Five Entertainment Stories

It is the weekend! Here are five stories you don't missed this week from the local and international entertainment news.

He is Wesley Snipes to his fans and family, but No. 43355-018 to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The star of the Blade trilogy and other films has been ordered to serve three years in prison for failing to file tax returns. His lawyer, of course, is hoping to launch an appearl. Another appeal, because Snipes and his lawyer have already lost the first appeal of the 2008 conviction.

Kathleen Winter's last hope for a literary prize for her novel Annabel came and went this past week, but the Giller, Rogers Writers' Trust and Governor General's Literary Award nominee was zen about the whole thing before the GG was announced (but the outcome of which she likely knew at the time): "The whole awards world, the whole literary universe, in terms of society and prizes is, to me, a fantastic way to get readers that I wouldn't otherwise have got and I'm really indebted to it. But for me, (attending awards events) has nothing to do with writing, or reading."

finally added The Beatles' catalog to its iTunes music download service and despite tut-tutting in the media world over how long it took for Apple to make the deal, iTunes users responded by driving Beatles titles to the top of the iTunes charts.

Reynolds was alive by People magazine.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 finally opened Thursday midnight. The Postmedia review gave it 3.5 stars out of 5. A roundup of reviews at rottentomatoes gave it an average approval rate of 79 out of 100 and another movie-review aggregator, metacritic, showed an average approval of 68 out of 100. But you'd go no matter what the review, wouldn't you?