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  • Bill Hader is leaving “Saturday Night Live” after an eight-year run.

    Bill Hader to exit ‘SNL’ May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Bill Hader is leaving "Saturday Night Live" after an eight-year run. His spokesman confirms that the 34-year-old comedian will depart "SNL" after this weekend's season finale.

     
  • Actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure.

    How and why of Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie announced on Tuesday that she had a preventive mastectomy after learning she had a gene that significantly raised her risk of breast cancer. Here's a crash course in the procedure Jolie had and why.

     
  • Aretha Franklin has canceled performances in Chicago on May 20 under a doctor’s recommendation for treatment. It’s unclear what sheís being treated for.

    Franklin cancels show in Chicago for medical issueMay 14, 2013 12:00 AM

     
  • J.J. Abrams, who directed the latest release of the Star Trek film franchise “Into Darkness,” is gearing up for the challenge of overseeing the next installment of “Star Wars.”

    J.J. Abrams boldly going from ‘Trek’ to ‘Star Wars’ May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    J.J. Abrams is master of one universe — and he's about to try conquering another. The director who rebooted "Star Trek" for a new generation, sending the USS Enterprise out again to explore strange new worlds, has also been put at the "Star Wars" helm. Soon he'll direct a new film, the seventh, in the epic sci-fi franchise.

     
  • New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talks to Britain’s Prince Harry while visiting the area hit by Superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Prince Harry began a tour of New Jersey’s storm-damaged coastline, inspecting dune construction, walking past destroyed homes and shaking hands with police and other emergency workers. New Jersey sustained about $37 billion worth of damage from the storm. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, Pool)

    Prince Harry tours storm-damaged NJ shore May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Britain's Prince Harry toured two New Jersey shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy, shaking hands with emergency personnel and construction workers before spending Tuesday afternoon in New York City at events promoting tourism and philanthropy.

     
  • Beyoncé is canceling her Tuesday, May 14, concert in Belgium because of dehydration and exhaustion. She has been advised by her doctors to rest.

    Beyoncé cancels Belgium show under doctor’s orders May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Beyoncé is canceling her Tuesday concert in Belgium because of dehydration and exhaustion. In an email to The Associated Press, the singer's publicist says Beyoncé has been advised by her doctors to rest. She was scheduled to perform at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp. The show will be rescheduled and tickets can be used at that show.

     
  • Actress Angelina Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday's New York Times where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure. She says she's kept the process private but is writing about it now with hopes she can help other women.

    Angelina Jolie says she had double mastectomy May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. "My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56," Jolie writes in a New York Times Op-Ed piece. "She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was."

     
  • In this Sept. 1, 1987 file photo, Dr. Joyce Brothers takes a break from a busy schedule in Los Angeles to talk about her upcoming television series, “The Psychology Behind the News.” Brothers died Monday, May 13, 2013, in New York City, according to publicist Sanford Brokaw. She was 85.

    Pop psychologist Joyce Brothers dead at 85 May 13, 2013 12:00 AM

     
  • This undated publicity photo released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows, from left, Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan, as Daisy Buchanan and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures drama, “The Great Gatsby,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. “Gatsby” had a great big opening at the box office with a $51.1 million take in its first weekend of release. The film’s opening is the largest for a movie directed by Baz Luhrmann.

    ‘Gatsby’ gives ‘Iron Man 3’ a run for its money May 12, 2013 12:00 AM
    "The Great Gatsby" partied like it was the Roaring 20s with a $51.1 million debut that made it a surprisingly strong runner-up to comic-book blockbuster "Iron Man 3." Studio estimates Sunday put Leonard DiCaprio's "Gatsby" at No. 2 behind Robert Downey Jr.'s superhero sequel, which pulled in $72.5 million domestically to raise its total to $284.9 million after just 10 days in U.S. theaters.

     
  • Actress Goldie Hawn, left, and her daughter Kate Hudson at the premiere of “Nine” at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. The mother-daughter pair has never acted together, but they teamed up for an Almay ad for Mother’s Day.

    Hawn, Hudson talk mother-daughter beauty May 12, 2013 12:00 AM
    When Kate Hudson first burst onto the scene with the movie "Almost Famous," her uncanny resemblance to her mother Goldie Hawn had everybody talking. Hudson didn't see it. But now that she's a mother herself, the 34-year-old actress says she treasures the comparison.

     
  • Veteran ABC newswoman Barbara Walters has announced that she will retire from TV journalism during the summer of 2014.

