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Television Host Louis Rukeyser Dies
(AP)
 AP - Louis Rukeyser, a best-selling author, columnist, lecturer and television host who delivered pun-filled, commonsense commentary on complicated business and economic news, died Tuesday. He was 73.
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Publisher Cancels Deal With Young Author
(AP)
 AP - A Harvard University student's "chick lit" novel has been permanently withdrawn and her two-book deal canceled, publisher Little, Brown and Co. announced Tuesday, as allegations of literary borrowing proliferated against Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life."
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Two 'Sopranos' Cast Members Charged
(AP)
 AP - It would be enough to give Tony Soprano agita. Continuing a string of off-screen run-ins with the law, two more fringe characters from "The Sopranos"_ the television mob boss's favorite chef and his muscle-bound bodyguard — have been charged in separate criminal cases.
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ITunes Songs to Stay 99 Cents Per Download
(AP)
 AP - Songs at Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store will remain 99 cents per download after the company extended its distribution deals with major recording labels.
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'ER' Puts Darfur Tragedy in Spotlight
(AP)
 AP - More often than not, television has looked away from the complex, searing reality of Darfur.
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Movie piracy losses bigger than expected: report
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Lost sales from pirated DVD movies and
Internet downloads are higher than previously thought, a report
in the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.
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Warner Music rejects EMI takeover approach
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Warner Music Group Corp., home to
Madonna and James Blunt, has rejected a $28.50-a-share takeover
approach from rival EMI Group that valued the world's fourth
largest music company at $4.2 billion.
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Fox, ABC tied in key race as season nears end
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Fox bagged the top three
shows among adults 18-49 last week, and ABC had three in the
top 10 as the networks tied in the coveted demographic in the
final weeks of the season.
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Warner Music rejects EMI takeover approach
(Reuters)
Reuters - Warner Music Group Corp., home to
Madonna and James Blunt, has rejected a $28.50-a-share takeover
approach from rival EMI Group that valued the world's fourth
largest music company at $4.2 billion.
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Broadway's '25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' Reaches One Year
(Playbill)
Playbill - The musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee reaches its first year anniversary on Broadway May 2. The 2005 Tony Award nominee for Best Musical currently enjoys two other regional runs and a national tour is forthcoming.
Movie piracy losses bigger than expected: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Lost sales from pirated DVD movies and
Internet downloads are higher than previously thought, a report
in the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.
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Actress Fox morphs to "Transformers" robot pic
(Reuters)
Reuters - Megan Fox will play Shia
LaBeouf's love interest in "Transformers," a live-action
adaptation of the 1980s Hasbro toy line of giant robots that
morph into cars, trucks, planes and ships.
MySpace page helps "Stick It" at box office
(Reuters)
 Reuters - As the first-time
director of a studio feature, Jessica Bendinger worked overtime
to mobilize a core constituency of sports-minded teenage girls
to come out and see her film "Stick It."
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Hennessy, Arnold high on "Wild Hogs"
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Jill Hennessy and
Tichina Arnold have joined the cast of "Wild Hogs," a Disney
comedy about a group of suburban biker wannabes who hit the
open road in search of adventure.
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Brendan Fraser, wife have child: report
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Actor Brendan Fraser and his wife
Afton Smith became parents for a third time on Tuesday, Us
Weekly reported.
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James Woods OK After Test for Chest Pain
(AP)
 AP - James Woods, nominated for Oscars for his roles in "Salvador" and "Ghosts of Mississippi," was given the OK after undergoing an angiogram to check out chest pain, his publicist said Tuesday.
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DreamWorks Animation 1Q Profit Plummets
(AP)
 AP - Without a successful theatrical release to boost earnings, profits at DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. plunged 73 percent in the first quarter, although results were good enough to beat Wall Street forecasts.
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Movie Studio Donates to Flight 93 Fund
(AP)
 AP - Universal Pictures says it will donate $1.15 million this week toward a memorial to the passengers and crew who perished aboard United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001 — addressing concerns of a lawmaker who has blocked legislation to buy land for the project.
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Tom Cruise Says He Ignores Media Reports
(AP)
 AP - Tom Cruise whipped off his sunglasses with flair and flashed a winning smile as he greeted a hotel ballroom packed with journalists in Mexico's capital.
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"Mission: Impossible" Marketing Blowup
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Your mission, should you choose to accept it--make the
newspapers go boom!
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Warner Music rejects EMI takeover approach
(Reuters)
Reuters - Warner Music Group Corp., home to
Madonna and James Blunt, has rejected a $28.50-a-share takeover
approach from rival EMI Group that valued the world's fourth
largest music company at $4.2 billion.
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Glitter set for appeal in Vietnam
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Disgraced British "glam rocker" Gary
Glitter, sentenced to three years in a Vietnamese jail for
molesting children, will appeal to the country's Supreme Court
on May 19, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
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Springsteen delivers emotional set at Jazz Fest
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The first weekend of the
37th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ended with a
slow, elegiac version of the Crescent City standard "When the
Saints Go Marching In," just the kind of thing you'd expect at
the first Jazz Fest since Hurricane Katrina.
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Chili Peppers begin North American tour August 11 in Oregon
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Red Hot Chili Peppers will begin
their North American tour on August 11 in Portland, Ore.
Rock duo Black Keys sign on for Radiohead tour
(Reuters)
Reuters - As the Black Keys ready their fourth
album for a fall release, the Akron, Ohio-based rock duo will
open six shows on Radiohead's summer tour, beginning June 10
and 11 in Montreal.
Johnny Cash's Last "American" Song
(E! Online)
 E! Online - The Man in Black's music is hitting the American road again
this summer.
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Eminem's Ex Stakes Her Claim
(E! Online)
 E! Online - The real Mrs. Slim Shady is standing up--in divorce court.
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Keith Richards' Head Healed
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Keith Richards is on the mend after injuring his melon while
in pursuit of coconuts.
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Doherty Draws Blood?
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Pete Doherty may be a convicted drug addict, alleged carjacking
accomplice and a practicing ninja (specialty: reporters), but the man
still has limits.
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Carpenter Says Depression Caused Her Pain
(AP)
 AP - Mary Chapin Carpenter could barely compose herself. The 48-year-old country singer-songwriter had just been asked to talk about her experience with depression during her discussion of the creative process with author Kaye Gibbons at the 2006 N.C. Festival of the Book.
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