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Piazza Offers Medals Ceremonies, Concerts (AP)
 AP - There's a hole in the middle of every medal at these Winter Olympics for a reason: to honor the open piazzas. So it only makes sense that the city square at the heart of Turin is already THE place to be at these games.
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Clooney Doesn't Expect to Win Any Oscars (AP)
 AP - He has three nominations, but George Clooney doesn't expect to win any Oscars this year. Clooney is a directing and screenplay nominee for "Good Night, and Good Luck" and a supporting-actor nominee for the provocative oil-industry thriller "Syriana."
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Conan O'Brien Seeks Reward for Finn's Win (AP)
 AP - Conan O'Brien, who endorsed the re-election of Finnish President Tarja Halonen with mock ad campaigns, said Saturday he expects to be rewarded with a Cabinet position as inspector of saunas.
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NYC Fashion Week May Spawn '70s Trend (AP)
 AP - Fashion designers made their case and now it's up to the retailers, editors and stylists who attended New York Fashion Week to weigh in on what will be in — or out — in the fall.
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Zoo Chief Disputes Barker on Elephants (AP)
 AP - The director of the Los Angeles Zoo on Saturday disputed game show host Bob Barker's comments about the condition of the zoo's three elephants.
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Clooney Doesn't Expect to Win Any Oscars (AP)
AP - He has three nominations, but George Clooney doesn't expect to win any Oscars this year. Clooney is a directing and screenplay nominee for "Good Night, and Good Luck" and a supporting-actor nominee for the provocative oil-industry thriller "Syriana."
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Piazza Offers Medals Ceremonies, Concerts (AP)
AP - There's a hole in the middle of every medal at these Winter Olympics for a reason: to honor the open piazzas. So it only makes sense that the city square at the heart of Turin is already THE place to be at these games.
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Conan O'Brien Seeks Reward for Finn's Win (AP)
AP - Conan O'Brien, who endorsed the re-election of Finnish President Tarja Halonen with mock ad campaigns, said Saturday he expects to be rewarded with a Cabinet position as inspector of saunas.
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US FCC chairman seeks to ease barriers to TV entry (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. Federal Communications
Commission Chairman Kevin Martin on Friday called for easing
regulations that make it hard for new competitors to enter the
pay television business.
'Terezin,' Musical Capturing the Echoes of a Concentration Camp, Gets NYC Concerts (Playbill)
Playbill - Melting Pot Theatre Company's "Preludes: New Musicals in Concert" will present three Manhattan performances of Terezin, a musical drama about artists and intellectuals in a concentration camp, Feb. 23-25.
Clooney Doesn't Expect to Win Any Oscars (AP)
AP - He has three nominations, but George Clooney doesn't expect to win any Oscars this year. Clooney is a directing and screenplay nominee for "Good Night, and Good Luck" and a supporting-actor nominee for the provocative oil-industry thriller "Syriana."
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Taiwan filmmakers sees hope from Ang Lee's success (Reuters)
 Reuters - As "Brokeback Mountain," Ang Lee's tale
of gay cowboys, tops the Oscar nominations and fills the
theatres, film makers back home in Taiwan hope to emulate his
success to rescue their ailing movie industry.
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Bleak novel "Atomised" is revised for film version (Reuters)
 Reuters - A new film based on Michel Houellebecq's
controversial novel "Atomised," featuring racism, masturbation,
mental illness and suicide, will be considered a bleak picture
by most who watch it.
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French director Gondry returns to subconscious (Reuters)
 Reuters - French director Michel Gondry, who won
an Oscar for co-writing "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind," has returned to the theme of the subconscious with his
latest film.
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Slater Seeks Joint Custody of Children (AP)
 AP - Actor Christian Slater is seeking joint custody of his 4-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son, according to refiled divorce papers.
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McKellen Enjoys Late Burst of Global Fame (AP)
 AP - Ian McKellen says he's enjoying a late burst of global fame and still has "a lot of life left" after a decades-long acting career that earned him a lifetime achievement award at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.
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Critical documentary on Wal-Mart stirs Berlin fest (Reuters)
Reuters - A documentary on the perils of runaway
capitalism that spotlights Wal-Mart screened at the Berlin Film
Festival on Saturday, and interest among European distributors
and television networks has been strong.
Dreary lives take center stage in 'Soap' (Reuters)
Reuters - BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) -- In "A Soap," the characters
watch American soap operas, and you envy them because the movie
you're watching is appallingly dreary. This two-hander is about
a sometimes awkward, sometimes compassionate relationship
between a self-loathing transsexual and her downstairs
neighbor, a confused woman looking for love in all the wrong
places.
Iraq's 'Requiem' pits Old World against youth (Reuters)
Reuters - PALM SPRINGS, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Iraq's
first submission to the foreign-language Oscar race, "Requiem
of Snow" is a quietly devastating modern-day folk tale that
pits an independent-minded teen girl against patriarchal
tradition.
University Wants 'Glory Road' Apology (AP)
AP - Officials at Texas A&M University-Commerce want Walt Disney Co. and the makers of "Glory Road" to apologize for inaccurately linking their school to some of the film's most racially charged scenes.
Piazza Offers Medals Ceremonies, Concerts (AP)
AP - There's a hole in the middle of every medal at these Winter Olympics for a reason: to honor the open piazzas. So it only makes sense that the city square at the heart of Turin is already THE place to be at these games.
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'3 Doors Down' Singer Recovers From Wreck (AP)
 AP - The lead singer of 3 Doors Down is recovering at home from injuries sustained in a one-car accident on a rain-soaked Mississippi road earlier this month.
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Norah Jones and Co. express love of country (Reuters)
 Reuters - When you have snared a trophy
case full of Grammy Awards in one sitting, including ones for
album of the year and best new artist, it is a little hard to
fly under the radar.
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Turin Throws Big Party to Start Olympics (AP)
 AP - TURIN, Italy — Mix in some song, dance and a squealing Ferrari, and cap it off with some opera. That's amore — for the Turin Olympics.
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Gelb Era at Met to Open With 'Butterfly' (AP)
 AP - The new impresario taking over the Metropolitan Opera is wasting no time putting a more cutting edge on the company — scrapping plans for a "three tenors" gala to open next season by substituting a controversial production of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" directed by Oscar winner Anthony Minghella.
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Oldies good to Manilow (Reuters)
Reuters - Barry Manilow went back to the
'50s to deliver his first No. 1 record in almost three decades.
Click Five's sweet pop-rock clicks with teens (Reuters)
Reuters - Delighted squeals
greeted the Click Five as they warmed up to the strains of
"Shout It Out Loud." But the traditional ear-ringing cheers
were reserved for dreamy singer Eric Dill, who strategically
took the stage last. Throwback all the way.
Correction: Feb. 8-9 Grammy Vignettes Story (AP)
 AP - In stories Feb. 8 and Feb. 9 about "Desperate Housewives" star Teri Hatcher at the Grammys, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of the designer of her dress. He is Jean Paul Gaultier, not John Paul. The corrected version of this story appears below.
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Correction: Grammys-Vignettes Story (AP)
AP - In stories Feb. 8 and Feb. 9 about "Desperate Housewives" star Teri Hatcher at the Grammys, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of the designer of her dress. He is Jean Paul Gaultier, not John Paul.
Metropolitan Opera's Future Plans (AP)
AP - Some of the future plans of the Metropolitan Opera, as obtained by The Associated Press from music industry employees who spoke on condition of anonymity:
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