Elastic Straps: October 2010 Archives

LOS ANGELES – In hospitals, medical offices and pharmacies, Anna Nicole Smith was routinely registered under pseudonyms to protect her privacy.

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But in the wake of the convictions of her psychiatrist and lawyer-boyfriend for using false names on her drug prescriptions, the Hollywood medical community awoke to the realization Friday that the practice might be off limits and some doctors could avoid treating celebrity clients rather than risk criminal charges.

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But in the wake of the convictions of her psychiatrist and lawyer-boyfriend for using false names on her drug prescriptions, the Hollywood medical community awoke to the realization Friday that the practice might be off limits and some doctors could avoid treating celebrity clients rather than risk criminal charges. "This is a shocker," criminal defense attorney Harland Braun, who has represented celebrities and doctors, said of Thursday's verdicts.

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Alexandria Mills, a soft-spoken 18-year-old, was named the winner in Saturday night's contest in southern China. The tall blonde was a relative surprise winner after speculation focused on other contestants.

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According to a brief biography on the Miss World website, Mills calls Louisville, Kentucky, her hometown, and she recently graduated from high school. She would like to become a teacher.

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Soft-spoken 18-year-old American wins Miss World (AP)

WASHINGTON – A "sanity" rally blending laughs and political activism drew thousands to the National Mall on Saturday, with comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert casting themselves as the unlikely maestros of moderation and civility in polarized times.

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Organizers insisted the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, just days before the congressional elections Tuesday, wasn't about politics. Still, supporters and left-leaning advocacy groups hoped it would rekindle some of the voter enthusiasm for Democrats seen in 2008, particularly among young adults. But also: "Righties, don't stomp on my head," a reference to a Republican rally in Kentucky at which a liberal activist was pulled to the ground and stepped on.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Randy Travis and his wife-manager Elizabeth Travis have divorced. Family spokeswoman Maureen O'Connor confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that the divorce was final.

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The couple has had a 34-year business and personal relationship that began when a teenage Travis won a talent contest at the Charlotte, N.C., nightclub his future wife owned in the mid-1970s with her first husband. They married in 1991.

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They moved to Nashville in the early 1980s. Travis was turned down by most of the record labels in town because he was considered too country.

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AP - "Sherlock" star Benedict Cumberbatch will swap great detective for mad scientist next year when he stars in a theater adaptation of "Frankenstein" to be directed by Danny Boyle of "Slumdog Millionaire."

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Cumberbatch to star in London stage 'Frankenstein' (AP)

LOS ANGELES – A jury on Thursday convicted Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and boyfriend Howard K. Stern of conspiracy counts but acquitted the doctor who prescribed drugs for the former Playboy model of all charges.

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Prosecutors contended during the nine-week trial that the defendants were dazzled by Smith's glamor and filled her demands for prescription drugs to protect their insider status in her personal life and her celebrity world. The jury deliberated about 58 hours after being asked to decide if the three defendants were trying to relieve Smith's emotional and physical pain or were feeding her addiction to prescription drugs.

Jury convicts Smith's psychiatrist, boyfriend (AP)

PHILADELPHIA – The big "S" is still on his chest, but the new Superman coming to the shelves of book stores next week is not exactly the chipper and bright-eyed optimist of lore.

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Instead, the kid from Krypton featured in "Superman: Earth One" that was released to comic book shops Wednesday and due in other book stores on Tuesday, sports a hoodie, a brooding brow and fashion sense that would not put him out of place in hipster lairs from Brooklyn to Seattle.

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And that, said Dan DiDio, senior vice president and executive editor at DC Comics is just what the company was aiming for when it asked J. Michael Straczynski, himself a noted comic book writer who currently helms the company's flagship monthly "Superman" title.

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Lanky, brooding Superman for contemporary world (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Arguing that evidence is deteriorating, defense lawyers for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death are seeking urgent testing of two syringes and an IV bag found in the singer's mansion after his death.

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Attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray said during a 40-minute closed session with a judge that liquids in one of the syringes had already dried up and was now "salt," according to a transcript of the proceeding obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

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Quantities of substances in the syringes and IV bag could be crucial to explaining how the singer died, the lawyers said at the Tuesday hearing.

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Patridge and Dovolani earned another eight points during Monday's rock 'n' roll dance marathon, landing them in second place for the night, but they failed to collect enough viewer votes to keep them in the competition.

