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.

Product placement in videos, singles as jingles, ad photo shoots - these days, bands love brands, reports Chris Lee, of the Los Angeles Times.

The fringe is a blur. The festival is only four days old and it's already feeling like a ride on a runaway train in a burlesque fun park.

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.