AP - 'Barney's Version,'which made its debut at the Venice Film Festival's last main day, spans four decades in the life of a flawed man and took 10 years to reach the screen.

AP - A judge has granted Leonardo DiCaprio a three-year restraining order from a woman who he said claims to be his wife and carrying his baby.

AP - Don't expect a duet between Kanye West and Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards.

omg! - Chelsea Handler hosts this year's MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, September 12. Check out a few of the VMA's most memorable moments courtesy of Associated Content. [Links]

AP - Since fans lined up at midnight nearly three years ago for the release of the last "Halo"video game, a recession struck the economy, President Barack Obama took office and "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2"became the best-selling shooter game of all time. When the prequel "Halo: Reach"debuts Sept. 14, it will land on a very different world.

AP - Diane Lane, Marcia Cross and Mark Harmon are set to join more than 100 celebrities for Friday's "Stand Up To Cancer"telethon.

AP - A study about consumer attitudes toward 3-D television found many who were less interested in the technology after they actually experienced it. [Links]

AP - It's not clear who's more daring, the German threesome or the French foursome.

AP - Director Julie Taymor is giving high marks to U2's Bono and the Edge for their work on the new Broadway production "Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark." [Links]

Reuters - Hollywood trade newspaper Daily Variety is embroiled in heated litigation with California punk rock band the Vandals, whose bass player happens to include an attorney. [Links]

Reuters - A new exhibit at El Museo del Barrio turns an historic lens on New York's north-south relations, highlighting its long and deep roots with the Spanish-speaking world. [Links]

AP - A judge has granted Leonardo DiCaprio a three-year restraining order from a woman who he said claims to be his wife and carrying his baby.

Fashion Wire Daily - Christian Siriano is generally regarded as the most talented American designer to have emerged from reality TV in the past half decade. Though based in New York, his spring 2011 collection shown in New York Thursday, Sept. 9, the opening day of the runway season, owed as much to Asia as his hometown the United States, the result being a hybrid and exotic take on American sportswear.

AFP - A leather and silk-bound photographic autobiography by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page will go on sale later this month for a hefty 445 pounds (540 euros, 690 dollars).

AP - New York Fashion Week brought its cutting-edge style uptown on Thursday, opening its spring-collection previews in a new location at Lincoln Center.