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Six celebrity dancers remain: Actors Jennifer Grey and Kyle Massey, singer-actress Brandy, athletes Rick Fox and Kurt Warner, and Bristol Palin.

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I cannot believe that anyone who sees this show as a dance competition can say Bristol should still be there. I strongly believe this show is fixed and the voting is skewed, even from the very first show ever. Florence Henderson had class and grace (I'm not saying she should be the winner) but to see her voted off and that totally ungraceful dancer Bristol still there makes you wonder who's counting the votes. I stopped watching this program a long time ago (but read the eliminations). Also, Brook was really pretty on that Rock Star program and she does have a fabulous figure. But the clothes she wore for that were far more superior than the trampy things she wears now.....i mean she might as well be topless every week. This program needs a big overhaul for survival........could not tolerate any show last season when Kate G. was on, and she lasted and lasted.....like Bristol.....horrible.

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Another 'Dancing' star heads for the hills (AP)

The afternoon is warm and sunny minutes before Richards is to be interviewed at his manager's office in downtown Manhattan, a veritable Keith shrine with posters and pictures on the wall, and a director's chair with his name on it, ready for him to be seated.

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He is 66, his face tanned and lined, his walk slightly bent, an old cowboy gone electric. He's wearing a tan, wide-brimmed hat, black leather jacket, black pants and a loose-hanging white T-shirt. He has on sneakers, turquoise, a distant cousin to blue suede shoes. Unlike Mick Jagger, Richards has never been knighted. But he can claim honors in the world of letters. Nearly 30 years after Jagger gave up on writing a memoir, alleging he had forgotten everything, Richards has emerged as a best-selling author who seems to have retained it all. "Another feather in my cap," he says with his smoke-ringed laugh, lighting up the first of several Marlboros.

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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles prosecutors have declined to file a felony drug charge against T.I. stemming from his arrest last month on the Sunset Strip. According to a charge evaluation worksheet released Monday, deputies found four ecstasy pills on the 30-year-old rapper from Atlanta.

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T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., was on supervised release after serving 10 months in prison for federal weapons charges when he was arrested Sept. 1. A Georgia judge earlier this month sentenced him to another 11 months in prison for breaking his federal parole with the latest arrest.

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As a condition of his release earlier this year, Harris was ordered not to commit another federal, state or local crime while on supervised release, or to illegally possess a controlled substance. He was also told to take at least three drug tests after his release and to participate in a drug and alcohol treatment program.

Rapper T.I. won't face drug charge in Los Angeles (AP)

LOS ANGELES – The man in black will be bringing in some green when Johnny Cash's guitars, costumes, handwritten lyrics and personal belongings go on the auction block.

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The embroidered blue jumpsuit Cash wore to rehearse for his infamous performance at San Quentin State Prison is expected to fetch $3,000 to $5,000. Also up for sale are vintage guitars, a harmonica, Cash's passport and briefcase, and pages and pages of handwritten lyrics, notes and poems. The items will be on view in Los Angeles before the Dec. 5 sale, administered by Julien's Auctions. A portion of the proceeds will benefit MusiCares, the Recording Academy's charity for musicians in need.

Johnny Cash costumes, guitars, lyrics up for sale (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Fear has taken hold at the box office with a $41.5 million debut for scary movie "Paranormal Activity 2," according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Paramount Pictures' follow-up to last year's micro-budgeted hit "Paranormal Activity" got a jump on Halloween as fans packed theaters for another documentary-style thriller about a household plagued by a menacing spirit. Paramount Pictures' follow-up to last year's micro-budgeted hit "Paranormal Activity" got a jump on Halloween as fans packed theaters for another documentary-style thriller about a household plagued by a menacing spirit. "Paranormal Activity 2" did nearly half its business on Friday, following the pattern of many fright-flick franchises, which often draw big crowds on opening day then drop off sharply. The movie took in $20.1 million Friday, with receipts falling to $13 million Saturday and $8.4 million Sunday.

'Paranormal' follow-up scares $41.5M out of fans (AP)

RANTHAMBHORE NATIONAL PARK, India – British comedian Russell Brand and American pop singer Katy Perry were married Saturday in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony at a luxury resort in a tiger reserve in northwestern India, an official said.

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A Hindu priest conducted the ceremony, which was attended by family and close friends of the couple, a hotel official said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media.

