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Prosecutors in California have said they are looking into a possible link between the death of Canadian actor Corey Haim (seen here in March 2009) and an illegal trade in prescription drugs.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Buckner)AFP - Prosecutors in California have said they are looking into a possible link between the death of Canadian actor Corey Haim and an illegal trade in prescription drugs.


 

In this undated image released by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Sony's new motion controller is shown. The Japanese maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled Thursday, March 10, 2010, its highly anticipated motion controlling system, as it takes aim at Nintendo's dominance in the gaming sector. Used with the existing PlayStation Eye camera, the new wireless motion controller can track players' body movements. The controller, in turn, has on its end a light-emitting orb that is recognized by the camera. (AP Photo/Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)AP - Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives.


 

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, senior White House adviser David Axelrod checks his wireless device before a television interview in the Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of Obama's record, White House and administration officials are increasingly communicating through Twitter, the popular social network that operates as a Web-based clearing house for public statements on subjects as broad as the federal budget and as narrow as personal grocery lists. It's similar to a bulletin board where anyone can post short notes and users cull the pieces they see by choosing to 'follow' individuals' account. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:


 
AP - The Hong Kong International Film Festival plans to honor Indian screen legend Amitabh Bachchan with a lifetime achievement award at the event's Asian Film Awards.
 
Reuters - At the end of "Pirate Radio" - the 2009 feature film about a '60s illegal rock 'n' roll radio station in Europe's North Sea - an array of albums is displayed: iconic symbols of musical independence that bucked the status quo. Among the albums on display is Public Enemy's 1990 treatise, "Fear of a Black Planet."
 

This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show 'The Two Coreys' with his friend Corey Feldman. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in 'Lucas' and 'The Lost Boys' whose career was blighted by drug abuse, died Wednesday March 10, 2010. He was 38. (AP Photo/Courtesy AETN, L. Pief Weyman) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDITAP - The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring.


 
Reuters - The Walt Disney Co plans to close director Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital facility in Northern California, laying off 450 workers there, or more than 5 percent of its movie studio division.
 
Playbill - Prior to the Broadway arrival of Sondheim on Sondheim, the Attic Theatre in California presents the earlier Sondheim revue, Side by Side by Sondheim, beginning March 12.
 

In this publicity image released by Comedy Central/South Park Studios, Eric Cartman, left, and an animated version of golfer Tiger Woods are shown in a scene from the 14th season premiere of the animated series, 'South Park,' airing Wednesday, March 17, at 10 p.m. on Comedy Central. (AP Photo/Comedy Central/South Park Studios)AP - Golf clubs in hands or not, the kids of "South Park" are ready to take on Tiger Woods.


 
Reuters - Author Michael Lewis, known for exposing the culture of excess at Solomon Brothers with his book "Liar's Poker," says Wall Street bonuses at banks bailed out by Washington are "a very elegant form of theft."
 

FILE - In this March 7, 2010 file photo, Jay Leno arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)AP - After a smashing return, Jay Leno appears headed to a battle with David Letterman for late-night television supremacy.


 

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2008 file photo, Kate Snow arrives for  the L'Oreal Legends Gala to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, file)AP - ABC News reporter and "Good Morning America" weekend host Kate Snow is jumping to NBC News.


 

Rock and roll icon Iggy Pop poses in Miami Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Jeffrey M. Boan)AP - Iggy Pop was starting to feel like the Susan Lucci of rock 'n' roll.


 

FWD201  Model walks the runway at the Miu Miu show during Fall 2010 Fashion Week in Paris on  Wednesday, March 10, 2010.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily - It was 1960s modernism meets Louis XIV at the latest collection of Miu Miu, the final show of Paris fashion week that ended Wednesday evening, March 10.


 

A model wears an outfit by designers Burberry Prorsum for their Autumn/Winter 2010 collection at London Fashion Week,  in London, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)


 


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