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Actor Bruce Willis has offered $1 million to anyone who turns in al-Qaeda terror leaders.
The patriotic "Die Hard" star will pay out for information on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, Aymen Al-zawahiri or Abu Musab Al-zarqawi, the alleged brains behind the 9/11 atrocity.
Willis announced his reward on the TV show "Rita Cosby: Live And Direct," where he also denounced biased media coverage of the Iraq war.
"I am baffled to understand why the things that I saw happening in Iraq, really good things happening in Iraq, are not being reported on," Willis said.
South Florida
The new 50 Cent movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" has been pulled from a theater where a man was fatally shot, even though officials said Thursday they do not know whether the film was a factor in the slaying.
Loews Corp. decided to stop showing the rapper's bullet-ridden bio while the investigation is going on, said John McCauley, the company's vice president of marketing.
"We're unclear whether there is a direct connection," McCauley said.
He said the company is doing all it can to make sure patrons are safe at the 22-screen multiplex in a popular entertainment-and-shopping complex just east of Pittsburgh.
Shelton Flowers, 30, had just watched the rapper's movie Wednesday when he got into a confrontation with three men in the bathroom. A fight ensued and spilled out into the concessions area, where Flowers was shot, police said.
Authorities were looking for witnesses, and no suspects were immediately arrested.
SF Gate
FOUR Norwegians entered a movie theater and emerged 38 movies, 70 hours and 33 minutes later, with a new world record in "movie-guzzling", Norwegian public radio NRK has reported.
The four pale and exhausted movie enthusiasts, three men and a woman, beat the previous known film-watching record of 70 hours and nine minutes.
The movies watched over the nearly three days in the dark ranged from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, featuring Johnny Depp, to Zozo, the tale of a young Lebanese boy who flees his war-torn homeland to find difficulties of a different kind as he tries to integrate into Swedish society.
"This morning, I threw up everything. I couldn't eat anything. I was trembling and I felt very bad," one of the movie-watchers, teenager Mats Peder Nilsen, told NRK.
News.Com.AU
A popular adult magazine has made an offer to the two cheerleaders accused of having sex with each other in a Florida bar and getting involved in a fight, according to a Local 6 News report.
Penthouse magazine is courting Renee Thomas, 20, and Angela Keathley, 26, to pose nude, according to the report.
Penthouse is apparently hoping to cash in on what allegedly happened inside the Florida bar's bathroom stall.
The woman were having sex with each other in the restroom, according to witnesses.
Local 6
NEW YORK -- How many times have you watched the Weather Channel and thought, "They sure could use a comedian?" Apparently they were thinking the same thing.
Starting Wednesday night, Lewis Black from "The Daily Show" over on Comedy Central can try out some forecasting maps and chat on camera with weathercaster Dave Schwartz.
Black also gets to deliver a few comic riffs on global warming and airport delays.
Recently, the Weather Channel quietly started asking celebrities to drop by if they're near the channel's Atlanta headquarters.
As it turns out, Black is a closet weather fan and was quick to reply.
The Weather Channel hopes other comedians and celebrities will eventually stop by, too.
NBC
NEW YORK (Reuters) - He pioneered mock television news 30 years ago and wrote a satirical book about becoming the 44th president of the United States.
So when comedian Al Franken says he is considering a run for U.S. Senate you have to ask -- is he serious?
"The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics," Franken told Reuters in an interview at his Air America radio studio. "I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest."
It sounds serious. Franken is starting a national tour to promote his new book "The Truth (With Jokes)" which has the usual political satire that has made him a top-selling humor writer.
A New York Times reviewer called it "an extended stump speech" for his political run.
Reuters
NEW YORK -- Nicole Richie wouldn't say no if she went back in time and had a second chance to try heroin.
Richie told Jane magazine that given a second chance, she "probably would" try heroin again because that's her personality. After going to rehab, Richie is fine now and is planning her wedding to Adam Goldstein.
The former "Simple Life" star said she wants five kids: three girls and twin boys.
WSBTV
The franchise that drew ''First Blood'' will be back with a fourth installment.
Sylvester Stallone, who recently announced plans to revive his Rocky character, has agreed to star in "Rambo IV."
The $50 million film will pick up former Vietnam vet John Rambo as he's living a reclusive life back home in the United States. But when a girl goes missing, he is forced to abandon his quiet lifestyle and take justice into his own hands.
No director is attached, and the screenplay is in the early stages.
The film is set to begin shooting in the spring in Mexico and the United States.
Chicago Sun-Times
CHICAGO - Singer R. Kelly is a step closer to trial after a judge refused Friday to dismiss charges in a three-year old case against him for allegedly engaging in videotaped sex acts with an underage girl.
Kelly has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography.
Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan rejected defense arguments that prosecutors have been too vague about when the alleged crime took place, said county state's attorney spokeswoman Marcy Jensen.
Prosecutors claim the video was made sometime during a nearly three-year span between January 1998 and October 2000. They cut 18 months off their original timeframe of November 1997 to February 2002 after a judge agreed in June that the span was too broad.
Defense attorney Ed Genson did not return a call for comment after business hours Friday.
Kelly, whose first name is Robert, won a Grammy for the gospel-like song "I Believe I Can Fly." He's also known for sexually charged music like "Bump N' Grind" and "Ignition."
The next court date was set for Dec. 9.
Yahoo
NEW YORK- Britney Spears threatened to take legal action after pictures of her newborn son popped up on the Internet, apparently stolen from a private photo shoot. At least two Web sites showed photos of Spears embracing her child, as well as a family portrait.
A statement released late Friday by Spears' record label, Jive Records, said the photos were swiped from a private photo session.
"Anyone who publishes sells or otherwise exploits any of these images in any way will be subject to liability and damages for willful infringement of copyright, and will be liable for invasion of privacy," the statement read.
The pop star gave birth to her first child last month.
Spears and her husband, Kevin Federline, recently made their first public appearance since the infant was born, but there have been no clear images of the baby until now.
A representative for Spears declined to comment.
