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Ang Lee Film Tops Venice Festival Awards (AP)
 AP - Ang Lee's tale of the homosexual love between two cowboys set in the conservative West of the 1960s won the Venice Film Festival's top award Saturday.
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Feds Drop Media Ban on Katrina Recovery (AP)
 AP - Challenged in court by CNN, the Bush administration agreed on Saturday not to prevent the news media from following the effort to recover the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims.
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Parker Bowles' Son Gets Married in England (AP)
 AP - Five months after his mother Camilla married Prince Charles, food writer Tom Parker Bowles wed fashion journalist Sara Buys Saturday in an English country church ablaze with flowers.
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Telethon Reaches Viewers in 100 Countries (AP)
 AP - With the waters of Hurricane Katrina yet to recede, Randy Newman sang about a long-ago flood in "Louisiana 1927" to open a benefit program spread across dozens of television networks Friday.
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Hilfiger Says He's Reinventing Classics (AP)
 AP - Tommy Hilfiger's spring 2006 collection incorporates many of his signatures: seersucker, madras, the American flag, and red, white and blue.
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Gazzara, Dafoe to Receive Honor in Spain (AP)
 AP - American actors Ben Gazzara and Willem Dafoe will receive lifetime achievement awards at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain's top cinema showcase.
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Versatile Musician Gatemouth Brown Dies (AP)
 AP - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the singer and guitarist who built a 50-year career playing blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died Saturday in his hometown of Orange, Texas, where he had gone to escape Hurricane Katrina. He was 81.
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Feds Drop Media Ban on Katrina Recovery (AP)
AP - Challenged in court by CNN, the Bush administration agreed on Saturday not to prevent the news media from following the effort to recover the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims.
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'Kiss Kiss', nude show light up Toronto festival (Reuters)
 Reuters - Two Hollywood "bad boys" on their best
behavior, the plight of widows in India, and the story of a
world-famous nude nightclub in London grabbed center stage at
the Toronto Film Festival on Friday.
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Seasons' turn on Broadway in the works (Reuters)
Reuters - "I like being an underdog in New
York, because New Yorkers love an underdog," says Bob Gaudio,
applying an appropriate truism to the November 6 Broadway
opening of "Jersey Boys."
Gazzara, Dafoe to Receive Honor in Spain (AP)
AP - American actors Ben Gazzara and Willem Dafoe will receive lifetime achievement awards at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain's top cinema showcase.
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Ang Lee Film Tops Venice Festival Awards (AP)
AP - Ang Lee's tale of the homosexual love between two cowboys set in the conservative West of the 1960s won the Venice Film Festival's top award Saturday.
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'Violence,' 'Brokeback' bow at Toronto festival (Reuters)
 Reuters - After impressing juries in Cannes and
Venice, "A History of Violence" and "Brokeback Mountain"
brought their revisionist tales of love and hate to the Toronto
International Film Festival on Saturday.
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Gay cowboy film rides off with Venice Golden Lion (Reuters)
 Reuters - Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," a tale
of homosexual love in the mountains of Wyoming, won Venice's
Golden Lion on Saturday, beating film festival favorite George
Clooney in the race to take the top prize.
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Italy's film hopes fade for a Venice Golden Lion (Reuters)
Reuters - One of Italy's top reviewers jolted the
Venice festival last week with a front-page appeal for an
Italian Golden Lion, but after three uneven films, painful
soul-searching is more likely than a home-grown winner.
'Outsiders' Was Labor of Love for Coppola (AP)
 AP - After the critical and commercial disaster of "One From the Heart" and the failure of his Zoetrope movie studio, a bankrupt Francis Ford Coppola found himself at "the beginning of a very continuing low period."
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'Elizabethtown' to Debut in Namesake City (AP)
 AP - Cameron Crowe will attend the first U.S. screening of his new movie, "Elizabethtown," Sept. 17 in the city that bears its name. Co-star Orlando Bloom will be on hand for a screening later that night in Louisville.
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Director Wang's Film to Focus on Childhood (AP)
 AP - Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai says his next film will further explore stories from his childhood that audiences embraced in "Shanghai Dreams," winner of the third-place jury prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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Venice places bets as countdown to awards begins (Reuters)
 Reuters - Venice placed its bets ahead of an
evening of red carpets and glittering Golden Lions on Saturday,
preparing to wrap up a film festival that closes on an Asian
note with lavish Chinese musical "Perhaps Love."
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Comedian electrifies Venice with anti-Berlusconi film (Reuters)
Reuters - Italian satirist Sabina Guzzanti has
taken a leaf out of filmmaker Michael Moore's book, hitting out
at Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with a no-holds-barred
documentary that met thundering applause in Venice on Friday.
Versatile Musician Gatemouth Brown Dies (AP)
AP - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the singer and guitarist who built a 50-year career playing blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died Saturday in his hometown of Orange, Texas, where he had gone to escape Hurricane Katrina. He was 81.
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Marigny music gives New Orleans new heartbeat (Reuters)
 Reuters - As you round a corner in
the club land district of Marigny, the silence of New Orleans
is suddenly interrupted by blasting rock and bossa nova.
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John Fogerty buries hatchet with former label (Reuters)
Reuters - Former Creedence Clearwater Revival
frontman John Fogerty is returning to the record label that has
been the bane of his existence for decades.
Fink Joining Cast of 'Doctor Atomic' (AP)
 AP - Acclaimed baritone Richard Paul Fink is taking over the part of Edward Teller in the San Francisco Opera's production of John Adams' "Doctor Atomic."
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Telethon Reaches Viewers in 100 Countries (AP)
AP - With the waters of Hurricane Katrina yet to recede, Randy Newman sang about a long-ago flood in "Louisiana 1927" to open a benefit program spread across dozens of television networks Friday.
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Country singer White finds her 'Soul' (Reuters)
Reuters - What happens when you are primarily
known as a country artist, but you have soul music in your
heart?
Gap Band's Wilson ready for second act (Reuters)
Reuters - Scheduling conflicts waylaid a
proposed duet with Mariah Carey, and songs produced by Pharrell
and Scott Storch did not make the final cut. But Charlie
Wilson's debut album for Jive still boasts its share of star
power, including the first song produced by the Jawbreakers,
aka Justin Timberlake and the Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am.
Banhart's experimental folk takes flight on 'Crow' (Reuters)
Reuters - Devendra Banhart's name is linked
with the avant-garde, or the so-called "freak folk" scene. But
despite a sometimes free-flowing experimentation, he is
well-steeped in folk traditions.
Apfelbaum rewrites Hieroglyphics in New York (Reuters)
Reuters - After slipping off the recording map
in 1992 and going on hiatus in 1995, Peter Apfelbaum's big band
Hieroglyphics makes its triumphant return on its debut for ACT
Music, "It Is Written."
Jay-Z's game plan includes new label (Reuters)
Reuters - Def Jam president/CEO Jay-Z has
plans to start a new imprint next year.
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