Group combines sign language with music\nThe IU School of Speech and Hearing will host "Rathskellar," at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Tickets are available at the Sunrise Box Office, located at 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. or by calling 323-3020. Rathskellar, a performing arts group, presents American Sign Language poetry, dancing, mime, story-telling, hand-shape stories and comedy. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door, with free admission for children under 5-years-old. Planned appearances include crowd-pleasing favorites such as the "Cowboy Scene with Sound Effects," "Stick Dance," "ICE," "Wild Wild West" and "Drum Songs." For more information about Rathskeller, visit the group's Web site at www.rathskellar.com.\nUnion Board Films presents 'Big Fish'\nEwan McGregor will take the big screen at IU this weekend as Union Board Films shows "Big Fish" in its weekly film series. Film showings are 8 and 11 p.m., Thursday through Saturday at the Whittenberger Auditorium, located on the first floor of the Indiana Memorial Union. Admission is free to students with a valid IUB ID and $2 for non-students. In the movie, Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) has always been a teller of tall-tales about his oversized life as a young man (McGregor), when his wanderlust led him on an unlikely journey from a small town in Alabama, around the world and back again. With his larger-than-life stories, Bloom charms almost everyone he encounters except for his estranged son Will (Billy Crudup). When his mother Sandra (Jessica Lange) tries to reunite them, Will must learn how to separate fact from fiction as he comes to terms with his father's great feats and great failings. \nActor speaks about misuse of religion\nNEW DELHI, India -- Shah Rukh Khan, a Muslim actor married to a Hindu, says his success as one of India's top movie stars proves India's inherent secularism and urged his compatriots to oppose the misuse of religion. \n"The only thing which can stop India from being the greatest superpower in this world is the misuse of communalism, misuse of religion," the "Devdas" star said in a "BBC Asia Today" interview airing today. "I am a walking, talking secular example. I think by nature Indians are very secular, and the biggest case in point is that a Muslim guy is one of the top stars for the last 13 years." \nThey have accepted me."
SH: Comcast drops takeover bid for Disney\nPHILADELPHIA -- The cable giant Comcast Corp. is dropping its takeover bid for The Walt Disney Co., saying Disney management has made it clear it has no interest in putting the two companies together. The decision was announced Wednesday by Brian Roberts, president and chief executive of Comcast, who said the Disney stance led him to conclude it was time to abandon the proposed merger. Philadelphia-based Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, stunned the industry Feb. 11 when it offered stock valued at $54 billion at the time for the media and entertainment powerhouse. Disney rejected the offer, saying it was too low. Disney shares have been trading higher than what Comcast was offering, a signal that the original offer would not succeed. \n"We have always been disciplined in our approach to acquisitions," Roberts said in Wednesday's statement. "Being disciplined means knowing when it is time to walk away. That time is now"
