Katie Holmes' brother-in-law dead at 48
SARASOTA , Fla., April 16 (UPI) -- The husband of actress Katie Holmes' older sister has died of heart failure in Florida at the age of 48, officials said.
Joseph Fretti was discovered dead Sunday in his mother's Sarasota home, where he had taken his two young children for a visit, RadarOnline.com reported.
Fretti, the husband of Holmes' sister Tamera, owned a funeral home in the Holmes family's hometown of Toledo, Ohio.
Sarasota Medical Examiner Russell Vega told the entertainment news Web site the cause of Fretti's death hasn't been determined, but foul play or suicide aren't suspected.
A funeral mass is scheduled for Fretti at Gesu Church in Toledo Monday, RadarOnline.com said.
Holmes is best-known for her work on TV's "Dawson's Creek." She is married to Hollywood film star Tom Cruise.
'Idol' judges opt to save Matt Giraud
LOS ANGELES, April 16 (UPI) -- The judges on "American Idol" opted to use their one-time-only save option on Matt Giraud after the public voted the contestant off the show Wednesday night.
The decision was announced after Giraud sang a poorly received encore of "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman," the ballad he performed on the episode before, People.com said.
Two of the seven remaining contestants will be eliminated on next week's episode as a trade-off for the judges' save this week.
YouTube orchestra wows at Carnegie Hall
NEW YORK, April 16 (UPI) -- Musicians from 33 countries brought together by YouTube performed as a symphony orchestra at New York's famed Carnegie Hall Wednesday night.
The New York Daily News said the performers earned a standing ovation from the sold-out crowd assembled to see the orchestra, whose members auditioned through YouTube and met for the first time just days ago. The group of nearly 100 musicians performed pieces by Bach, Brahms and Mozart at the concert.
"It's been like a summit conference and a scout jamboree, with elements of speed dating," conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who directed the orchestra, told the Daily News.
Thomas quipped that the new way to get to Carnegie Hall is to "upload, upload, upload" rather than the age old adage of "practice, practice, practice."
The mix of professional and amateur musicians, who range in age from 15 to 55, were selected by judges representing the world's greatest orchestras, the newspaper said.
'Boom' No. 1 on U.S. record chart again
LOS ANGELES, April 16 (UPI) -- The Black Eyed Peas's "Boom Boom Pow" is No. 1 on the U.S. record chart for a second week, Billboard.com reported Thursday.
Coming in at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 is Lady GaGa's "Poker Face," followed by Flo Rida's "Right Round" at No. 3, Soulja Boy Tell'em "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" featuring Sammie at No. 4 and Jamie Foxx's "Blame It" featuring T-Pain at No. 5
Rounding out the top tier are T.I.'s "Dead and Gone" featuring Justin Timberlake at No. 6, Kid Cudi's "Day 'N' Nite" at No. 7, Miley Cyrus' "The Climb" at No. 8, The Fray's "You Found Me" at No. 9 and the All-American Rejects' "Gives You Hell" at No. 10.
