Reuters - Liza Minnelli has canceled seven upcoming concerts across the United States on the advice of her doctors due to bronchial pneumonia.

associatedcontent - The new Muppets movie is close to having Amy Adams join the cast.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Swiss maestro Roger Federer sliced through fifth seed Robin Soderling with a 6-1 6-1 victory to reach the Shanghai Masters semi-finals on Friday.

associatedcontent - ‘The View’  walk off probably wasn’t hard to forsee. Those involved in are notoriously controversial figures, with loud opinions on everything under the sun. Putting Bill O’Reilly against the mostly liberal panel of ‘The View’  was obviously designed to set off fireworks. When they turned to discussing the New York City mosque, their differences over it were even more obvious. Yet Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg’s walk off may have been the most heated display since the Rosie O’Donnell days.

associatedcontent - The NC-17 rating is often the kiss of death. Although the NC-17 rating suggests that a movie may be really graphic and taboo, it also means not many people will see it. Since the label debuted 20 years ago, films with this classification haven’t made much impact, or often lived up to their scandalous expectations. Of course, films that risk this kind of label aren’t expected to be box office hits anyway. Yet the NC-17 rating can hurt chances for awards, which is what the producers of ‘Blue Valentine’ are fighting to change the MPAA’s mind.

AP - Lawyers for Paris Hilton and investors have settled a lawsuit in Miami that claimed she didn’t do enough to promote her 2006 movie “Pledge This!”