Playbill - Casting has been announced for the second regional production of Michele Lowe's Mezzulah, 1946, a play-with-music about women factory workers during World War II - and their status following the war - running Dec. 10-Jan. 18, 2009, at Florida Stage in Manalapan, FL.
Reuters - Paramount is getting behind the power of the press. The studio has picked up the life rights of Missouri journalist Linda Trest, who helped break open the cover of a drug-busting con man.
Reuters - Top fashion designer Marc Jacobs' company agreed to pay New York state $1 million for improper payments made to secure a venue to hold fashion shows, the New York attorney general's office said on Wednesday.
AP - Judges for the National Book Awards honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The 81-year-old author last won a National Book Award 30 years ago.