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Security has been stringent with private security guards stationed at the resort and other nearby hotels where guests and the couple are staying for the six-day wedding celebration.

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Brand, Perry wed at traditional ceremony in India (AP)

WASHINGTON – Ousted NPR analyst Juan Williams said Friday that he believes his former employer had been looking for a reason to fire him and used comments he made this week about Muslim airline passengers as an excuse to do so. Meanwhile, a U.S. senator said he would start the ball rolling to cut federal funding to the network.

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Muslim groups were outraged by Williams' comments Monday on Fox News that he gets nervous when he sees people in Muslim dress on planes. But Williams' firing two days later prompted complaints by conservatives and even some liberals that NPR went too far.

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Williams said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America" that he believes NPR had wanted to fire him for some time because they disapproved of his appearances on shows by his other employer, Fox News. Opinions Williams expressed on Fox News over the years had strained his relationship with NPR to the point that the public radio network asked him to stop using its name when he appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show.

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Williams: NPR was looking for reason to fire him (AP)

VANCOUVER – Actor Randy Quaid and his wife told Canada's immigration board Friday they are seeking refuge in Canada because they are being persecuted in the United States, after they were arrested on U.S. warrants related to vandalism charges.

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Evi Quaid begged a Canadian immigration adjudicator not to force them to return, saying on Friday that eight friends, such as actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger, have been "murdered" under mysterious circumstances and she's worried something will happen to her husband next.

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Evi Quaid begged a Canadian immigration adjudicator not to force them to return, saying on Friday that eight friends, such as actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger, have been "murdered" under mysterious circumstances and she's worried something will happen to her husband next. "We feel our lives are in danger," she said.

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Randy Quaid, wife seek refugee status in Canada (AP)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Lindsay Lohan is returning to familiar territory — a criminal court to face a judge who could send her back to jail or rehab for a failed drug test.

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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox will formally determine whether the "Mean Girls" star violated her probation with the drug test in September. If the actress admits the results are accurate — as she has already done publicly — Fox could return her to jail or order her to remain in an inpatient rehab program. Fox had been expecting Lohan to arrive at court directly from jail, where he ordered her to be held on Sept. 24 after a brief hearing. Within hours another judge had overturned his ruling and the starlet was released on bail.

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LOS ANGELES – Amid disputes over where "The Hobbit" movies will be shot, Peter Jackson and the executives behind film have announced the cast for the anticipated two-picture tale.

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They say Martin Freeman will play hero Bilbo Baggins and Richard Armitage will portray Thorin Oakenshield, the leader of the Company of Dwarves.

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Other actors joining the ensemble cast are Aidan Turner, Graham McTavish, John Callen, Stephen Hunter, Mark Hadlow and Peter Hambleton. "The Hobbit," based on the J.R.R. Tolkien novel, began production in New Zealand earlier this month. The films are set for release in December of 2012 and December of 2013.

Peter Jackson announces `Hobbit' cast (AP)

WASHINGTON – NPR has fired longtime news analyst Juan Williams, also a commentator on the Fox News Channel, after he told Bill O'Reilly that he gets nervous when he sees people in Muslim garb on an airplane.

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NPR executives had previously complained about his remarks on Fox and asked him to stop using the NPR name when he appeared on O'Reilly's show. The latest comments came Monday, when O'Reilly brought on guests to discuss his own appearance last week on ABC's "The View," during which Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set to protest his views on Muslims.

NPR fires news analyst after remarks about Muslims (AP)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand may lose the filming of "The Hobbit" movies, with financial backers Warner Brothers making arrangements to shift the production offshore, director Peter Jackson warned Thursday.

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Jackson's production company, Wingnut Films, and the union Actors' Equity have been at loggerheads over pay deals for actors in the New Zealand 660 million dollar (US$500 million) two-film prequel to the highly successful "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. The statement gave no indication of where the films' production might be moved, but co-producer Fran Walsh, Jackson's partner, said Warners already had an executive in England scoping filming locations and assessing the studio used for shooting the Harry Potter series for relocating "The Hobbit" movies. U.S. studio Warners owns the studio complex.

NZ may lose Hobbit filming to offshore location (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Whether he played a small-town sheriff, a murder-solving priest or the father of 50s teens that made him famous, Tom Bosley was a warm and comforting presence on American TV sets for decades.

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Bosley earned a place as one of the most memorable dads in TV history as the hardware store owner, father to Richie and Joanie Cunningham and landlord to Arthur "Fonzi" Fonzarelli on the long-running sitcom.

