Fashion Wire Daily - Half the passages in this week\'s haute couture show by Jean Paul Gaultier had birds\' names; several were simply entitled cage, befitting a collection where many of fashion\'s most beautiful models hit the runway bound in wire traps or metal frames.
Playbill - A dawning troupe called Big Sky Theatre Company will present Tennessee Williams\' Summer and Smoke, a sensuous tale of the Gothic South, Aug. 20-31 at the Clurman Theatre in Theatre Row in Manhattan. It is the company\'s inaugural Off-Broadway production.
AP - Soul diva Amy Winehouse sipped from a glass of red wine and looked a bit unsteady on her feet as she appeared in front of a large audience at the Rock in Rio music festival southeast of Madrid on Friday.
AP - When the media capital of the world meets a celebrity divorce, it\'s a breakup made in tabloid heaven. So the city that has hosted the spectacular splits of Woody Allen, Liza Minnelli and Rudolph Giuliani now is feasting on the salacious details of model Christie Brinkley\'s fourth marital breakup.
Reuters - Merrill Lynch & Co may sell its 20 \npercent stake in financial news and data provider Bloomberg LP \nto a blind trust controlled by New York City Mayor Michael \nBloomberg, The New York Post reported on Friday.
AP - WASHINGTON (AP) Moving from celebrity to senator isn\'t exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn\'t mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Senate seat in Minnesota, will coast to Capitol Hill on a wide, smooth road.
Reuters - More than just a box-office hit in \nChina, animated Hollywood comedy \"Kung Fu Panda\" has led \nChinese artists to find fault with their own film industry and \ncall for fewer government controls on culture.
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