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Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney Split (AP)
 AP - Bridget Jones is untying the knot. Renee Zellweger, who played the lovelorn Brit in "Bridget Jones's Diary," and country music star Kenny Chesney will have their four-month-old marriage annulled, Chesney's publicist, Holly Gleason, and Zellweger's Los Angeles-based publicist Nanci Ryder, confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Bowie Makes Surprise Appearance in N.Y. (AP)
AP - David Bowie made a surprise appearance with the indie rock sensation Arcade Fire during their concert Thursday night.
Photographer in Diaz Photos Case Sentenced (AP)
 AP - A photographer who took topless photos of Cameron Diaz and tried to sell them back to her for $3.5 million after she became a movie star was sentenced Thursday to three years and eight months in prison.
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'Ecstatic' Britney Spears Has Baby Boy (AP)
 AP - Britney Spears, who sang "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman," is now a mother — and she's "ecstatic" about it.
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Tom Sizemore Ordered to Stay in Rehab (AP)
 AP - Tom Sizemore was ordered Thursday to remain in a live-in drug rehabilitation program for another 30 days, but he can leave to work and attend charity events.
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Film review: In Her Shoes (Reuters)
 Reuters - In "In her Shoes," director
Curtis Hanson has made a chick flick with substance as well as
style. With Cameron Diaz and the ever-versatile Tony Collette
playing a pair of squabbling Jewish sisters, Hanson gets inside
his characters' scrambled lives with sensitivity and compassion
as he explores the ties that forever bind.
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Bowie Makes Surprise Appearance in N.Y. (AP)
AP - David Bowie made a surprise appearance with the indie rock sensation Arcade Fire during their concert Thursday night.
Katrina exerts subtle force on TV's Emmy Awards (Reuters)
 Reuters - Four years after the Emmy Awards
were twice postponed in the aftermath of the September 11
attacks, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina is exerting a far
more subtle force on U.S. television's biggest night.
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Vintage Miller Icon Revived In New Spot (AdWeek.com)
AdWeek.com - Using his feet to cheat a golf ball's lie in last year's campaign, the Miller High Life man--after 8 years and some 60 spots--may have seemed retired already. Now he really is: Wieden + Kennedy is replacing him with the 1907 vintage Miller girl-on-the-moon icon as a narrator in a 60-second spot premiering this week on Survivor, according to the brewer.
'Lennon' musical, slammed by NY critics, to close (Reuters)
 Reuters - "Lennon," the musical about the life
and music of former Beatle John Lennon that earned dismal
reviews, will close just six weeks after it opened on Broadway,
the show's producers said on Thursday.
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Film review: In Her Shoes (Reuters)
Reuters - In "In her Shoes," director
Curtis Hanson has made a chick flick with substance as well as
style. With Cameron Diaz and the ever-versatile Tony Collette
playing a pair of squabbling Jewish sisters, Hanson gets inside
his characters' scrambled lives with sensitivity and compassion
as he explores the ties that forever bind.
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Film review: Hellbent (Reuters)
Reuters - If audiences have been
waiting for a gay slasher film, their wait might be over, but
their appetite will not be sated.
Too much 'Heaven' for box office competition (Reuters)
Reuters - Young girls are the most
coveted demographic at the box office again this weekend.
"Sound of Music" Director Wise Dies (E! Online)
 E! Online - Robert Wise, the four-time Oscar-winning director and
producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and included such
classics as The Sound of Music, West Side Story and The
Day the Earth Stood Still, died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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Chan, Brosnan eager to take on new movie image (Reuters)
 Reuters - Best known as Hollywood action stars,
Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan are both happy to play against
type in new movies screening at the Toronto International Film
Festival, with Chan tackling a period adventure, and Brosnan
playing an emotionally torn hitman.
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Bonham Carter Gives Lip to Two Films (AP)
 AP - There are two sides to the animated Helena Bonham Carter. There's the dead blue chick with the rotting veil and the talking maggot in her eye socket. Then there's the upper-crust society dame with the freaky orange hair and the passion for giant vegetables.
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Movie Gallery Sees Lower Sales (AP)
AP - Video rental chain Movie Gallery Inc. on Thursday forecast sales in its stores open at least one year — a key retail gauge known as same-store sales — would decline in this year's second half, but also projected better than expected savings from its acquisition of Hollywood Entertainment earlier this year.
"Madagascar" Multiplies (E! Online)
 E! Online - After grossing
more than $500 million worldwide to become the studio's most successful
original movie to date, Madagascar's zoo crew is officially
sequel-bound.
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'Sound of Music' director Robert Wise dead at 91 (Reuters)
 Reuters - Four-time Oscar-winner filmmaker
Robert Wise, who edited the classic "Citizen Kane" for Orson
Welles and then went on to direct two of Hollywood's most
beloved musicals, "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music,"
has died at age 91, friends said on Thursday.
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Review: 'Proof' Forces Its Plot on You (AP)
 AP - In happier, saner times — when he's alive, in flashbacks — Anthony Hopkins' mad mathematician in "Proof" describes the sensation of lucid, analytical thought by saying the machinery is working.
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Bowie Makes Surprise Appearance in N.Y. (AP)
AP - David Bowie made a surprise appearance with the indie rock sensation Arcade Fire during their concert Thursday night.
A Few Indie Bands to Watch (AP)
AP - A few indie rock bands that will "change your life":
Waits Wails over Car Ad (E! Online)
 E! Online - Let's hope Tom Waits leaves the udder at home when he shows up in
court.
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Dizzie Gillespie Auction Draws Crowds (AP)
AP - Dizzie Gillespie can still draw a paying crowd. An auction of items from the late jazz legend's Englewood home drew musicians, former colleagues and Web site viewers from as far away as Switzerland.
'Lennon' musical, slammed by NY critics, to close (Reuters)
Reuters - "Lennon," the musical about the life
and music of former Beatle John Lennon that earned dismal
reviews, will close just six weeks after it opened on Broadway,
the show's producers said on Thursday.
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Indie Bands Move Closer to the Mainstream (AP)
 AP - As the CMJ Music Marathon — the Sundance of rock 'n' roll — descends on New York this weekend, hundreds of unknown indie bands are getting their shot at fame.
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'Sound of Music' director Robert Wise dead at 91 (Reuters)
Reuters - Four-time Oscar-winner filmmaker
Robert Wise, who edited the classic "Citizen Kane" for Orson
Welles and then went on to direct two of Hollywood's most
beloved musicals, "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music,"
has died at age 91, friends said on Thursday.
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Dre Attacker Pleads Guilty (E! Online)
 E! Online - Jimmy James Johnson, the guy who slugged Dr. Dre and touched off a
massive brawl at the Vibe Music Awards last year, has flip-flopped.
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Singer Waits Files Suit Against GM Unit (AP)
AP - Singer-songwriter Tom Waits said Thursday he has filed a lawsuit against a unit of automaker General Motors Corp. and a German advertising agency for allegedly using a soundalike in a series of European ads.
New York City Opera Director to Step Down (AP)
 AP - Paul Kellogg, New York City Opera's general and artistic director, announced plans to retire at the end of next season, after more than 11 years with the company.
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