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Destiny's Child Among Winners at WMAs (AP)
 AP - Destiny's Child, The Game and Gwen Stefani each nabbed honors on the strength of their worldwide sales figures at the 2005 World Music Awards.
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Landlord Won't Renew Lease for CBGB Club (AP)
 AP - As hundreds of people joined guitarist Steven Van Zandt in a raucous rally of support for venerable punk club CBGB's, the club's landlord announced Wednesday that a decision had been made — its lease would expire at midnight and it would not be renewed.
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Country Star Toby Keith Launches Own Label (AP)
 AP - Country artist Toby Keith said Wednesday he's forming his own label, Show Dog Nashville Records, to gain more control over his work.
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DeGeneres Back, but Without the Dancing? (AP)
 AP - How Ellen DeGeneres spent her summer vacation: accepting a bouquet of Daytime Emmys and agreeing to host next month's prime-time Emmy ceremony. Oh, and reconsidering her trademark dancing on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
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Martha Stewart to Remove Ankle Bracelet (AP)
 AP - Martha Stewart will soon be stepping into the future with a lighter foot. Stewart's electronic ankle bracelet comes off at "12:05 tonight," she told The Associated Press on Wednesday, adding with a smile that the prospect of being rid of it fills her with "nervous excitement."
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Clooney brings politics to Venice with "Good Night" (Reuters)
 Reuters - George Clooney brings political
controversy to Venice on Thursday with "Good Night, And Good
Luck," a black-and-white tale of broadcasting courage during
the McCarthy-era witch hunts of the 1950s.
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Destiny's Child Among Winners at WMAs (AP)
AP - Destiny's Child, The Game and Gwen Stefani each nabbed honors on the strength of their worldwide sales figures at the 2005 World Music Awards.
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NBC sends armed guards to lawless Gulf Coast (Reuters)
 Reuters - NBC News has sent private
security personnel to the increasingly dicey Gulf Coast region
to help keep its employees safe while covering the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina.
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Clooney brings politics to Venice with "Good Night" (Reuters)
Reuters - George Clooney brings political
controversy to Venice on Thursday with "Good Night, And Good
Luck," a black-and-white tale of broadcasting courage during
the McCarthy-era witch hunts of the 1950s.
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The Mob, the FBI and a Diva-Rich Front Organization Are the Stuff of New Opera 'Don Imbroglio' in NYMF (Playbill)
Playbill - An opera will make its world premiere in the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival Sept. 25, when Don Imbroglio - billed as "an opera you can't refuse" - begins at the Lion Theatre Off-Broadway.
Clooney brings politics to Venice with "Good Night" (Reuters)
Reuters - George Clooney brings political
controversy to Venice on Thursday with "Good Night, And Good
Luck," a black-and-white tale of broadcasting courage during
the McCarthy-era witch hunts of the 1950s.
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Toronto leader 'Water' lands at Fox Searchlight (Reuters)
Reuters - A week before the launch
of the Toronto International Film Festival, Fox Searchlight
Pictures has acquired the opening-night world premiere,
writer-director Deepa Mehta's "Water."
Hollywood stars skip Venice film fest opening (Reuters)
 Reuters - The 62nd Venice
International Film Festival kicked off Wednesday, with
directors Ang Lee and John Woo the only major Hollywood names
on show.
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Film review: Transporter 2 (Reuters)
Reuters - The filmmakers reveal their
James Bond-like franchise aspirations a little too nakedly in
this sequel to the 2002 thriller that became a sleeper
international hit, but it must be said that "Transporter 2"
really does deliver the goods.
Film review: An Unfinished Life (Reuters)
 Reuters - Despite solid, albeit
constrained, performances from Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez,
Morgan Freeman and adolescent newcomer Becca Gardner, "An
Unfinished Life" all too accurately lives up to its title.
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'Winter Passing' to Premiere at Woodstock (AP)
AP - "Winter Passing," starring Will Ferrell, will have its U.S. premiere and actor Steve Buscemi will receive an award at the sixth annual Woodstock Film Festival, which will run Sept. 28-Oct. 2.
Summer Comedies Boost Slumping Hollywood (AP)
 AP - One of the unlikely heroes of this summer's weak box office is a bicycle-riding electronics salesman who responds to his girlfriend's in-bed question of whether he has any protection:
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Bond-ing Trouble for 007 Producers (E! Online)
 E! Online - Now that Pierce Brosnan's license to kill has been officially
revoked, finding a replacement 007 is proving to be a difficult task.
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'Seven Swords' Kicks Off Venice Film Fest (AP)
 AP - A stellar American profile and heavy security distinguish this year's Venice Film Festival, which began Wednesday night with a martial arts extravaganza, Tsui Hark's "Seven Swords."
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Venice rolls out red carpet with martial-arts epic (Reuters)
 Reuters - The Venice Film Festival was set
to open on Wednesday with Hong Kong martial-arts spectacular
"Seven Swords," underlining the prominence given Asian cinema
at this year's event.
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Destiny's Child Among Winners at WMAs (AP)
AP - Destiny's Child, The Game and Gwen Stefani each nabbed honors on the strength of their worldwide sales figures at the 2005 World Music Awards.
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Landlord Won't Renew Lease for CBGB Club (AP)
AP - As hundreds of people joined guitarist Steven Van Zandt in a raucous rally of support for venerable punk club CBGB's, the club's landlord announced Wednesday that a decision had been made — its lease would expire at midnight and it would not be renewed.
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Country Star Toby Keith Launches Own Label (AP)
AP - Country artist Toby Keith said Wednesday he's forming his own label, Show Dog Nashville Records, to gain more control over his work.
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Snoop Sues Over "Izzle" Flap (E! Online)
 E! Online - Snoop Dogg has his mind on his money and his money on his mind.
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Last dance at famed New York punk rock venue CBGB (Reuters)
 Reuters - CBGB, the grimy punk rock club that
spawned acts like Blondie, is about to join the list of fabled
New York music venues forced to shutter their doors.
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Concert review: Eric Benet (Reuters)
 Reuters - During a five-year live
absence, Eric Benet has been in more tabloid stories about his
much-publicized marriage to and breakup with Halle Berry than
he cares to admit. The lost romance also deprived his fans of
music, which Benet pointed out several times during a barely
satisfying hour-and-a-half set Tuesday at the House of Blues.
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NBC, MTV to air concerts for Katrina victims (Reuters)
 Reuters - Three Louisiana-born stars -- Harry
Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis and Tim McGraw -- will headline a
televised charity concert to air live on Friday for victims of
Hurricane Katrina, NBC said on Wednesday.
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Rod Stewart Testifies in Breach Lawsuit (AP)
 AP - Singer Rod Stewart told a jury Wednesday that he was in no shape to perform a New Year's concert at the Rio hotel-casino in December 2000 because he had just had throat surgery seven months earlier.
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Spears Sets Sights on Sin City? (E! Online)
 E! Online - Britney Spears apparently doesn't have a grudge with Sin City.
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Kanye Keeps Early Rap Locked Down (E! Online)
 E! Online - As his new
album, Late Registration, hit stores Tuesday, the Grammy-winning
hip-hop star launched a legal attack seeking to block the release of
tracks recorded when he was just a teenager.
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