Mýa Hurts Foot, Misses Chance to Break a Leg (E! Online)
E! Online - Chicago isn't Mýa's kind of town just yet. The Grammy-winning R&B songstress had been scheduled to make her Broadway debut May 12, playing husband-offer Velma Kelly in the Bob Fosse production, but a broken left foot has forced her to lay her fishnets aside for the time being. More »
McCready's McReady to Return to Studio (E! Online)
E! Online - "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" probably won't make the track list, but Mindy McCready, with requisite personal drama in tow, is now ensconced in the studio to record new material. More »
Thurman 'frightened by stalker'
Actress Uma Thurman tells a New York court a man accused of stalking her made her feel "frightened". More »
Blaine Takes a Breather (E! Online)
E! Online - It's no illusion. David Blaine has done it again. More »
Naomi Campbell Takes Another Swing (E! Online)
E! Online - Naomi Campbell just flung a baseball bat and is sprinting directly toward us...Run for your lives! More »
Ex-nanny countersues Rob Lowe, wife in LA (AP)
AP - A former nanny has countersued Rob Lowe and his wife for sexual harassment. More »
Music Review: Dianne Reeves' new CD `When You Know' (AP)
AP - Dianne Reeves, "When You Know" (Blue Note Records) More »
For CIA tech chief details espionage successes, failures (AP)
AP - "Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs From Communism to Al-Qaeda" (Dutton, 549 pages, $29.95), by Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger: International spying could be called a cat and mouse game — a frightened mouse scurrying to outwit a powerful feline. The folks at the Central Intelligence Agency have worked hard with actual dead rats and a live cat, using them in highly specialized CIA ways. More »
Brooke White: "I've Been Packed for Two Weeks" (E! Online)
E! Online - For Brooke White, being on American Idol was an emotional experience. And leaving it was "kind of a relief." More »
Barbara Walters reveals past affair with US senator (AP)
AP - NEW YORK (AP) — After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant." More »
Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger fined for drunken driving (AP)
AP - Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger was sentenced Thursday to a year without driving and fined $588 for a drunken driving conviction. More »
Guitarist Loueke's path takes him from Africa to jazz star (AP)
AP - Lionel Loueke's name could easily be overlooked among the jazz and pop stars on Herbie Hancock's "River: The Joni Letters," this year's Grammy winner for album of the year. More »
Nickelback singer sentenced for impaired driving (Reuters)
Reuters - Chad Kroeger, the lead singer for Canadian rock band Nickelback, was sentenced on Thursday to a one-year driving ban and fined more than C$600 ($590) for drunk driving. More »
Patricia Arquette gets into the spirit on NBC's `Medium' (AP)
AP - "Sweet dreams" is an alien notion to Allison DuBois. More »
How Big Iron Man? (E! Online)
E! Online - Somewhere between Spider-Man and the Hulk, you might just find Robert Downey Jr. in a can. More »
Javier Bardem off Cloud Nine (E! Online)
E! Online - It's one thing to drop out of a movie project. It's another to drop out of a movie project that your girlfriend is still attached to. More »
Summer Movie Guide II: Hot Hot Hookups Edition! (E! Online)
E! Online - Patrick Dempsey is always a bridesmaid, Jennifer Aniston wonders why he's just not that into her, Ashton Kutcher is a catch, Meryl Streep sends out an SOS, Blake Lively and America Ferrera wear the same pants, and Sarah Jessica Parker rules them all. More »
HSM3 Has a Senior Moment (E! Online)
E! Online - From the looks of things, the gang from East High has found the cure for senioritis. More »
Cusack aims to offend with war satire film (Reuters)
Reuters - John Cusack is outraged over the Iraq war, so the U.S. actor channeled his anger into a low-budget political satire -- complete with a chorus line of scantily clad female amputees -- that he hopes will offend. More »
"Iron Man" poised to blast box office into summer (Reuters)
Reuters - Hollywood studios are counting on actor Robert Downey Jr. and his big-screen incarnation as "Iron Man" to blast them out of a box office slump as the lucrative summer movie season opens this weekend. More »
Beckett's characters await their final days in `Endgame' (AP)
AP - People who are leading desolate and appallingly circumscribed lives, while awaiting the inevitable but slow-in-coming end, really need to have a sense of humor, or irony, or both. More »
Review: Online play makes `Mario Kart Wii' a must-have (AP)
AP - It's not often that a series installment can stray so little from its past and still make a mark, but "Mario Kart Wii" waves the checkered flag with a 12-player online racing mode that makes the best use of the Wii's Wi-Fi capabilities to date. More »
Miley Cyrus to skip scheduled Disney red carpet event (AP)
AP - Miley Cyrus won't be attending her first scheduled public appearance since Vanity Fair published photos that have thrown her status as a role model for young girls into question, Disney said Thursday. More »
Cosby brings 'blunt' message to community leaders (AP)
AP - Bill Cosby told several hundred people at a conference of community associations Thursday to stand up and confront the ills facing black Americans. More »
Obama's Letterman list avoids pastor scandal (Reuters)
Reuters - Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama poked fun at himself on the Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday but showed his humor has its limits by avoiding any mention of his controversial former pastor. More »