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LONDON - Elton John has been hospitalized after suffering from a case of E. coli bacterial infection and the flu, his spokesman said Monday.

LOS ANGELES - "Michael Jackson's This Is It" danced to the head of the box office, debuting with $23.2 million domestically in its first weekend.

WASHINGTON - From his home and on a friendly network, Rush Limbaugh lobbed pot shots across the airwaves Sunday at President Barack Obama — "immature, inexperienced, in over his head," offering the country "radical leadership" and laying siege to the economy.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country Music Hall of Famer George Jones isn't a big fan of where the genre has moved in recent years.

NEW YORK - The abrupt closing Sunday of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" after only nine performances has cast a brief, uneasy shadow over Broadway's fall season, ironically one of the busiest in years.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Pop-country has made superstars out of acts like Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift and more, but the term is not particularly endearing in Nashville, even to the artists who have come to define it.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - One of "24's" favorite villains, former President Charles Logan, is coming back.

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers from their cash?

PARIS - A French lawyer for director Roman Polanski, imprisoned in Switzerland, says a new bail offer will be filed Monday and it will be a "very, very significant" cash amount.

LONDON (Reuters) - Elton John is recovering in hospital from a serious case of e-coli bacterial infection and influenza that forced him to cancel a string of concerts, but he hoped to return to the stage soon, a spokesman said on Monday.

LOS ANGELES - Mel Gibson and his girlfriend are welcoming the birth of the couple's first child — making the Oscar-winner a father for the eighth time.

NEW YORK - Cable network TNT says it has rescued the shot-down NBC cop drama "Southland" and will bring it back in the new year.

NEW YORK - Pivotal presidential campaigns are frequently defined in retrospect by documentaries.

LOS ANGELES - The first interview with Rihanna about Chris Brown's assault on her is airing this week on ABC.

NEW YORK - Prime-time newcomer Jay Leno says he would have rather stayed put at "The Tonight Show" — and if NBC offered him that job again, he'd take it.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's much-hyped concert movie reigned at the worldwide box office on Sunday, but its performance in North America was hardly a thriller.

NEW YORK - Mark-Paul Gosselaar is a self-professed theater novice and not afraid to admit it.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After about 25 years, those sneaky, lizard-like aliens are back. Once again, they want to take over Earth and, maybe, destroy or consume the populace. But so what? In exchange for their malevolence, they promise to provide a world of fast-paced, eye-catching action and provocative drama.

ASHLAND, Ore. - With the recession cutting back travel and entertainment spending, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival was anticipating a tough 2009 season — so much so that it cut the budget $1 million and actors tripled-up on roles.

PARIS - A French lawyer for Roman Polanski says he has submitted a new bail offer to a Swiss court to try to free the filmmaker from jail.

BERLIN - This time it's Berlin calling.

"When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" (Little, Brown and Company, 480 pages, $27.99), by Gail Collins: In 1960, a secretary named Lois Rabinowitz was reprimanded by a New York City judge for appearing in court wearing slacks. Less than 50 years later in the same city, bus driver Tahita Jenkins was fired from her job because she refused to wear slacks.

NEW YORK - You haven't heard the last of former President Charles Logan on "24."

DEAR ABBY: As a fire officer, I have seen far too many families fall victim to accidental home fires. It is devastating to find out that a life could have been saved if someone had only taken that simple step of replacing a dead battery in a smoke alarm. Nearly 96 percent of American homes have at least one smoke alarm. But did you know that 19 percent of American homes lack a working smoke alarm because the batteries are missing or dead?

DOHA (Reuters) - An epic film about Islam's Prophet Mohammad backed by the producer of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" is being planned with the aim of "bridging cultures."

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A second attempt to sell a crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe's final resting place has failed, with not a single bid received for the burial spot in a celebrity-filled Los Angeles cemetery.

DEAR ABBY: I have strong feelings about the word "love." I use it only when I truly mean it. My husband's family, however, bandies it about as a common word.

NEW YORK - Fox network says an upcoming movie has stepped in for Microsoft to sponsor next Sunday's "Family Guy" special.

PRISTINA (AFP) - Former US president Bill Clinton vowed Sunday that Barack Obama would stand by Kosovo as he attended the unveiling of a huge statue in his honour.

DENVER (Billboard) - MTV Urge ... Yahoo Music Unlimited ... Virgin Digital ... Since 2003 -- when iTunes launched in the United States -- all of these digital music services have come and gone, without challenging Apple's market dominance, despite the backing of resource-rich parent companies.