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Depardieu Tells Paper He's Ending Career (AP)
AP - Famed French actor Gerard Depardieu says in a newspaper interview that he's ending his film career — and swears he wasn't drunk when he said it.
Willie Nelson Hosts Friedman Fundraiser (AP)
 AP - Willie Nelson opened up his central Texas ranch and private golf course Sunday, raising an estimated $170,000 for his friend Kinky Friedman, an independent candidate for Texas governor.
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Radcliffe Talks About Growing Up Potter (AP)
 AP - What's it like growing up as the magical Harry Potter? For teen actor Daniel Radcliffe, it's not that weird. Radcliffe, the 16-year-old star of the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," has spent almost a third of his life making movies. The latest Potter film, based on the fourth novel in J.K. Rowling's series, opens in two weeks.
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'Saw II' Cuts Down 'Zorro' at Box Office (AP)
AP - Horror swung a sharper blade than Zorro at the box office. With Halloween at hand, the bloody "Saw II" won the weekend with $30.5 million, almost double the $16.5 million opening of Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones' swashbuckling sequel "The Legend of Zorro," according to studio estimates Sunday.
As Stern splits, big markets lose rock radio (Reuters)
 Reuters - Infinity Broadcasting's preparations
for the imminent departure of franchise morning host Howard
Stern could leave rock music radio a collateral casualty.
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Disney Enters Black Pearl in Sailing Race (AP)
AP - Be ye warned! There's a pirate ship headed for the high seas. When the Volvo Ocean Race starts Nov. 12 from Vigo, Spain, the sloop with the skull and crossed cutlasses on the sails will stand out from the rest of the fleet. The Black Pearl.
Willie Nelson Hosts Friedman Fundraiser (AP)
AP - Willie Nelson opened up his central Texas ranch and private golf course Sunday, raising an estimated $170,000 for his friend Kinky Friedman, an independent candidate for Texas governor.
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'Colbert' - Respected, trustworthy, hilarious (Reuters)
Reuters - It's not the loudness of
the graphics or the corniness of the regular segments or even
the incessant use of American flag and bald eagle motifs that
has made has made Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report"
appointment television for "The Daily Show"-loving cognoscente
since it debuted two weeks ago.
Women directors dissect biz (Reuters)
Reuters - "Everything's becoming
genderized," director Martha Coolidge lamented during a panel
session at the Women in Film & Television International Summit
Sunday.
'In My Life' a highly anticipated disaster (Reuters)
Reuters - A recent ad in the New York
Times declared "In My Life" to be "the most anticipated
original musical of the season." Maybe, but only by those
vultures who circle whenever they smell a dead-on-arrival
turkey.
Disney Enters Black Pearl in Sailing Race (AP)
AP - Be ye warned! There's a pirate ship headed for the high seas. When the Volvo Ocean Race starts Nov. 12 from Vigo, Spain, the sloop with the skull and crossed cutlasses on the sails will stand out from the rest of the fleet. The Black Pearl.
Depardieu Tells Paper He's Ending Career (AP)
AP - Famed French actor Gerard Depardieu says in a newspaper interview that he's ending his film career — and swears he wasn't drunk when he said it.
'Chicken Little' lays golden egg (Reuters)
Reuters - Making a convincing case
for the possibility of life after Pixar, Disney's technically
ambitious "Chicken Little" -- the studio's first fully
computer-animated in-house feature -- is a consistently
amusing, often inspired family romp.
Polly Bergen named first mom for ABC's 'Chief' (Reuters)
Reuters - Polly Bergen will play
the mother of the first female U.S. president on ABC's
"Commander in Chief."
'Zorro' saves the day at foreign box office (Reuters)
Reuters - "The Legend of Zorro," the
No. 2 release in North America, also galloped through the
international box office over the weekend, grossing an
estimated $27 million from 50 territories, about 21% higher
than the opening for its 1998 predecessor "The Mask of Zorro."
Radcliffe Talks About Growing Up Potter (AP)
AP - What's it like growing up as the magical Harry Potter? For teen actor Daniel Radcliffe, it's not that weird. Radcliffe, the 16-year-old star of the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," has spent almost a third of his life making movies. The latest Potter film, based on the fourth novel in J.K. Rowling's series, opens in two weeks.
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'Saw II' Cuts Down 'Zorro' at Box Office (AP)
AP - Horror swung a sharper blade than Zorro at the box office. With Halloween at hand, the bloody "Saw II" won the weekend with $30.5 million, almost double the $16.5 million opening of Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones' swashbuckling sequel "The Legend of Zorro," according to studio estimates Sunday.
"Saw II" Much for Competition (E! Online)
 E! Online - Saw II promised lots of blood; it delivered lots of bucks.
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Disney Has a Lot Riding on a Tiny Chicken (AP)
 AP - A lot is riding on a very little chicken. With the Nov. 4 release of "Chicken Little," The Walt Disney Co. hopes to reverse the fortunes of its moribund feature animation division and regain the dominance it lost to competitors such as Pixar Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.
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Depardieu ends film career, paper says (Reuters)
 Reuters - Actor Gerard Depardieu is ending his film
career, a newspaper quoted the popular Frenchman as saying on
Sunday.
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Willie Nelson Hosts Friedman Fundraiser (AP)
AP - Willie Nelson opened up his central Texas ranch and private golf course Sunday, raising an estimated $170,000 for his friend Kinky Friedman, an independent candidate for Texas governor.
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Westlife croon to top of UK music charts (Reuters)
Reuters - Irish boy band Westlife have secured the
top spot on the British music charts with their cover version
of ballad "You Raise Me Up."
Suicidal Tendencies headline riotous L.A. gig (Reuters)
Reuters - Los Angeles' historic
Olympic Auditorium has featured some historic fights in its
day, but none might have matched the raucous proceedings
sparked by Saturday night's "Waking of the Dead" show.
Fall Out Boy crowd-pleasing but hardly memorable (Reuters)
Reuters - Fall Out Boy wants
desperately to stand out among the emo crowd, to be remembered.
Hence the long, goofy song titles that reference pop culture
and childhood memories, the "Simpsons"-inspired band name
("Watch out, Radioactive Man!") and scenery-chewing stage
antics.
Lennon's 'Abbey Road' Suit Goes for $118G (AP)
 AP - A white suit belonging to John Lennon that he wore on the album cover of "Abbey Road" sold for $118,000 at an auction, while the Austin Princess he drove in the movie "Imagine" went for $150,000.
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Anticipated Beatles Bio Comes Out Tuesday (AP)
AP - Ten hours, 28 minutes. That was the sum of the music recorded and released by the Beatles before breaking up, a volume of work that changed lives, careers and the course of music history. Eight years, 2,792 pages. That was the effort author Bob Spitz put into telling their story, although editors whittled his manuscript down to 856 pages (minus the end notes).
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S.F. Names Amphitheater for Jerry Garcia (AP)
 AP - Call it a "deadication." Jerry Garcia's hometown has named a 600-seat amphitheater in his memory. On the bill for the grand opening Saturday were Jefferson Starship, David Gans and master of ceremonies Wavy Gravy, who, like Garcia, has been honored with his own flavor of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.
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Billboard album reviews: Bacharach, Anastasio.. (Reuters)
 Reuters - A far cry from 2003's "Here I Am:
Ronald Isley Meets Burt Bacharach," this is all new material,
and for the first time features Bacharach's own lyrics (with a
little help from Tonio K.
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Songwriter's Feared Bucking Bull Retiring (AP)
 AP - Little Yellow Jacket is retiring, and for those who don't put on cowboy boots and a hat in the morning and want to know why that's significant, just ask Bernie Taupin. This bull is so good, Taupin may have to write a song about him.
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Rapper the Game Arrested at N.C. Mall (AP)
 AP - Rapper The Game has been arrested, accused of causing a scene at a mall and refusing to remove a Halloween mask.
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