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Fleetwood Mac Not Necessarily Flying with Crow

Sheryl Crow may have spoken too soon when she said she would be teaming up with Fleetwood Mac in the coming months.

In a recent interview with AOL music site Spinner.com, the 46-year-old singer said that she and the classic-rock group “definitely have plans for collaborating in the future.”

That was news to Fleetwood Mac, however, as frontman Lindsey Buckingham, 58, said plans to bring Crow aboard were anything but definite.

“I think we were all a little surprised [Crow] was announcing that to the world with such certainty,” he told Billboard.com.

Williams Divorce No Laughing Matter

Good help may be hard to find—good spouses are apparently even harder.

Robin Williams’ wife of nearly 19 years, and the former nanny of his kids with wife No. 1, has filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.

The Oscar winner’s publicist, Mara Buxbaum, confirmed to E! News that Marsha Garces Williams lodged the petition in San Francisco last Friday. News of the split was first reported in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Robin, 56, and Marsha, 51, married in April 1989 and have two children together, daughter Zelda, born in 1989, and son Cody, born in 1991.

Richard Widmark, 93

ROXBURY, Conn. — Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in Kiss of Death and became a Hollywood leading man in Broken Lance, Two Rode Together and 40 other films, has died after a long illness. He was 93.

Widmark’s wife, Susan Blanchard, says the actor died at his home in Connecticut on Monday.

After a career in radio drama and theater, Widmark moved to films as Tommy Udo, who delighted in pushing an old lady in a wheelchair to her death down a flight of stairs in the 1947 thriller Kiss of Death. The performance won him an Academy Award nomination as supporting actor; it was his only mention for an Oscar.

“That damned laugh of mine!” he told a reporter in 1961. “For two years after that picture, you couldn’t get me to smile. I played the part the way I did because the script struck me as funny and the part I played made me laugh. The guy was such a ridiculous beast.”

Heart and humour link odd couple in David Schwimmer’s ‘Run, Fat Boy, Run’

TORONTO — She’s drop-dead gorgeous, successful, tidy and sweet as pie. He left her at the altar when she was pregnant and now has a dead-end job, a heavy smoking habit, a messy apartment, a group of gambling-addict friends and a beer gut.

On paper, the two main characters in the U.K.-shot romantic comedy “Run, Fat Boy, Run” – opening in Canadian theatres on Friday – may not seem the mostly likely of soulmates (then again, neither did the pair in the hit film “Knocked Up,” and audiences bought that).

What makes the odd-couple scenario work in “Run, Fat Boy, Run,” says director David Schwimmer, is the humour and heart of the leading man, played by revered British actor-writer-comedian Simon Pegg.

Indie art, and breakfast cinema too

The hip crowd in Winnipeg has long known about it. But for those outside the scene: There exists a little 120-seat haven of cinema art in the downtown core, a spot for everything from the highly praised new Canadian documentary Up The Yangtze to the underground shocker Flaming Creatures, a cult short notoriously confiscated in the early 1960s by New York police on obscenity charges. It’s a home for the multi-award-winning Quebec film Continental, un film sans fusil and also the French documentary Llik Your Idols about the psychoneurotic grindhouse of post-punk New York filmmaking in the late 1970s.

Yes, Winnipeg isn’t above a little weirdness. Add to these a selection of groundbreaking experimental films coming out of the city, in all of their warped creative glory induced by months of bitter cold, and you have a sense of the repertoire and indeed the civic function of the Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

“It’s an eclectic mix,” said Dave Barber, the Cinematheque’s programmer, who has been with the Film Group since the early 1980s.

After feast on B.C. forest, pine beetles face famine

VANCOUVER — An end is in sight to British Columbia’s mountain pine beetle infestation, largely because the bugs have eaten through most of the trees that had sustained them.

Doug Routledge, vice-president of the Council of Forest Industries, said that it will take years to harvest dead trees for whatever value the wood has, but that the current phase of beetle activity is winding down.

“Beetles in the western side of the Rocky Mountains have fundamentally eaten themselves out of house and home,” he said yesterday, commenting on the release of figures on the impact of the bugs.

Expert says China twisting truth about Dalai Lama

An expert on Tibet and China says the Chinese Ambassador to Canada “intentionally conveyed the wrong impression” this week when he accused the Dalai Lama of being a slave owner.

On Monday’s edition of CTV Newsnet’s Mike Duffy Live, Ambassador Lu Shumin said: “The Dalai Lama (was) the largest owner of a serfdom society and owner of slaves” before the Chinese communists overtook Tibet in 1950.

Lu said, “These are facts and no one can distort these facts.”

Anonymous website helps student evade detection

(The Eyeopener) – A new website will provide an anonymous way for students to study online, and it was all inspired by the Ryerson student who almost got expelled for running a Facebook study group.

Thornhill-based web designer Evgeny Kalashnikov, 18, is the creator of www.thestudygroups.com. He said he’d been thinking about creating a website like this for a while, and hearing about Chris Avenir motivated him to make it happen.

“Expelling someone for a study group is nonsense,” he said.

A lack of anonymity was part of what got Avenir into trouble � the creator of the controversial group escaped punishment by using an account with a fake name.

New face for Tintin?

Los Angeles — Directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson might have found their Tintin, the young Belgian reporter they are bringing to the big screen in a new film trilogy based on the comic books by Hergé.

London’s Daily Mail newspaper reported that the lucky lad is 17-year-old British actor Thomas Sangster, who has appeared in Love, Actually and Nanny McPhee and has a role in Jane Campion’s Bright Star, which is soon to begin filming. According to the website imdb.com, Sangster is a cousin of actor Hugh Grant.