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Lady Antebellum guitarist Dave Haywood still needs a plus-one for the CMA Awards.

LOS ANGELES - Before she signed on to make "Machete," the campy celebration of the eponymous Latino legend, Michelle Rodriguez had pretty much decided she didn't want to make a movie about her own culture.

"A Journey: My Political Life" by Tony Blair; Alfred A. Knopf (702 pages, $35)

The latest movie by Julian Schnabel couldn't have been more timely.

Indiana State Police say a movie extra has been critically injured on the production set of "Transformers 3."

Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Aug. 28, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

Axl Rose, it seems, needs a little more patience - and a much louder alarm clock.

Lanvin will be the next high-fashion house to become a partner of fast-fashion retailer H&M.

Lanvin will be the next high-fashion house to become a partner of fast-fashion retailer H&M.

Years ago the great American movie critic Pauline Kael made it safe to enjoy bad movies. "Because movies are so rarely great art, if we can't appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them," she wrote.

Top 10 Renting Video Game Titles at U.S. BLOCKBUSTER stores for the week that ended Aug. 29:

AGORA 2 1/2 stars. Rachel Weisz stars as the philosopher/astronomer Hypatia in this vivid historical drama set in Roman Egypt of the late 4th century, where religious tumult and ideological zealotry ruled. (What else is new?) 2 hrs. No MPAA rating (violence, adult themes) - Steven Rea

One day when Vincent Cassel was 12, his younger brother returned home late from a soccer match at his Paris school, all abuzz. He and his classmates had been stopped on the street by police and told to get down on the sidewalk. They heard gunshots around the corner at the Porte de Clignancourt, where, the brother excitedly recounted, the police had just killed "a very famous gangster."

LOS ANGELES - For a man who's so stone-faced on the screen, Danny Trejo sure has a lot to say.

LOS ANGELES - It's a sweeping romantic moment set against the grandeur of New York's Grand Central Terminal, venue to countless poignant moments of tearful farewells.