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Sixty-Something Stones Roll at Fenway (AP)
 AP - The Rolling Stones launched into "Start Me Up" to kick off their latest North American tour Sunday night at Boston's historic Fenway Park, a fitting venue and fitting opening song for the aging but irrepressible rockers.
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'Virgin' Wins Box Office With $20.6M (AP)
 AP - Steve Carell scored in his maiden voyage as a leading man, with his comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" taking in $20.6 million to debut at the top of the box office.
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Some Decry Glitz of Thompson Blastoff (AP)
 AP - Hunter S. Thompson's grand finale went off as planned: His ashes were blasted into the night sky in an explosion friends and fans agreed he would have loved. But some said the gonzo journalist would have sneered at the Hollywood trappings — champagne toasts by movie stars and former presidential candidates.
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Baez Performs for Crawford War Protesters (AP)
 AP - Iraq war protesters camping out near President Bush's ranch got some support Sunday night from a prominent figure in the anti-Vietnam war movement: folk singer Joan Baez.
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Cheadle Visits 'Hotel Rwanda' for 1st Time (AP)
 AP - Don Cheadle has finally visited "Hotel Rwanda."
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"Virgin" Scores! (E! Online)
E! Online - Steve
Carell's sex-deprived comedy, an R-rated romp about a middle-aged geek
who's prodded by buddies into seeking out love, scored $20.6 million to
open as the number one film over yet another slow weekend at the box
office
Sixty-Something Stones Roll at Fenway (AP)
AP - The Rolling Stones launched into "Start Me Up" to kick off their latest North American tour Sunday night at Boston's historic Fenway Park, a fitting venue and fitting opening song for the aging but irrepressible rockers.
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Trump Producing Chinese 'Apprentice' (AP)
 AP - China will soon have its own version of the extremely capitalist reality TV show "The Apprentice," according to a news report.
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'Virgin' Wins Box Office With $20.6M (AP)
AP - Steve Carell scored in his maiden voyage as a leading man, with his comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" taking in $20.6 million to debut at the top of the box office.
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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.
"Virgin" Scores! (E! Online)
E! Online - Steve
Carell's sex-deprived comedy, an R-rated romp about a middle-aged geek
who's prodded by buddies into seeking out love, scored $20.6 million to
open as the number one film over yet another slow weekend at the box
office
'Virgin' Wins Box Office With $20.6M (AP)
AP - Steve Carell scored in his maiden voyage as a leading man, with his comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" taking in $20.6 million to debut at the top of the box office.
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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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'Virgin' seduces moviegoers in North America (Reuters)
Reuters - Female moviegoers fell for the
charm of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," propelling the comedy to the
top of the North American box office in its first weekend of
release, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.
Cheadle Visits 'Hotel Rwanda' for 1st Time (AP)
AP - Don Cheadle has finally visited "Hotel Rwanda."
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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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Sixty-Something Stones Roll at Fenway (AP)
AP - The Rolling Stones launched into "Start Me Up" to kick off their latest North American tour Sunday night at Boston's historic Fenway Park, a fitting venue and fitting opening song for the aging but irrepressible rockers.
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Cohn's Carjacking Survival Story (E! Online)
 E! Online - When it came time to tell his harrowing account of his near-fatal
carjacking in Denver, Marc Cohn knew exactly what network to give the
exclusive to: his wife's.
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Baez Performs for Crawford War Protesters (AP)
AP - Iraq war protesters camping out near President Bush's ranch got some support Sunday night from a prominent figure in the anti-Vietnam war movement: folk singer Joan Baez.
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Folk legend Baez joins protesters near Bush ranch (Reuters)
 Reuters - Folk singer Joan Baez joined
anti-war protesters near U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch
on Sunday to meet with military families who want troops pulled
out of Iraq.
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Garth Goes Wal-Mart (E! Online)
E! Online - The
country superstar has signed a deal with the retail chain that will make
Wal-Mart and its subsidiaries, Sam's Club and walmart.com, the only
place fans will be able to purchase Brooks' entire catalog of music for
the indefinite future.
Miss America Crowns 'Outstanding Teen' (AP)
 AP - A 17-year-old who used two ventriloquist dummies to sing Walt Disney tunes won the inaugural Miss America's Outstanding Teen competition.
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Miller Beer Holds 150th Anniversary Bash (AP)
 AP - When it's Miller Time, Miller Brewing knows how to party. The nation's second-largest and oldest major brewer threw a 150th birthday bash Saturday with more than 100 descendants of the Miller family attending.
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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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Digital competitors ready to take bite out of Apple (Reuters)
Reuters - Enjoy it while it lasts.
Q&A: Oasis' Noel Gallagher (Reuters)
Reuters - It has often been a rocky decade, but
Oasis has rolled with it.
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