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Willie Nelson Releases Gay Cowboy Song (AP)
 AP - Country music outlaw Willie Nelson sang "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" more than 25 years ago. He released a very different sort of cowboy anthem this Valentine's Day.
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Tom Cruise, Holmes Deny Breakup Report (AP)
 AP - Not true. That was Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' response Tuesday to a Valentine's Day report by Life & Style magazine claiming that the Hollywood superstar and his pregnant paramour have split up.
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Shannen Doherty Involved in Car Crash (AP)
 AP - Shannen Doherty was bruised and cut on her thigh in a car crash that sent another motorist to the hospital, authorities and Doherty's publicist said Tuesday.
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Hayek Helps Groups Aiding Battered Women (AP)
 AP - Hollywood actress Salma Hayek has made donations to groups aiding battered women in her native Mexico, calling domestic violence a problem that touches every corner of the globe.
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Conan O'Brien Meets With Finnish Leader (AP)
 AP - Conan O'Brien, who endorsed the re-election of Tarja Halonen with mock ad campaigns, met the Finnish president Tuesday at the presidential palace in downtown Helsinki.
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Schwartzman back to school for "Carlisle" (Reuters)
Reuters - Oscar-nominated
cinematographer John Schwartzman will make his directorial
debut on the pigskin movie "Carlisle School."
Rhino bringing Manilow performances to DVD (Reuters)
Reuters - Rhino Entertainment is
getting the songs that make the whole world sing.
Highlights From NBC's Olympic Coverage (AP)
 AP - A look at NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics:
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Winterbottom's Revolution spreads to TV (Reuters)
Reuters - Director Michael Winterbottom
and producer Andrew Eaton have set up a television division at
their movie production banner Revolution Films and struck a
first-look deal with U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, the parties
said Tuesday.
Domingo to sing for Zhang (Reuters)
Reuters - Chinese filmmaker Zhang
Yimou will soon direct one of the Three Tenors.
Schwartzman back to school for "Carlisle" (Reuters)
Reuters - Oscar-nominated
cinematographer John Schwartzman will make his directorial
debut on the pigskin movie "Carlisle School."
"Evening" falls on Koltai (Reuters)
Reuters - Lajos Koltai is in final
negotiations to direct the screen adaptation of Susan Minot's
best-selling novel "Evening" for Focus Features and Hart Sharp
Entertainment.
Crime meets absurdist slapstick in "Invisible Waves" (Reuters)
Reuters - If Jacques Tati, the French
comic absurdist, had ever made a gangster thriller, it probably
would have looked like Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's "Invisible Waves.
"Eight Below" delivers above-average adventure (Reuters)
Reuters - Disney may have written
the book on live-action animal adventure stories, but it has
been quite a while since there has been a chapter as terrific
as "Eight Below."
Jason Vorhees Lives! (E! Online)
 E! Online - Hollywood testosterone king Michael Bay has been charged with breathing
new life into Jason Vorhees and resurrecting the Friday the 13th
franchise with a prequel.
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Uncle Owen, R.I.P. (E! Online)
 E! Online - To Phil Brown, it seemed "a very unimportant role." But in
Star Wars lore, it was anything but.
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Paramount to release Gore's global warming film (Reuters)
 Reuters - The producers of a global warming
documentary starring former Vice President Al Gore have landed
a worldwide distribution deal with Paramount Pictures'
specialty label, the Viacom Inc.-owned studio said on Tuesday.
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Bleak Iran film puts social pain before politics (Reuters)
Reuters - As Iran occupies the world stage over
its nuclear ambitions, a bleak new film deliberately turns the
spotlight on the mundane reality of everyday relationships,
unemployment and failure in the country.
Opus Dei Holds Out for 'Da Vinci' Changes (AP)
 AP - The conservative Roman Catholic group Opus Dei said Tuesday it had no intention of calling for a boycott of the upcoming film "The Da Vinci Code," but said it hopes the much-awaited film could still be changed so that "there aren't references that would hurt Catholics."
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Shannen Doherty Involved in Car Crash (AP)
AP - Former "Charmed" actress Shannen Doherty was bruised and cut on her thigh during a Pacific Coast Highway crash that sent another motorist to the hospital, authorities and the Doherty's publicist said Tuesday.
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Rhino bringing Manilow performances to DVD (Reuters)
Reuters - Rhino Entertainment is
getting the songs that make the whole world sing.
Willie Nelson Releases Gay Cowboy Song (AP)
AP - Country music outlaw Willie Nelson sang "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" more than 25 years ago. He released a very different sort of cowboy anthem this Valentine's Day.
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Saint Etienne spins shimmering hipster pop (Reuters)
Reuters - They were fashionably late
and delightfully retro. Taking the stage well after 10 p.m.
Monday, Saint Etienne grooved before a sold-out crowd at Irving
Plaza. The British pop ensemble, named for a French soccer
team, was entirely festive and sweet on the first of a few
short stops on its U.S. club tour, mixing '80s synth-pop and
swinging '60s beats to create an evening of shimmering pop
confections.
Rock the Vote Tries to Regroup (AP)
AP - Rock the Vote is turning 16 this year, but the birthday for the organization that has used Madonna, R.E.M. and other music stars to get millions of young people involved in politics is shaping up to be anything but sweet.
LL Cool J reveals "Todd Smith" on new album (Reuters)
 Reuters - LL Cool J's next album, "Todd
Smith," is set for a March 21 release.
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Nelson unveils 'gay cowboy' valentine (Reuters)
 Reuters - Willie Nelson chose Valentine's Day
to release the gay-themed song "Cowboys Are Secretly,
Frequently (Fond of Each Other)." The country music icon
premiered the track Tuesday morning (February 14) on Howard
Stern's Sirius Satellite Radio show as it was being made
exclusively available via Apple's iTunes music store.
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Warner Music Group 1Q Profit Beats Views (AP)
 AP - Warner Music Group Corp.'s earnings surged in its first fiscal quarter, beating Wall Street's expectations despite a 4 percent drop in revenue at the record company whose artists include Green Day and Madonna.
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Placido Domingo Exits Paris Production (AP)
 AP - Tenor Placido Domingo has canceled his appearance in Wagner's "Die Walkuere" in Paris in April, citing a lack of time to prepare for the production by avant-garde director Robert Wilson.
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Shoshana Damari Dies at 83 (AP)
 AP - Shoshana Damari, whose voice came to embody the emerging nation of Israel and comforted its people during their most trying times, died Tuesday after suffering from pneumonia. She was 83.
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Bossa Nova King Mendes Turns to Hip-Hop (AP)
AP - Sergio Mendes, "Timeless," (Concord)
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