AP - Of all the women Valentino has dressed in his 45-year career — from Jacqueline Kennedy to Mariella Agnelli to Gwyneth Paltrow — one red carpet moment stands out: When Julia Roberts wore a vintage black-and-white Valentino gown when she was awarded her best actress Oscar.

AP - Marion "Suge" Knight has been released from a Las Vegas jail.

E! Online - Kim Kardashian jetted back from promoting Disaster Movie in New York just in time to hit Verizon's launch party for the pink BlackBerry Curve. Guess the girl really loves her gadgets.

E! Online - Sadly, death pays in show business. And now it also costs extra.

E! Online - Sure, some of Oprah Winfrey's female contemporaries may be heads of state, chair major financial corporations and be second to none in philanthropic endeavors, but if they don't have a daily talk show, they should just take a number...preferably behind Winfrey.

AP - Of all the women Valentino has dressed in his 45-year career — from Jacqueline Kennedy to Mariella Agnelli to Gwyneth Paltrow — one red carpet moment stands out: When Julia Roberts wore a vintage black-and-white Valentino gown when she was awarded her best actress Oscar.

AP - Marion "Suge" Knight has been released from a Las Vegas jail.

AP - He does comedy, writes books, and mixes it up with the hottest stars in music and Hollywood. With all this, who needs swimming?

Reuters - Julia Roberts has returned to work with Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani to raise money for the fight against AIDS in Africa, designing a T-shirt to be sold under the "Red" label.

AFP - Los Angeles prosecutors have dropped 30 of 59 sexual abuse charges against Indian-born celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander, as jury selection got under way for his trial in California.

Reuters - Giorgio Armani will design his first villas for a $1.85 billion gated community development in Egypt that is just two hours' drive from Cairo, the Italian fashion designer said on Wednesday.

Fashion Wire Daily - Judging by the sheer number of high-tech mascaras currently on the market, the days of buying any random mascara in "black" and applying two coats are numbered, if not already gone.

AP - The Procter & Gamble Co. is linking laundry to fashion in what's billed as the biggest product launch yet for its venerable Tide brand.

Reuters - Women carrying corn on their heads and children selling peanuts stop to stare as a leggy model in a tiny, blue dress strikes a pose outside a steel-doored clothes shop in Sierra Leone's capital.

AP - He does comedy, writes books, and mixes it up with the hottest stars in music and Hollywood. With all this, who needs swimming?

AP - The surgeon's knife can wait. Shawne Merriman is going to play football, two torn knee ligaments and all. A day after visiting a fourth doctor, the San Diego Chargers' star outside linebacker decided Wednesday to play this season rather than have surgery on his damaged left knee.

AP - The Seattle Seahawks finally have some good injury news. Lofa Tatupu has a bone bruise in his right knee, and coach Mike Holmgren said Wednesday the Pro Bowl linebacker will be fine for the season opener Sept. 7 at Buffalo.

AP - Golden State guard Monta Ellis will be sidelined for at least three months after severely spraining his ankle during an offseason workout, forcing the Warriors to start the season without the player expected to lead their revamped roster this fall.

AP - Baseball's replay central is an 18-by-24 foot room on the fifth floor of a former baking factory in Manhattan's Meatpacking District that's crammed with so many computers and television screens that it looks like NASA's Mission Control.