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Fats Domino returns home to New Orleans (Reuters)
 Reuters - Rock 'n' roll pioneer Fats Domino,
who was missing for days after Hurricane Katrina, returned home
on Saturday to load some of his muddied gold records into the
trunk of a car.
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Daniel Craig named as first blond Bond (Reuters)
 Reuters - His name is Craig, Daniel Craig.
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Oscar winner Benigni strips on Italy evening news (Reuters)
Reuters - Oscar winner Roberto Benigni treated
Italians watching Saturday's prime time news show to an
impromptu strip tease to mark the release of his new film "The
Tiger and the Snow" about the war in Iraq.
Elvis lookalike crooner woos crowds in homeland (Reuters)
Reuters - Even without the sequined
jumpsuit over a matted chest gleaming with medallions, Mario
Kombou turns heads. Just don't call him an Elvis impersonator.
Remains of Star Trek's 'Scotty' headed for space (Reuters)
 Reuters - Evidently "Star Trek" actor James
"Scotty" Doohan took the catchphrase "beam me up" very
seriously -- his cremated remains will be launched into space
in accord with his last wishes.
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Polanski Happy Kids Enjoy New 'Twist' (AP)
 AP - One of the reasons Roman Polanski chose to interpret Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" for the screen was simple: he wanted to make a movie for children.
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Ricky Martin Says Fame Left Him Bored (AP)
 AP - Ricky Martin, whose hits include "Livin' La Vida Loca," says the fame and fortune he experienced in the late '90s left him feeling bored and embittered.
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Texas Town Celebrates Kermit's 50th B-Day (AP)
 AP - Kermit the Frog began a globe-hopping tour to celebrate his 50th showbiz birthday in this small West Texas town that shares the beloved amphibian's name.
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Troubles at Getty Ripple Through Art World (AP)
 AP - A plot fit for a Hollywood thriller has been unfolding at the venerable J. Paul Getty Museum, a gleaming hilltop refuge that Italian authorities claim houses pilfered art.
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Concert review: Paul McCartney (Reuters)
 Reuters - Paul McCartney slayed critics as
well as box offices around the world on his 2002 tour, his
first major outing in nearly a decade. Those shows found him
dusting off Beatles songs he'd never performed in his former
life or as a solo artist, and easing off the schmaltz to
deliver a simply stunning musical experience.
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Polanski Happy Kids Enjoy New 'Twist' (AP)
AP - One of the reasons Roman Polanski chose to interpret Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" for the screen was simple: he wanted to make a movie for children.
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Oscar winner Benigni strips on Italy evening news (Reuters)
Reuters - Oscar winner Roberto Benigni treated
Italians watching Saturday's prime time news show to an
impromptu strip tease to mark the release of his new film "The
Tiger and the Snow" about the war in Iraq.
Producer: Bruce Lee's Death Was Accident (AP)
 AP - Bruce Lee's former producer, Raymond Chow, says the kung fu star's sudden death at age 32 is a straightforward case of taking the wrong medicine.
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Blond Bond: Daniel Craig Named Next 007 (AP)
 AP - James Bond is going back to his roots. And they're blond. Sandy-haired English actor Daniel Craig was unveiled Friday as the star of the next Bond film, "Casino Royale," due in theaters in November 2006.
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'Breaking Up' proves too zany for its own good (Reuters)
Reuters - Georges
Feydeau may be the most frequently performed playwright in
France, but "The Art of Breaking Up," a film based on his first
successful farce, "Fly in the Ointment" (1890), doesn't do
justice to the form or to his work. Adapted by Rosalinde
Deville and directed by her husband, Michel Deville, the play
gets lost in translation to the screen.
Spielberg, EA Team Up to Make Video Games (AP)
AP - Coming soon to a game console near you: a Steven Spielberg video game. The acclaimed film director and producer has agreed to develop three new games under a long-term exclusive deal with video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. The deal to be announced Friday reflects the increasingly intertwined interests of Hollywood and the video game industry.
Chewbacca Does America (E! Online)
 E! Online - At the end of Star Wars, Luke Skywalker gets a medal.
Han Solo gets a medal. Chewbacca gets zip.
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Bond Goes Blond with Craig (E! Online)
 E! Online - Hollywood's worst kept secret is official: Daniel Craig has been
issued a license to kill.
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Bo Bice, Band to Perform Katrina Concert (AP)
 AP - "American Idol" runner-up Bo Bice opened his home to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Now he's singing to help the cause.
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Spielberg: He's in the Game (E! Online)
 E! Online - The
Oscar-winning filmmaker is joining forces with Electronic Arts, the
world's biggest videogame maker, to develop three original games that
Spielberg may eventually turn into movies.
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Ricky Martin Says Fame Left Him Bored (AP)
AP - Ricky Martin, whose hits include "Livin' La Vida Loca," says the fame and fortune he experienced in the late '90s left him feeling bored and embittered.
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Songwriter Baker Knight Dies at 72 (AP)
AP - Prolific songwriter Baker Knight, whose hits were recorded by stars ranging from Elvis Presley to Ricky Nelson, Paul McCartney, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, has died at age 72.
Petty to Receive Billboard Century Award (AP)
 AP - Tom Petty will receive the Century Award, Billboard's highest honor for creative achievement, at this year's Billboard Music Awards.
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Bo Bice, Band to Perform Katrina Concert (AP)
AP - "American Idol" runner-up Bo Bice opened his home to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Now he's singing to help the cause.
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Gardiner's Bach set tops Gramophone nods (Reuters)
Reuters - It must have been an incredibly
sweet moment for John Eliot Gardiner when he and his Monteverdi
Choir and English Baroque Soloists won record of the year at
the Gramophone magazine's annual awards ceremony September 29
in London. They were recognized for the first volume in their
Bach cantata pilgrimage.
McBride makes time for country classics (Reuters)
 Reuters - After establishing herself as one
of country music's top female artists, Martina McBride decided
to pay homage to the classic country music on which she was
raised.
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Jazz trumpeter Botti's sophistication sells (Reuters)
Reuters - It is an anomaly when a mainstream,
largely instrumental jazz album breaks into the Billboard 200,
but it is particularly noteworthy when said disc scales the
chart and settles in for an extended stay.
Melissa Etheridge Meets Mary Jane (E! Online)
 E! Online - Come to Melissa Etheridge's and you might smell something funny.
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Musician Dulli goes direct with solo CD (Reuters)
Reuters - Former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg
Dulli has experienced life on an indie and life on a major. Now
he is finding that an artist may not need a label at all.
Q&A: Rod Stewart (Reuters)
Reuters - Little did Rod Stewart know what
he was starting when he fulfilled a longtime dream by releasing
an album of standards, "It Had to Be You ... The Great American
Songbook," in 2002.
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