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AP - Artworks by four artists shortlisted for Britain's controversial Turner Prize have gone on display at central London's Tate Britain gallery.

AP - "Blood's a Rover" (Alfred A. Knopf, 636 pages, $28.95), by James Ellroy: James Ellroy, the mad genius of American letters, snarls and spits at you from the page in this jaw-dropping conclusion to his paranoid "Underworld USA" trilogy.

AFP - French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy launched a website Monday that promises a glimpse of her life with President Nicolas Sarkozy but its instant success knocked it off the web.

AP - The defense lawyer for the CBS News producer charged with trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman is calling the talk-show host "a master at manipulating audiences."

Fashion Wire Daily - Dries Van Noten went back to doing what he does best at his runway show Sunday, Oct. 4, in Paris - colorful prints, ethnic fabrics, modern attitude and a sense that women should be polished but never stiff in their dress.

Reuters - Opponents of the award, who call themselves "Stuckists," stood outside the Tate Britain gallery on London's River Thames where the award is staged and called on Monday for the "tired" and "exhausted" show to be scrapped.

AP - On his second day as musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the man of the moment in classical music rehearsed with a group of middle schoolers who were having tempo problems.

AP - A Chicago judge is expected to decide Monday whether to release on bail the man accused of stalking ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and allegedly secretly videotaping her nude.

AP - Edison Chen will appear in his first movie since his career was derailed by a sex photo scandal more than a year ago.

Reuters - Liam Neeson has joined Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks in the cast of "The Next Three Days," which is shooting in the Pittsburgh area.

AP - A preview performance of the Broadway revival of "The Royal Family" has been canceled after one of its stars became ill on stage.

AP - Harry Potter has kept his fans waiting for two years, the longest school break they have had to endure for a new movie adventure about the teen wizard.

AP - 1. "Swimsuit" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) (F-H)

Reuters - British police said on Thursday they would not reopen investigations into the interception of celebrities' mobile phone voicemails by journalists, despite new allegations against a Rupert Murdoch newspaper.

AP - Austrians could be forgiven for bristling at "Bruno."

AP - Paris Hilton has arrived for the Miami trial of a federal lawsuit accusing her of failing to adequately promote her 2006 movie "Pledge This!"

AP - Richard Wagner is the classical composer most associated with the Nazis, but Johann Sebastian Bach was the one the party dubbed "the most German of Germans" and whose music was played at rallies to stir up nationalist zeal.

AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shut the door Thursday to a resolution honoring Michael Jackson because debate on the symbolic measure could raise "contrary views" about the pop star's life.

E! Online - Michael Jackson's departure from the Staples Center Tuesday didn't require the involved level of hocus-pocus that's been speculated.

Reuters - Hugh Jackman, best known as the superhero Wolverine in the "X-Men" movies, and Daniel Craig, the superspy in the "James Bond" films, will star together on Broadway in "A Steady Rain," a play about two Chicago policeman.