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Coroner: Chris Penn Died Accidentally (AP)
 AP - Actor Chris Penn died accidentally from an enlarged heart and the effects of a mix of multiple medications, the county coroner's office said Monday.
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Slater Seeks Joint Custody of Children (AP)
 AP - 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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Britney Spears to Join Mardi Gras (AP)
 AP - Britney Spears, a Louisiana native, will celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans later this month when the devastated city hopes to revive some its old partying ways.
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TV Comedians Target Cheney Accident (AP)
 AP - Television talk shows took aim Monday at Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental weekend shooting in Texas of a hunting companion. Here are a few of the jokes.
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Mineta Calls Spears 'Irresponsible' (AP)
 AP - Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta chided pop star Britney Spears as "irresponsible" for driving with her baby on her lap as he announced a new initiative Monday to improve child car-seat safety.
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MovieBeam offers first HDTV online movie rentals (Reuters)
 Reuters - A video on demand movie
service spun out of Walt Disney Co. is introducing on Tuesday
the first U.S. home delivery service for high-definition films,
backed by top Hollywood and Silicon Valley partners.
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Queen of Israeli song Shoshana Damari dies at 83 (Reuters)
Reuters - Shoshana Damari, considered by many
in the Jewish state to be the queen of Israeli song, died on
Tuesday after a short illness, her family said. She was 83.
TV Comedians Target Cheney Accident (AP)
AP - Television talk shows took aim Monday at Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental weekend shooting in Texas of a hunting companion. Here are a few of the jokes.
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MovieBeam offers first HDTV online movie rentals (Reuters)
Reuters - A video on demand movie
service spun out of Walt Disney Co. is introducing on Tuesday
the first U.S. home delivery service for high-definition films,
backed by top Hollywood and Silicon Valley partners.
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"Barefoot" stepping in as "Woman" goes dark (Reuters)
Reuters - There's one Broadway opener
this week: the revival of Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park"
on Thursday at the Cort, with its newest cast headed by Patrick
Wilson, Amanda Peet, Jill Clayburgh and Tony Roberts in the
respective roles played so memorably in the film version by
Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Mildred Natwick and Charles Boyer
(Redford and Natwick were reprising the roles they'd created in
the Broadway original with Elizabeth Ashley).
MovieBeam offers first HDTV online movie rentals (Reuters)
Reuters - A video on demand movie
service spun out of Walt Disney Co. is introducing on Tuesday
the first U.S. home delivery service for high-definition films,
backed by top Hollywood and Silicon Valley partners.
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Danish film examines tensions with Muslim immigrants (Reuters)
 Reuters - For the director of a new film exploring
the tensions between Danes and Muslim immigrants, the row over
cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad first published in Denmark
should not have come as a complete surprise.
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Oldman on 5th "Potter" Black list (Reuters)
 Reuters - Gary Oldman is in
negotiations to reprise his role as Sirius Black for Warner
Bros. Pictures' fifth Harry Potter installment, "Harry Potter
and the Order of the Phoenix."
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Wiesenthal docu in works (Reuters)
 Reuters - Nicole Kidman will
narrate a feature-length documentary examining the life of
Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who died
in September at 96.
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"Guantanamo," "Winter" put politics center stage (Reuters)
 Reuters - Organizers at the Berlin
International Film Festival were bracing themselves Monday for
the most politically charged day of the event so far, with
Michael Winterbottom's "The Road to Guantanamo" and Iranian
director Rafi Pitts' "It's Winter" set to unspool in
competition Tuesday.
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Sci-fi actors come to life for "Noise 2" (Reuters)
 Reuters - "White Noise 2: The
Light" has attracted two space stars into its orbit.
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Bay revives "Friday" for New Line (Reuters)
 Reuters - Jason is coming back.
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George Clooney ribs Dick Cheney at Oscar lunch (Reuters)
 Reuters - George Clooney, tongue firmly in
cheek, said he wanted Vice President Dick Cheney to be his date
at the Oscars. And Felicity Huffman said she was happy just to
be going as a nominee and not a seat filler or part of the
catering team.
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Cash dividend: 3 "Line" DVDs arriving February 28 (Reuters)
 Reuters - Hoping to ride on the
Oscar buzz for "Walk the Line," 20th Century Fox Home
Entertainment is rushing the Johnny Cash biopic to DVD in three
versions February 28.
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Paramount unit to tell Gore's "Truth" (Reuters)
Reuters - Paramount's new
specialty division has acquired worldwide rights to Participant
Prods.' global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth,"
featuring Al Gore.
Queen of Israeli song Shoshana Damari dies at 83 (Reuters)
Reuters - Shoshana Damari, considered by many
in the Jewish state to be the queen of Israeli song, died on
Tuesday after a short illness, her family said. She was 83.
Price delivers hallmark sound with cool understatement (Reuters)
Reuters - Given that both artists
joined the Country Music Hall of Fame on the same night in
1996, there's a symmetry to a Ray Price appearance at Buck
Owens' Crystal Palace. But what made Price's Bakersfield date
Saturday particularly appropriate is the way in which his brand
of country adapted well to what was essentially a supper-club
engagement.
Levine to Stay at Met Until at Least 2013 (AP)
 AP - James Levine has agreed to stay at the Metropolitan Opera until at least 2013, and incoming general manager Peter Gelb has given the conductor a lifetime invitation to remain on one of the world's premier podiums.
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Aging but still spry, Jones delivers a heartfelt set (Reuters)
Reuters - While leaving the
Cerritos Center on Friday, a woman chatted about several
artists, including Elvis Presley and Conway Twitty, who died
shortly after she saw them in concert. Her line of thought was
entirely reasonable because she'd just seen George Jones
deliver a performance that practically demanded the concertgoer
consider the loss of the Possum.
Tweedy delivers stripped-down, essential rock in solo set (Reuters)
Reuters - Twenty minutes into his
solo set Sunday night at the Henry Fonda Theater, Wilco
frontman Jeff Tweedy mocked the crowd's blind adoration, noting
that the sold-out throng seemed to applaud his every remark.
Yet there were several moments throughout the
hour-and-45-minute set that deserved the rabid response, as
Tweedy proved that he remains one of the most talented figures
in American rock, with or without his band.
Scott Stapp Gets Married, Arrested (E! Online)
 E! Online - For Scott Stapp, the honeymoon was over before it even began.
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Stapp Arrested for Allegedly Being Drunk (AP)
 AP - One day after reportedly getting married, former Creed lead singer Scott Stapp was arrested for investigation of being drunk at Los Angeles International Airport.
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"Outsiders" Star in for "24" (E! Online)
 E! Online - Figuring how quickly corpses pile up on 24, Ponyboy may
not stay gold for long.
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Hip-hop artist J Dilla, 32, dies (Reuters)
 Reuters - J Dilla, a founding member of
hip-hop act Slum Village, died Friday (February 10) in Los
Angeles. The Detroit-hailing rapper/producer succumbed to
complications from lupus. He was 32.
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Brazil Prepares for Rolling Stones Show (AP)
 AP - The Rolling Stones promised a bigger bang, and they'll get one in Rio.
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