11 March 2010

Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales (AP)

AP - In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records.

11 March 2010

Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales (AP)

AP - In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records.

11 March 2010

Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales (AP)

AP - In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records.

11 March 2010

Disney to release Indian film in southern dialect (AP)

AP - Encouraged by the reception of its Hindi animated movie, Disney is shooting a new adventure film in the southern Indian dialect of Telugu as it deepens its localization drive in the populous country.

11 March 2010

Imax posts profit, sees strong first quarter (Reuters)

Reuters - Imax Corp reported a fourth-quarter profit on Thursday as the giant-screen movie theater operator benefited from a strong slate of films, including Fox's "Avatar: An IMAX 3D Experience."

11 March 2010

Miu Miu's Regal Pop (Fashion Wire Daily)

FWD201  Model walks the runway at the Miu Miu show during Fall 2010 Fashion Week in Paris on  Wednesday, March 10, 2010.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily - It was 1960s modernism meets Louis XIV at the latest collection of Miu Miu, the final show of Paris fashion week that ended Wednesday evening, March 10.


11 March 2010

3-D boosts box office worldwide to record $30 bln (AP)

AP - The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.

11 March 2010

Witherspoon: First lady is DC's top fashionista (AP)

Actress Reese Witherspoon, Avon global ambassador, speaks at the  International Women of Courage Awards Ceremony at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Actress Reese Witherspoon says her "Legally Blonde" character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation's capital by first lady Michelle Obama.


11 March 2010

2-second video causes headache for ABC News (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2010 photo, a 2010 Toyota Corolla is shown at Toyota  dealership in San Francisco. For the want of a better two-second picture of a tachometer, ABC News has called into question its reporting on acceleration problems with Toyota vehicles. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)AP - For the want of a better two-second picture of a tachometer, ABC News has called into question its reporting on acceleration problems with Toyota vehicles.


11 March 2010

'Big Mike' draws tears, cheers on 'American Idol' (AP)

In this publicity image released by Fox, the 12 male finalists for the ninth season of the reality singing competetion, 'American Idol,' front row from left, Andrew Garcia, John Park, Tyler Grady, Joe Munoz and Jermaine Sellers and, back row, from left, Lee Dewyze, Aaron Kelly, Tim Urban, Michael Lynche, Todrick Hall, Casey James and Alex Lambert, are shown. (AP Photo/Fox, Patrick Ecclestein)AP - Michael "Big Mike" Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the "American Idol" judges giddy with a moving performance of "This Woman's Work."


11 March 2010

Australian authors protest China visa refusal (Reuters)

Reuters - More than 90 Australian authors signed a letter on Thursday decrying China's refusal to grant a visa to one of the country's most celebrated writers because he was HIV-positive, a move that Beijing defended.

10 March 2010

Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition (AP)

This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, left, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show 'The Two Coreys' with his friend Corey Feldman, right. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in 'Lucas' and 'The Lost Boys' whose career was blighted by drug abuse, died Wednesday March 10, 2010. He was 38. (AP Photo/Courtesy AETN, L. Pief Weyman) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDITAP - Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.


10 March 2010

Israeli novel, Russian poem collection win prizes (AP)

AP - An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation.

10 March 2010

Conan's lone Twitter followee: 'It's totally nuts' (AP)

Talk show host Conan O'Brien hosts the 54th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles September 22, 2002.AP - Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers.


26 February 2010

Fashion's latest fixation: 3D (The Newsroom)

A model wears an outfit by designers Burberry Prorsum for their Autumn/Winter 2010 collection at London Fashion Week,  in London, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)