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Cruise Runs Seminars to Prepare for Baby
(AP)
 AP - Tom Cruise has taken the impending birth of his first child with fiancee Katie Holmes to another level. "We've been doing seminars with the family just to educate them," the 43-year-old star of the upcoming "Mission: Impossible III" film tells GQ magazine in its May issue, on newsstands April 25.
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'Babyface' Files Suit Against Anita Baker
(AP)
 AP - Grammy-winning singer-producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against singer Anita Baker, claiming she owes him more than $250,000.
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'Idol' Contestant Says Cowell Is Unhelpful
(AP)
 AP - Bucky Covington, the latest contestant voted off "American Idol," says the comments of judge Simon Cowell are no longer helpful.
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Dern Studied Grandpa for 'Big Love' Role
(AP)
 AP - Bruce Dern turned to his grandfather for inspiration when preparing for his role on HBO's "Big Love," a polygamy drama set in Utah.
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TV Networks, Stations Challenge FCC Ruling
(AP)
 AP - Four TV broadcast networks and their affiliates have filed court challenges to a March 15 Federal Communications Commission ruling that found several programs "indecent" because of language.
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Muslim film festival shouting to be heard
(Reuters)
Reuters - More than 30 movies from the Arab and
Muslim world will be playing at a week-long New York film
festival, but will anybody be watching?
Weapons Charges Issued in Proof Shooting
(AP)
 AP - A man was charged Friday with weapons violations in a shooting earlier this week that took the life of hip-hop artist Proof, a close friend of Eminem.
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Dern Studied Grandpa for 'Big Love' Role
(AP)
AP - Bruce Dern turned to his grandfather for inspiration when preparing for his role on HBO's "Big Love," a polygamy drama set in Utah.
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TV Networks, Stations Challenge FCC Ruling
(AP)
AP - Four TV broadcast networks and their affiliates have filed court challenges to a March 15 Federal Communications Commission ruling that found several programs "indecent" because of language.
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"Stuff Happens" play sears Rumsfeld in New York
(Reuters)
 Reuters - A play that skewers Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld as arrogant and war-mad has opened to a largely
favorable welcome in New York this week, even as former
generals turn against him in Washington.
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Muslim film festival shouting to be heard
(Reuters)
Reuters - More than 30 movies from the Arab and
Muslim world will be playing at a week-long New York film
festival, but will anybody be watching?
Cruise Runs Seminars to Prepare for Baby
(AP)
AP - Tom Cruise has taken the impending birth of his first child with fiancee Katie Holmes to another level.
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Cruise: Baby Won't Have Catholic Baptism
(AP)
 AP - Katie Holmes was raised a Catholic, but, says fiance Tom Cruise, their soon-to-arrive baby will not have a Catholic baptism.
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Smithsonian-Showtime Deal Worries Groups
(AP)
AP - A television deal between the Smithsonian Institution and Showtime Networks has alarmed some leading independent filmmakers and research groups, who worry they will have less access to the Smithsonian's collections.
At the Movies: `The Wild'
(AP)
AP - Talking animals from a New York zoo leave the comfortable confines of their familiar urban existence and wind up in an exotic foreign land, where they traipse through tall trees, cheekily joke with each other, face their fears and, in the process, become better people. Er, creatures.
Papal preacher blasts Da Vinci Code, Judas gospel
(Reuters)
 Reuters - A Vatican official on Friday
railed against "The Da Vinci Code," branding the book and its
upcoming film version as just more examples of Jesus being sold
out by a wave of what he called "pseudo-historic" art.
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At the Movies: 'The Notorious Bettie Page'
(AP)
AP - For a movie about the pinup wonder of an era, "The Notorious Bettie Page" is surprisingly tame, an exuberant performance from Gretchen Mol in the title role going to waste in an uninvolving account.
At the Movies: `Scary Movie 4'
(AP)
AP - The makers of "Airplane!" have reconnected for "Scary Movie 4," but they've created a sequel that never truly takes flight.
Studio Head Gave 2 Accounts on Private Eye
(AP)
 AP - Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey provided the FBI with two accounts about his ties to indicted Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano, his attorneys said.
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Elton John brings 'Gnomeo' to Miramax
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Weeks after Disney's new
animation chiefs scrapped Elton John's musical "Gnomeo &
Juliet," the pop star has taken his project to Miramax Films.
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Weapons Charges Issued in Proof Shooting
(AP)
AP - A man was charged Friday with weapons violations in a shooting earlier this week that took the life of hip-hop artist Proof, a close friend of Eminem.
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'Babyface' Files Suit Against Anita Baker
(AP)
AP - Grammy-winning singer-producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against singer Anita Baker, claiming she owes him more than $250,000.
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Revitalized Pearl Jam rocks out on 8th album
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Eddie Vedder chuckles when he looks
back on the early years of Pearl Jam and how the group balanced
the pressures of success: "You get growing pains when you get
taller, but we got them when we were trying to shrink."
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Lynyrd Skynyrd, 3 Doors Down pair for Double Trouble
(Reuters)
Reuters - Old-school Southern rock meets new
school when Lynyrd Skynyrd and 3 Doors Down hit the road this
summer.
Gibson factory to host New Orleans' relocated Stomp
(Reuters)
Reuters - Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, New
Orleans-based music festival the Ponderosa Stomp will take
place May 8-10 at the Gibson Guitar factory in downtown
Memphis.
Indie rock festivals duke it out in Chicago
(Reuters)
Reuters - Indie rock fans in Chicago are
benefiting from a good old-fashioned catfight between
Intonation and Pitchfork, which are producing competing music
festivals in the Windy City this summer.
NPR listeners respond to novelty act's matzoh mix
(Reuters)
Reuters - Take a novelty record, infuse it
with the perfect holiday timing, toss in a bit of "Fresh Air"
and, voila, What I Like About Jew has its first hit.
Guitarist Parker is 'Free' for a comeback
(Reuters)
Reuters - With his first album in 14 years,
veteran musician Ray Parker Jr. is taking the plunge into indie
waters.
Rascal Flatts rolls year's biggest sales week
(Reuters)
Reuters - Considering that album sales have
been down in four of the last five years and are off by 2
percent from 2005, it might seem like faint praise to trumpet
that Rascal Flatts pumps the biggest sales week of 2006.
Regional Mexican girl power shows muscle on charts
(Reuters)
Reuters - Regional Mexican music is a Latin
chart-topping genre closely associated with very macho,
mustachioed men in boots and hats.
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