OK! – Angelina Jolie says she wants to adopt an Indian child.

The actress revealed her plans to one of the child stars of Slumdog Millionaire – which is set in the poorest areas of Mumbai – when she met him at last month’s Oscars.

When asked by 10-year-old Azharuddin Mohammed if she would consider adopting a child from his home country of India, Angelina – who is in a long-term relationship with Brad Pitt – reportedly replied: “Well, I’ll let you into a little secret, we will soon.”

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Google News – Bob Barker returned to “The Price Is Right” — and this time he was the showcase.

After nearly two years in retirement, the 85-year-old former game show host was invited to come on down to “The Price Is Right” to promote his upcoming memoir, “Priceless Memories,” due out April 6.

Barker on Wednesday once again stood on the set where he had worked for 35 years. As he walked the halls of the studio, old co-workers greeted Barker with broad smiles, seemingly as happy to have him back as he was to be there.

Dressed in a black suit with a hot pink shirt and matching tie, the silver-haired host appeared alongside successor Drew Carey near the finale of the show, which airs April 16, to present two prize showcases that were somewhat stretched to promote Barker’s memoir.

One showcase, for example, featured a computer to order the book, a trip to New York City to buy a bundle of the books from the publisher, and a truck to haul them all back in.

“That general idea was in their script, but I shamelessly overacted on a lot of it,” Barker said, laughing mischievously in his dressing room after the show.

All 300 members of the show’s live studio audience also received a copy of the tome.

Most days, Barker said his retirement has been filled with various projects helping animals. He also keeps in shape by exercising with light weights and an elliptical machine.

“I have remarked that I better go back and start doing the show again to get a little rest,” Barker said.

But despite his busy lifestyle, the veteran performer said he misses the excitement of “The Price is Right.”

“I could never have done this show if I hadn’t enjoyed it, and one of the things I enjoyed was the excitement with the audience, the fun with the audience, the responses of the audience,” Barker said. “I’d done audience participation my entire adult life.”

Barker taped his last regular episode — his 6,586th — of the popular CBS game show in June 2007, retiring after five decades on national television.

Always the animal lover, Barker spends his free time with his dog, Jesse, and two rabbits, Mr. Rabbit and Honey Bunny. Proceeds from Barker’s book will go to the DJ&T Foundation, which he founded in 1994 to subsidize the cost of spaying and neutering animals.

Asked at the end of the interview if there was anything else he’d like to add, Barker chuckled and said, just as he had for 35 years on network television: “Help control the pet population, have your pets spayed or neutered.”

Cnn – On a warm night in Atlanta, the progressive bluegrass string band Trampled by Turtles quietly unloads its instruments from a modest, nondescript white touring van.

Just another night, just another town for the band from Duluth, Minnesota.

The band is opening for another group, the Hackensaw Boys, at the 300-person-capacity Smith’s Olde Bar. The band members are hoping to draw a few new fans in what’s been a challenging economic environment. After all, for lesser-known bands — especially ones that play progressive bluegrass, far from the watchful eye of the American pop charts — it’s often word of mouth that inspires music fans to come out.

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TheDailyBeast – For one morning only, Rod Blagojevich will get behind the mic and take Chicago AM radio by storm, answering calls, chatting up guests, and reflecting on times past. Unfortunately, it’s only a temp job—the regular hosts are on vacation this week. WLS-AM offered the disgraced former governor his own show two months ago if he resigned from office. Apparently, the deal is no longer on the table. Hope he has a good screener—there will certainly be lots of prank calls.

ToplessRobot.com – By now you’ve probably seen the YouTube videos in which an uncharacteristically dour Kermit the Frog covers songs by Nine Inch Nails, Elliott Smith and Radiohead. As hilarious as these unauthorized “Sad Kermit” videos are, they also bring to mind some of the more downbeat musical moments from the real Muppets’ history. Sure, everybody remembers “Mahna Mahna,” but what about the bittersweet symphonies that so often took center stage during The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock?

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AUSTIN, Texas – Invading South By Southwest, Metallica attempted to pose as one of the hundreds of smaller bands there just hoping to get a record deal.

“We’re a young band from Norway and we want to get signed,” Metallica frontman James Hetfield told the audience at the heavy metal band’s SXSW performance Friday night.

It was a widely expected but not officially announced show at a venue (Stubb’s) that for a band like Metallica is downright minuscule, holding about 2,100 people. The band played for slightly more than an hour, performing both classics and, as Hetfield called it, “new stuff” off their 2008 album “Death Magnetic” — a disc widely considered a return to form for the 28-year-old group.

But despite Hetfield’s mock camouflage (and poor Norwegian accent), Metallica stood out on the SXSW landscape Friday. With more than 50 million albums sold, Metallica has probably outsold the other 1,900-plus bands at SXSW combined.

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In honor of the season finale of the critically-acclaimed series, ‘Battlestar Galactica’, the News presents our picks for the ten best sci-fi shows in the universe.

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Apparently UCLA’s Student Body not fans of the Pineapple Express.

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