Quick Takes: Judgment on book review

The Daily Telegraph’s parent company was ordered Tuesday to pay more than $100,000 in damages over a book review. The British newspaper lost a lawsuit for libel and malicious falsehood that had been filed by Sarah Thornton, author of “Seven Days in the Art World.�

The Telegraph’s reviewer, Lynn Barber, was listed as one of the 250 people Thornton had interviewed for the book, but she wrote in her review that no such interview had taken place.

Thornton was able to prove that she had conducted a 30-minute phone interview with Barber two years before, and in Tuesday’s judgment, the judge wrote that Barber knew her claim of not being interviewed was false.

Barber, a longtime journalist and well-known interviewer, has served as a judge for the Turner Prize, one of the most prestigious in the art world. Her work may not be as well known in the U.S. as it is in Britain, but her story is. Her memoir “An Education� was made into the Oscar-nominated film starring Carey Mulligan.

The Telegraph Media Group said it was “dismayed� by the judgment and plans to appeal.

—Carolyn Kellogg

Funeral tributes to Winehouse

Wearing dark suits, black dresses and the occasional beehive hairdo, friends and family said goodbye to Amy Winehouse Tuesday with prayers, tears, laughter and song at an emotional funeral ceremony.

“Amy was the greatest daughter, family member and friend you could ever have,� said her father, Mitch Winehouse, in a section of the eulogy released by a family spokesman.

The singer’s father, mother and brother were joined by Winehouse’s close friends, band members and celebrities including producer Mark Ronson for the service at Edgwarebury Cemetery in north London.

Media personality Kelly Osbourne was one of several women to wear their hair piled beehive-high in an echo of the singer’s trademark style. Winehouse died Saturday at age 27.

Fans and photographers thronged the lane outside, but the funeral was for several hundred friends and family only.

—Associated Press

Long Booker list is announced

Previous Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst and three-time finalist Julian Barnes are again among the contenders for Britain’s most prestigious literary award.

Hollinghurst’s century-sweeping saga “The Stranger’s Child� and Barnes’ memory-haunted “The Sense of an Ending� are among 13 novels on the long-

list.

Other contenders for the Booker announced Tuesday include “On Canaan’s Side� by Ireland’s Sebastian Barry; Stephen Kelman’s debut novel, “Pigeon English�; and three Canadian novels: “The Sisters Brothers� by Patrick deWitt, “Half Blood Blues� by Esi Edugyan and “Far to Go� by Alison Pick.

Six finalists will be announced Sept. 6 and the winner of the $82,000 prize will be named Oct. 18.

The Booker is open to writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth.

—Associated Press

Powerful voices speak about 9/11

With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaching, the Smithsonian Channel said Tuesday it will air a program that tells the story of that historic day from the point of view of those in power at the time.

Among the people interviewed for “9/11: Day That Changed the World� are then-First Lady Laura Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. Also included will be then-New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Martin Sheen will narrate the two-hour program, which will premiere Sept 5.

In addition to television, the program will be available free of charge on iTunes and on SmithsonianChannel

.com.

—Steven Zeitchik

Lithgow headed to Broadway

John Lithgow is headed back to Broadway in a familiar role: a newspaper columnist.

The former star of the TV comedy series “3rd Rock From the Sun� will portray Joseph Alsop in the Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of David Auburn’s “The Columnist� next April.

Lithgow won a Tony for playing a columnist based on Walter Winchell in the 2002 musical “The Sweet Smell of Success.� He also earned a Tony in 1973 for his Broadway debut in “The Changing Room.�

—Associated Press

Finally

Renewed: TNT has ordered a second season of the buddy legal drama “Franklin & Bash,� which premiered June 1 and stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer.