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Hollywood Uncertain After Summer Bummer (AP)
 AP - Americans' love affair with movies is far from over. Yet like many relationships, it seems to be suffering from a case of familiarity breeds contempt. Summer 2005 was the worst since 1997 for movie attendance, which dropped sharply and rattled the complacency of studios.
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UPN Set to Launch Chris Rock's New Series (AP)
 AP - The reaction so startled Dawn Ostroff that she thought someone was onstage behind her, playing a joke.
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Singer Macy Gray Volunteers at Astrodome (AP)
 AP - It wasn't for a concert. R&B singer Macy Gray came to town specifically to help refugees from the flooding in New Orleans.
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'Elizabethtown' Looks at Life and Death (AP)
 AP - Most of what happens in "Elizabethtown," will probably never happen to you — but some could, and that is the hook in the Cameron Crowe film that debuted Sunday at the Venice Film Festival.
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Anne Rice Criticizes Katrina Response (AP)
 AP - Novelist Anne Rice harshly criticized the response to Hurricane Katrina's aftermath in her old hometown of New Orleans.
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Hollywood Uncertain After Summer Bummer (AP)
AP - Americans' love affair with movies is far from over. Yet like many relationships, it seems to be suffering from a case of familiarity breeds contempt. Summer 2005 was the worst since 1997 for movie attendance, which dropped sharply and rattled the complacency of studios.
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Australian court rules Kazaa users breach copyright (Reuters)
Reuters - An Australian court ruled on Monday that
users of Kazaa, a popular internet music file-swapping system,
breached music copyright and ordered its owners to modify the
software.
Lewis Raises $3M for MD, Storm Victims (AP)
AP - The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon raised more than $3 million by late Sunday night in a unique edition of the annual event that benefits both the Muscular Dystrophy Association and victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Hollywood Uncertain After Summer Bummer (AP)
AP - Americans' love affair with movies is far from over. Yet like many relationships, it seems to be suffering from a case of familiarity breeds contempt. Summer 2005 was the worst since 1997 for movie attendance, which dropped sharply and rattled the complacency of studios.
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Broadway's Jarrod Emick and Cass Morgan Help Ignite 'Ring of Fire', the New Johnny Cash Musical (Playbill)
Playbill - Richard Maltby Jr., the director who guided Ain't Misbehavin' and Fosse to Broadway, is staging and co-creating the new Johnny Cash-inspired musical, Ring of Fire, in its test run at Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, Sept. 2-Oct. 9.
Hollywood Uncertain After Summer Bummer (AP)
AP - Americans' love affair with movies is far from over. Yet like many relationships, it seems to be suffering from a case of familiarity breeds contempt. Summer 2005 was the worst since 1997 for movie attendance, which dropped sharply and rattled the complacency of studios.
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'Elizabethtown' Looks at Life and Death (AP)
AP - Most of what happens in "Elizabethtown," will probably never happen to you — but some could, and that is the hook in the Cameron Crowe film that debuted Sunday at the Venice Film Festival.
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New Spanish film shines red light on friendship (Reuters)
Reuters - Film director Fernando Leon's tough and
wry tales of outsiders have won him huge Spanish audiences and
critical acclaim.
Garbo gets stamp of approval from U.S., Sweden (Reuters)
 Reuters - Greta Garbo died 15 years
ago, almost half a century after she made her last film, and
still people won't leave her alone. Which is good news for her
many fans.
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Gilliam turns on critics of blockbuster "Grimm" (Reuters)
Reuters - Terry Gilliam, under fire from the
critics for his new blockbuster "The Brothers Grimm," is fed up
with having to defend his first film in seven years.
"Elizabethtown" brings taste of Americana to Venice (Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. director Cameron Crowe brought a
slice of Americana to Venice on Sunday with his film
"Elizabethtown," a story of hope rekindled after death and
failure.
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Oscar-Winner Soderbergh Slams Reality TV (AP)
 AP - Steven Soderbergh, who used a cast of nonprofessionals to make "Bubble," a murder story set in a bleak Ohio town, says fiction on screen is more real than reality TV.
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"Grimm" film brings fairy-tale magic to Venice (Reuters)
 Reuters - Terry Gilliam's "The Brothers Grimm"
brought fairy tale magic to the Venice Film Festival on Sunday,
with the director hoping for a happy ending in Europe after the
movie failed to impress in America.
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A Fun 'Casanova' Debuts at Venice Festival (AP)
 AP - He was a libertine and intellectual, a seducer, spy and (expelled) seminarian, an adventurer and fugitive from justice. Now Giacomo Casanova is also funny, self-sacrificing, writhing in the throes of love and — because this is history Hollywood-style — a character with a happy ending.
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Yeoh Reportedly Tapped for Boyle Thriller (AP)
 AP - Former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh will appear in Danny Boyle's new sci-fi thriller "Sunshine," a magazine reports.
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Australian court rules Kazaa users breach copyright (Reuters)
Reuters - An Australian court ruled on Monday that
users of Kazaa, a popular internet music file-swapping system,
breached music copyright and ordered its owners to modify the
software.
Casting Crowns defies Christian-music rules (Reuters)
Reuters - Every once in a while there's a
success story that defies the odds, overcomes obstacles, slays
skeptics and rises from obscurity to top the charts. In today's
Christian music community, it is Casting Crowns.
Stones Fans Do Less Damage Than Expected (AP)
 AP - The Rolling Stones were a huge hit at Comerica Park — and the damage wasn't as bad as expected.
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Singer Macy Gray Volunteers at Astrodome (AP)
AP - It wasn't for a concert. R&B singer Macy Gray came to town specifically to help refugees from the flooding in New Orleans.
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The Latin kids are all right at Televisa (Reuters)
Reuters - The tension was high and nerves were
frazzled as music reality contest "Codigo F.A.M.A.
Internacional" came to a close this past June.
U.S. radio stations flip for reggaeton (Reuters)
Reuters - In the summer of 1978, New York
radio station WKTU flipped out listeners when it flipped its
format from adult contemporary to disco. Within months, the
dance movement catapulted the station to No. 1 in the ratings,
setting the stage for numerous copycats and fueling a cultural
phenomenon.
Music biz catching reggaeton fever (Reuters)
 Reuters - On July 31, 2004, Daddy Yankee's
"Barrio Fino" became the first reggaeton album to debut at No.
1 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart.
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Elton John Plays Outside Rome's Colosseum (AP)
 AP - Elton John played the piano and delighted hundreds of thousands of fans with old hits such as "Daniel" at a concert outside the Colosseum on Saturday night.
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Kanye West Rips Bush at Hurricane Aid Show (AP)
 AP - A celebrity telethon for Hurricane Katrina survivors took an unexpected turn when outspoken rapper Kanye West went off script during the live broadcast, declaring America is set up "to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible."
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Trisha Yearwood back with first album in 4 years (Reuters)
Reuters - After a self-imposed hiatus spurred
by both creative and business considerations, country singer
Trisha Yearwood will release her first album in four years on
September 13.
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