British scribes Peter Morgan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have been tapped to write the next installment in the James Bond film franchise. Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions Ltd.

SUPERSTARDOM beckons for Scots rockers Logan after they scooped Best Rock Band at the recent 2007 New Music Awards. Guitarist Mick Coll already has his eyes on a shiny new Aston Martin Vanquish. What was your first car? A Citroen BX. I paid pounds 200 for it.

By Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune Nov. 10--James Bonds may come and go. But the sometimes smashing series about Ian Fleming's British spy with a license to kill (and lady-kill) seems to go on forever--even if, for the hard-core among us, there is no Bond but Sean Connery.

LONDON (Reuters) - British anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New Zealand-born filmmaker Lee Tamahori, arrested last month on a sex charge while wearing a woman's dress and wig, was placed on probation after pleading no contest on Thursday to a lesser offense of criminal trespass.