
Reuters - The growing force of reggaeton is amply
displayed on this week's Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, with
four of the top 10 releases falling under the genre.
Guitarist Domenic Troiano dies at 59 (Reuters)
Reuters - Canadian guitarist Domenic "Donnie"
Troiano died May 25 at his home in Toronto after a long fight
with cancer. He was 59.
'Hogan's Heroes' Actor Leon Askin Dies (AP)
AP - Leon Askin, the actor who played Gen. Albert Burkhalter in the 1960s television comedy "Hogan's Heroes," has died, Austrian officials said Friday.
Jackson jurors begin weighing fate of pop star (Reuters)
Reuters - Jurors ended their first
hours of deliberations in Michael's Jackson's molestation trial
on Friday after hearing dueling closing arguments that
portrayed the pop star as either a sexual predator or the naive
victim of a family of hardened liars.
'Sweet Home' Country Owes Debt to Rock (AP)
AP - Southern rock died as a distinct genre in the 1980s, but the raw, scruffy spirit of the music made by groups like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers is alive and well in contemporary country.
New Coldplay album leaked online (Reuters)
Reuters - Almost a week before its
scheduled U.S. and U.K. release, the new Coldplay album, "X&Y,"
has been leaked to online P2P file trading sites.
Rush Guitarist Sues Hotel Over Altercation (AP)
AP - The lead guitarist for the band Rush, his son and daughter-in-law are suing the Ritz-Carlton, its security director and three sheriff's deputies stemming from a New Year's Eve 2003 altercation at the Naples hotel.
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