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 Washington Post | Candidates Address Young Voters Washington Post - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton responds to a question from a studio audience Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008, at MTV Studios in New York. In MTV-MySpace talk, Huckabee focuses on economy, taxes Candidates address young voters |
 New York Daily News | 'Duma Key,' Stephen King's latest, is a slow read indeed New York Daily News - BY DAVID HINCKLEY Edgar Freemantle made millions in the construction business and then was crushed nearly to death by one of his own cranes. Duma Key King explores creativity, aging, horror |
 New York Daily News | Brooke Shields' 'Lip' sealed New York Daily News - It's a 'Jungle' in here: Brooke Shields launched her new show in the Saks Fifth Avenue shoe department. ... We were left wondering after Brooke Shields told us, "I identify with my character a great deal," at the "Lipstick Jungle" premiere. New series focusing on career women Tuned In: It's a jungle out there |
Tentative Settlement Is Reached With TV Station in Fatal Nightclub ... New York Times - By AP PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) - A cameraman who filmed a nightclub fire that killed 100 people and the TV station where he worked have reached a tentative $30 million settlement with survivors of the fire and relatives of those who died, a lawyer involved ... WPRI-TV agrees to Station payment TV station, cameraman reach deal in fatal fire |
 Vancouver Sun | "No Country" takes Hollywood producers' top prize Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country for Old Men," a tale of moral decline wrapped in a gritty crime drama, won the top film prize from Hollywood's producers on Saturday, making it the clear front-runner in the race to the Oscars. Producers Guild of America names 'No Country' best picture 'No Country' tops PGA awards |
 CBC.ca | Major Progress in Writers' Strike Talks Washington Post - By Paul Farhi and Lisa de Moraes After weeks of stalled talks, negotiators in the entertainment writers' strike have suddenly made "substantial progress" in their discussions, people with knowledge of the talks said yesterday, raising hopes in ... Deal to End Writers’ Strike May Be Near Writers' strike deal could come within week: report |
 Product Reviews | Celebs celebrate free-dom in style Boston Herald - By Inside Track PHOENIX - Being a Super Bowl celebrity doesn’t suck. There’s the A-list parties, the limos, the deluxe accommodations and, of course, great seats at the game today. Jordin Sparks, Alicia Keys and Tom Petty to Perform at Super Bowl Pondering 'over' a potpourri of Super Bowl proposition bets |
 Jam! Showbiz | Super ‘House’ call Boston Herald - By Amy Amatangelo Perhaps. The hit Fox show “House” gets the cushy post-Super Bowl slot tonight on WFXT (Ch. 25). Mira Sorvino guests as ailing psychiatrist Dr. Is there a doctor in the 'House'? 'House' guest |
 Xinhua | Liza Minnelli steals Red Dress show at Fashion Week Reuters - By Jan Paschal NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Talk about heart. Liza Minnelli took the audience by surprise at New York Fashion Week by singing her signature song "New York, New York" on the runway of The Heart Truth Red Dress show. Stars Don Red to Raise Awareness of Women's Heart Risk Celebrities are simply ravishing in red |
Tori Spelling always was one to get in early on the trends. This time around, it's celebrity pregnancies.
E! News has confirmed that the former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star is not... PopMatters | Memories of Dusty, Newport and ‘Odelay’ New York Times - By NATE CHINEN Reed Saxon/AP Most of the songs on “Just a Little Lovin’ ” (Lost Highway), Shelby Lynne’s tribute to Dusty Springfield, are the well-worn products of career songwriters. Just a Little Lovin' Dusty Springfield with a difference |
Katharine McPhee's weekend was better than just all right, dawg.
The "American Idol" finalist turned budding actress tied the knot with her longtime producer boyfriend Nick Cokas...
Britney Spears' 72 hours are almost up, but she may want to hold off on packing her bags just yet--either to leave the hospital or head for beyond.
While the 26-year-old is in the final...A flip-flopping effort to rework 24 from torture porn into, well, anything else has delayed the show, possibly until January 2009. The last season ended in May.
One plan hatched by guilt-wracked writers was to have Jack Bauer bravely race against time in Africa to nurture orphans, build homes for poor people, dig ditches and make TV commercials with Sally Struthers. For some reason Fox execs didn't go for that.
Another idea, called "Bad Jack," was to have the show openly acknowledge and confront Jack's deep-seated and probably unforgivable moral and professional failings. Since this was the only option containing a shred of human decency, Fox brass logically turned it down.
The plan now is for Jack to go to Washington DC, where he will bravely race against time to "address head-on the accusations that his tactics were out of line," which probably means putting Nancy Pelosi in some kind of stress position or jumping to the aid of a liberal senator whose daughter and wife have conveniently been kidnapped and are about to be raped and what are you going to do now, lefty?? Also, there will be a hot lady character thinking about whether she wants to be a torturer like Jack.
The only remaining problem for 24 is that no one wants to work there:
Two actors declined roles due to moral objections. One Muslim actor turned down a job as a terrorist. Another actor, the former "thirtysomething" star Dave Clennon, was threatening to turn down a role as the senator who would interrogate Jack at the hearing... "At the end of the day, my sense of the show is that it promotes torture and I don't want to be a part of that," he says.
[WSJ]