In Brief: Sheryl Crow helps Obama

For months, music videos backing Barack Obama have appeared on YouTube, but they've always been unsanctioned. Now Obama is releasing an official campaign soundtrack to accompany his race to the White House, featuring contributions from Democrat-supporters Stevie Wonder, Kanye West and Sheryl Crow (pictured) among others. Called Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots it will be sold as a campaign fundraiser until the November 4 election………… Matt Lucas is working on a film that will see him and David Walliams play multiple characters, as with their BBC TV series Little Britain. The movie is being developed with US studio Dreamworks.........  Warner Bros, makers of the Harry Potter films, have failed in their attempt to halt the release of a film in India that they complained was too close in title to the JK Rowling franchise. The movie, Hari Puttar, which tells the story of a 10-year-old boy who moves to England with his family and becomes involved in a plan to save the world, will now be released in India later this month having been delayed by the lawsuit.........  Noel Gallagher's guitar and the outfit worn by David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust incarnation will be included in a new exhibition of the history of British rock and pop at the O2 Arena next March. Called the British Music Experience, it is the brainchild of music promoter Harvey Weinstein........ Illusionist David Blaine began his latest stunt in New York today. Called the 'Dive of Death', it involves him being suspended from a tree in Central Park. The effort will reportedly culminate in Blaine dropping to the ground head first……… A ring belonging to the late rapper Tupac Shakur, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996, will be included in a New York auction of bling jewellery next month……… A Los Angeles judge has dismissed assault claims against Keanu Reeves by a photographer who said the actor deliberately ran into him with his Porsche car.........

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