NASHVILLE, March 4 (UPI) -- Elvis Presley, Ricky Skaggs and Bob Dylan are among the U.S. musicians who will be included on an upcoming companion CD to "The Passion of the Christ" film.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, March 4 (UPI) -- New Zealanders are waiting for the return of their hero, native Peter Jackson, before celebrating the Oscar sweep by the filmmaker's "Return of the King."
LONDON, March 4 (UPI) -- Music legend Elton John has said he will marry his long-time gay lover if a new bill legalizing gay civil unions in the British Parliament passes.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 4 (UPI) -- British model Jodie Kidd was shot at, but uninjured, after chasing an intruder who broke into her family's Barbados home.
LOS ANGELES, March 4 (UPI) -- Amish supporters are protesting a new UPN reality show, "Amish in the City," claiming the U.S. program may ridicule the rural, pious Amish community.
LOS ANGELES, March 3 (UPI) -- Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley have begun filming "Mrs. Harris," a U.S. film about love and obsession written by playwright Phyllis Nagy.
TOKYO, March 3 (UPI) -- Movie monster Godzilla's next film appearance will be his last, ending a 50-year series of 28 movies, the BBC reported Wednesday.
MALIBU, Calif., March 3 (UPI) -- "Inherit the Wind" playwright Jerome Lawrence has died at the age of 88 in his California home, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
NEW YORK, March 3 (UPI) -- Two U.S. literary agents are fighting for the right to represent singer Alicia Keys as she makes a deal to publish her memoirs.
WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- Sen. John Kerry Wednesday broke Howard Dean's record for Internet fundraising in a single day, raising $1.2 million in 24 hours.
LOS ANGELES, March 3 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles judge has ordered attorneys involved in the Winnie the Pooh royalty case to prove or refute claims the plaintiff stole or changed records.
HOLLYWOOD, March 3 (UPI) -- Teenage actress Hilary Duff will reunite with her frequent "Lizzie McGuire" director, Mark Rosman, on a big-screen romantic comedy.
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ST. PAUL, Minn., March 3 (UPI) -- A St. Paul, Minn., TV station has hired actor Ed Asner to burnish its image, resurrecting his role as gruff Lou Grant of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
ORLANDO, Fla., March 3 (UPI) -- The Walt Disney Co. pulled a Mickey Mouse statue designed by Janet Jackson for a shareholder meeting in Philadelphia Wednesday.
PARIS, March 3 (UPI) -- The art auction world is slimmer by one, with the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH selling its controlling shares in the French firm Tajan to Rodart.
LOS ANGELES, March 3 (UPI) -- The estranged wife of U.S. entertainer Lionel Richie is seeking $300,000 in monthly support payments, TheSmokingGun Web site reports.
NEW YORK, March 3 (UPI) -- The American Academy of Arts and Letters has named nine new members, bestowing on them the highest recognition of cultural merit in the nation.
HOLLYWOOD, March 3 (UPI) -- Four months before "Spider-Man 2" is due in U.S. theaters, Entertainment Tonight says a third installment in the franchise is already in the works.
LONDON, March 3 (UPI) -- Angela Lansbury, the detective in TV's "Murder She Wrote," will end a 20-year absence from the silver screen with the British movie "Nanny McPhee."
LONDON, March 3 (UPI) -- The personal archive of American-born violinist Sir Yehudi Menuhin, who became a British citizen in 1965, has been bought by Britain's Royal Academy of Music.
