The movie mogul who championed intelligent, independent film-making has never been short of enemies. So has the news that his empire has hit stormy waters been exaggerated by his rivals? Guy Adams reports from Los Angeles

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AP, LONDON - Batman star Christian Bale was arrested Tuesday over allegations of assaulting his mother and sister, police and British media said.

AP, NEW YORK - A Broadway mogul whose wife trashed him in a widely viewed Internet video was granted a divorce from her Monday.

AP, QUEBEC CITY, Quebec - Paul McCartney churned out a Beatles-laden song list to a pumped-up crowd gathered Sunday for a free concert as part of Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebration.

REUTERS, LONDON  - The husband of singer Amy Winehouse was ordered to serve about four and a half more months in prison on Monday after he pleaded guilty to attacking a pub landlord in 2006 and then trying to cover it up.

AP, NEW YORK - Gillian Anderson says getting back into Dana Scully's character for "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" was harder than she expected

La Times

Randy Newman's getting his apologies out of the way early. His new album, "Harps & Angels," isn't out until Aug. 5, but he knows he's going to take some hits for the song "Korean Parents," a portrait of race relations as played out in public education.

Staff Correspondent
The body of poet Samudra Gupta was brought home from India on Monday and kept at the BIRDEM mortuary.
 
The poet is to be buried at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard after namaz-e-janaza Tuesday.

Agency
He was the brightest literary figure of his time, says Mir Waliuzzaman about his friend the late author Mahmudul Haque.
 
Friends and fellow authors reacted with shock to the news of Mahmudul's death Monday, saying his passing away had created a great vacuum in the book world.

The Guardian

He pulled his troops out of Iraq, was an avid art collector and had an intriguing, and tragic, sex life - of all the Roman emperors, Hadrian seems the most recognisable. But, as the British Museum explores his legacy in a new exhibition, Mary Beard asks to what extent he is our own creation

AP, LOS ANGELES - Batman's joust with the Joker has set another box office record.

Stoked by fan fever over the manic performance of the late Heath Ledger as the Joker, "The Dark Knight" set a one-day box office record with $66.4 million on opening day, Warner Bros. head of distribution Dan Fellman said Saturday.

AP, PARIS - Angelina Jolie and her newborn twins early Saturday left the French hospital where she gave birth, the Fondation Lenval said

REUTERS, LOS ANGELES - Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C and says she probably contracted the liver disease from drug use more than 30 years ago.
 
"The virus, found during a routine examination, is likely the result of her drug use many decades ago," her publicist said in a statement released on Wednesday.

REUTERS, OTTAWA - The lead singer of the popular Canadian band the Barenaked Ladies will fight a recent cocaine charge in the United States, the band said in a statement posted on its website on Thursday.

AP, FAYETTEVILLE, N.Y. - The singer and guitarist for the band Barenaked Ladies has been arrested on drug charges in upstate New York.

Police say Steven Page was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance on Friday in the Syracuse area.

AP, BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Michael J. Fox will return to series TV with a four-episode guest role on FX's "Rescue Me."

FX also announced on Tuesday that Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden ("Pollock") will be joining the Glenn Close legal drama "Damages" as a second-season series regular, while Ted Danson will return to the show for several episodes.

LONDON (Reuters) - Even the most hardened celebrity watchers were taken aback by reports of an $11 million deal for exclusive rights to the first photographs of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's newborn twins.

AP, LOS ANGELES - Jessica King is out and Comfort Fedoke is getting another shot on "So You Think You can Dance," Fox TV said Monday.

TOKYO (AFP) - Covering her face with her hands, 20-year-old Riyo Mori of Japan heard the MC's voice and the thunderous cheering of the crowd telling one year ago that she was the new Miss Universe