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Barry Manilow's New Album Opens at No. 1 (AP)
 AP - Barry Manilow has landed on the top of the charts with a just-released album for the first time in 29 years. Manilow's "The Greatest Songs of the Fifties," debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, followed by Mary J. Blige's "The Breakthrough" and Andrea Bocelli's "Amore."
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Spears Says Driving With Baby 'A Mistake' (AP)
 AP - Britney Spears has taken responsibility — well, some of it — for driving with her baby son, Sean Preston, sitting in her lap.
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Spike Lee: Miss. Should Get Rid of Flag (AP)
 AP - Director Spike Lee, known for his stylish and controversial films, said Mississippi should get rid of the state flag during a speech at the University of Mississippi's Black History Month celebration.
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Martinized "Pink" sitting pretty at box office (Reuters)
 Reuters - Now that the Super Bowl
and Oscar nominations are in the past, four new wide releases
are hitting theaters this pre-Valentine's Day weekend, with
"The Pink Panther" expected to purr the loudest.
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Actor Franklin Cover Dies at Age 77 (AP)
AP - Franklin Cover, who became a familiar face as George and Louise Jefferson's white neighbor in the long-running TV sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 77.
'Destination' filmmakers return for third ride (Reuters)
Reuters - Filmmakers James Wong
and Glen Morgan were in the midst of making 2003's "Willard"
when, on a movie break at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, they saw a
poster for "Final Destination 2." The duo had launched the New
Line Cinema horror franchise three years earlier, and they felt
a pang of sadness.
Schneider begins chapter in textural revolution (Reuters)
Reuters - Maria Schneider and her
precision sound surgeons opened their top-notch night Wednesday
at the Disney Concert Hall with a piece titled "Concert in the
Garden," which won them a Grammy last year for best large jazz
ensemble.
Actor Franklin Cover Dies at Age 77 (AP)
AP - Franklin Cover, who became a familiar face as George and Louise Jefferson's white neighbor in the long-running TV sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 77.
ANALYSIS: Movie biz a cold world for former TV hotshot (Reuters)
Reuters - In Hollywood, a rumor is
like a hurricane: it starts from a small nugget of truth and
can build into a disruptive force. Even when the person at the
eye of the storm knows it's all bollocks, it's no fun.
Mamet's "Marriage" on the rocks (Reuters)
Reuters - In the new production of
"Boston Marriage," David Mamet hits the trifecta of theatrical
disaster. Mamet has written, directed and, presumably, cast the
play (one of the three actresses to appear is his wife, Rebecca
Pidgeon), and on all three counts an evening in the theater
doesn't get much worse than this.
'Destination' filmmakers return for third ride (Reuters)
Reuters - Filmmakers James Wong
and Glen Morgan were in the midst of making 2003's "Willard"
when, on a movie break at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, they saw a
poster for "Final Destination 2." The duo had launched the New
Line Cinema horror franchise three years earlier, and they felt
a pang of sadness.
Latest Hollywood script deals (Reuters)
Reuters - Joe Stillman, one of the
scribes behind the "Shrek" movies, will write "Planet One," a
computer-generated animated feature chronicling an alien race
that is terrified of a human invasion. The film is in
preproduction and slated for release in first-quarter 2008.
'Bambi II' outpaces 'Wallace' in DVD duel (Reuters)
Reuters - Early signs are that a
direct-to-video sequel to a sixtysomething-year-old movie is
racking up impressive sales -- to the point of handily beating
a new theatrical release targeting the same child audience.
Spike Lee: Miss. Should Get Rid of Flag (AP)
AP - Director Spike Lee, known for his stylish and controversial films, said Mississippi should get rid of the state flag during a speech at the University of Mississippi's Black History Month celebration.
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Martinized "Pink" sitting pretty at box office (Reuters)
Reuters - Now that the Super Bowl
and Oscar nominations are in the past, four new wide releases
are hitting theaters this pre-Valentine's Day weekend, with
"The Pink Panther" expected to purr the loudest.
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Ali MacGraw to Make Broadway Debut (AP)
 AP - Ali MacGraw will make her Broadway debut in "Festen," the London hit that will also star Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden and Julianna Margulies.
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A new look at autism as Berlin film festival opens (Reuters)
 Reuters - The Berlin Film Festival opened on
Thursday with a story of love and loss starring Sigourney
Weaver as an autistic woman whose daughter dies in a car crash
and Alan Rickman as the man who helps her cope.
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China director seeks Western feast with "Banquet" (Reuters)
 Reuters - Chinese films have become hot tickets
around the world, but few movie-goers outside China have even
heard of the country's arguably most popular, or at least most
populist, director.
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Neil Young film becomes American family affair (Reuters)
 Reuters - Neil Young, iconoclastic troubadour
for decades of counter-culture in the United States, has made
the ultimate American family film.
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Kevin Costner to Rock Out at Golf Tourney (AP)
 AP - Kevin Costner will do more than play golf at the next BMW Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs.
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Schneider begins chapter in textural revolution (Reuters)
Reuters - Maria Schneider and her
precision sound surgeons opened their top-notch night Wednesday
at the Disney Concert Hall with a piece titled "Concert in the
Garden," which won them a Grammy last year for best large jazz
ensemble.
Trynin's tell-all recalls whirlwind music career (Reuters)
Reuters - There's something poetic
about the fact that one-time "rock star" Jen Trynin's first
book, "Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be" (Harcourt), arrived in
bookstores the same week as the Grammy Awards, which celebrate
success as much as they do artistic achievement.
Barry Manilow's New Album Opens at No. 1 (AP)
AP - Barry Manilow has landed on the top of the charts with a just-released album for the first time in 29 years. Manilow's "The Greatest Songs of the Fifties," debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, followed by Mary J. Blige's "The Breakthrough" and Andrea Bocelli's "Amore."
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Spears Says Driving With Baby 'A Mistake' (AP)
AP - Britney Spears has taken responsibility — well, some of it — for driving with her baby son, Sean Preston, sitting in her lap.
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Spears admits driving with baby in lap "a mistake" (Reuters)
 Reuters - Pop star Britney Spears said on
Thursday she "made a mistake" by driving a car with her infant
son in her lap, but the agency that photographed the incident
denied her claim that paparazzi were hounding her.
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Lennon Lyric Sheet to Be Auctioned (AP)
 AP - John Lennon sat down at his piano on Jan. 17, 1967 and used a black felt-tip marker to start writing the lyrics to a song called "A Day In the Life."
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Folk Musicians Celebrate Genre in Austin (AP)
 AP - Folk music promoter Tom Neff can't go anywhere without meeting someone who used to love Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, or Peter, Paul and Mary.
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'American Idol' Crushes Grammys in Ratings (AP)
 AP - Some humbling news for professional musicians like Madonna and U2: By a wide margin, TV viewers prefer the amateurs.
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'American Idol' clobbers Grammys in TV ratings (Reuters)
 Reuters - The pop star wannabes of "American
Idol" outshone the likes of Madonna, U2 and Coldplay at the
Grammys on Wednesday night as the hit TV talent contest
clobbered music's highest honors in the Nielsen ratings.
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Merle Haggard extends chart span to 42 years (Reuters)
Reuters - Country outlaw Merle Haggard, who
made his chart debut in December 1963 with "Sing a Sad Song,"
has the longest span of any artist on the Hot Country Songs
survey.
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