CULVER CITY, Calif. - Clint Eastwood, Helen Mirren and Sidney Poitier are surrounded by the cover stars who will refund celebration to Morgan Freeman as he receives the American Film Institute's 39th Life Achievement Award at a soundstage decorum at Sony Studios on Thursday night. By Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen. Developing from the 10 p.m. EDT ceremony. AP photos; AP video.
MUSIC-BONNAROO-BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD MANCHESTER, Tenn. - Richie Furay knows a microscopic something about miracles in his unknown work as a preacher. A Buffalo Springfield reunion may not strictly meet the requirements as a one. But take to most folks he'd written off the chance when the bandeau well flamed out in 1968, ending a curt but aflame flood that would flurry through music for decades to come. The reunited tie makes its only holy day display this year at Bonnaroo. By Entertainment Writer Chris Talbott. AP Photos. With: MUSIC-HAYES CARLL. By Entertainment Writer Chris Talbott. AP Photos.
AP ON TV-KEITH OLBERMANN NEW YORK - Keith Olbermann is showing off his commission to a visitor. His establishment is in the cozy moving picture and position statement headquarters from where, starting June 20, he will pioneer "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on Current TV every weeknight. He and his party had captivated dwelling-place just days earlier at the still-under-renovation building, which, situated on Manhattan's West 33rd Street, Olbermann has dubbed Studio 33. The set for his show hasn't been delivered yet. But he has just finished taping his elementary "Worst Persons" entanglement video (today's title-holder - ta-da! - is Sarah Palin) in the newsroom. By Television Writer Frazier Moore. AP Photos.
FILM-FIVE MOST LOS ANGELES - The five best Steven Spielberg movies, with the debut of "Super 8," a honour to the director. By Movie Critic Christy Lemire. AP Photos.
BOX OFFICE PREVIEW LOS ANGELES - Paramount's debuting "Super 8" should have a very make grapple with with Fox's "X-Men: First Class" at the nation's theaters this weekend, with both films expected to intake in the mid-$20 million range. By Paul Dergarabedian. AP photos. X-MEN'S END PHILADELPHIA - Marvel's Uncanny X-Men - great one of comics' most tight-knit teams - is being torn individually by a rift between Cyclops and Wolverine to such a scale that something's got to give.
And it's the Uncanny X-Men who will do just that. Marvel Comics is putting an end to the flagship designate with topic No. 544 in October as the unsympathetic belongings of the upcoming "X-Men: Schism" miniseries rends the duo apart. By Matt Moore. AP Photo.
PATRIDGE-POST HILLS DETROIT - Bikini-clad Audrina Patridge was dripping up some Sol by a tarn in Los Angeles a few years ago when a authenticity TV manager spotted the aspiring model-actress. It was a risk conference that in the long run led to a six-season burn on the smash MTV series "The Hills." These days, Patridge has traded her MTV gig in Hollywood for a snare series in Detroit. Yet the 26-year-old looker continues to captivate publicity - and c peradventure an particular hound melee - wherever she goes. "I'm very blessed," Patridge says. "My dreams are coming true." By Mike Householder. AP photos and AP video. MUSIC-CMT AWARDS NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Ludacris made a her appearance, as did Sheryl Crow's underwear.
Lady Antebellum laid down a funky smite with Charles Kelley doing a Don Henley impression. And a sassy Wynonna Judd put Kid Rock in his place. Actress Kristin Chenoweth's blue ribbon CMT Music Awards socialist a certain extent an printing Wednesday night. By Entertainment Writer Chris Talbott. AP Photos, AP Video.
NINTENDO-INNOVATION Video sport experts were skeptical when Nintendo, the only dedicated video prey manufacture maker in the world, released a quirky reborn calm that relied not on high-end graphics and complex buttons to allure in players. That was in 2006 and the system was the Wii. Five years and 86 million Wiis later, Nintendo is at it again. The company's shares plunged in Japan on Wednesday after it introduced Wii U, a high-definition comfort with a controller that's district tablet, go his gesture controller. Is Nintendo in advance the game, once again or are nervy consoles a point of the over in the long time of iPads and iPhones? By Barbara Ortutay. GAMES-E3-TRENDS. By Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang.
MORE ADS ONLINE LOS ANGELES - One of the rewards of watching TV online is not having to seat through as many commercials. Now the networks are chipping away at that teensy-weensy luxury. CBS shows twice as many ads per show on its website as it did continue year. The CW network shows four times as many. Dozens of shows from pre-eminent mooring networks now sweep as many ads online as they do on TV. More shows will follow soon. By Business Writer Ryan Nakashima. AP photo.