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Both shows showcased life in the 1950s — before Vietnam, Watergate and other tumultuous events of the '60s and '70s. "Kids were watching their parents grow up, and parents were watching themselves grow up. And that was the key to success of that show," Bosley said in a 2000 interview.

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'Happy Days' beloved dad Tom Bosley dead at 83 (AP)

NEW YORK – The Nazis stripped hundreds of thousands of artworks from Jews during World War II in one of the biggest cultural raids in history, often photographing their spoils and meticulously cataloguing them on typewritten index cards.

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Holocaust survivors and their relatives, as well as art collectors and museums, can go online beginning Monday to search a free historical database of more than 20,000 art objects stolen in Germany-occupied France and Belgium from 1940 to 1944, including paintings by Claude Monet and Marc Chagall.

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The database is a joint project of the New York-based Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

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New online resource debuts for Nazi-era looted art (AP)

The 8th annual International Film Festival opened Saturday in the drug-plagued state of Michoacan to its largest turnout ever, drawing the contrast that defines Mexico today.

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Only blocks from the site where a 2008 grenade attack killed eight people, hundreds lined the red carpet to squeal at one of Hollywood's leading men, Oscar-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem. Unlike the Jonas Brothers in the drug-war-ravaged city of Monterrey, no one canceled — organizers say — for a festival that also features Hollywood blockbuster director Robert Rodriguez and Monty Python funnyman-turned-director Terry Gilliam.

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Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, whose film "Biutiful" starring Bardem opened the festival, acknowledged to a full auditorium in cocktail attire that his homeland is seeing a difficult time.

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Film festival shows contrasts of Mexico's drug war (AP)

NEW YORK – With "Mad Men" airing its fourth-season finale Sunday night, its creator, Matthew Weiner, is willing to admit to feeling great.

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Mind you, satisfaction is not a routine state of mind for Weiner, despite the acclaim and cultural heat his show enjoys year after year (and despite its landing a couple more Emmys for 2010, including Best Drama for the third straight time). Picking up in November 1964, the show presented its charismatic, tormented hero, Don Draper (played by series star Jon Hamm), as divorced and uprooted from his American Dream suburban home to a somber Greenwich Village flat.

As 'Mad Men' season ends, its creator feels great (AP)

BERLIN – A rare sheet of 10 stamps depicting Audrey Hepburn fetched (EURO)430,000 ($606,000) at a charity auction in Berlin on Saturday, two-thirds of which will go to help educate children in sub-Saharan Africa.

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The mint-condition sheet of 10 stamps featuring Hepburn, a coy smile on her face and a long, black cigarette holder dangling from her lips, brought a profitable outcome to a botched stamp series that should have been destroyed years ago — and evokes Hepburn's starring role in the 1963 thriller "Charade," in which the characters chase a set of rare stamps.

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Sean Ferrer, 50, Hepburn's son with actor and director Mel Ferrer, and the chair of the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, said he was thrilled that the sale Saturday brought "focus on children in need," but wished the stamps had sold for a higher price.

Audrey Hepburn stamps fetch $606,000 for charity (AP)

According to a Twitter message Friday from Harris that was confirmed by his publicist, the actor and his partner, David Burtka, welcomed twins this week.

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The 37-year-old actor announced earlier this year that he and Burtka would become parents of twins. He didn't say whether they were adopting or using a surrogate. Harris, who plays Barney on the CBS sitcom, won an Emmy Award this year for a guest appearance on "Glee" and shared in another Emmy for the Tony Awards, which he hosted.

Neil Patrick Harris welcomes twins Gideon, Harper (AP)

A mint-condition sheet of 10 stamps portraying Hepburn, a coy smile on her face and a long, black cigarette holder dangling from her lips, is expected to fetch at least (EURO)400,000 ($565,000) at a charity auction Saturday in Berlin.

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Auctioneer Andreas Schlegel said he's received interest from four serious bidders. Two-thirds of money raised will go to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, and one-third to UNICEF Germany. The sale brings a profitable outcome to a botched stamp series that should have been destroyed years ago — and evokes Hepburn's starring role in the 1963 thriller "Charade," in which the characters chase a set of rare stamps.

Rare Audrey Hepburn stamps at Berlin charity sale (AP)

Peter Jackson is set to direct "The Hobbit," the two-part prequel to the popular "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and start shooting in February, Warner Bros. said in a release on Friday.

