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`WALL-E’: Robot romance inspired by `Hello, Dolly’ (AP)

In this image released by Disney/Pixar Animation Studios, a scene from the animated film, 'WALL-E.' is shown. Jerry Herman, composer of the Tony-winning musical 'Hello, Dolly!' had licensed songs from the 1964 show to the Pixar masterminds, but he had no idea that his music and lyrics would factor so prominently in the storyline of the sci-fi robot romance.  (AP Photo/Disney/Pixar Animation Studios)AP - Jerry Herman, eyes welling with tears, could hardly believe what he was hearing as he watched the new animated blockbuster “WALL-E.”


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ZZ Top hitches ride with Rick Rubin for comeback (Reuters)

Reuters - Texas rock trio ZZ Top has signed to producer Rick Rubin’s American Recordings imprint, hoping for a commercial and critical revitalization along the lines of prior Rubin clients Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond.

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Report: Alex Rodriguez has split from wife (AP)

Alex Rodriguez, left, and his wife Cynthia Scurtis arrive at the grand opening of Jay-Z's 40/40 Club at the Palazzo hotel and casino in Las Vegas, in this Monday, Dec. 31, 2007 file photo. Rodriguez and his wife have split less than three months after the birth of the couple's second daughter, according to a report in the New York Daily News Thursday July 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, FILE)AP - Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his wife have split less than three months after the birth of the couple’s second daughter, according to a report in the New York Daily News.


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Tennis, everyone? Sport looks for ratings bounce (Reuters)

Rafael Nadal of Spain returns the ball to Mikhail Youzhny of Russia during their match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London June 30, 2008. When it comes to tennis, the future is heavily on the minds of television execs these days. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Reuters - Tennis Channel president Ken Solomon was sitting in his office on the grounds of the French Open in Paris six weeks ago when, rifling through some press coverage of the network, he proudly showed a blurb from a story that proclaimed the network “the future of television.”


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Spielberg’s studio talks progressing smoothly (Reuters)

U.S. director Steven Spielberg attends a news conference for the film 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' at the 61st Cannes Film Festival May 18, 2008. Representatives of Spielberg and the Indian conglomerate Reliance are talking daily about terms of a $1.5 billion proposal that would allow the DreamWorks principal and his partners to produce more than 30 films over the next five years at a new independent studio. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)Reuters - Representatives of Steven Spielberg and the Indian conglomerate Reliance are talking daily about terms of a $1.5 billion proposal that would allow the DreamWorks principal and his partners to produce more than 30 films over the next five years at a new independent studio.


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