Librarian discovers Beethoven score
By wire services
Published October 14, 2005
WYNNEWOOD, Pa. - In what could be one of the most important musicological finds in years, a score handwritten by Beethoven was discovered over the summer at a suburban Philadelphia seminary.
The 80-page working manuscript of the composer's Grosse Fuge was found in July by Heather Carbo, a librarian at the Palmer Theological Seminary, while she was cleaning an archival cabinet, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The score is expected to fetch $1.7-million to $2.6-million when it is auctioned by Sotheby's in London on Dec. 1. Before that, it will be on view at Sotheby's in New York from Nov. 16 to 19.
Newest James Bond to be revealed today
The name of the actor who will take over from Pierce Brosnan in the next James Bond film will be revealed today at a news conference, Sony Pictures said Thursday.
British tabloid reports this week said the role in Casino Royale will go to Daniel Craig, a blue-eyed British actor who would be the first blond Bond.
Craig, 37, co-starred with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman in Road to Perdition, played poet Ted Hughes opposite Gwyneth Paltrow's Sylvia Plath in Sylvia, and appeared in this year's thriller The Jacket with Adrien Brody.
Other actors named as possible 007 contenders include Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gerard Butler, Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Hugh Jackman, Heath Ledger and Eric Bana.
Report: "Lost' star robbed at gunpointHONOLULU - Josh Holloway and his wife reportedly were robbed at gunpoint in their home.
There was no indication that the robber recognized the 36-year-old actor, who plays hunky con man Sawyer on the ABC castaway drama Lost, television station KHON reported. The robber rousted the couple from bed early Wednesday, took cash and credit cards and drove off in Holloway's Mercedes-Benz, which was found abandoned a short time later, the station said.
Fox cancels Hilton's "Simple Life' seriesFox television canceled Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's reality series The Simple Life, one of the network's highest-rated shows, amid a reported rift between the celebrity co-stars.
The program, first aired on Fox in early 2003, placed the globe-trotting Hilton and Richie in rural environments where they worked at jobs including baker and dental hygienist.
Fox said in a statement it didn't have space on its schedule for the show after ordering full season runs of the drama Prison Break and Bones and the comedy The War at Home. Fox's musical-competition hit American Idol will also return to its schedule next year.
Grand Ole Opry celebrates 80 yearsNASHVILLE - The rendition of Happy Birthday at the Grand Ole Opry's 80th birthday bash this weekend is bound to be good. The guest list includes Garth Brooks, Alison Krauss, Travis Tritt, Ralph Stanley, Diamond Rio, Steve Wariner, Josh Turner, Bill Anderson, Joe Diffie, The Whites, Lee Greenwood, Connie Smith, John Michael Montgomery and Little Jimmy Dickens. The singers will perform during the regular Friday and Saturday shows, capping a week of events for the Opry's 80th.
The first broadcast of the show, then called the WSM Barn Dance, was Nov. 28, 1925. The Opry is the longest continuously running radio show in the country.