A collection of John Lennon memorabilia valued by
auctioneers at more than $2 million is being sold in
London.

The sale includes youthful paintings and handwritten
lyrics, jackets, eyeglasses and even furniture from
the late former Beatle's home. The most valuable items
have been gathered over 25 years by one anonymous
American collector. Auctioneer Cooper Owen, a company
which specializes in music and film memorabilia, says
it constitutes "the most definitive collection of John
Lennon memorabilia ever assembled."

TV personality Brooke Burke and her husband, Garth
Fisher, have called it quits. The co-host of CBS's
"Rock Star: INXS" and Fisher announced their
separation in a statement issued to People magazine.
Burke, 33, formerly hosted E!'s "Wild On" series.
Fisher, a plastic surgeon based in Beverly Hills, has
appeared on ABC's "Extreme Makeover."

Studios and theaters will have to invest in costly
servers and $50,000 to $100,000 for projectors that
may become obsolete in a few years. Those theaters
would, in turn have to show digital features from the
studios.

Filmmakers who issued statements include George Lucas,
John Lasseter, Robert Zemeckis and Robert Rodriguez.

Among directors pursuing projects
that use stereo 3-D techniques created specifically
for digital projection. CGI/live-action
feature Battle Angel, based on the Yukito Kishiro
graphic novel Battle Angel Alita, is designed for 3-D
and is slated for a mid-2007 release by 20th Century
Fox.

"I want people to experience movies as vividly as
possible, and it may become possible to project at
thousands of frames per second, because with digital
you are no longer moving something in a solid state,
The physics of
the medium haven't been maxed out, as they have with
film. The limiting factor now becomes not the system,
but human perception itself." How much information can
you eyes and mid receive before the film you are
watching appears to be reality?

Carrie Underwood, who beat out Bice to win the
"American Idol" crown in May, was voted the "World's
Sexiest Vegetarian" in PETA's annual online poll. She
shares the honor with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.
other famous veggie lovers including David Duchovny,
Reese Witherspoon, Avril Lavigne, Joaquin Phoenix and
Prince.

Last year, Andre 3000 of OutKast and Alicia
Silverstone won the "sexiest vegetarian" title. Other
previous winners include Tobey Maguire, Lauren Bush
and Shania Twain.

More than 13,000 votes were cast in the contest run by
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Ever eat a Vegetarian?

Veteran stuntman Christopher Sayour was in serious
condition after falling from a tower during the
filming of the WB Network drama "Smallville" in
Vancouver.

Tom Welling, was badly injured in what one source
described as a "freak accident" during filming he had
suffered "multiple fractures and internal injuries
during the filming of a stunt sequence after falling
37 feet from a tower.

"Smallville" shoots have caused some concern recently
among locals.

Special effects sequences were the cause for alarm,
SkyTrain, Vancouver's rapid transit system, issued a
public advisory to alert commuters that the loud
blasts they heard during their commute were not
terrorist bombs but "Smallville" production crews. The
filming poses no risk to travelers, but given they
were blasting the same day as the terrorist attacks in
London, the company felt it was prudent to warn its
customers.

George Wallace, an actor whose career spanned 50 years
and was best known as Commando Cody in the film serial
"Radar Men from the Moon," has died. He was 88. Some
of his film credits included "Submarine Command,"
"Nurse Betty" and "Minority Report." He also made more
than 125 TV guest appearances, ranging from "Hopalong
Cassidy" to "Joan of Arcadia."

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine is banging heads with
his former bass player Dave Ellefson on how Ellefson
is permitted to make use of the band's name.

Mustaine filed a lawsuit against Ellefson in Los
Angeles Superior Court after Ellefson appeared
alongside the Megadeth name in a magazine ad in this
month's issue of Bass Player magazine holding a
Peterson Electro-Musical Product's pedal tuner for
bass guitars. The ad copy listed several bands the
guitarist has been involved with, including Megadeth.

In July 2004, Ellefson filed a $18.5 million suit
against Mustaine, alleging that the frontman had
unfairly cut him out of the band's profits and had
libeled him.

"Voltron: Defender of the Universe" is coming to the
big screen as a big-budget feature based on the 1980s
giant robot kids TV series and toy sensation.

The story being developed will be based on the series
about five maverick explorer-pilots who must travel to
the planet Arus to learn how to operate Voltron, a
giant mechanical warrior formed by five smaller
robots. The gargantuan robot is the last hope against
the evil Drule Empire that has subjugated Earth and
taken control of the universe.