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The movies, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's books, had been delayed by union issues and the ongoing restructuring of flailing Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., which owns half the project.

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Jackson, who directed the "Rings" trilogy, had originally hired Guillermo del Toro to direct, but del Toro left the project in May because of delays after working on the project for nearly two years.

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Jackson to start shooting 'The Hobbit' in February (AP)

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Angelina Jolie has questioned Bosnia's decision to withdraw her film permit, saying Friday it was based on false rumors that her movie will be a love story about a Bosniak woman and a Serb man who raped her during the country's war.

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But the actress, and two members of her film crew in Sarajevo, declined to say what the plot of her directorial debut will be, and that could make it difficult to allay the concerns of the movie's main opponents: Bosnia's wartime rape victims.

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She offered to meet with wartime rape victims in Bosnia and to clarify misunderstandings that led Sarajevo's culture minister, Gavrilo Grahovac, to deny the permit.

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Jolie questions decision to deny her film permit (AP)

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NEW YORK – Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the stage of "The View" Thursday during an argument with Bill O'Reilly over the proposed Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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The fireworks came amid a heated argument on the issue. "Listen to me," O'Reilly said, "because you'll learn something." "Pinhead!" retorted Behar, who also hosts a prime-time show on HLN.

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NY mosque argument on `The View' leads to walk-off (AP)

LOS ANGELES – A retrial date has been set in a Los Angeles civil case brought by two lawyers against a defunct charter jet company and its owner over the secret videotaping of Michael Jackson and his attorneys during a 2003 flight.

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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday set a new trial date of Feb. 14 in the invasion of privacy suit brought by Mark Geragos and Pat Harris. The attorneys were awarded a multimillion-dollar judgment against XtraJet's owner Jeffrey Borer in March 2008, but that decision was overturned by an appeals court in January and lawyers for Geragos asked for a new trial rather than accept a reduced award.

Civil retrial set in Jackson videotaping case (AP)

Officer James Polite says the hip-hop star joined the crowd outside the 22-story office building in midtown Wednesday and told officers he wanted to help. Police said the man agreed to come down in exchange for a few minutes face-to-face with T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris.

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T.I. said he heard about the situation on the radio and drove to the building to help. He recorded a video of himself on a cell phone and rescue workers took it to the man to prove the rapper was really there.

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The good deed follows recent legal trouble for the rapper, who is due in court Friday for a parole hearing after being arrested on suspicion of drug offenses last month in Los Angeles. He's on supervised release after spending a year in prison on federal weapons charges.

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Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom," the year's most highly praised and talked about literary novel, was not among the fiction finalists announced Wednesday for the National Book Awards.

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Nine years ago, Franzen won for "The Corrections" and his latest book was a sensation even before its release, the subject of a Time magazine cover story and rave reviews and so in demand that President Obama obtained an early copy. Oprah Winfrey picked "Freedom" for her book club, even though Franzen's ambivalence in 2001 over her choosing "The Corrections" had led her to cancel his appearance on her show. Nominees on Wednesday included Peter Carey, whose "Parrot and Olivier in America" was a runner-up for the Man Booker Prize, and such well-regarded authors as Nicole Krauss ("Great House") and Lionel Shriver ("So Much for That"). The book awards also welcomed a rock star, Patti Smith, a nonfiction contender for "Just Kids," a memoir about her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe; and an attorney, poetry finalist Monica Youn ("Ignatz"), whose day job is with the Brennan Center for Justice in New York.

Franzen not among book award finalists (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Taylor Swift's "Fearless" concert tour is starring in three TV specials. "Taylor Swift's Journey to Fearless" will air on The Hub network that launched this week, replacing Discovery Kids.

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The shows about the making of the tour will debut Oct. 22, 23 and 24 at 7 p.m. EDT and include previously unaired footage, The Hub network said Tuesday. The shows about the making of the tour will debut Oct. 22, 23 and 24 at 7 p.m. EDT and include previously unaired footage, The Hub network said Tuesday. "The `Fearless' tour was an amazing journey, from the fun we had behind the scenes to the shows themselves," Swift said.

TV specials showcase Taylor Swift's concert tour (AP)

Thirty-seven years after Robert B. Parker introduced the Boston-based private detective in "The Gudwulf Manuscript," and nine months after Parker died of a heart attack at his writing desk, another novel in the long-running series has been published.

