Reuters - Nicolas Cage, Steve
Buscemi and Tracy Morgan will provide three of the lead voices
in “G-Force” for Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer
Films.
Reuters - Mary-Kate Olsen, one-half of the
acting Olsen twins who gained fame on 1990s television show
“Full House,” has been hospitalized in New York City for a
kidney infection, her representative said on Tuesday.
Reuters - “Pretty Woman” star Julia Roberts has
designed a bracelet for Giorgio Armani to sell for World AIDS
Day, the fashion house said on Tuesday.
Reuters - Disney tends to own the
long Thanksgiving box-office weekend, and this year should be
no different.
Reuters - WE tv has acquired
“Party Mamas,” a half-hour unscripted series about
perfectionist, over-demanding moms who become obsessed with
planning outrageous parties for their children.
Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
said the number of potential U.S. home-loan defaults “will be
significantly bigger” in 2008 than in 2007, the Wall Street
Journal’s online edition reported.
FT.com - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday revealed it no longer believed the US economy can grow much more than 2.5 per cent a year without causing rising inflation, a lower rate than many investors thought was sustainable.
AP - Construction of single-family homes in October skidded to the lowest level in 16 years although the slide was cushioned somewhat by a rebound in apartment building.
AP - The housing collapse and credit crisis will slow economic growth and nudge up unemployment next year, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind forecast that some economists believe will lead to interest rate cuts early in 2008.
FT.com - Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times US managing editor, interviewed Eli Broad of the Broad Foundation, in this segment discussing Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), the US economy and the art market. This is a transcript of the interview, which you may watch here.