"Voltron" is now the second giant robot picture being
developed; "Transformers" is set up at DreamWorks
Pictures.

A year after breaking box-office records with "The
Passion of the Christ," which was shot in Aramaic,
Latin and Hebrew, Gibson has struck a deal with the
Walt Disney Co. to release his next picture in a Mayan
dialect.

Gibson is due to begin shooting the film, titled
"Apocalypto," on location in Mexico in October and is
aiming for a summer 2006 release.

As with "Passion," Gibson will direct and produce the
Mayan-language film from his own script through his
own company and he will not appear in the movie.

One of Jennifer Aniston's former flings is auctioning
off letters, notes, pictures and other memorabilia
from the "Friends" star.

Michael Baroni, a California lawyer who claims he had
a summer romance in 1984 with Aniston, is selling
keepsakes such as a makeshift birthday card she wrote
on a piece of toilet paper and a childhood picture of
the pair.

According to Baroni, their summer lovin' he was 16,
she was 15 turned into a longtime friendship until
they lost contact in 1991, when Aniston's showbiz
career began to soar.

David Grohl of the Foo Fighters the "nicest guy in
rock," Courtney Love would beg to differ.

"Dave gets to walk away unscathed and be the happy guy
in rock, when he's one of the biggest jerks," Love
says in the August issue of Spin. "He's been taking
money from my child for years."

Love, the widow of Kurt Cobain, and Grohl, who played
drums in Nirvana, have feuded before. Grohl and
Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic became mired in three
years of litigation in a dispute over the timing of
the famed grunge band's box set, "With the Lights
Out."

They settled their legal issues in September 2002 and
the CDs were released last year.

As for being the "nicest guy in rock," Grohl wonders
where the title came from.

"I don't know. Because I don't do coke?" Grohl asks
Spin. "I supposed it's not taking anything for granted
and feeling lucky to be here.

The Foo Fighters are on tour of North America in
support of their double album, "In Your Honor."

Set aside Nov. 1 for, "Revenge of the Sith," it hits
DVD, allowing fans to watch all six movies in George
Lucas' epic at home.

Lucasfilm Ltd. also announced Monday it will release
the franchise's new video game, "Star Wars:
Battlefront II," on Nov. 1.

The two-disc set for "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge
of the Sith" will include a making-of documentary
produced by Lucasfilm; featurettes on the movie's
stunts and an Internet documentary series featuring 15
segments produced for the Web.

The year's top-grossing film with $376 million in
domestic revenue.

'Star Trek' Engineer James Doohan Dies

Former televangelist Tammy Faye Messner said that
cancer has returned to her lungs, marking her third
battle with the illness.

Gerry Thomas, father of the TV Dinner, dead at 83

Multitasking film director Rob Zombie puts a human
face on a family of serial killers.

"House of 1,000 Corpses." which Zombie wrote and
directed, helped kick off the current wave of horror
films flooding U.S. cinemas, and he returns on Friday
with slasher flick, "The Devil's Rejects."

His first film scared audiences, yet also made them
laugh with a mix of frights and campy comedy. Zombie
has headed in a slightly new direction with the more
stylized and cinematic "Rejects," which he likens to a
road movie of misfits.

"I wanted to create compelling characters and a story
that people get swept up in. I think the main thing,
you know, is serial killers are human, too," Zombie
told Reuters.

With "Rejects," he combined plot elements of classic
movies like 1967s "Bonnie and Clyde," which humanized
Depression-era gangsters, with the filmmaking style of
bloody 1970s horror flicks such as "The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre."

"Corpses" could have been a box office disaster. It
was made with the backing of Universal Pictures, but
the studio balked at releasing the violent film and,
instead, sold it to scrappy independent label Lions
Gate Films. Such a turn is often considered a box
office kiss of death.

But Zombie's fans and horror buffs turned out in
support, and "Corpses" brought in $16 million at
global box offices -- a solid showing for a
low-budget, independent film. It sold over a million
copies on DVD.

Horror films, of course, are a Hollywood standard
dating to silent movies and stars like Lugosi and Lon
Chaney. Zombie has been a fan of the genre since he
was young.

"What really attracted me was the monsters were the
misunderstood freaks. As a kid, you identify with that
on some level," he said.