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Although Parker never gave his most famous creation a first name, he gave him boundless courage, a stubborn streak, a hostility toward authority, a loathing for anything pretentious, and the smartest mouth in captivity. As Spenser said about the latter on more than one occasion, "I get a lot of complaints about it.

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All of these familiar traits are on display in "Painted Ladies," which also features many of Spenser's longtime supporting cast including two able Massachusetts cops, Capt. Martin Quirk and Lt. Frank Belson, as well as Spenser's one true love, Susan Silverman. In many ways, this is as much Susan's book as it is Spenser's, the Boston psychologist playing a major role in the story. But many Parker fans will be disappointed that Hawk, Spenser's intimidating African-American sidekick, has no role in the tale.

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Spenser novel is must-read for series fans (AP)

A statement released Monday by her family said Sutherland died Sunday at her home near Geneva. "The family of Dame Joan Sutherland wishes to let all her friends and admirers know that she passed away very peacefully in the evening of Oct. 10 at her home in Switzerland after a long illness," the statement said.

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Called "La Stupenda" by her Italian fans, Sutherland was acclaimed from her native Australia to North America and Europe for the wide range of roles she took on during a career that spanned four decades. But she was particularly praised for her singing of operas by Handel and 19th-century Italian composers.

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Sutherland's purity of tone and brilliant vocal display made her pre-eminent in the revival of Italian "bel canto" operas, taking on the mantle of Maria Callas.

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Family: Soprano Joan Sutherland has died, age 83 (AP)

AMSTERDAM – Solomon Burke was born to the sound of music in an upstairs room of a Philadelphia church and went on to become one of the greatest soul singers of the 1960s, renowned as among music's premier vocalists.

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Yet his popularity never matched that of those he influenced, contemporaries including James Brown and Marvin Gaye, a reality he accepted with grace and some frustration, colleagues said.

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Burke, 70, died early Sunday of natural causes at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, his family said in a statement on the singer's website. "This is a time of great sorrow for our entire family. We truly appreciate all of the support and well wishes from his friends and fans," the statement said.

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Solomon Burke dies at Amsterdam airport at 70 (AP)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A New Zealand public television host resigned Sunday after his mocking of an Indian official's name sparked a diplomatic protest of racism.

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Controversial presenter Paul Henry left his post at state broadcaster Television New Zealand over his mocking of the name of New Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Her surname means "one who has received religious initiation" and it can be kept only by Brahmins, the highest, priestly caste among Indians. To an untrained ear, however, its pronunciation is similar to English profanity.

NZealand TV host resigns after mocking Indian name (AP)

NEW YORK – A crush of fans circled a flower-graced mosaic in Central Park's Strawberry Fields and sang lyrics from "Imagine" on Saturday to honor Beatles legend John Lennon on his 70th birthday.

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On the day when the Liverpool Lad would have become a septuagenarian, thousands of fans from around the world gathered to remember the floppy-haired British superstar who just wanted to give peace a chance.

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Fans began arriving on Friday, spilling onto the sidewalk of Central Park West, where Lennon and wife Yoko Ono lived in the famed Dakota building for nine years. He was shot to death by a deranged gunman as he came home on the evening of Dec. 8, 1980.

John Lennon's 70th celebrated in NY's Central Park (AP)

NEW YORK – It's hard to imagine which event sounds more implausible: John Lennon's 70th birthday or the 30th anniversary of his murder.

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On the day when the Liverpool Lad would have become a septuagenarian, fans will visit Central Park's tranquil Strawberry Fields and attend a nearby benefit concert in Manhattan. The memorial to the slain ex-Beatle and peace activist includes a mosaic donated by the city of Naples, Italy. A plaque lists 121 countries that endorse Strawberry Fields as a Garden of Peace.

John Lennon's 70th celebrated in Central Park (AP)

LOS ANGELES – The Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy case, charging her lawyer-boyfriend and two doctors with providing the former Playboy model with excessive amounts of drugs, was placed in the hands of a jury Friday.

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In a full week of final arguments, opposing lawyers battled over whether the defendants loved Smith and tried to relieve her pain or fed her addiction to medications to curry favor with a celebrity. Attorney Steve Sadow, the last defense lawyer to speak, said Smith was the love of Howard K. Stern's life and he trusted the two doctors on trial with him to ease her suffering with prescription drugs.

