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Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher wed: reports (Reuters)
 Reuters - Actors Demi Moore and Ashton
Kutcher were married on Saturday, capping their celebrated
two-year-long older woman, younger man relationship, two
celebrity magazines reported on Sunday.
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Gulf storms strike chords in popular music (Reuters)
Reuters - Chuck Berry yearned for Baton Rouge,
The Band headed for Lake Charles and Glen Campbell was homesick
for Galveston when he cleaned his gun.
Unreleased Waits track leads Katrina benefit CD (Reuters)
Reuters - An exclusive track featuring Tom
Waits and the Kronos Quartet leads the lineup for an upcoming
double-disc compilation from clothing retailer Urban Outfitters
and Filter magazine.
Dave Matthews Band to wrap 2005 with one more tour (Reuters)
 Reuters - Fresh off the road from another
summer outing, Dave Matthews Band has scheduled a short run of
dates to close out 2005.
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Baryshnikov Initially 'Shocked' by 'Sex' (AP)
 AP - When he was invited to play a role on "Sex and the City," Mikhail Baryshnikov says he had two questions: "Which sex, and which city?" The legendary dancer told an audience at The New Yorker Festival that until then he'd never seen the HBO series, because he only watched news and golf on TV. So the producers sent him a few episodes to watch.
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"Flightplan" Lands over "Corpse" (E! Online)
E! Online - It was up, up and away as Flightplan soared to the top of
the box office.
Three rare tracks on new Nirvana compilation (Reuters)
Reuters - Three previously unreleased tracks
will see the light of day on the Nirvana compilation, "Sliver:
The Best of the Box," which will arrive November 1.
Questions Abound As 'Housewives' Returns (AP)
 AP - "Desperate Housewives" featured a desperate widow Sunday night.
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Paper: Winfrey Backing Broadway's 'Purple' (AP)
 AP - "The Color Purple," a musical based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will have Oprah Winfrey as a producer and investor when it opens on Broadway in December.
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Danes dancing again in 'American Model' (Reuters)
Reuters - The film actress Claire
Danes began her career as a dancer. She started taking lessons
in New York when she was four and studied and performed for 10
years, until Hollywood called and Danes starred as Angela Chase
on the ABC series "My So-Called Life."
"Flightplan" Lands over "Corpse" (E! Online)
E! Online - It was up, up and away as Flightplan soared to the top of
the box office.
Foster's 'Flightplan' Propels Box Office (AP)
 AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jodie Foster piloted "Flightplan" to a No. 1 debut, her airborne thriller taking in $24.6 million to land ahead of "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride," the runner-up with $20.1 million.
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Stars Honor New Orleans at Katrina Benefit (AP)
 AP - It's not often that a Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winners, Grammy winners, Academy Award winners and just about every other kind of winner share a single stage. But a benefit for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, sponsored by The New Yorker as part of its annual New Yorker Festival, brought an eclectic and star-studded cast of performers to Manhattan on Saturday night. The lineup included Toni Morrison, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Kevin Kline, Richard Ford, Willem Dafoe and lots of zydeco music.
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'Little Rascals' Actor Thomas Bond Dies (AP)
AP - Thomas Ross Bond, who played Butch the bully in the "Our Gang" and "The Little Rascals" serials of the 1930s, has died. He was 79.
Africa Oscar contender shuns despondency for hope (Reuters)
Reuters - Tired of African films that make
audiences want to slit their wrists, the director of the
continent's top Oscar contender has opted for a universal tale
of triumph over AIDS, poverty and violence.
Polanski Debuts 'Oliver Twist' in Prague (AP)
 AP - Roman Polanski, debuting his new film "Oliver Twist" on Saturday, said he chose to adapt the classic novel because he admires 19th-century English literature and wanted to make a movie his children would enjoy.
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Polanski feels the pressure as "Oliver" premieres (Reuters)
Reuters - His last film may have been The Pianist,
for which he won a best director Oscar, but that's no guarantee
of fame and funding for Roman Polanski, who attends the world
premiere of his latest work Oliver Twist on Saturday.
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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Rosenberg Named President of Actors Guild (AP)
 AP - Alan Rosenberg was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild on Friday, replacing former "Little House on the Prairie" star Melissa Gilbert, who decided not to run for a third two-year term.
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Actors union elects more militant president (Reuters)
Reuters - TV actor Alan Rosenberg was elected
president of the Screen Actors Guild on Friday as the more
militant wing of the nation's largest performers union regained
control of the Hollywood-based labor group.
Three rare tracks on new Nirvana compilation (Reuters)
Reuters - Three previously unreleased tracks
will see the light of day on the Nirvana compilation, "Sliver:
The Best of the Box," which will arrive November 1.
Gulf storms strike chords in popular music (Reuters)
Reuters - Chuck Berry yearned for Baton Rouge,
The Band headed for Lake Charles and Glen Campbell was homesick
for Galveston when he cleaned his gun.
Unreleased Waits track leads Katrina benefit CD (Reuters)
Reuters - An exclusive track featuring Tom
Waits and the Kronos Quartet leads the lineup for an upcoming
double-disc compilation from clothing retailer Urban Outfitters
and Filter magazine.
Dave Matthews Band to wrap 2005 with one more tour (Reuters)
Reuters - Fresh off the road from another
summer outing, Dave Matthews Band has scheduled a short run of
dates to close out 2005.
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Billboard single reviews: Chesney, Prince.. (Reuters)
Reuters - Most lead singles from country
albums are uptempo anthems, but newly detached Kenny Chesney
shoots straight for the heart with a devastatingly poignant
ballad about death claiming someone too early. Chances are it
will prove even more effective at drawing attention to his
November 8 release, "The Road and the Radio." Post-Hurricane
Katrina America will definitely react to lines like "Sunny days
seem to hurt the most/I wear the pain like a heavy coat."
Though well-known for his sun-drenched odes to Caribbean life,
country's entertainer of the year here reminds everyone how
effective he is when it comes to serving up a great ballad.
Billboard album reviews: Crow, Braxton .. (Reuters)
Reuters - Her music career has lately taken a
back seat to her personal life, but "Wildflower" returns Sheryl
Crow to the front of the pop music pack. Such highlights as "I
Know Why," a ballad broaching loneliness, point to heavier fare
than her 2002 hit "Soak Up the Sun." Crow turns introspective
on songs like "Perfect Lie" and gives Alison Krauss-type vocal
intimacy to the title track. First single "Good Is Good" boasts
a typically big melodic hook and inventive vocal phrasing, and
shows the influence of George Harrison in slide guitar and
strings. But "Live It Up" is the only outright rocker in a
provocative, richly rewarding set reflecting love and life
changes, and a philosophical world view encapsulated by closer
"Where Has All the Love Gone."
Neil Young Gets Personal on Latest Disc (AP)
 AP - Neil Young acknowledges that a lot of personal reflection went into his latest album — he recorded it in the days before he underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm.
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Mezzo-Soprano Horne Wins Lifetime Award (AP)
 AP - Marilyn Horne at 71: singer, teacher, grandmother — and now, winner of a lifetime achievement award.
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Review: Soprano Damrau Stars in Met Debut (AP)
 AP - Diana Damrau smiled, giggled and pranced around the stage as her brilliant coloratura filled the Metropolitan Opera House. She needed only a few notes to show she has a big future.
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Phoenix Getting Guitars Painted by Rockers (AP)
 AP - Chicago fancifully painted fiberglass cows, the streets of Washington were decorated with donkeys and elephants, and now the Phoenix area is getting 10-foot guitars transformed by artists including Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Nicks and Alice Cooper.
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