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• Venice film festival focuses on film innovation (AP)
• Review: George Clooney in the bleak `The American' (AP)
• A grown-up 'Big Brother' finds strong ratings (AP)
• Margaret Cho Gets Her Mouth Ready For 'Dancing'; Audrina Patridge Won't Be Inviting Speidi (omg!)
• Judge doubts prosecutors can prove 2 key charges (AP)
• Secret testimony reveals extent of stars' burglary losses (AP)
• A grown-up 'Big Brother' finds strong ratings (AP)
• Venice film festival opens and gambles on youth (Reuters)
• Cho finds comedy in serious topics on new album (AP)
• Tribune board sets panel to oversee bankruptcy (Reuters)
• UPDATED: After Injury, Jordin Sparks Misses Sunday and Monday Shows of 'In the Heights' (Playbill)
• Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalized again (Reuters)
• Barnes & Noble Near Lincoln Center Will Close in January 2011 (Playbill)
• CMA announces first round of nominees (AP)

Venice film festival focuses on film innovation (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 11:29 AM PDT AP - In film, recession may be the mother of innovation.

Review: George Clooney in the bleak `The American' (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 11:48 AM PDT AP - Hidden from critics until just before its release, the dirty secret about "The American" turns out to be that it's an "art film." Heavens, no!

A grown-up 'Big Brother' finds strong ratings (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - As it heads toward the conclusion of its 12th season, "Big Brother" is having a strong summer in the ratings.

Margaret Cho Gets Her Mouth Ready For 'Dancing'; Audrina Patridge Won't Be Inviting Speidi (omg!) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:58 PM PDT omg! - LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- "Dancing with the Stars" producers may want to start practicing how fast they can hit the censor button once comedienne Margaret Cho heads to the ballroom. The funny lady, who is known for using a lot of the words banned by the FCC in her comedy act, said she's been working hard on down her vocabulary to fit in on the family show.

Judge doubts prosecutors can prove 2 key charges (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:43 PM PDT AP - The judge in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial said Tuesday he doubted prosecutors can prove key charges against two doctors and the lawyer-boyfriend of the late Playboy model.

Secret testimony reveals extent of stars' burglary losses (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 06:00 AM PDT AP - Roughly two weeks before a judge would sentence her to jail, Lindsay Lohan sat in a downtown courtroom and recounted to a grand jury how a burglar's black fingerprints on her wall left her so unnerved that she had to move.

A grown-up 'Big Brother' finds strong ratings (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - As it heads toward the conclusion of its 12th season, "Big Brother" is having a strong summer in the ratings.

Venice film festival opens and gambles on youth (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 03:11 PM PDT Reuters - The Venice film festival opens on Wednesday with "Black Swan," starring Natalie Portman as a ballet dancer in New York whose position is threatened when a beautiful newcomer arrives.

Cho finds comedy in serious topics on new album (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:33 PM PDT AP - Margaret Cho combines comedy with music on her new album to address some somber topics: rejection, interventions and even murder.

Tribune board sets panel to oversee bankruptcy (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:44 PM PDT Reuters - Tribune Co's board has formed a special committee to oversee the media company's bankruptcy, which unraveled this month following an investigation into its 2007 leveraged buyout.

UPDATED: After Injury, Jordin Sparks Misses Sunday and Monday Shows of 'In the Heights' (Playbill) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:29 PM PDT Playbill - Jordin Sparks, the "American Idol" finalist who recently made her Broadway debut as Nina in In the Heights, injured her hip at the evening performance Aug. 28 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalized again (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 03:13 PM PDT Reuters - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was returned to the hospital after slipping into unconsciousness on Tuesday following a series of health-related setbacks since breaking her hip in July.

Barnes & Noble Near Lincoln Center Will Close in January 2011 (Playbill) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:29 PM PDT Playbill - The Lincoln Triangle location of Barnes & Noble will close at the end of January 2011 due to an increase in rent that makes it "economically impossible" for the bookseller to extend the lease.

CMA announces first round of nominees (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 10:07 AM PDT AP - Miranda Lambert leads the first round of CMA Awards nominations with five, followed closely by Lady Antebellum with four and Zac Brown with three.

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