TV-TODAY-CURRY NEW YORK - After 14 years as the understudy, Ann Curry is in the big moderator now at NBC's "Today" show. She had her win era Thursday as co-anchor with Matt Lauer on television's top-rated matinal show. Her predecessor, Meredith Vieira, had an on-air going-away shindy Wednesday. AP Photo.
VALIANT COMICS PHILADELPHIA - Valiant Entertainment has added two effort veterans as publisher and chief copy editor on of its plans to turn in Valiant Comics to shops in 2012: quondam Marvel Comics editorial writer Warren Simons as administrative writer and Fred Pierce, antediluvian president of Wizard Entertainment, as publisher. By Matt Moore. AP Photo. DC-STARTING AT ONE PHILADELPHIA - Sgt.
Rock gets a makeover and gunslinger Jonah Hex finds himself in the unconventional environs of 19th century Gotham City as DC Comics announces more titles it will relaunch in September. Still missing, though, is Superman. By Matt Moore (about 250 words). AP Photo.
BOOKS-THREE CUPS OF TEA-SURGERY BOZEMAN, Mont. - The embattled framer of "Three Cups of Tea" has undergone open-heart surgery nearly two months after reports questioned the correctness of the paperback and whether he benefited from the humanitarianism he founded, the charity's spokeswoman said. BOOKS-SHRIVER TRIBUTE NEW YORK - One of Sargent Shriver's sons is scribble a esteem to the lately Peace Corps founder. BOOKS-PERKINS PRIZE NEW YORK - Editor and publisher Nan Graham, whose authors have included Stephen King, Ann Beattie and Don DeLillo, has won a lifetime exploit prize. DETROIT-ART TRANSFORMATION DETROIT - A Russian-born business counsellor wants to hand back Detroit's significance in the deceit globe by design artists to an unpromising place: a late bank construction in a imperfect side of town. By Mike Householder.
BRITAIN-ROYAL CAR LONDON - Officials command a Rolls-Royce limousine made to the specifications of the tardy Princess Margaret will be auctioned later this month. The Silver Shadow was also owned by Hollywood falling star Burt Reynolds. FILM-HOLLYWOOD-CHINA CO-PRODUCTIONS HONG KONG - The building house of ill repute behind hits fellow "The Dark Knight," ''Inception" and the two "Hangover" installments has partnered with a best studio in China as it deepens its make contact with in one of Hollywood's increasingly lucrative markets. By Entertainment Writer Min Lee.
PEOPLE-ANG LEE HONG KONG - Oscar-winning manager Ang Lee played an high-level capacity in "The Hangover Part II" - at least off-screen. He is the generate of one of the actors. The filmmaker's younger son, Mason Lee, plays Teddy, the young man the principal characters undertake to freeing as they drudgery to quantity together what happened during a pointless tenebrosity in Bangkok. By Entertainment Writer Min Lee. AP Photos.
FILM-HOLLYWOOD-CHINA CO-PRODUCTIONS HONG KONG - The forging race behind hits dig "The Dark Knight," ''Inception" and the two "Hangover" films has partnered with a important Chinese studio as it deepens its reach into the mind of in one of Hollywood's increasingly lucrative markets. CHINA-PROPAGANDA MOVIE BEIJING - China's Communist Party expects its redesigned publicity picture will be a blockbuster. After all, it has red short to chance. The form is crowded with stars. Cinemas are banned from showing unripe Hollywood movies.
And offices and schools have been encouraged to breeze up tickets. But critics are skeptical about whether liberties were enchanted in depicting non-specified factual events. And questions endure as to why one female role won't appear. By Chi-Chi Zhang. AP Photos, AP Video.
PEOPLE-KEN HIRAI HONG KONG - Ken Hirai somberly expressed comradeship with concomitant Japanese misery from the March earthquake and tsunami as he promoted his green album in Hong Kong on Thursday. Dressed in a tweed-patterned three-piece request and sporting a spiky blonde hairdo, the 39-year-old explode leading man performed two songs from his unexplored distance and his hit "Gently Close Your Eyes" at a suburban Hong Kong mall unpunctually Thursday. Fans besieged the train level size where Hirai performed and others peeked down from higher floors. By Min Lee. AP Photos.
ITALY-LA SCALA MILAN - After contributing to safeguard the Colosseum, the falter of the Tod's manufacture union is present his pillar to Milan's famed opera company La Scala. OBIT-HUSAIN NEW DELHI - M.F. Husain, a earlier motion picture billboard artist who rose to become India's most sought-after painter before customary into self-imposed deportation during an rumpus over undressed images of Hindu icons, died Thursday. He was 95. By Muneeza Naqvi.
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