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Police: Pregnant Mindy McCready Overdoses (AP)
AP - Country singer Mindy McCready was hospitalized after overdosing on antidepressants early Friday following a quarrel with the father of her unborn child.
Coppola to End 8-Year Absence From Movies (AP)
 AP - After an eight-year absence, Francis Ford Coppola is returning to the director's chair.
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No Need to 'Curb Enthusiasm' for Larry (AP)
 AP - Tell Larry David how much you enjoyed the first couple episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," back for its fifth season Sunday, and his response is immediate.
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Hip-Hop Celebrates Pioneers Like LL Cool J (AP)
 AP - LL Cool J wore his Kangol hat, Big Daddy Kane broke out the old-school rhymes and dance moves, and Salt 'N Pepa rapped and sashayed like back in the day as VH1 celebrated rap's pioneers at the second annual "Hip-Hop Honors."
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'Commander in Chief' Set to Make Debut (AP)
 AP - The fall season continues with three new shows taking their bows this week:
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Le Snub of the "Penguins" (E! Online)
 E! Online - Don't be surprised if penguins start ordering freedom fries to go
with their krill.
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Police: Pregnant Mindy McCready Overdoses (AP)
AP - Country singer Mindy McCready was hospitalized after overdosing on antidepressants early Friday following a quarrel with the father of her unborn child.
"Chris" Rocks (E! Online)
E! Online - Everybody
Hates Chris, comic Chris Rock's sitcom take on growing up in a dicey
Brooklyn neighborhood, moved in on the supposed must-see competition,
topping all comers in its premiere, save CBS' Survivor:
Guatemala.
Hollywood producer accused of $5 million TV scam (Reuters)
Reuters - A Hollywood producer who claimed to
be making a TV show about the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security with the approval of President George W. Bush was
arrested on Friday and charged with bilking investors out of
more than $5.5 million.
Asner, Cromwell, Mason, Dreyfuss, Stoltz, Gless, Molina Debate in 'The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial' Tour (Playbill)
Playbill - Edward Asner, James Cromwell, Marsha Mason, Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Stoltz, Sharon Gless, Alfred Molina and other actors will perform in select performances of The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial national tour, starting Oct. 11.
Le Snub of the "Penguins" (E! Online)
E! Online - Don't be surprised if penguins start ordering freedom fries to go
with their krill.
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Coppola to End 8-Year Absence From Movies (AP)
AP - After an eight-year absence, Francis Ford Coppola is returning to the director's chair.
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Coppola Makes a Comeback (E! Online)
 E! Online - After an eight-year layoff, Francis Ford Coppola is hopping back
into the director's chair.
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Montreal film fests battle for funds, movie buffs (Reuters)
 Reuters - The New Montreal FilmFest, a highly
touted upstart in the fight for festival supremacy in Montreal,
is fending off jabs from local rivals, movie critics and even
its own programming director at its inaugural edition.
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Review: 'History of Violence' a Must-See (AP)
 AP - The less you know about "A History of Violence" before you see it — and you really should see it — the better. And yet there's so much to say, it's hard not to want to ramble on.
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Actress Says JetBlue Landing Was 'Surreal' (AP)
 AP - Taryn Manning says watching TV at her seat as a JetBlue airliner circled the region for three hours before making an emergency landing was the most "out-of-body experience I ever had."
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Review: Foster Frantic in 'Flightplan' (AP)
 AP - Julianne Moore once played Jodie Foster, taking Foster's role as FBI agent Clarice Starling in "The Silence of the Lambs" followup "Hannibal." Now Foster returns the favor with "Flightplan," essentially playing the same maybe-crazy, maybe-not mom that Moore portrayed in last year's horror hit "The Forgotten."
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Hollywood Marketing Films Through Churches (AP)
 AP - At some of the largest and most influential Christian churches in the country, the lights dim and congregants watch a sneak preview of a new movie — about golf.
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Disney hypes new films, holds out hope for Pixar (Reuters)
 Reuters - Walt Disney Co., seeking to regain
momentum for its movie division after a projected quarterly
loss, on Thursday touted its slate of upcoming releases to
theater owners and held out the prospect of reviving a
lucrative distribution deal with Pixar.
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Gazzara, Dafoe Win Donostia Prize (AP)
 AP - Ben Gazzara and Willem Dafoe are this year's recipients of the Donostia Prize for lifetime achievement at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain's leading film festival.
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Police: Pregnant Mindy McCready Overdoses (AP)
AP - Country singer Mindy McCready was hospitalized after overdosing on antidepressants early Friday following a quarrel with the father of her unborn child.
Robertson charts the Band's musical journey (Reuters)
Reuters - If Robbie Robertson had his way,
every owner of "Across the Great Divide," a three-CD
retrospective of the Band issued in 1994, would toss that
collection in the garbage and replace it with "The Band: A
Musical History."
Busy top 10 cannot reverse downward trend (Reuters)
Reuters - Even as a robust September 13
slate renders seven chart starts in the Billboard 200's top 10,
album volume again drops from the same sales week of 2005, a
trend that's marked most of this year.
Wireless Carriers Banking on Mobile Music (AP)
 AP - When someone dials Leah Balecha's mobile phone, it doesn't ring. It jams with the sounds of 50 Cent, OutKast, Gwen Stefani and Kelly Clarkson.
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Foxy Facing Surgery, Trial (E! Online)
 E! Online - Foxy Brown just got a trial date in her nail salon assault case.
But that could be the least of her worries.
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Hip-Hop Celebrates Pioneers Like LL Cool J (AP)
AP - LL Cool J wore his Kangol hat, Big Daddy Kane broke out the old-school rhymes and dance moves, and Salt 'N Pepa rapped and sashayed like back in the day as VH1 celebrated rap's pioneers at the second annual "Hip-Hop Honors."
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N.Y. Philharmonic Opens 164th Season (AP)
 AP - In a one-two punch opening its 164th season, America's oldest orchestra featured two of the world's leading pianists — a crowd-pleasing harmonic convergence of scheduling.
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Rita Blows Off Katrina Benefit (E! Online)
 E! Online - Plans for a benefit concert intended to help victims of
Hurricane Katrina have been blown off, courtesy of the rapidly
approaching Hurricane Rita.
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Review: Gretchen Wilson Delivers _ Again (AP)
 AP - Fans of Gretchen Wilson's chart-topping 2004 debut album, "Here for the Party," might have braced for a letdown with her latest, "All Jacked Up." Feel free to unbrace.
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Music Review: Sean Paul Keeps You Dancing (AP)
 AP - You know what they say about things that aren't broken, and how they shouldn't be fixed. It's a philosophy international dancehall star Sean Paul seems to have taken quite to heart on his third album, "The Trinity."
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