Sesame Street star and kiddie role model Cookie Monster is cutting down on his consumption of cookies in an effort to reduce the obesity levels of American children.
A representative for the award-winning show said that the cuddly character's mantra will now change from "C is for Cookie" to "A Cookie is a sometimes food."
In addition, each episode of the show's new series will begin with a "health tip" about healthy foods and physical activity.
"We are not putting him on a diet, and we would never take the position of no sugar," said Dr Rosemarie Truglio, the show's vice president of research and education. "We're teaching him moderation."
The longtime manager of the late soul legend Ray Charles has unveiled plans and artist renderings for a tribute museum to the singer on the site of Charles' RPM studio site.
The three-story, 1,800m2 museum is slated to open in late 2007 under the auspices of the Ray Charles Museum Foundation.
According to ex-Charles manager Joe Adams, the facility will include rotating exhibits and never-before-seen artifacts from Charles' career. It will also serve as an educational institute.
The lyricist who wrote the unforgettable words to the tune Over the Rainbow is to be honored with his own stamp from the US Post Office.
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg wrote the tune for the 1939 classic movie The Wizard of Oz as well as other hits like Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Lydia the Tattooed Lady, Down with Love, Last Night When We Were Young and Old Devil Moon.
The stamp features a portrait of Harburg, a rainbow and the lyric: "Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue." The left-leaning Harburg stopped writing for film, TV and radio after he was blacklisted in the 1950s for his liberal political views.
A prehistoric monster shark named Meg that makes "Jaws" look like a goldfish is set to terrorize the shores of California in a new movie.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Time Warner's New Line Cinema has picked up the rights to Meg, Steve Alten's horror adventure book. The story features a 27m-long prehistoric shark -- scientifically known as carcharodon megalodon, and believed by some to be an ancestor of the great white shark.
Two men from opposite points of view are forced to come together to neutralize the threat.
The movie will be directed by Jan De Bont, who directed Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and Speed.
Stephen Sommers, the director of The Mummy and Van Helsing, has been tapped to write and direct a remake of the 1951 sci-fi film When Worlds Collide, Variety reported Monday.
The original movie was based on a group of scientists who discover that another planet is veering dangerously close to Earth, and they make plans for a small group of humans to leave the planet before the inevitable deadly
collision.
Now that Madonna has famously gone spiritual, teen idol Hilary Duff is taking over her mantle of shallow consumerism. The 17-year-old actress and singer is set to record a cover of Madonna's 1980s hit Material Girl, which will also feature as the lead single for her upcoming film-and-album project appropriately-titled Material Girls, according to reports.
In the project Hilary and her sister Haylie will play a couple of young heiresses to a cosmetics empire who are left penniless due to a corporate scandal. They take matters into their own hands, snooping around to uncover the rascal who did them wrong.
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