Otago Daily Times: Entertainment

A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than $US300 ($NZ407.9) million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her.

The adventures in psychic warfare at the heart of the film The Men Who Stare at Goats took Jeff Bridges back to some oddly familiar territory, reports Geoff Boucher, of the Los Angeles Times.

The music of fabled New Zealand band The Fourmyula is getting another airing. Scott Kara, of the NZ Herald, gets the rock 'n' roll story.

Bill Pearson (1922-2002) in 1963 published Coal Flat, a novel some considered at the time to be the best candidate for the mythical Great New Zealand Novel, while his 1952 essay Fretful Sleepers was probably the most influential piece of social criticism of its time.

Madonna doesn't think a wife should withhold sex from a sloppy husband.

Can romance survive without champagne, asks a new chick-lit novel with an alcoholic protagonist.

There are moments in each of Aliens vs. Predator's three single-player campaigns where the game flashes some honest-to-goodness greatness that other first-person games can't touch.