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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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Horror remake 'The Fog' spooks box office at No. 1 (Reuters)
Reuters - "The Fog" crept its way to No. 1 in
a relatively quiet weekend at the North American box office,
grossing $12.2 million to leave two other new wide-release
films in the mist, according to studio estimates issued on
Sunday.
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.
"Fog" Blankets Box Office (E! Online)
 E! Online - The ghostly bout of
bad weather scared up an estimated $12.2 million, barely overcasting
last week's winner, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the
Were-Rabbit, which dropped to second place with $11.7 million, and
the new Cameron Crowe road-trip movie, Elizabethtown, which
stalled in third place with just $11 million. The weekend's third major
entry, the female bounty hunter flick Domino, teetered in with
just $4.7 million way down in sixth place.
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Madonna Keeps Kids From TV and Ice Cream (AP)
 AP - Madonna says she's the disciplinarian with 9-year-old Lourdes and 5-year-old Rocco.
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Wife of TV Legal Analyst Found Slain (AP)
 AP - The wife of prominent defense attorney and TV legal analyst Daniel Horowitz was found slain in the entryway of the couple's San Francisco Bay area home, authorities said Sunday.
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Time Inc. editor-in-chief Pearlstine to step down (Reuters)
Reuters - Norman Pearlstine, Time Inc.'s
editor-in-chief for eleven years, will step down at the end of
this year, when he will be succeeded by editorial director John
Huey.
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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"Fog" Blankets Box Office (E! Online)
E! Online - The ghostly bout of
bad weather scared up an estimated $12.2 million, barely overcasting
last week's winner, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the
Were-Rabbit, which dropped to second place with $11.7 million, and
the new Cameron Crowe road-trip movie, Elizabethtown, which
stalled in third place with just $11 million. The weekend's third major
entry, the female bounty hunter flick Domino, teetered in with
just $4.7 million way down in sixth place.
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Horror Fans Lift 'Fog' to Box-Office Win (AP)
 AP - The crowds were not quite as thick as pea soup, but the horror remake "The Fog" pulled in enough fans to win a close race at the weekend box office with a $12.2 million debut.
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Horror remake 'The Fog' spooks box office at No. 1 (Reuters)
Reuters - "The Fog" crept its way to No. 1 in
a relatively quiet weekend at the North American box office,
grossing $12.2 million to leave two other new wide-release
films in the mist, according to studio estimates issued on
Sunday.
Clint Eastwood Plans Two Films on Iwo Jima (AP)
 AP - In making a movie about U.S. Marines in the battle of Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood became concerned that he was telling only half of the story.
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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.
Madonna Keeps Kids From TV and Ice Cream (AP)
AP - Madonna says she's the disciplinarian with 9-year-old Lourdes and 5-year-old Rocco.
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Fats Domino Finds Big Easy Home in Ruins (AP)
 AP - Visiting his home for the first time since he was rescued from rising floodwaters in a boat, Fats Domino found his piano overturned among mud and debris and his house in ruins.
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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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