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Date with Jessica Biel to be auctioned
(AP)
 AP - A date with Esquire's "The Sexiest Woman Alive" and "7th Heaven" star Jessica Biel will be up for bid next week to help raise money for a teenager who lost her leg in a prom night limousine accident, Denver newspapers reported this week.
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Jackson jury reaches split decision
(AP)
 AP - In a split decision Friday, a civil court jury awarded a former Michael Jackson adviser $900,000 — far less than he claimed in the money dispute — and awarded the pop star $200,000 in his cross-complaint.
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Pitt still shocked by Katrina devastation
(AP)
 AP - After two days of getting his first up-close look at post-Katrina New Orleans, Brad Pitt said Friday he was shocked at the devastation that remains almost a year later.
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Cameron, Haggis guest star on 'Entourage'
(AP)
 AP - Oscar winners James Cameron and Paul Haggis had definite ideas about how they wanted to play themselves on "Entourage."
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'South Park' makers fear 'Tom Cruise stink'
(AP)
 AP - "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker knew they might anger Isaac Hayes with an episode mocking his Scientology religion, but decided to do it anyway.
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Outkast casts wide net with album, movie
(Reuters)
Reuters - OutKast duo Antwan Patton and Andre
Benjamin are sitting in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in
Beverly Hills picking at pancakes. They need to figure out the
track listing for their upcoming soundtrack album, the
companion to the film "Idlewild," in which they co-star.
Outkast casts wide net with album, movie
(Reuters)
Reuters - OutKast duo Antwan Patton and Andre
Benjamin are sitting in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in
Beverly Hills picking at pancakes. They need to figure out the
track listing for their upcoming soundtrack album, the
companion to the film "Idlewild," in which they co-star.
Cameron, Haggis guest star on 'Entourage'
(AP)
AP - Oscar winners James Cameron and Paul Haggis had definite ideas about how they wanted to play themselves on "Entourage."
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Sony BMG promotes its Latin catalogs
(Reuters)
Reuters - While "Los Rompediscotekas" by Hector
"El Father" debuted at No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums chart, the
dark horse for the week ending July 9 was Emmanuel with "Las
Historias de Toda La Vida."
Donna Lynne Champlin Will Fly with 'The Lawnchair Man' at NYMF
(Playbill)
Playbill - Donna Lynne Champlin, who is currently playing the accordion, keyboard and flute on Broadway as the devious barber Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, will appear in the New York City premiere of Flight of the Lawnchair Man at New York Musical Theatre Festival, Sept. 13 to 18.
Outkast casts wide net with album, movie
(Reuters)
Reuters - OutKast duo Antwan Patton and Andre
Benjamin are sitting in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in
Beverly Hills picking at pancakes. They need to figure out the
track listing for their upcoming soundtrack album, the
companion to the film "Idlewild," in which they co-star.
"Crash" Producers Tangle in Court Again
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Proving
that an Academy Award doesn't guarantee happiness, the producers of this
year's Best Picture Oscar winner are at it again.
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Screenwriter: 'Pirates' pillaged my work
(AP)
AP - A screenwriter filed a lawsuit claiming Walt Disney Co. and others behind the 2003 blockbuster movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" pillaged drawings and characters he had created for an earlier project about supernatural swashbucklers.
Timberlake Film Fizzles
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Where is the love for Justin Timberlake's dramatic acting debut?
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Lee offers his take on Hurricane Katrina
(AP)
 AP - Spike Lee was at the Venice Film Festival in Italy watching on television as Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans last August.
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Mel Gibson said to offer aid to Mexico poor
(AP)
 AP - Mel Gibson, about to wrap up the filming of his Mayan epic, "Apocalypto," in the jungles of Mexico's Veracruz state, is donating money to build houses for poor people in the region.
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Kate Hudson has house `pest' in new film
(AP)
 AP - Kate Hudson knows when you're married to a rocker like she is, you have to expect the party will be at your house. And that's fine with her.
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Mr. T sheds gold after Katrina destruction
(AP)
 AP - Mr. T has given himself a makeover. The former television action star shed the piles of gold chains that were his signature look after witnessing the destruction from Hurricane Katrina.
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Titanic's artifacts shown in San Francisco
(AP)
 AP - Wistful music plays in a darkened room as visitors file past glass cases displaying the detritus of tragedy past.
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Filmmakers see Jesse James Hollywood files
(AP)
 AP - Defense lawyers for a man accused of murder argued the Santa Barbara County district attorney's office should be removed from the case after a prosecutor shared confidential files with the producers of an upcoming movie.
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Outkast casts wide net with album, movie
(Reuters)
Reuters - OutKast duo Antwan Patton and Andre
Benjamin are sitting in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in
Beverly Hills picking at pancakes. They need to figure out the
track listing for their upcoming soundtrack album, the
companion to the film "Idlewild," in which they co-star.
VH1 Classic, Legacy plot '80s revival with CD, tour
(Reuters)
Reuters - With a joined-at-the-hips new CD
series and tour, Sony BMG's Legacy Recordings and Viacom's VH1
Classic hope to extend the reach of their respective brands. At
the same time, if all goes as planned, they will reintroduce
core '80s artists to new and old fans alike.
The Band's Hudson delves into all that jazz
(Reuters)
Reuters - Organist/pianist Garth Hudson, an
original member of the Band, is putting aside rock 'n' roll to
record a jazz album.
Vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 visits Americana
(Reuters)
Reuters - When classical vocal ensemble
Anonymous 4 announced last year that its members would no
longer work together full time, the group broke many fans'
hearts.
Davis projects go on for Miles
(Reuters)
Reuters - The fusion between R&B/hip-hop
and jazz will undergo another creative jolt via several
projects involving jazz visionary Miles Davis.
Ex-Destiny's Child member LeToya takes solo spotlight
(Reuters)
Reuters - Most artists are lucky to get one
shot at stardom. But six years after being forced out of
Destiny's Child just as the R&B stars were about to break big,
LeToya Luckett is poised for success once more. And the now
single-monikered singer/songwriter is not taking the second
chance for granted.
Cash's "Highways" lead to top of chart
(Reuters)
Reuters - A posthumous album by an American
institution was one of the few key releases on a Tuesday that
fell on the most American holiday. The result is chart history,
with Johnny Cash topping the Billboard 200 for the first time
in almost four decades.
Q&A: After 30 years, Johansen playing with Dolls again
(Reuters)
Reuters - At 56 years old, David Johansen has
performed under many guises: the frontman of evergreen rockers
the New York Dolls, a solo act, kitschy lounge hitmaker Buster
Poindexter, a bluesman with the Harry Smiths and even the Ghost
of Christmas Past (in "Scrooged," the 1988 film starring Bill
Murray).
Jackson jury reaches split decision
(AP)
AP - In a split decision, a civil court jury Friday awarded a former Michael Jackson adviser $900,000 — far less than he claimed in the money dispute — and awarded the pop star $200,000 in his cross-complaint against F. Marc Schaffel.
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Rocker-turned-preacher pursuing pop fame again
(Reuters)
Reuters - Rocker-turned-preacher
Richard Furay, a founding member of Buffalo Springfield and
Poco, says he long felt overlooked for his contributions to two
1960s bands that pioneered the next decade's country-rock
explosion.
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