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Wallace to Stop Being '60 Minutes' Regular
(AP)
 AP - Mike Wallace, the hard-driving reporter who has been with "60 Minutes" since its start in 1968, said Tuesday he will retire as a regular correspondent on the show this spring.
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Jack Black Elopes!
(E! Online)
 E! Online - King Kong's Jack Black is one up on his even more hirsute
costar: In the end, he got the girl.
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Jay Leno Apologizes to Offended Viewer
(AP)
 AP - Jay Leno knows that comedy means sometimes having to say you're sorry. After Leno's "Tonight Show" aired a sketch that compared Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident to a 2003 videotaped shooting outside a Los Angeles courthouse, he received a letter of complaint from a viewer.
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Michael Douglas Criticizes Brangelina
(AP)
 AP - Watch out Brad, Michael Douglas is taking some shots regarding your divorce from Jen. At you and girlfriend Angelina Jolie.
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Stapp Sues Firm to Stop Sell of Sex Video
(AP)
AP - Former Creed singer Scott Stapp is suing in an effort to stop a California company from selling or promoting a sex video featuring himself, Kid Rock and four women.
NY studio developers see hope for housing project
(Reuters)
Reuters - In many ways, it's a tale
of two New York Cities.
Stapp Sues Firm to Stop Sell of Sex Video
(AP)
AP - Former Creed singer Scott Stapp is suing in an effort to stop a California company from selling or promoting a sex video featuring himself, Kid Rock and four women.
Syndicated shows iced by Winter Olympics
(Reuters)
Reuters - Most syndicated shows
were down during the February sweep compared with a year ago as
NBC's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics caused many
pre-emptions and time-period shifts.
AOL video service to debut with Intel, Kraft ads
(Reuters)
Reuters - AOL said it plans to launch on
Wednesday one of the biggest free video services on the
Internet, serving up vintage shows and short clips backed by
online advertisements.
N.Korea prison camp makes for an unlikely musical
(Reuters)
 Reuters - As far as musicals go, seeing people
break into song on subjects such as starvation and public
executions in North Korea may be one of the most unlikely
concepts for stage entertainment in several years.
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NY studio developers see hope for housing project
(Reuters)
Reuters - In many ways, it's a tale
of two New York Cities.
Arctic laid bare in "Planet" documentary
(Reuters)
Reuters - It took a bunch of penguins to
launch a craze for wildlife documentaries in cinemas across the
globe. As those creatures bask in their Oscar afterglow,
another French nature epic will bow on home turf next week,
ahead of its international rollout.
Reiner Refuses to Resign From State Panel
(AP)
AP - Movie director Rob Reiner said Tuesday he does not regret that a state commission he chairs spent $23 million in taxpayer money for an ad campaign that coincided with his promotion of a preschool ballot initiative.
J.Lo Does "Dallas" (Maybe)
(E! Online)
 E! Online - The big-screen remake of Dallas is hoping to strike oil
with an all-star cast.
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Parks Remembered As Photographer, Director
(AP)
 AP - Gordon Parks was remembered Tuesday for using his many talents — Life photographer, filmmaker, music composer — to emphasize human dignity and teach that "to stand and be counted was the way to be."
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'MI-3' Pits Cruise Against Hoffman
(AP)
 AP - How's this for an impossible mission: Tom Cruise against Truman Capote?
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Cheadle to Channel Miles?
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Don Cheadle is miles ahead of the pack when it comes to a Miles
Davis biopic.
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'Brokeback' Author Peeved About Oscar Loss
(AP)
 AP - Annie Proulx, whose 1997 short story inspired the film "Brokeback Mountain," has penned a scattershot blast in a British newspaper unleashing her anger over the film's best-picture Oscar loss.
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Michael Douglas Criticizes Brangelina
(AP)
AP - Watch out Brad, Michael Douglas is taking some shots regarding your divorce from Jen. At you and girlfriend Angelina Jolie.
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Crowe Tells Leno: It's a Boy
(AP)
 AP - Russell Crowe and his wife are expecting a boy.
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Young MC sues music publisher
(Reuters)
Reuters - Rapper Young MC has sued a music
publishing company, alleging it failed to pay royalties for
songs he helped write, including the Tone Loc hits "Wild Thing"
and "Funky Cold Medina."
Blind Faith's live debut heads to DVD
(Reuters)
Reuters - Short-lived supergroup Blind Faith's
live debut will be chronicled on the DVD "London Hyde Park
1969," due April 10 in Europe and the following month in North
America via Sanctuary.
Living End roll out irresistible rockabilly din
(Reuters)
Reuters - Their influences may be
obvious, but the Living End's hard-charging music is all its
own. Mixing the guitar-fueled glee of Stray Cats and melodious
punk spite of Green Day with the reggae flirtations of the
Clash and AC/DC arena rock, the Aussie trio manages to forge a
new sound with an old soul.
Rock reunion combines Cars members, Rundgren
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Two former members of the defunct
new wave rock band the Cars have refueled the group, installing
singer-songwriter Todd Rundgren in the driver's seat and will
hit the road as the New Cars, they said on Tuesday.
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Jackson Gets Delay on Neverland Wages
(AP)
 AP - Michael Jackson got a day's reprieve on a deadline to pay a $100,000 fine and $306,000 in wages he owes Neverland Ranch employees.
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Sabbath, Sex Pistols, Blondie Make for Raucous Hall
(E! Online)
 E! Online - With absent Sex Pistols, a backstabbing Blondie and a kinder,
gentler Ozzy Osbourne and
Black Sabbath, Monday night's Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame ceremony at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel featured
its usual raucous attitude as those seminal bands, along with
Dixie-powered rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd and jazz icon Miles Davis, were
enshrined in the music establishment.
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Tuba Player Is First Woman for Orchestra
(AP)
 AP - It was 9:30 on a Saturday night and Carol Jantsch was at an ultimate Frisbee tournament when her cell phone rang with an audition invitation from the Philadelphia Orchestra, one of America's finest symphonies.
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The Killers Ask Judge to Toss Out Claim
(AP)
 AP - The Killers and their lawyer-manager have asked a federal judge to throw out a $16 million breach-of-contract lawsuit from the band's former manager.
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Ex-'American Idol' Hopeful Pleads Guilty
(AP)
AP - A former "American Idol" hopeful has pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in a 2005 shooting at a convenience store.
Kirk Franklin Defines Himself in Many Ways
(AP)
 AP - A martyr. The "Earth Wind and Fire" of gospel music. A man set free from an addiction to pornography.
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