AP - After wrapping up a successful concert tour, you'd think Reba McEntire would want to take some time off to relax. Instead, the tireless country star is preparing for her 10th turn as host of the Academy of Country Music Awards this weekend. Over the years, she says she's gained more ease hosting the event.

AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imminent. Aerial photos posted Friday at several celebrity Web sites, credited to the Insight News & Features paparazzi photo agency, purport to show the Simpson family home near Los Angeles dotted with large white party tents.

AP - With his follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore wants to examine America as an empire, study its standing since the Sept. 11 attacks and present revelations to surprise audiences as much as the first film did.

AP - Ellen DeGeneres and longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi are jumping at the chance to get married. DeGeneres announced their engagement during a Thursday taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," telling the studio audience the news that the California Supreme Court had struck down state laws against gay marriage.

AP - Indiana Jones doesn't give up his secrets lightly, and neither does the man pulling his strings.

Reuters - A tough yet touching Brazilian drama follows four brothers in Sao Paulo who turn to football, religion and crime as they try to escape the poverty and monotony of life in the slums.

AP - After wrapping up a successful concert tour, you'd think Reba McEntire would want to take some time off to relax. Instead, the tireless country star is preparing for her 10th turn as host of the Academy of Country Music Awards this weekend. Over the years, she says she's gained more ease hosting the event.

AP - After wrapping up a successful concert tour, you'd think Reba McEntire would want to take some time off to relax. Instead, the tireless country star is preparing for her 10th turn as host of the Academy of Country Music Awards this weekend. Over the years, she says she's gained more ease hosting the event.

Fashion Wire Daily - Now in its seventh year, Village Care of New York's annual "Tulips and Pansies: The Headdress Affair" is not your average benefit fashion show - pair New York's top florists with the city's most creative fashion designers, and the end result? Floral headdresses akin to wearable rooftop gardens, that are so outrageous and over-the-top they could be their own float in the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif.

Reuters - The models strutted past, the celebrities sized up the fashions and the prison guards kept a close eye on the catwalk.

AFP - Claus-Dietrich Lahrs, the CEO of leading French fashion house Christian Dior Couture, was Thursday named head of German ready-to-wear company Hugo Boss, a statement from that company said.

Fashion Wire Daily - Supermodel Alek Wek and Mark Badgley and James Mischka of Badgley Mischka were among those honored by the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) at the 30th Annual American Image Awards on Wednesday evening, May 14, in New York.

Fashion Wire Daily - Now that Resort is a fully-fledged season of its own, with numerous designers staging special presentations or runway shows to give the between-season collection a stage of its own (even Paris-based Christian Dior brought their show to New York for the second year in a row), designers have followed suit with fully-fledged collections to match.

Fashion Wire Daily - With newborns and subsequent sleepless nights on the agenda, new mothers Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera took great interest in the leisurely looks featured in John Galliano's Cruise 2009 collection for Christian Dior on Monday, May 12 at a restaurant under the 59th Street bridge in New York. A little rest and relaxation in a floaty frock sitting poolside might be just the ticket for these two moms.

Reuters - Young designers competing to get noticed by fashion labels can now launch their careers online through the fashion world's answer to the social networking Web site MySpace.com.

AP - Kobe Bryant scored 34 points and Los Angeles held off a furious rally by the Utah Jazz for a 108-105 victory Friday night, putting the Lakers in the Western Conference finals for the first time in four years.

AP - The Cleveland Cavaliers packed for a weekend stay in Beantown — not a few weeks on Cape Cod. They've got at least one more game left, and in the NBA, it's as big as they ever get. Game 7. On Sunday. In Boston.

AP - New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick lashed out at the team's former video assistant Friday, saying in a televised interview that Matt Walsh was a low-level staffer who was fired for "poor job performance." "There's not a lot of credibility," Belichick said in an interview broadcast on "CBS Evening News."

AP - Peter Magowan, the owner who brought Barry Bonds to San Francisco, built a new ballpark and kept major league baseball in the city, is stepping down as managing partner of the Giants.

AP - NFL owners could opt out of their agreement with the players union next week, leaving open the possibility of a 2010 season without a salary cap. The labor agreement is on the agenda for the league meetings in Atlanta on Tuesday.

AP - As the roaring crowd nearly drowned out the final horn, LeBron James grabbed the ball and heaved it as far as he could.

AP - Andy Sonnanstine carried a shutout into the eighth inning and added two singles to a 12-hit outburst in the streaking Tampa Bay Rays' 3-1 victory over the sagging St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night.