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Love Sentenced to 180 Days at Drug Center (AP)
 AP - Rocker Courtney Love was sentenced Friday to 180 days at a drug treatment facility for violating probation in three criminal cases.
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Zellweger Asks for Privacy During Breakup (AP)
 AP - Renee Zellweger, who has filed for an annulment from Kenny Chesney after just four months of marriage, says the couple "hope to experience this transition as privately as possible."
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Charlie Sheen, Wife Richards May Reconcile (AP)
 AP - Charlie Sheen says he and wife, Denise Richards, are working toward getting back together. Richards filed for divorce in March after three years of marriage. Sheen told David Letterman on CBS' "The Late Show" on Thursday that their relationship has since rebounded.
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Gwen Stefani Debuts L.A.M.B. Collection (AP)
 AP - The debut of Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. collection at New York Fashion Week Friday night alternated between street track jackets and red-carpet gowns — just like Stefani does. A fleece hoodie and pant in a snakeskin print opened the show and a delicate, backless silk halter gown with a train of fabric flowers closed it.
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Blues Legend B.B. King Turns 80 (AP)
 AP - They came to see B.B. King. But before the night was over, the hundreds who lined up at a bookstore in Washington D.C. could be forgiven for thinking the blues legend had really come to see them.
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Brando: actor, recluse and now pulp-fiction author (Reuters)
 Reuters - Actor Marlon Brando has been
immortalized in film for playing a Mafia boss, a luckless boxer
and a rebellious biker, but 14 months after his death he is now
also an author of a swashbuckling pirate novel.
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Wilson handles sudden stardom by being herself (Reuters)
Reuters - On her new album, Gretchen Wilson
sings about being "on the stool side of the bar these days,
buying everyone a round."
Guest Lineup for the Sunday TV News Shows (AP)
AP - Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
Blockbuster shares tumble on debt and growth fears (Reuters)
Reuters - Shares of Blockbuster Inc. dropped
more than 9 percent to an all-time low a day after rival Movie
Gallery Inc. forecast steep declines in same-store sales and
amid speculation that the No. 1 U.S. rental chain is again in
danger of defaulting on its debt.
Hoffman, Gravitte, McCormick Set Sail in Beane & Cohen's 'Big Time' Musical Off-Broadway (Playbill)
Playbill - The premiere of The Big Time, the long-aborning new musical comedy by librettist Douglas Carter Beane and composer-lyricist Douglas J. Cohen, gets a starry production in the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) Sept. 16-28.
Brando: actor, recluse and now pulp-fiction author (Reuters)
Reuters - Actor Marlon Brando has been
immortalized in film for playing a Mafia boss, a luckless boxer
and a rebellious biker, but 14 months after his death he is now
also an author of a swashbuckling pirate novel.
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Schwarzenegger Says He'll Seek Re-Election (AP)
 AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger confirmed an open secret Friday, telling supporters that he's running for re-election next year — an early announcement designed to re-energize his sagging political momentum with the vitality that swept him into office.
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Female Directors Make Strides in Toronto (AP)
AP - A strong crop of movies by women played the Toronto International Film Festival, though parity with their male colleagues remains a long way off.
Zellweger Asks for Privacy During Breakup (AP)
AP - Renee Zellweger, who has filed for an annulment from husband Kenny Chesney after just four months of marriage, says the couple "hope to experience this transition as privately as possible."
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"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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Luft, Ex-Husband of Judy Garland, Dies (AP)
 AP - Producer Sid Luft, who is credited with reviving the career of his then-wife, Judy Garland, in the 1950s, has died. He was 89.
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Sweden Gears Up to Celebrate Garbo's 100th (AP)
 AP - In life, Greta Garbo did her best to avoid the media limelight. But the reclusive actress will be in focus over the next few months as Sweden celebrates its greatest movie star, who would have turned 100 on Sunday.
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Beijing to Debut Music From Kaige's Epic (AP)
AP - Beijing's Great Hall of the People will debut music from director Chen Kaige's upcoming fantasy epic "The Promise," reportedly China's most expensive production ever at $35 million.
Oscar Bleacher Seats Available Online (AP)
AP - Applications for 300 bleacher seats along the Academy Awards red carpet will be available online beginning Monday.
Demons exorcised, Wilkinson turns to English drama (Reuters)
 Reuters - A week after millions of movie-goers
saw him exorcising demons in surprise box-office hit "The
Exorcism of Emily Rose," Tom Wilkinson is back in a small
English film that is already generating Oscar buzz.
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Wilson handles sudden stardom by being herself (Reuters)
Reuters - On her new album, Gretchen Wilson
sings about being "on the stool side of the bar these days,
buying everyone a round."
Fantasy deal reunites Fogerty with his songs (Reuters)
Reuters - John Fogerty laughs when he says
his next album of new material will be on Fantasy Records.
"That's a phrase I never thought I'd say," he notes with glee.
Releases by Domingo, Fleming highlight fall crop (Reuters)
Reuters - Classical labels are offering up an
autumnal harvest of enticing opera and vocal music recordings.
It's all in the family for gospel artist Winans (Reuters)
Reuters - For CeCe Winans, music, family and
faith have always been closely intertwined. So it continues on
"Purified," which came out September 13.
Jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater (Reuters)
Reuters - One of jazz's pre-eminent vocalists,
Dee Dee Bridgewater moved to France in 1986 and used her
adopted home as the launching pad for her spunky stylings. She
is a Grammy and Tony Award winner, the first American jazz
singer to be inducted into the Haut Conseil de la Francophonie,
host of NPR's "JazzSet" and honorary ambassador to the United
Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. With her latest CD,
"J'ai Deux Amours" (which came out September 13 on
DDB/Sovereign), Bridgewater, who splits her time between Paris
and Las Vegas, celebrates her dual cultural identity.
New 'Day' dawns for Bon Jovi (Reuters)
Reuters - To Jon Bon Jovi, each new Bon Jovi
album is a musical diary chronicling moments in time. But for
the band's new set, "Have a Nice Day," the veteran rocker says
he looked further within himself and at the world than he has
in the band's 20-year history.
Blues Legend B.B. King Turns 80 (AP)
AP - They came to see B.B. King. But before the night was over, the hundreds who lined up at a bookstore in Washington D.C. could be forgiven for thinking the blues legend had really come to see them.
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Game Gets Right with Hurricane (E! Online)
 E! Online - The Game is hoping to head off a flood of bad press before it
hits.
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Rock Hall Snubs 1980 (E! Online)
 E! Online - In
the way of the music world, acts that have seen 25 years elapse since
the release of their first record become eligible to be inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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McGraw, NFL on same team (Reuters)
Reuters - ABC's "Monday Night Football" and
country music superstar Tim McGraw have entered a season-long
partnership.
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