Steve Shickles

AP - A Hong Kong Chinese artist has won Japan’s first “Nobel Prize of Manga” for artists working in the comic book genre abroad.

Fashion Wire Daily - What a difference a few degrees make. Milan - five degrees Celsius hotter than Paris - was obsessed with eco threats, global water shortages and men wearing shorts, in Nicholas Sarkozy's new Paris its all about Officer Poets.

Reuters - John Van Druten's comedy "Old
Acquaintance" has inspired not one but two film adaptations —
one in 1943 starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins and a 1981
remake titled "Rich and Famous" with Jacqueline Bisset and
Candice Bergen — but it surprisingly has not been seen on
Broadway since its 1940 premiere.

Reuters - The German Defense
Ministry is scrambling to qualify its stance on the Tom Cruise
World War Two thriller "Valkyrie," saying Thursday that,
despite reports to the contrary, it has no opposition to the
film shooting in Germany.

Reuters - The German Defense
Ministry is scrambling to qualify its stance on the Tom Cruise
World War Two thriller "Valkyrie," saying Thursday that,
despite reports to the contrary, it has no opposition to the
film shooting in Germany.

AP - It’s all in the ears of the beholder.

AP - With “Transformers,” Michael Bay has either made a big, dumb summer adventure for the little boy in all of us or the world’s most-expensive General Motors commercial.

Reuters - NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff
Zucker has said the General Electric Co.-owned media group was
constrained from matching News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow
Jones & Co. Inc. due to the size of the premium.

AP - First kisses can be tricky. Even for Harry Potter.

Reuters - Among hardcore film
fans, movie directors have become the equivalent of rock stars.