Anna Nicole drug conspiracy case goes to jury (AP)

LOS ANGELES – The Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy case, charging her lawyer-boyfriend and two doctors with providing the former Playboy model with excessive amounts of drugs, in the hands of a jury.

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After nine weeks of testimony and arguments, the last word to jurors Friday came from the prosecutor who implored them to convict the defendants on all counts. Earlier in the day, they heard from a defense lawyer who said the three defendants had not broken the law.

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Jurors were told to select a foreperson, then were to be sent home until Tuesday when they will begin deliberations. Monday is a court holiday.

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Anna Nicole Smith drug case goes to jury (AP)

LOS ANGELES – "Modern Family," the Emmy award-winning comedy with two gay partners and their adopted baby among its cast of characters, will be saluted by a tolerance group for the TV show's openhearted view of families.

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But the real focus of Friday's GLSEN Respect Awards, held by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is the timeliness of the organization's two-decade effort to reduce anti-gay bullying in schools nationwide.

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This year's ceremony in Beverly Hills follows a series of teenage suicides, including that of a Rutgers University student who killed himself after his dorm-room sexual encounter with another man was streamed online.

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`Modern Family' to be saluted by tolerance group (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-manager Howard K. Stern was also her best friend and lover and would never have been part of an alleged plot to provide her with harmful drugs, a defense lawyer said Thursday.

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His attack became so virulent that Superior Court Judge Robert Perry told Sadow at one point to direct his remarks at jurors not toward the prosecutors seated in the courtroom.

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Stern and Drs. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to provide excessive prescription drugs to an addict and other charges. They are not charged in Smith's 2007 accidental overdose death in Florida.

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Final defense lawyer offers argument in Smith case (AP)

STOCKHOLM – Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.

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Vargas Llosa has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays, including "Conversation in the Cathedral" and "The Green House." In 1995, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. The academy's permanent secretary, Peter Englund, said Vargas Llosa "is a divinely gifted story-teller," whose writing touches the reader. "He is one of the big authors in the Spanish-speaking world," Englund said.

Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Anna Nicole Smith was plagued by unremitting pain most of her life, and her doctors did not break the law by prescribing medications to help her, attorneys for two physicians told jurors Wednesday in their closing arguments at the drug conspiracy trial.

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Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor acted responsibly in prescribing drugs for Smith, the lawyers said. They also denied prosecutors' contentions that Smith was faking her pain to get drugs.

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Lawyer Ellyn Garafalo, who represents Kapoor, said not a single witness had testified that Smith was faking her problems. "No one has told you the medications were for anything but pain and related conditions such as anxiety," she said.

Lawyers make final arguments in Smith drug case (AP)

LOS ANGELES – After prosecutors depicted Anna Nicole Smith as a victim of her friends, defense lawyers will their chance Wednesday to tell jurors that the former Playboy model was actually being rescued from constant pain by those who gave her prescription drugs.

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Attorney Brad Brunon, who began his summation Tuesday with a defense of Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, will be followed by lawyers for Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Howard K. Stern. The two physicians and the late model's lawyer-boyfriend have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to provide excessive prescription drugs to an addict and other charges. They are not charged in Smith's 2007 accidental overdose death.

Defense gets turn in Anna Nicole Smith drug trial (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Anna Nicole Smith was surrounded by a circle of enablers, including her boyfriend and two doctors who supplied her with drugs for years despite her obvious addiction, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.

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Deputy District Attorney Renee Rose, who spoke to jurors for four hours, concluded by listing the name of every drug prescribed to Smith during the last five years of her life. Defense attorneys were expected to begin their closing arguments later in the day. They have said their clients are caring people who were trying to rescue Smith from a life of pain.

Anna Nicole Smith prosecutors wrap up arguments (AP)

NEW YORK – Lil Wayne is facing the music after being accused of breaking jail rules by having gear for listening to tunes: He can expect to go solo for the rest of his time behind bars in a gun case.

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The Grammy Award-winning rapper was moved Monday into what city jail officials call "punitive segregation" for a month, until his expected November release date, Correction Department spokesman Stephen Morello said. It's his punishment for stashing a charger and headphones for a digital music player in his cell earlier this year, officials said.

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Lil Wayne generally will now be confined to his new cell 23 hours a day, with such exceptions as visits and showers, instead of being allowed to mingle with other inmates most of the day. He'll eat in his cell and won't get to socialize even during his hour a day of recreation, Morello said.

