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Jenny McCarthy, Husband, File for Divorce (AP)
 AP - Jenny McCarthy and her husband John Asher have filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, her publicist said Friday. The TV star and former Playboy playmate had been married to Asher for six years.
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Love Admits Using Drugs; Sent to Rehab (AP)
 AP - Courtney Love tearfully admitted using drugs in violation of her probation terms Friday. The rocker-actress was ordered into a 28-day drug treatment program by a judge who said he had wanted to put her in jail.
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Costas Refuses to Host Show on Holloway (AP)
 AP - While some cable TV hosts are making their living off the Natalee Holloway case this summer, Bob Costas is having none of it.
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Singer Marc Cohn Recalls Shooting (AP)
 AP - Grammy-winning singer Marc Cohn says the bullet that lodged in his temple as he rode in a car after a Denver concert earlier this month seemed like "an abstraction" until he heard the footsteps of his alleged assailant and saw his own blood.
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Brooks Signs Exclusive Deal With Wal-Mart (AP)
 AP - Country superstar Garth Brooks has signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Mourning "Toy Story" Storyteller (E! Online)
 E! Online - The story artist's blog might have said it all: "It is the
saddest day at Pixar."
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White Stripes ring "Doorbell" on Nickelodeon (Reuters)
Reuters - The White Stripes have made an
unlikely teaming with kids cable network Nickelodeon to
premiere the video for their new single, "My Doorbell."
White Stripes ring "Doorbell" on Nickelodeon (Reuters)
Reuters - The White Stripes have made an
unlikely teaming with kids cable network Nickelodeon to
premiere the video for their new single, "My Doorbell."
IPG Media Puzzle Clearer With Hire Of Nick Brien (AdWeek.com)
AdWeek.com - The appointment of Nick Brien to the worldwide CEO post at Interpublic Group's Universal McCann clarifies a key structural element in the holding company's ongoing efforts to reorganize its media agencies into a separate operating unit.
Theater review: Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams (Reuters)
Reuters - The first few minutes of
"Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams" is played entirely in the
dark, with voices shouting across a blackened stage. The lights
then come on, but all that's really illuminated for the next
two-plus hours is the decline of playwright Terrence McNally,
and Nathan Lane's limits as an actor.
Mourning "Toy Story" Storyteller (E! Online)
E! Online - The story artist's blog might have said it all: "It is the
saddest day at Pixar."
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Actor Seething over "Saw" (E! Online)
 E! Online - It seems that Saw is turning into a horror for Cary
Elwes' bank account.
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Clooney Movie to Open N.Y. Film Festival (AP)
 AP - The New York Film Festival will say hello on opening night with "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's depiction of McCarthyism and TV news in the 1950s.
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Love Admits Using Drugs; Sent to Rehab (AP)
AP - Courtney Love tearfully admitted using drugs in violation of her probation terms Friday. The rocker-actress was ordered into a 28-day drug treatment program by a judge who said he had wanted to put her in jail.
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Sarajevo Film Festival Now Thriving (AP)
 AP - The annual Sarajevo Film Festival opens its doors Friday evening for the 11th time. What began as an act of defiance during the 1992-95 Bosnian war has turned into the most important festival in the Balkans.
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Review: 'Valiant' Is No 'Chicken Run' (AP)
 AP - The animated tale "Valiant" certainly is not a documentary about pigeons, yet it captures the essence of those omnipresent urban scavengers: Mildly annoying, sometimes really aggravating, often so bland you don't even notice them.
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Phil Donahue Selling Home for $25 Million (AP)
 AP - With a $25 million price tag, the home being put up for sale by Phil Donahue and his actress-wife, Marlo Thomas, is most definitely upscale.
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Disney Investigates Alleged Labor Abuses (AP)
 AP - The Walt Disney Co. said Friday it has hired an auditor to investigate claims that its Chinese contractors pay workers below minimum wage, demand excessive overtime and cheat labor monitors by faking pay slips.
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Movie theater owners fire back at studios (Reuters)
 Reuters - Tired of being blamed
for the box office slump, the nation's movie theater owners
returned fire Thursday, accusing the studios of delivering
sub-standard product.
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'Left Behind' sequel debuts among pews (Reuters)
Reuters - Hoping to appeal to the
same faith-based audience that played a key role in the success
of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," the apocalyptic
film "Left Behind: World at War" will screen in hundreds of
U.S. churches the weekend of October 21-23, ahead of its
October 25 release on DVD.
White Stripes ring "Doorbell" on Nickelodeon (Reuters)
Reuters - The White Stripes have made an
unlikely teaming with kids cable network Nickelodeon to
premiere the video for their new single, "My Doorbell."
Diamond's self-titled album 'emotional' (Reuters)
Reuters - Neil Diamond's next studio album
will be a self-titled affair, the first for the
singer/songwriter in his 40-year career.
Hancock goes beyond jazz on new album (Reuters)
Reuters - Lately Herbie Hancock has been
popping up in the strangest places: Internet chat rooms about
Christina Aguilera and on John Mayer's Web site; at Bonnaroo in
Manchester, Tenn., as the music and arts festival's first
artist in residence; in Japan with Carlos Santana at a series
of concerts commemorating the 60th anniversary of the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Staind leaves its mark on album chart (Reuters)
Reuters - Has the top rung on the Billboard
200 become a summertime jinx?
Alice Cooper's live show still slaying fans (Reuters)
Reuters - Alice Cooper may be a more urbane
killer these days, but he is still a killer.
Pink Floyd's Waters puts operatic spin on history (Reuters)
Reuters - Back in his days with Pink Floyd,
Roger Waters took on the big issues of life. In high-concept
projects like "The Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall," he
grappled with such challenging topics as social oppression, the
long shadows of war, the interplay of money and power, and the
abuse of authority.
Love Admits Using Drugs; Sent to Rehab (AP)
AP - Courtney Love tearfully admitted using drugs in violation of her probation terms Friday. The rocker-actress was ordered into a 28-day drug treatment program by a judge who said he had wanted to put her in jail.
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Brooks Signs Exclusive Deal With Wal-Mart (AP)
AP - Country superstar Garth Brooks has signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Stefani MIA for MTV? (E! Online)
 E! Online - The MTV Video Music Awards could be minus a certain Hollaback
Girl.
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Tearful Courtney Love ordered into rehab facility (Reuters)
 Reuters - A judge ordered a tearful Courtney
Love into an in-patient substance abuse facility on Friday
after the troubled rock singer admitted to violating the terms
of her probation by using drugs.
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