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NASCAR Laps Leave Tarantino Speechless (AP)
 AP - Quentin Tarantino has produced his share of action-packed, thrilling moments. For once, he was just along for the ride. Tarantino, a NASCAR novice, was treated to several hair-raising laps in a stock car Saturday that left the eccentric film director speechless at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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Gretchen Wilson Pockets Skoal Controversy (AP)
AP - Country music's "Redneck Woman" promises to keep her can of Skoal in her back pocket from now on. Tennessee's attorney general had asked Gretchen Wilson not to pull out a can of smokeless tobacco during performances of her new song "Skoal Ring" because it glamorized tobacco use.
Martha Stewart Confinement Set to End (AP)
 AP - Unless she gets into trouble with her probation officer again, Martha Stewart will gain her freedom this week from her "hideous" home confinement sentence and that bothersome, unstylish electronic anklet.
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Osbourne Says She Evened Score With Maiden (AP)
 AP - Sharon Osbourne says she cut Iron Maiden's power during a concert on this summer's Ozzfest tour. The wife of rock icon Ozzy Osbourne has accused the heavy metal group's singer Bruce Dickinson of badmouthing her husband on stage.
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Swayze Says 'Dirty Dancing' Endures (AP)
 AP - Patrick Swayze never knows when "Dirty Dancing" fans will strike. "It's incredible," says the actor, who played the hip-swinging Johnny Castle in the hit 1987 film.
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China's 'Thieves' kicks off Montreal's festival battle (Reuters)
Reuters - When the curtain goes up on
the 29th Montreal World Film Festival Friday, it will launch
eight weeks of marathon screenings in Montreal by three
different festivals.
Gretchen Wilson Pockets Skoal Controversy (AP)
AP - Country music's "Redneck Woman" promises to keep her can of Skoal in her back pocket from now on. Tennessee's attorney general had asked Gretchen Wilson not to pull out a can of smokeless tobacco during performances of her new song "Skoal Ring" because it glamorized tobacco use.
'Idol' TV Show Breaks Records in China (AP)
AP - The television finale of an "American Idol"-type pop star contest in China has broken ratings records, according to state media.
Stars call Weinstein for post-Miramax help (Reuters)
Reuters - It appears Miramax Films
still needs Harvey Weinstein.
U.S. playwright August Wilson dying of liver cancer (Reuters)
Reuters - August Wilson, an award-winning
playwright who focuses on the lives of African-Americans, has
liver cancer and may have only months to live, a spokeswoman
for Wilson said on Friday.
China's 'Thieves' kicks off Montreal's festival battle (Reuters)
Reuters - When the curtain goes up on
the 29th Montreal World Film Festival Friday, it will launch
eight weeks of marathon screenings in Montreal by three
different festivals.
Stars call Weinstein for post-Miramax help (Reuters)
Reuters - It appears Miramax Films
still needs Harvey Weinstein.
Documentary cuts to the chase about film editing (Reuters)
Reuters - "The Cutting Edge: The
Magic of Movie Editing," which will be released September 6 on
DVD, is not the good-for-you instructional lecture the title
would have you believe.
NASCAR Laps Leave Tarantino Speechless (AP)
AP - Quentin Tarantino has produced his share of action-packed, thrilling moments. For once, he was just along for the ride. Tarantino, a NASCAR novice, was treated to several hair-raising laps in a stock car Saturday that left the eccentric film director speechless at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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Swayze Says 'Dirty Dancing' Endures (AP)
AP - Patrick Swayze never knows when "Dirty Dancing" fans will strike. "It's incredible," says the actor, who played the hip-swinging Johnny Castle in the hit 1987 film.
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Runaway teen actress slept in park near Calif. home (Reuters)
 Reuters - A teen actress who ran away from
home slept in a park until a concerned family took her in --
and was found only after a boy boasted to schoolmates a movie
star was living in his house, police said on Friday.
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Farley Gets Posthumous Walk of Fame Star (AP)
 AP - Comedian Chris Farley was a motivational speaker, a rabid fan and a topless dancer on "Saturday Night Live." On Friday, the late comic was the toast of his castmates as they honored him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Pixar Shares Dip on Report of SEC Inquiry (AP)
AP - Shares of Pixar Animation Studios Inc. fell nearly 2.5 percent Friday after a published report said the Securities and Exchange Commission Inc. has requested information leading up to the filmmaker's report earlier this month of lower second-quarter earnings.
Teen Actress Slept at Park, Someone's Home (AP)
 AP - A teen actress who apparently ran away from home spent nearly two weeks sleeping at a park and at the residence of a family that took her in, police said.
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Redford and Newman may pair up again on screen (Reuters)
 Reuters - Robert Redford may soon be reunited on
screen with Paul Newman but don't expect a sequel to "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" or "The Sting," which paired one
of Hollywood's most popular double acts three decades ago.
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Gretchen Wilson Pockets Skoal Controversy (AP)
AP - Country music's "Redneck Woman" promises to keep her can of Skoal in her back pocket from now on. Tennessee's attorney general had asked Gretchen Wilson not to pull out a can of smokeless tobacco during performances of her new song "Skoal Ring" because it glamorized tobacco use.
Osbourne Says She Evened Score With Maiden (AP)
AP - Sharon Osbourne says she cut Iron Maiden's power during a concert on this summer's Ozzfest tour. The wife of rock icon Ozzy Osbourne has accused the heavy metal group's singer Bruce Dickinson of badmouthing her husband on stage.
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Wax Head of Mozart Is Stolen From Museum (AP)
AP - Thieves snatched the head of a life-size Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wax figure from a Salzburg museum, police said Saturday.
Missing Music Producer Found, Hospitalized (AP)
AP - The nearly weeklong search for a Grammy-nominated producer ended Friday after a resident spotted the man sitting naked in a backyard creek, washing his jeans.
Brubeck's New Work 60 Years in the Making (AP)
 AP - Dave Brubeck can finally cross something off that's been on his "to-do" list for nearly 60 years: The legendary jazz pianist will unveil a new six-minute choral work called "The Commandments" Sept. 14 at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, as part of the second annual Jewish Music Heritage Festival in New York.
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Rapper Saigon snags place in 'Entourage' (Reuters)
Reuters - Art imitated life on the August 21
episode of HBO series "Entourage" when up-and-coming rapper
Saigon was introduced on the show.
Kanye West confident about Grammy follow-up (Reuters)
 Reuters - For those familiar with Kanye
West's well-documented braggadocio, it may come as a surprise
that the rapper/producer found plenty wrong with his Grammy
Award-winning debut, "The College Dropout." With his sophomore
effort, "Late Registration" (due August 30 on Roc-a-Fella/Def
Jam), West aimed to correct his perceived flaws in flow,
engineering, instrumentation and lyrics.
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Country artist Toby Keith reveals label, film plans (Reuters)
Reuters - Using the slogan "The only thing we
take seriously is the music," country superstar Toby Keith and
veteran Nashville record executive Scott Borchetta will kick
off their new joint label venture September 1. They already
have signed a handful of artists and secured a major
distribution deal.
Red-hot Coldplay plans spring tour (Reuters)
 Reuters - Coldplay's ongoing Twisted Logic
tour is doing huge business at the box office in North America,
but the U.K. group already has its sights set on a return
engagement.
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Sharon Osbourne admits role in Iron Maiden flap (Reuters)
Reuters - In a statement released Thursday
night, Ozzfest organizer Sharon Osbourne admitted a role in the
incident that marred Iron Maiden's August 20 tour performance
in Devore, Calif. -- specifically, that she cut off the band's
sound on several occasions.
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