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Reuters - Filmport, Toronto's mega-studio and a possible white knight for its stranded film production sector, opened its doors Wednesday with just one problem -- no studio tenant.

AP - British glam rocker Gary Glitter was stranded at Hong Kong's airport Thursday, denied entry in a second country after being released from nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children.

Reuters - DVD buyers and renters had island fever for the second consecutive week. With no big new theatrical features hitting stores, "Nim's Island" remained on top of the national video sales and rental charts during its sophomore week in stores.

AP - The catastrophe looming in the documentary "I.O.U.S.A." isn't romantic like the doomed young love in "Titanic," but billionaires Warren Buffett and Pete Peterson warn it could break many more hearts.

Mayor Urges Study of Wind, Solar Power

By Robin Shulman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 21, 2008; A02

NEW YORK -- Outlining his vision for a dramatic reconfiguration of urban energy sources, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg says he is exploring potential for installing turbines and other alternative energy generators throughout New York City, in the water and on bridges and skyscrapers.

Speaking Tuesday evening at a conference in Las Vegas on alternative energy, Bloomberg said he will ask private companies to study how windmills, tidal turbines, and solar energy panels might be built, in an attempt to move the city toward reliance on renewable sources of energy.

By Renae Merle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 21, 2008; D01

Federal regulators yesterday announced a plan to systematically modify the loans of at least 25,000 homeowners with mortgages held by failed lender IndyMac in an attempt to create an industry model for assisting troubled borrowers.

Throwing a lifeline to distressed homeowners, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will offer delinquent IndyMac borrowers new mortgages with interest rates as low as 3 percent. It is partly a challenge of speed: The FDIC wants to complete the modifications by mid-October, three months after it took control of the troubled California bank. It aims to sell off IndyMac's assets by then.

Random House Feared Radical Muslim Backlash

By Michelle Boorstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 21, 2008; C01

Once upon a time, Sherry Jones was a Montana newspaper reporter who dreamed she could contribute to world peace with a novel about the prophet Muhammad and his feminist leanings. Then she wrote it. Today? She's the target of a Serbian mufti and a Middle Eastern studies professor with a lawyer.

Life has been a roller coaster lately for Jones, 46, who went from being a Book-of-the-Month Club pick to seeing her novel dropped by Random House, which said in a statement it had received "cautionary advice" that the fictionalized story of one of Muhammad's wives might "incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment."

By Marc Fisher
Thursday, August 21, 2008; B01

Next week, when President C.D. "Dan" Mote welcomes freshmen to the University of Maryland, he will inform them that the college police will enforce underage drinking laws "with terrific ferocity." And then he will turn around and, recognizing that most students do drink, tell the teenagers "to take care of each other when they see someone who's passed out, to take advantage of all of our services for students who abuse alcohol."

"We have a real conflict here," Mote says, and he's talking not only about the College Park campus but about every university and about our entire society. We live in a time when efforts to enforce the prohibition on drinking before age 21 are more aggressive than ever, yet there is a common assumption that most young people routinely violate that law.

By Matt Schudel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 21, 2008; B05

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, a Cleveland Democrat who was in her fifth term in the U.S. House of Representatives and was chairwoman of the House Ethics Committee, died Aug. 20 at Huron Hospital in East Cleveland, Ohio. She had a brain hemorrhage.

She was taken to the hospital Tuesday night after being found unconscious at the wheel of her car in a Cleveland suburb. She was taken off life support Wednesday afternoon.

AP - Several major news organizations, including The Associated Press, prematurely reported the death Wednesday of U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio, who had suffered a brain hemorrhage while driving in suburban Cleveland.