LOS ANGELES (AP) — Court records show dueling lawsuits between Bruce Willis and three film companies over a failed film project have been dismissed.

DALLAS (AP) — A city spokesman says singer Erykah Badu has paid a $500 fine and will serve six months of probation for stripping during a music video shoot at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, where President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot in 1963.

MIAMI (AP) — Carlos Arroyo was headed to play a game with Puerto Rico's national team earlier this summer, when a song he particularly liked started blaring on the radio.

LONDON (AP) — Angelina Jolie says it's vital that people help Pakistan's flood victims and not surrender to compassion fatigue.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newcomer Rooney Mara has landed one of the most-coveted roles in Hollywood, co-starring alongside James Bond star Daniel Craig in the English-language remake of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

ROME (AP) — Named for a saint and naturally tasting heavenly, San Crispino gelato already was a pass-the-word must for devotees of the Italian treat.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil has posthumously given the rank of ambassador to a poet and songwriter who penned the famous Bossa Nova anthem, "Girl from Ipanema."

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paramount Pictures, Viacom Inc.'s movie studio, says it has cut a four-year film co-financing deal with Skydance Productions, which is run by the son of Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera has set a record for its box office opening day, selling more than $2.6 million worth of single tickets for the new season.

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Wilson, who as the bassist for the funk and R&B group the Gap Band had a string of hits including "You Dropped a Bomb On Me," has died. He was 53.

ROME (AP) — Named for a saint and naturally tasting heavenly, San Crispino gelato already was a pass-the-word must for devotees of the Italian treat.

LONDON (AP) — Clothing, mementoes and handwritten lyrics belonging to Jimi Hendrix are going on display at his former London home to mark the 40th anniversary of his death.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — James Cameron is going from outer space to under water.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Candles flickered in the balmy night as thousands of Elvis Presley fans filed silently by his grave during a vigil at Graceland, marking 33 years since the American icon died.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jazz scene photographer Herman Leonard, famous for his smoky, backlighted black-and-white photos of such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 87.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zsa Zsa Gabor's publicist says the 93-year-old actress is in extremely serious condition after having two blood clots removed at a Los Angeles hospital.

CARTERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A sheriff says reality TV actress Tila Tequila complained that audience members pelted her with stones and feces during an outdoor music festival in southern Illinois.

NEW YORK (AP) — Abbey Lincoln, a jazz singer and songwriter known for her phrasing, emotion and uncompromising style, died Saturday in New York at age 80.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hip hop artist and presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean said Saturday that as leader he would work to change Haiti's constitution to allow dual citizenship and give many Haitians living abroad the right to vote in their homeland.

GENEVA (AP) — Revelers at Zurich's annual 'Street Parade' festival have observed a minute's silence for the victims of a fatal stampede at a techno event in Germany last month.