Citizen Kane leads Godfather in movie poll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Citizen Kane, Orson Welles powerful portrait of an unscrupulous media baron, beat back an assault from The Godfather, on Wednesday to retain its title as the greatest American film. Hilton s prosecutor under fire for double standard LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The city prosecutor who condemned Paris Hilton s early release from jail as celebrity favoritism is now under fire for a case of special treatment closer to home acknowledging his wife was wanted for arrest for nine years. Hacker claims Harry Potter s alleged ending on Web BOSTON (Reuters) - The mystery surrounding the end to fictional British boy wizard Harry Potter s saga deepened on Wednesday with a computer hacker posting what he said were key plot details and a publisher warned the details could be fake.
Canada media mogul set to marry actress Kelly Rowan TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian actress Kelly Rowan, who played a wealthy wife in television teen drama The O.C., is engaged to Canada s richest man, media mogul David Thomson, her representative said on Wednesday.
Ghost Rider burns rubber on video charts LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Nicolas Cage action movie Ghost Rider blasted its way to the top of the national DVD sales and rental charts, according to data issued Wednesday. Toby Keith Big man on album chart for 3rd time NEW YORK (Billboard) - Toby Keith scored his third No. 1 on the U.
S. pop album charts Wednesday, although sales were down sharply from his previous release. Guantanamo prison poems to be published in U.
S. MIAMI (Reuters) - Poems written by Guantanamo prisoners about their lives as captives of the United States have been compiled in a book that will be published this summer with an endorsement from a former U.S.
Author who posed as prostitute faces NY fraud case NEW YORK (Reuters) - A best-selling novelist who pretended she was a 19-year-old male prostitute sought to defend herself in court on Wednesday against claims she defrauded a film company that bought the rights to her book. Glastonbury: mud, music and madness in rural England GLASTONBURY (Reuters) - Glastonbury music festival, one of the world s biggest, opened on Wednesday with legends such as The Who billed alongside Las Vegas rockers The Killers at concerts expected to be played out in slippery mud. Digital innovations to boost film spending: PWC LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Digital cinema and high-definition DVD sales are expected to fuel worldwide consumer spending on filmed entertainment through 2011, PriceWaterhouseCoopers said in its latest five-year outlook on Thursday.
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