Sienna Miller the British It Girl has received a
public apology from fiance Jude Law, who admitted to
having an affair with a nanny after reports of his
infidelity surfaced in several tabloids.

"Following the reports in today's papers, I just want
to say I am deeply ashamed and upset that I've hurt
Sienna and the people most close to us," Law said in a
statement to the British Press Association. "I want to
publicly apologize to Sienna and our respective
families for the pain that I have caused.

"There is no defense for my actions which I sincerely
regret and I ask that you respect our privacy at this
very difficult time."

Law confessed to bedding 26-year-old Daisy Wright, the
caregiver to one of his children, who was hired by his
ex-wife, Sadie Frost. The two reportedly met in New
Orleans earlier this year where Law was filming All
the King's Men.

Though Law beseeched the public for privacy in the
matter, Wright has no such hang-ups about her steamy
encounter with the Cold Mountain star.

"It was amazing," Wright told London's Sunday Mirror
of her mattress romp with Law. "Jude was a masterful
lover who made my whole body tingle."

The nanny told the Sunday Mirror that her connection
with Law began after the two attended a Robert Plant
concert along with Law's child.

When they returned home after the concert, they shared
some wine and...

"The next thing I knew, he was kissing me--it was
amazing. He felt so lovely. We kissed and kissed for
what seemed like ages I was thinking, 'I cannot
believe this. Jude Law is snogging me'," Wright told
the paper.

"The next thing I know, we are dragging each other
upstairs to his bedroom, kissing and then, in the
bedroom, ripping off each other's clothes."

After a wild night of sex, the two were discovered in
bed by one of Law's children, Wright said.

"The next thing I knew I heard the door open and the
child was looking at me in bed. I was probably still
drunk and opened one eye. I just thought I am not
going to wake up, I am not going to move. I just lay
there," Wright said.

According to published reports, Wright, who had served
as weekend nanny to 8-year-old Rafferty, 4-year-old
Iris and 2-year-old Rudy since last August, was
recently let go from the position after Frost decided
she needed someone older to care for her children.

Miller, 23, has made no public comment about her
fiance's admission. On Monday, she arrived at a
theater in London's West End looking "grim faced"
before taking the stage in a production of As You Like
It, a British television station reported.

The actress reportedly did not appear to be wearing
her engagement ring.

Friends say the couple are "working through" their
problems, according to BBC News.

Roman Polanski, testifying on the first day of his
libel suit against the publishers of Vanity Fair
magazine, said that he was the victim of an
"abominable lie."

The Polish-born movie director is suing publisher
Conde Nast over a 2002 article that said he seduced a
woman on the way to the funeral of his murdered wife,
Sharon Tate.

Tate, who was pregnant, was killed by followers of
American serial killer Charles Manson in Los Angeles
in 1969.

Polanski called the Vanity Fair article "particularly
hurtful because it dishonors my memory of Sharon,"
adding, "that's not the way I behave."

He said his memories of the time immediately after
Tate's death are hazy. "I was sedated and dazed," he
said.

Polanski is the acclaimed director of "Chinatown,"
"Rosemary's Baby" and "The Pianist," which drew on his
childhood experiences escaping the Holocaust and won
an Academy Award for best director in 2003.

Polanski faces arrest in the United States since
pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
He was charged with rape and five other felonies in
1977.

He fled Los Angeles for Paris soon after, fearing that
he could face a lengthy prison sentence. The charge to
which he pleaded guilty is not an extraditable offense
in France.

Director Bryan Singer says next summer's Superman
Returns is first and foremost a love story.

"It's a story about what happens when old boyfriends
come back into your life after they've been gone a few
years and things have changed," Singer said at
Comic-Con.

A three-minute clip of his movie drew a standing
ovation from a crowd of several thousand
convention-goers.

"Superman has always been about Lois Lane, Superman
and Clark Kent and this love triangle between these
three people who really are only two people," Singer
says.

Superman Returns, which is due in theaters in June,
finds Clark Kent and his Superman alter-ego back in
Metropolis after several years of trying, in vain, to
return to his home planet.

Back at the Daily Planet, Kent discovers that his
former love interest, Lois Lane ( Kate Bosworth), has
a boyfriend and a child. Lane writes a cynical story
about Superman's return and in a tirade bluntly
informs him, "The world doesn't need a savior, and
neither do I."

