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Rapper Kanye West was taken into custody early on Friday night after getting involved in a scuffle with a paparazzo outside a Newcastle nightclub, British media reported.

The 31-year-old musician was leaving the Tup Tup nightclub when photographer Terry Blackburn tried to snap his photo, prompting West, who was accompanied by four ladies, to push the paparazzo's camera into his face while yelling at him to back off.

By Lindsay Pollock and Philip Boroff
Bloomberg
Friday, November 14, 2008; C04

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- Lehman Brothers chief executive Richard S. Fuld Jr. and his wife, Kathy, sold a collection of 16 drawings Wednesday night for $13.5 million, below the low estimate of $15 million, at a Christie's International sale in New York that reflected the slide in financial markets.

The auction house sold $113.6 million of contemporary artworks, half its pre-sale low estimate. Almost one-third of the 75 lots found no buyers in a salesroom that included tennis great John McEnroe and billionaire Eli Broad.

Friday, November 14, 2008; WE31

"Slumdog Millionaire," a modern-day "rags-to-rajah" fable, won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, and it's easy to see why. With its timely setting of a swiftly globalizing India and, more specifically, the country's own version of the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" TV show, "Slumdog Millionaire" plays like Charles Dickens for the 21st century. But in this particular saga, the coal dust of Victorian England has been replaced by the Tata fumes and computer-screen glow that envelop a country in the throes of profound economic and cultural change.

The resourceful, unerringly grounded title character is Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), a lanky kid from the Mumbai slums whom we meet just after he wins 10 million rupees on the aforementioned game show. Accused of cheating, Jamal is taken into custody by the Mumbai police, and he proceeds to tell them his story, a tale of one boy's decidedly unsentimental education by way of poverty, tribal strife, abandonment, exploitation, criminal gangs and -- this is a crowd-pleaser, after all -- star-crossed love.

By Lisa de Moraes
Friday, November 14, 2008; C07

NBC has whacked both its Christian-Slater-as-Walter-Mitty-2.0 drama, "My Own Worst Enemy," as well as its Brooke-Shields-couldn't-be-more-annoying-soap "Lipstick Jungle," which can only mean that it's time for NBC's programming chief, Ben "Teflon" Silverman, to get (a) a contract renewal or (b) a promotion.

Meanwhile, ABC isn't confirming that it has plowed under its struggling Wednesday forensic fairy tale, "Pushing Daisies," but the writers are being shopped around Hollywood by their agents, which is never a good sign.

By Lisa de Moraes
Tuesday, November 11, 2008; C01

It's National Awkward Moments on TV Talk Shows Day! -- a.k.a. Why We Love Live TV Day.

Meredith Vieira kicked things off just after 7 a.m. yesterday when her "Today" co-host Matt Lauer asked her rhetorically -- by way of alerting viewers to the day's Tostitos November Sweeps Chick-Magnet News Story -- "What is the right age to get married?"

Friday, November 7, 2008;

There is some pleasure to be had in watching -- and listening to -- Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac sing and dance in "Soul Men." Playing Louis Hinds and Floyd Henderson, a pair of washed-up backup singers who come out of retirement to perform in a tribute concert for their recently deceased former band leader (John Legend), the two veterans, who reportedly did their own moves and vocals, look and sound good in an array of matching suits left over from the golden age of doo-wop.

Unfortunately, not good enough to make up for the unnecessary proliferation of Viagra humor, rectal-exam jokes and comedy at the expense of women, as the two now-estranged bandmates bicker with and swear at each other during a road trip from California to New York's Apollo Theater. One particularly unfortunate scene involves a sexual encounter in a motel room between Floyd and a groupie (Jennifer Coolidge) who is so, um, mature that she needs to take out her false teeth before . . . well, let's not go there.

Sylvester Stallone has recently signed on to direct and star into the upcoming action movie, the Expendables. The movie is about a team of mercenaries that are trying to overthrow a South American dictator.

�The Expendables� seems like the standard action movie, packed with spectacular stunts and patriotism and Stallone is definitely the director to go with, as his experience in such movies will prove extremely valuable. Action movies still have their finger on the pulse of the population, as because of the newer technologies, stunt devils can perform even more dangerous and spectacular stunts.

Political spoofs have represented a must-see throughout the presidential campaign season. Now that the confrontation between Barack Obama and John McCain approaches its end, one of them will be forced to leave the major stage and television satires whose main targets have been the contenders will presumably open their doors to new lines of attack to the disappointment of TV viewers.

For instance, think about Tina Fey�s recent impressions of John McCain�s running mate, which have drawn huge audiences for NBC and have brought �Saturday Night Live� back on track. The popularity of the late-night sketches has lured both the real Republican presidential candidate and Gov. Sarah Palin into the show, which has registered its highest ratings in more than a decade.

The former Blink-182 drummer was released from a Los Angeles burn center where he was being treated after surviving the Sept. 19 horrific crash in South Carolina.

Rocker Travis Barker, 32, has been discharged Friday from Grossman Burn Center, where he was hospitalized on Sept. 29 with second- and third-degree burns.

By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 18, 2008; C01

What would Poppy do?

That's the question that will inspire audiences fortunate enough to meet this year's most unforgettable and even revolutionary screen protagonist. Played by the radiant Sally Hawkins in Mike Leigh's comedy "Happy-Go-Lucky," Poppy emerges as an altogether new kind of heroine at a time when -- in Hollywood, at least -- violence, bleakness and pessimism are continually confused with moral seriousness. Observed with insight and compassion by Leigh during a few weeks of her crammed and contented life, Poppy may first impress viewers as an irritating or lovable ditz, depending on their temperament. But as channeled by Hawkins in a performance bursting with insight and fizzy joie de vivre, Poppy gradually comes into her own as a character of rare depth, wisdom and even courage.