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Lil Wayne goes solo in NY jail solitary punishment (AP)

LOS ANGELES – A prosecutor portrayed Anna Nicole Smith Monday as an out-of-control drug addict who pressured doctors into prescribing pain killers and sedatives.

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Deputy District Attorney David Barkhurst was the first lawyer to deliver his closing argument to jurors after eight weeks of testimony. His initial emphasis was on addiction, a central dispute between the prosecution and defense.

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Howard K. Stern and Drs. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to provide excessive prescription drugs to the former Playboy model while knowing she was an addict.

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Prosecutor: Smith was addict who pushed for drugs (AP)

Four gold medals were awarded to South Korean gamers Sunday at the 10th annual World Cyber Games Grand Final, a four-day contest at the Los Angeles Convention Center of more than 400 competitors from 58 countries.

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Gamers from the United States weren't far behind South Korea with three gold medals. Earning the accolade was the five-man CounterLogic team for "League Legends," the six-man AmeriMiX team for "Quake Wars Online" and Alec "Acai28" Castillo for "Guitar Hero 5." Castillo bested a player from the United Kingdom on Rush's "The Spirit of Radio" in the final round.

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It fits. I'm not a big TV fan so normally don't use the thing but I clicked it on over in Korea on a business trip. It was hilarious to watch Starcraft televised as a professional sport complete with color commentary. Some group of game units would start moving on the display and the color announcer would go nuts like it was mexican soccer.

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South Korea dominates World Cyber Games (AP)

ANKARA, Turkey – A Turkish protest ship that was the scene of bloodshed during Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla is now the setting of an anti-Israeli film.

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Part of a movie is being filmed on board the Mavi Marmara, where Israeli troops clashed in May with pro-Palestinian activists trying to breach the blockade in Gaza, said Salih Bilici, a spokesman for the Turkish Islamic charity that sponsored the flotilla, told The Associated Press on Sunday. The movie "Valley of the Wolves — Palestine" is a spinoff from the controversial but highly popular TV drama series "Valley of the Wolves," which tells the story of a nationalist undercover agent assigned to kill state enemies. The series sparked a diplomatic row between Turkey and Israel this year after one episode showed Israeli security forces kidnapping children and shooting old men.

Flotilla ship is setting for anti-Israel movie (AP)

LAS VEGAS – Bruno Mars, singer of the hit R&B song "Just the Way You Are," faces a felony cocaine charge stemming from his arrest after a performance at a Las Vegas nightclub last month.

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The Clark County district attorney's office filed a criminal complaint Friday alleging the rising singer-songwriter had 2.6 grams of cocaine when he was arrested Sept. 19 after being detained by a hotel security guard.

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Mars, whose real name is Peter Hernandez, is due in court Nov. 18 on the possession of a controlled substance charge. If convicted, he faces up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine.

Singer Bruno Mars facing cocaine charge in Vegas (AP)

WILMINGTON, Del. – Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell once told a TV interviewer that she tried several religions but skipped becoming a Hare Krishna because she didn't want to be vegetarian.

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O'Donnell tells Maher that she had dabbled in "every other kind of religion," including witchcraft and Buddhism, before becoming a Christian. In 1782, the first bible printed in English in America was printed by Congress. This bible was recommended to the American people and to be used in American schools. So, the first bible printed in English in America was done by the guys who signed the documents, endorsed by Congress, and done for the use of schools.

Clip: Meat made O'Donnell avoid being Hare Krishna (AP)

NEW YORK – CNN fired news anchor Rick Sanchez on Friday, a day after he called Jon Stewart a bigot in a radio show interview where he also questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority.

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Sanchez, who was born in Cuba and had worked at CNN since 2004, was host of the two-hour "Rick's List" on CNN's afternoon lineup. He did a prime-time version of that show in recent months, but that ended this week because the time slot is being filled by a new show featuring former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and columnist Kathleen Parker. Stewart had frequently poked fun of Sanchez on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," most recently for saying on the air that his show had received a tweet from House Republican leader John Boehner. Stewart called it a case of "send a twit a tweet." "He's upset that someone of my ilk is almost at his level," Sanchez said during a satellite radio interview with Pete Dominick. Details of the interview were posted on the Mediaite website Friday and quickly became a topic of conversation in the media world.

CNN's Sanchez fired after calling Stewart a bigot (AP)