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'West Wing' Canceled After Seven Seasons (AP)
 AP - The new president on "The West Wing" will be a real short-timer: NBC announced Sunday it was pulling the plug on the Emmy-winning political drama in May after seven seasons.
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'Brokeback' Gets Top Honor at PGA Awards (AP)
 AP - Adding to its list of honors, "Brokeback Mountain" scored again by taking the top prize Sunday at the 15th annual Producers Guild of America Awards.
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Miss America Organizers Say Vegas Paid Off (AP)
 AP - Miss America rolled the dice moving to Las Vegas, and the gamble paid off, pageant organizers said Sunday.
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Vampires Edge Out Box Office Competition (AP)
AP - Golden Globe-winning films saw significant boosts at the weekend box office, but the action-packed vampire flick "Underworld: Evolution" was the top earner, debuting with $27.6 million in ticket sales.
'Da Vinci' set to open Cannes fest (Reuters)
Reuters - Ron Howard's "The Da Vinci
Code" will open the 59th Cannes Film Festival on May 17, two
days before the film is released worldwide.
'Brokeback Mountain' wins Producers Guild Award (Reuters)
Reuters - Director Ang Lee's gay-cowboy
romance "Brokeback Mountain" solidified its status as the
front-runner for Oscar glory on Sunday when it was named best
picture of the year by the Producers Guild of America.
EMI's Nicoli sees Internet reviving music industry (Reuters)
Reuters - Nobody said it was easy for EMI,
the world's third-largest record company and the home of
British band Coldplay, as the music industry has weathered six
straight years of falling sales.
TNT calls on 'Saved' with series order (Reuters)
Reuters - TNT has ordering a full
season of "Saved," a drama chronicling a troubled paramedic
working in Portland, Ore.
'Brokeback Mountain' wins Producers Guild Award (Reuters)
Reuters - Director Ang Lee's gay-cowboy
romance "Brokeback Mountain" solidified its status as the
front-runner for Oscar glory on Sunday when it was named best
picture of the year by the Producers Guild of America.
PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Lois Smith (Playbill)
Playbill - Carrie Watts, uneasily living out her old age with her reticent grown son and his cranky wife in a cramped Houston apartment, keeps looking out the window.
'Brokeback Mountain' wins Producers Guild Award (Reuters)
Reuters - Director Ang Lee's gay-cowboy
romance "Brokeback Mountain" solidified its status as the
front-runner for Oscar glory on Sunday when it was named best
picture of the year by the Producers Guild of America.
Filmmaker lifts lid on secretive ratings system (Reuters)
Reuters - Director Kirby Dick
is taking on what he charges is one of the most powerful,
secretive organizations in the country: the film ratings board.
'Brokeback' Gets Top Honor at PGA Awards (AP)
AP - Adding to its list of honors, "Brokeback Mountain" scored again by taking the top prize Sunday at the 15th annual Producers Guild of America Awards.
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Sundance panel: movies can work for social change (Reuters)
Reuters - Hollywood can still
change the world, according to panelists at a Sundance Film
Festival gathering.
"Underworld" Rises, "Brokeback" Bolstered (E! Online)
 E! Online - The vampires vs.
werewolves sequel Underworld: Evolution scared up an estimated
$27.6 million to dominate the weekend box office, while Brokeback
Mountain and Walk the Line got big boosts from their big wins
at the Golden Globes.
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Debut director steals show with gritty 'City' (Reuters)
Reuters - One of the hardest
things to do on film is to present working-class people without
condescension or glamorization.
'Penguins' director takes on 'Fox' in next film (Reuters)
Reuters - The director of last
year's biggest Sundance success story, "March of the Penguins,"
says his follow-up will combine nature documentary footage and
a fictionalized story.
'Da Vinci' set to open Cannes fest (Reuters)
Reuters - Ron Howard's "The Da Vinci
Code" will open the 59th Cannes Film Festival on May 17, two
days before the film is released worldwide.
'Lucky Number Slevin' leaves your head spinning (Reuters)
Reuters - "Lucky Number
Slevin" is a crime thriller-cum-con job that might be too slick
and clever for its own good.
'Little Miss Sunshine' radiates warmth at Sundance (Reuters)
Reuters - A screwball family
takes to the road and ends up in a crowd-pleaser at Sundance.
EMI's Nicoli sees Internet reviving music industry (Reuters)
Reuters - Nobody said it was easy for EMI,
the world's third-largest record company and the home of
British band Coldplay, as the music industry has weathered six
straight years of falling sales.
Billboard album reviews: Cat Power, Test Icicles (Reuters)
Reuters - One always knew there was a Southern
soul singer lurking inside Cat Power's Chan Marshall, and it is
that singer who has sauntered up to the microphone on "The
Greatest.
Williams, Shakira, Madonna Win in France (AP)
 AP - Robbie Williams writhed, Shakira shouted and Madonna didn't show up, although all three won honors at one of France's biggest music awards shows.
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Music Sales Resumed Decline in 2005 (AP)
 AP - Recorded music sales resumed their decline in 2005, the industry's leading global body said Sunday, despite high-profile victories against piracy and a surge in online and mobile music store revenues.
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Arctic Monkeys score second UK chart number one (Reuters)
Reuters - Sheffield rockers the Arctic Monkeys
have scored their second British number one with "When The Sun
Goes Down" on its first week on release, the Official UK Charts
Company said on Sunday.
`Magic Flute' Starts Met Mozart Tribute (AP)
 AP - Nathan Gunn gyrated his pelvis like Elvis, jumping about with ease.
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Donald Lawrence Wins Big at Gospel Awards (AP)
AP - Gospel vocalist Donald Lawrence's "I Speak Life" album captured seven awards Saturday at the 21st Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry House.
Bon Jovi Plane Skids Off Runway in Canada (AP)
 AP - An airliner carrying members of Bon Jovi skidded off a runway early Saturday after landing in severe weather.
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Review: Barbara Cook Glorious at the Met (AP)
 AP - When Barbara Cook sings, songs take flight in a very special way.
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Belafonte Continues Tirade Against Bush (AP)
 AP - Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush administration's harshest critics, compared the Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo on Saturday and attacked the president as a liar.
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