AP - The deadpan and depressed characters Bill Murray has specialized in portraying as an actor in recent years have always stood in contrast to the life-of-the-party guy he is in real life — whether on a golf course or shuttling people around downtown Stockholm in a golf cart, as he did last year.

E! Online - Taylor Hicks is adding to the recent surge of news to come from otherwise forgotten American Idol types, announcing his next album will drop Feb. 10, 2009.

E! Online - Listen up, ladies: Although they were spotted hanging out, Gerard Butler is not dating Jennifer Aniston.

E! Online - Marc Cherry, the man behind the women of ABC's Desperate Housewives, just revealed some shocking news: Fairview will catch fire during November sweeps—and some won't survive the blaze.

AP - It's hardly unusual for a singer to drop off the musical map. Declining album sales, drug habits, legal woes and other dramas have landed a multitude of chart-toppers on the "Whatever Happened To ..." list.

AP - The dead used to be a world away, far beyond the realm of mortal existence. If they walked the Earth at all, they inhabited the night.

Reuters - A controversy is brewing over a change to Oscar's feature documentary rules.

AP - Author Amy Hempel, whose candid takes on modern life have brought her a small, but devoted following, has been named this year's winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, a $30,000 prize that in previous years has been given to Paul Bowles, Eudora Welty and Grace Paley.

AP - Now that Shea Stadium is closed for business, New York Mets fans are able to buy mementos from the venue that housed the 1969 "Miracle Mets" and an improbable 1986 World Series comeback.

AP - Former "American Idol" contestant Paris Bennett has given birth to a daughter named Egypt.