Superman Returns picks up a few years after 1978's
Superman, which starred the late Christopher Reeve.
It's as if that film's three critically panned sequels
didn't exist.

"It sort of puts the first film in a vague history,"
Singer says. "It utilizes elements, icons and images
from that movie and helps give us a place to begin."

The late Marlon Brando, who played Superman's father,
Jor-El, will be seen in the new movie, and
computer-generated re-creation will supplement
archival footage of the actor.

Singer, who also directed the blockbusters X-Men and
X2, says his Superman harks back visually to the 1930s
and '40s vision of the superhero.

Warner Bros. has been trying to relaunch the Superman
franchise for 11 years. Singer was asked to step in
last year, and he says he jumped at the chance, even
if it meant relinquishing the X-Men franchise.

"I identify with Superman," Singer says. "I am
adopted, I am an only child, and

I wear tights...

I love the idea that he comes from another world, that
he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these
extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about
him."

It finally took the heroics of Fantastic Four to stop
that most nefarious of villains--the dastardly
Box Office Slump.

The flick about a quartet of dysfunctional superheroes
earned an incredible $56 million, leading the box
office to its first up weekend after a record 19
straight downers, according to preliminary studio
figures.

A whole lot of people seem to be on a mission to put a
little meat on the increasingly prominent bones of
Lindsay Lohan.

An online petition titled "Please Lindsay, Eat!" has
gathered over 12,500 signatures from concerned
individuals, who are united in their preference for
the actress' once curvy figure from the days of Mean
Girls as compared to her drastically slimmer bod of
today.

"To: Lindsay," the petition reads, "We urge you
Lindsay to please, pick up a sandwich and eat it, or
ice cream, or any food that might put those oh so cute
pounds back on."

Actor Nicolas Cage will star as a real-life policeman
who survived the collapse of the World Trade Center in
what would be one of Hollywood's first films to
dramatize the Sept. 11 attacks on America.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone is on board to
direct the untitled movie, which centers on the story
of the last two men -- a pair of Port Authority police
officers -- rescued from the rubble of the twin
towers.

The longish black hair. The pale skin. The ornate suit
jacket. The adult male speaking voice that sounds like
a lil' girl.

That is fabled candymaker Willy Wonka as embodied by
Johnny Depp in director Tim Burton's new take on the
children's classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

One problem: the casual viewer is going to see Michael
Jackson.

And, according to Depp, who openly copped to stealing
riffs from rocker Keith Richards for his turn as
Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The
Curse of the Black Pearl, it is absolutely not what
the actor had in mind when he was conjuring the
eccentric first brought to the big screen by Gene
Wilder in 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
Factory. Children-show hosts like Captain Kangaroo and
Mr. Rogers, these are the innocuous sorts who inspired
Depp's Wonka, he has said.

"Everyone is entitled to think what they want," Depp
said last week in a news conference in Nassau,
Bahamas, "even while being violently wrong."

Two of the most famous props in US film history --
light sabers belonging to Luke Skywalker and Darth
Vader of "Star Wars" fame -- will go under the hammer
in late July auction.

Dozens of objects from George Lucas' celebrated sci-fi
saga will go the highest bidders at the July 29
auction in Beverly Hills organized by Profiles in
History, which specializes in the sale of film props.

The Jedi knight's light saber, owned by "Star Wars"
producer Gary Kurtz, is estimated to sell for between
60,000 and 80,000 dollars.

The light saber used by the evil Darth Vader character
in "The Empire Strikes Back" is estimated to go for
40,000 to 60,000 dollars.

The light sabers, of course, worked only on screen
with the help of special effects. Luke's weapon, shown
on Profiles in History's website, is a silvery tube
with a black handle.

The 75 objects up for bid include Skywalker's orange
"X-Wing" pilot jumpsuit, estimated to go for 60,000 to
80,000 dollars. Actor Mark Hamill wore the suit for
flight scenes in "Stars Wars" and "The Empire Strikes
Back."

A Stormtrooper "blaster" weapon used in "Star Wars" is
expected to sell for between 25,000 and 30,000
dollars, while a latex mask used for the green Yoda
character may go for 8,000 to 10,000 dollars.

Internet auction site eBay said on Tuesday it had
begun removing illegal DVD copies of the Live 8
poverty awareness pop concerts from its Web site,
after the record industry complained.

Some of the pirate recordings on the site early on
Tuesday were on sale within 24 hours of Saturday's
concerts ending, and have been attracting bids of up
to 16.99 pounds ($31) each.

Days after the Supreme Court weighed in on digital
copyright infringement issues in the MGM v.
Grokster case, select consumer electronics chains
began stocking a product some predict could spark the
entertainment industry's next showdown over
intellectual property rights.

New to the shelves of Best Buy and CompUSA this month
is Slingbox, a brick-sized device that enables viewers
to route the live television signal coming into their
homes to a portable device anywhere on the globe via
broadband connection. Slingbox costs $250 and has no
subsequent subscription fee; several stores sold out
on the first day.

Created by San Mateo, Calif.-based company Sling
Media, Slingbox is the most prominent example of a
handful of new ventures trying to repeat what TiVo
achieved through time-shifting with technology capable
of what loosely is referred to as place-shifting.
Leading place-shifting firms even have drawn interest
from cable operators interested in potential
partnerships.

Two Slingbox subscribers could send each other
programing unavailable in their respective areas; an
East Coast viewer could stream "Survivor" to the West
Coast three hours early. The West Coast viewer could
return the favor by providing access to a premium
channel the East Coast viewer doesn't pay to receive.

Chris Rock will narrate a new tv series, inspired by his experiences in the 1980s in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The show will focus on Rock's trials while attending a predominantly white junior high school. Very similar to my situation, I too, went to an all white school.

Courtney Love was taken by ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital after complaining of feeling faint, but she was discharged soon after. Love was attending an entertainment industry gathering at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel when she felt ill. A Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman said officers called to the Roosevelt shortly past midnight took a crime report under the name of "Courtney L," but she declined to give further details, saying the report was confidential.

A city fire department spokeswoman, said fire personnel responded to a drug overdose call at the Roosevelt at one minute after midnight and transported someone to the hospital.

I once dropped acid at the Roosevelt. I'm not proud, but it was one of the most amazing times of my life.

Warner Home Video presents "Batman vs. Dracula." The feature-length cartoon, will be released directly to DVD Oct. 18. You know that it's gotta be good with a title like that...

Michael Bay gets so little critical respect. It's really sad. I wish I could make him feel better. Bay's flicks such as Armageddon, The Rock and Pearl Harbor are regularly slammed by critics, but his box-office numbers - $738 million for five films - are explosive.

His latest, The Island, arrives today. The sci-fi thriller stars Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson as clones fleeing before their organs can be harvested. Positive feedback from critics after a recent screening caught the filmmaker off guard. "I'm used to them hating everything I do," he says.

I find that so hard to believe. I mean the part about, "Positive feedback..."

But I'll hand over my hard earned ones to see it.

Police say one man could be responsible for a string of bizarre break-ins over four years involving a naked perpetrator who sometimes tickles the feet of sleeping women.

New Smyrna Beach police say they've been unable to catch him in part because they haven't had much evidence.

Usually the intruder is naked, he tickles the women's feet and sometimes he's discovered and flees before touching them. Each time the man ran off after being noticed.

Kirby said police know only that the suspect is white, thin and appears young.

"There's not been a lot to go on there," he said.

New Smyrna Beach is 44 miles northeast of Orlando if you want to get tickled.

A woman who was branded with letters from the Consolidated Edison logo when she fell off a skateboard onto a searing hot manhole cover in Manhattan has filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages from the utility.

Elizabeth C. Wallenberg, 27, was burned just above her buttocks and on her left arm when she fell off her skateboard onto a cover over a steam pipe at Second Avenue and 13th Street in the East Village shortly after midnight. "It literally looked like a brand that had been applied by someone," it was said about the burn marks left on Wallenberg's body.

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, accused Con Ed of "negligence, carelessness, recklessness and culpable conduct" related to Wallenberg's injuries.

Bald men in Germany have no entitlement to state support for toupees, a court ruled.

Throwing out a legal challenge by a bald 46-year-old man, the court said the state was not discriminating against men even though health insurance covers the cost of wigs for women.

"In contrast to women, the involuntary loss of hair among men is common and accepted as nothing out of the ordinary," the court ruled, rejecting the suit from the man who said he suffered because of his baldness.

He filed the suit when the state health insurance system refused his claim for a $530 toupee.

In America some companies insurance pays for men's Viagra, but not women who use birth control pills...