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NEW YORK - Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, who always has been afraid of flying, says he's glad to be alive after suffering severe burns in a fiery plane crash last month.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A fire at Nick Nolte's home in Malibu, California gutted his living room on Tuesday, but the actor escaped with minor injuries after trying to douse the flames with a garden hose, officials said.

KYOTO, Japan (AFP) - Japanese Nobel Physics laureate Toshihide Maskawa, an introvert devoted to thinking about the universe, has no passport to go to Stockholm to accept the prize, his wife revealed on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Julie Taymor is gathering blue-blooded Oscar winners and up-and-comers for her big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

BEIJING - Linkin Park is canceling its China tour because lead singer Chester Bennington has suffered a back injury.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the second week of the broadcast season, CBS replaced ABC as the top network thanks to a strong lineup of competitive performers.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The cry of "Avengers assemble" will soon be coming from the television.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - David E. Kelley is staying on the legal beat with a new series project.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Men's cable network Spike TV has put a hit out on the Irish mob, ordering a two-hour drama pilot that will shoot in Boston this fall.

LOS ANGELES - Rocco DiSpirito will serve seconds on "Dancing with the Stars."

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If Ridley Scott gave us a new kind of war movie with "Black Hawk Down," where an army unit functioning in total chaos in a hostile city became a collective protagonist, he now engineers a new kind of spy thriller in "Body of Lies," which opens Friday (October 10).

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's straight out of the inspirational sports-drama playbook, but "The Express," based on the tragically short life of college football hero Ernie Davis -- the first black to win the Heisman Trophy -- still manages to go the distance.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A little man is coming to the big screen.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Just in time for the next depression, Dominic Monaghan and Freddy Rodriguez will star in a horror thriller offering one potential solution to our economic problems.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Julie Taymor is gathering blue-blooded Oscar winners and up-and-comers for her big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

NEW YORK - Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, who always has been afraid of flying, says he's glad to be alive after suffering severe burns in a fiery plane crash last month.

BEIJING - Linkin Park is canceling its China tour because lead singer Chester Bennington has suffered a back injury.

YPSILANTI, Michigan (Billboard) - Bruce Springsteen concluded his three-day barnstorming tour in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday night with a 50-minute acoustic set for about 5,000 people in Ypsilanti.

NEW YORK - It's hardly unusual for a singer to drop off the musical map. Declining album sales, drug habits, legal woes and other dramas have landed a multitude of chart-toppers on the "Whatever Happened To ..." list.

NEW YORK - Now that Shea Stadium is closed for business, New York Mets fans are able to buy mementos from the venue that housed the 1969 "Miracle Mets" and an improbable 1986 World Series comeback.

Hollywood conservatives exist, but at what cost do they speak out in support of McCain? CNN's Brooke Anderson reports.

Former Destiny's Child singer Michelle Williams goes disco on her third solo CD, 'Unexpected,' Bob Dylan puts out 'Tell Tale Signs,' the eighth volume of his bootleg series and rockers Oasis release their seventh studio CD, 'Dig Out Your Soul.' (Oct. 7)

Coldplay and Grace Jones among the winners at the Q Magazine awards (Oct. 7)

Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio take on terror in new spy thriller

Aussie movie star Nicole Kidman has been honoured with an icon award in Hollywood.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the second week of the broadcast season, CBS replaced ABC as the top network thanks to a strong lineup of competitive performers.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The economy and the overall advertising market may be under pressure, but political ad spending this year is expected to reach a new record, even though it may fall short of original estimates.

(Reuters) - John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and EMI Records, the world's fourth largest music company, dropped copyright infringement lawsuits against the makers of a documentary that used the portion of the song "Imagine" without permission.

DEAR ABBY: The number of fires in the United States has declined over the years, and while that's encouraging, there is still a real cause for concern today. In 2007, eight in 10 people who died in a fire were killed in a home fire.

DEAR ABBY: I have been happily married for a number of years. I'm not what you would call "hot" -- far from it, actually. But for some reason, women have always been attracted to me.

DEAR ABBY: After 12 years on the West Coast, my husband and I moved back East last year with our 3-year-old son, "Adam." My parents, my husband's mom and our siblings live here, and we wanted Adam to know his family.

10/03/2008 - DEAR MARGO: My husband and I have been married for a year and together for four.

10/02/2008 - DEAR MARGO: I am a 40-year-old man who has been in and out of therapy since seventh grade.

09/26/2008 - DEAR MARGO: I work in the vacation rental industry, and the company I work with manages more than a thousand beach cottages and condos in the Deep South.

NEW YORK - You may want to try this at home. Suresh Joachim (YOH'-kum), of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra (wahv-RA'), of Germany, claim to have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plexi-glass house in Times Square.

JACKSON, Mo. - Curtis Lemons was supposed to report for jury duty in a drunk driving case. Instead, according to authorities, the 50-year-old Cape Girardeau man skipped the jury duty so he could drink himself.

BOSTON - Boston police said a passenger who was angry because his flight was delayed tried to get back at the airline by throwing foot powder around the plane. Arthur Nicolson, of Framingham, was arrested Monday after the U.S. Airways flight from Las Vegas landed at Logan International Airport.

GREAT BEND, Kan. - A Kansas man whose girlfriend was physically stuck to the toilet in their home wins $20,000 in the state Lottery, for the second time this year. Kory McFarren cashed in his winning $2 Bonus Crossword ticket in Great Bend Monday.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Perennial college football powerhouse Penn State University is promoting glossy trading cards similar to those collected by sports fans. Only, there's no card for Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno or any of his Nittany Lions.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - At least Minnie Driver will have more time to spend with her baby boy.

NEW YORK - Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, who always has been afraid of flying, says he's glad to be alive after suffering severe burns in a fiery plane crash last month.

(Reuters) - John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and EMI Records, the world's fourth largest music company, dropped copyright infringement lawsuits against the makers of a documentary that used the portion of the song "Imagine" without permission.

MALIBU, Calif. - Actor Nick Nolte jumped out a window and used a hose to fight a fire that broke out in his Malibu home Tuesday, authorities said.

NEW YORK - It's hardly unusual for a singer to drop off the musical map. Declining album sales, drug habits, legal woes and other dramas have landed a multitude of chart-toppers on the "Whatever Happened To ..." list.