One Offs

Nikki Finke recently sold her entertainment industry blog site Deadline Hollywood Daily to Mail.com Media Corp. for a price ranging from less than $7 million to up to $14 million (depending on how you do your showbiz accounting) …

Billy Crystal is on tour again, taking his Broadway show “700 Sundays” to six U.S. cities starting in September …

Paul Simon had some disappointing news recently: The Eastman Kodak Co. announced it’s retiring its most senior film, Kodachrome …

Mikhail Gorbachev made one – just one – album of music for his late wife Raisa, and it recently sold at a charity auction for £100,000…

Gary Moss, former CFO of Live Nation’s subsidiary Concert Productions International (that of Michael Cohl), has been named COO of IMAX Corp. …

MySpace is planning to cut about two-thirds of its international workforce and close four offices …

The Naked Cowboy plans to perform in his hometown of Greenhills, Ohio, despite objections from a mayoral candidate who considers the act indecent …

Casey Kasem was expected to say farewell to the airwaves, wrapping American Top 20 during the Fourth of July weekend – exactly 39 years after the show launched in 1970 …

Cher is expected to have her first movie role in a decade, playing alongside Christina Aguilera in the movie “Burlesque.”