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Broadway's elite gathered to honor Roy Furman at UJA-Federation of New York's Theatre Group of the Entertainment, Media, and Communications Division's 2009 Excellence in Theatre Award Dinner on Monday, May 18, 2009, at The Mandarin Oriental, Columbus Circle at 60th Street, Manhattan.

Press Association negotiating with regional newspaper groups on video supply for potential TV local news consortiaThe Press Association news agency is in talks with regional newspaper publishers across the country about supplying video to news consortia looking to replace ITV local news services.PA is already working with Guardian Media Group, which publishes MediaGuardian.co.uk, and other partners on establishing a regional TV news pilot in the north of England, as a trial of Ofcom's proposal to replace ITV's regional news programmes with ones produced by independently funded local consortia of media businesses.The agency is also in talks with a number of other potential ITV local news backers across the country.'We will be meeting this week with other possible partners in the proposed [north of England] pilot,' the PA managing director, Tony Watson, told MediaGuardian.co.uk.'At this early stage it will about seeking commitments from the participants and getting a feel for what we ca

ET was on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival with Brad Pitt and the rest of the cast of Quentin Tarantino's new film 'Inglourious Basterds,' which premiered to an 11 minute standing ovation. Tarantino's Nazi-era film follows a group of Jewish-american soldiers whose mission is to take down a group of Nazis. In addition to Pitt, Diane Kruger and Mike Myers also star in the film. Watch the video to see their red carpet arrivals.

International News: Project is director's contribution to war film genre -- In a raucous press conference to introduce The Weinstein Co./Universal Pictures release 'Inglourious Basterds' to the Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Quentin Tarantino called the film -- about a rogue group of mostly Jewish soldiers who wreak havoc against Nazis in France -- his contribution to the war film genre, one that had aspects of 'a fairy tale and Jewish wish fulfillment fantasy.'

"We are thrilled to have David Russo at the helm of such an exciting and challenging project,"...

Telegraph's circulation upswing from MPs' expenses scandal shows no sign of diminishing, 11 days into storyEleven days of revelations about MPs' expenses published in the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph have boosted circulation at the papers by more than 600,000 copies, unofficial industry figures reveal.The continuing upswing in circulation has shown little sign of diminishing and comes as the Metropolitan police said yesterday that it will not investigate the leak of information to the Telegraph titles.Senior officers ruled that a criminal investigation into how a terabyte of data containing 2m documents was removed from the House of Commons and given or sold to the Telegraph Media Group would not be in the public interest.Commons authorities called in the Met to investigate, but Scotland Yard yesterday said that although the unauthorised disclosure of information appeared to 'breach public duty', much of the information was in the process of being prepared for release under the

The campaign called the Zero dB project, standing for zero decibels, was launched at the end of last year by British legal charity Reprieve, which represents dozens of prisoners held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay....