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AdWeek.com - NAPLES, FLA. Frustrated by what they see as its lack of relevance and value, a small but vocal minority of executives at the American Association of Advertising Agencies' Management Conference here last week formed a task force aimed at finding ways to breathe new life into the 89-year-old annual gathering. More Info...  

Playbill - The Mel Brooks-Thomas Meehan hit Broadway musical comedy The Producers - like the titular Leo and Max - will walk into the sunset after the 3 PM April 22 performance. More Info...  

AP - Sanjaya Malakar is so famous, he can't walk anywhere without getting noticed. "It's really weird. I mean, I'm just Sanjaya from Seattle," the 17-year-old "American Idol" cast-off said Monday on "Live With Regis and Kelly."

AP - Activist groups dropped a federal lawsuit against Viacom Inc. on Monday after the parent of Comedy Central acknowledged it made a mistake by asking YouTube to yank a parody of the cable network's "The Colbert Report."

Reuters - Germany's militant Red Army Faction considered kidnapping fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in the 1970s, said a former member of the radical left-wing group that shook the West German establishment.

AP - Their college tour ended, Sheryl Crow and Laurie David describe their efforts to stop global warming as part of the most important mission of the times.

Reuters - U2 guitarist the Edge has paid almost $15 million for a 120-acre property in the upscale beach resort of Malibu, the Los Angeles Times said on Sunday.

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AP - LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) — Madonna jetted out of Malawi on Sunday after a six-day visit to the impoverished homeland of the toddler she wants to adopt, carrying the boy in her arms as she boarded her plane.

AP - Playwright Peter Morgan and director Michael Grandage have more than nostalgia on their minds in "Frost/Nixon," a slick, showy docudrama about the historic television interviews between David Frost and the 37th president of the United States. More Info...  

AP - Any time his 6-year-old son or 5-year-old daughter walks in on Jon Klein watching CNN, he quickly changes the channel. The CNN U.S. president knows better than most the conflicting agendas of news organizations and parents during tragic, disturbing stories. Seung-Hui Cho's massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech last week was a particularly vivid example.

AP - Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. In these frenzied, media-saturated times, the lure of a simpler past is more powerful than ever. That may explain the success of "The Dangerous Book for Boys," a deliberately retro tome that has become the publishing sensation of the year in Britain.

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AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is headed to MTV to promote Earth Day with an 800-horsepower car that runs on renewable biodiesel fuel.

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is headed to MTV to promote Earth Day with an 800-horsepower car that runs on renewable biodiesel fuel.

AP - Twenty-three years ago, impersonator Rich Little stepped to the podium at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner after President Reagan told him: "Now Rich, if you do well, we'll have you back."

AP - CBS Radio is suing a small radio station for airing reruns of Don Imus' program since his firing for sexist and racist comments about the Rutgers University women's college basketball team.

AP - LONDON (AP) — British Airways cut a cameo by Richard Branson from its in-flight version of the latest James Bond film and blurred out the tail fin of a Virgin Atlantic plane seen in the movie.

Reuters - "You get to a point in your career where you do get tired of vying for the dollars and attention of your label," said country artist Pam Tillis, who has stopped recording for majors and taken matters into her own hands. More Info...  

Reuters - He enjoys a reputation as an all-around good guy in Hollywood, but "Spider-Man" Tobey Maguire says it's more fun being bad in the latest sequel of the smash hit film series.

Reuters - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. paid its executive chairman and mogul Sumner Redstone about $8.6 million in salary, bonus and other compensation in 2006, after it split apart from broadcaster CBS Corp., according to a regulatory filing on Friday.

Playbill - Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo is offering the emergent new Maltby & Shire musical, A Time for Love, its next step in an April 20-May 13 run. More Info...