Zellweger Aims for Boob Tube (E! Online)
E! Online - It's not just business as usual for Renée Zellweger's new small-screen foray. It's also pretty personal. More »
Former Sen. Brooke mum on reported Barbara Walters affair (AP)
AP - Former U.S. Sen. Edward Brooke declined to comment Friday about whether he had an affair with Barbara Walters in the 1970s. More »
Carly Simon stays silent about who was so vain (Reuters)
Reuters - Now that the identity of "Deep Throat," the secret source in the Watergate case, has been revealed, there is really only one lingering mystery from the 1970s. More »
Vivaldi's 'Argippo' returns to Prague after 278 years (AP)
AP - When a musician from the southern Czech Republic stumbled upon an anonymous score, he knew it was the long-lost opera "Argippo" by Italian baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi. More »
Smirnoff new president of Cleveland Institute of Music (AP)
AP - The Cleveland Institute of Music has appointed Juilliard String Quartet first violinist Joel Smirnoff as president. More »
Cablevision submits $650 mln bid for Newsday: source (Reuters)
Reuters - Cablevision Systems Corp has made a $650 million bid for Tribune Co's Newsday newspaper, topping rival offers from media titans Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman, a source briefed on the matter said Friday. More »
Carly Simon to Rachael Ray and friends: You're so vain (AP)
AP - Surely Carly Simon wasn't talking about anybody in this room. More »
Aussie rockers Midnight Oil dusting off old albums (Reuters)
Reuters - If there's a silver lining when a rock band breaks up, maybe it's that the members have more time to contemplate reissue projects. More »
Cablevision submits $650 mln bid for Newsday: source (Reuters)
Reuters - Cablevision Systems Corp has made a $650 million bid for Tribune Co's Newsday newspaper, topping rival offers from media titans Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman, a source briefed on the matter said on Friday. More »
Burning Q's: Swollen Posses & Madge-Bashing (E! Online)
E! Online - We always see celebrity women with a huge entourage and assistants, but do the guys have assistants, too? I mean the macho guys like George Clooney and Brad Pitt, even Ving Rhames? More »
Government launches appeal to deny Snoop Dogg a U.K. visa (Yahoo! Music)
Yahoo! Music - The British Government has launched a second appeal to try to prevent Snoop Dogg from entering the U.K. More »
The Cure to release new single each month (Yahoo! Music)
Yahoo! Music - The Cure have announced that they will release a new single each month leading up to the release of their 13th studio album in September. More »
Billboard CD reviews: Neil Diamond, Robyn (Reuters)
Reuters - Though Neil Diamond is riding the good will created by 2005's Rick Rubin-produced "12 Songs," there is a song on "Home Before Dark" called "Don't Go There," and the danger of overemotive "Heartlight"-ness always looms. While not quite as revealing and rewarding as its 2005 cousin, the new album will certainly please fans of Rubin and Diamond's stark-yet-comfy acoustic direction. More »
Damon Albarn's 'Gorillaz' musical journeys west (Yahoo! Music)
Yahoo! Music - Damon Albarn's circus opera is set to make its U.S. debut on May 22. More »
It's senior year for Troy and friends as `HSM3' begins (AP)
AP - In real life, Zac Efron is just as cute — maybe cuter — than he is dancing and singing as Troy Bolton in Disney's wildly popular "High School Musical" movies. More »
Q&A: T Bone Burnett takes center stage to cut "Tooth" (Reuters)
Reuters - Music fans are not imagining it -- T Bone Burnett is just about everywhere they look these days. More »
Jimi Hendrix estate disputes sex tape (AP)
AP - The estate of Jimi Hendrix says it questions the authenticity of a sex tape released this week allegedly starring the deceased musician. More »
Aiming for Broadway, 'Sammy & Me' Musical Gets NYC Readings (Playbill)
Playbill - Sammy & Me, the biographical musical that tells the dual stories of a yearning African-American actor and the legendary Sammy Davis Jr., will be seen in industry presentations in New York City May 2. More »
Weigert, Acuña, Gumley and Poe Sing Sheik & Jarrow's 'Whisper House' Musical (Playbill)
Playbill - Whisper House, the new haunted-lighthouse musical by librettist Kyle Jarrow and Tony Award-winning composer Duncan Sheik, will be heard in two industry reading presentations May 2-3 - first in Manhattan and then in Connecticut. More »
Noroña and Espinosa Are Mexican-Rooted George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' (Playbill)
Playbill - Pasadena Playhouse's new production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, beginning previews May 2, features a largely Latino cast - including David Noroña as George and Al Espinosa as Lennie - toiling in 1942 rather than the Depression. More »
PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: Three, and '13' (Playbill)
Playbill - Three Broadway openings featuring three big film stars were the highlights of this week of the fast-concluding 2007-08 season. More »
Oni Faida Lampley, Actress Who Was Also Award-Winning Playwright, Has Died at 49 (Playbill)
Playbill - Oni Faida Lampley, the award-winning playwright of The Dark Kalamazoo, Mixed Babies and her personal illness-inspired Tough Titty, died April 28 after a battle with breast cancer, friends and colleagues reported. More »
Louisiana's River City Rep Gets Oscar Nominee Avery for 'Member of the Wedding' (Playbill)
Playbill - Academy Award nominee Margaret Avery, of the film "The Color Purple," will star in River City Repertory Theatre's upcoming production of Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, in the role made famous by Ethel Waters. More »
Bailiwick, Circle Theatre, 'Dr. Moreau, Cabaret' Among Non-Equity Jeff Nominees (Playbill)
Playbill - The best work in Chicago's non-union theatre community between April 2007 and March 2008 was unveiled May 2 with the Jeff Awards Committee's announcement of 113 nominations for Non-Equity Jeff Awards. More »