    Barbara Walters makes retirement plansMay 12, 2013 12:00 AM
    Barbara Walters said Monday that retirement from her epochal television career is near, but it’s not happening right away. Walters, who began in television news as a “Today” girl in 1961, became the medium’s best-known interviewer and invented a daytime talk show at an age many people would be going fishing, said on “The View” that she will step away from the camera next summer.

     
  • Longtime entertainer Pat Boone plans to cruise into retirement by the end of the year. He plays the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace Monday and Tuesday.

    Boone says Drury Lane shows among his last May 12, 2013 12:00 AM
    Pat Boone is saying hello — and goodbye — to local audiences. The legendary artist, famous for his clean-cut image and white buck shoes, plays the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace for the first time Monday and Tuesday. And the nearly 79-year old singer says he won't be back: "I have a strong feeling that this is my last time around."

     
  • In this Jan. 8, 2013 photo, from left, Mariah Carey, Keith Urban and Nicki Minaj from “American Idol” attend the Fox Winter TCA Tour at the Langham Huntington Hotel, in Pasadena, Calif. All is not well in the once peaceful land of “American Idol,” despite a shake-up at the beginning of this season that was supposed to rejuvenate the aging Fox talent competition. Instead, the behind-the-scenes-and-sometimes-in-front-of-the-scenes drama continues to cast a shadow over the series, right up to the Thursday, May 16, 2013, coronation of its 12th season champion.

    ‘Idol’ judges drama upstaging competition May 12, 2013 12:00 AM
    All is not well on TV's once dominant "American Idol," despite a shake-up at the beginning of this season that was supposed to rejuvenate the aging Fox talent competition. Instead, the drama continues to cast a shadow over the series, right up to Thursday's coronation of "Idol's" 12th season champion. A trio of chart-topping new faces on this season's panel was supposed to breathe new life into "Idol." With reported paychecks of $18 million for Mariah Carey, $12 million for Niki Minaj and $6 million for Keith Urban, there hasn't been a return on the investment.

     
  • American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, and daughter, Scotty, in their Paris apartment in 1926. Fitzgerald lived in Paris as an expatriate during part of the period he christened “the Jazz Age.”

    F. Scott Fitzgerald dead, but not forgotten May 12, 2013 12:00 AM
    Has-beens in Hollywood usually stay that way. Yet one writer who died there nearly forgotten 73 years ago had one of the most remarkable posthumous revivals in literary history. F. Scott Fitzgerald is back on the big-screen with Leonardo DiCaprio and director Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby," a story adapted for film and television more than half a dozen times since the silent-movie era, when it was published to scant sales in 1925.

     
  • Prince Harry plays volleyball with members of the British Warrior Games Team Saturday in a gymnasium before the opening of the 2013 Warrior Games, at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

    Prince Harry, Missy Franklin launch Warrior Games May 11, 2013 12:00 AM
    The visit to Colorado got underway Friday night when Harry charmed dozens of dignitaries, British expatriates, students and military officers at a cocktail party welcoming him to Colorado. He also joined the crowd in singing "Happy Birthday" to Franklin, a Coloradan who was celebrating turning 18 at a golf club south of Denver.She won four gold medals in the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

     
  • Isabella Rossellini stars in the Sundance Channel original short “Mammas.”

    ‘Mammas’ a study in maternal instinct May 11, 2013 12:00 AM
    Isabella Rossellini's search for the meaning of maternal instinct in "Mammas" looks at nine animals where things like polygamy, lying and dying convince her that "anything goes."The program, timed to air on Mother's Day on the Sundance Channel, is just the latest offbeat offering from the model-actress, who gets in costume and plays the parts of the animals.

     
  • Mike Tyson will be a cartoon detective in a new animated series on the young adult network Adult Swim.

    Mike Tyson to have his own cartoon series May 10, 2013 12:00 AM
    Adult Swim says it's turning Mike Tyson into a cartoon detective. The network announced a new animated series Friday called "Mike Tyson Mysteries" that will feature the retired boxing champ.

     
  • Britain’s Prince Harry, center right, tours an exhibition on Capitol Hill Thursday in Washington staged by the HALO Trust, escorted by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz..

    Prince Harry opens weeklong U.S. visit May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
    For the prince, the tour in the halls of Congress was a world away from the Afghanistan war zone where he recently served for 20 weeks in an attack helicopter. It was just as far removed from his hijinks in a Las Vegas hotel room last year, when fuzzy photos got out of a naked Harry playing strip billiards.

     
  • Colombian superstar Shakira says she’s learning how to balance her demanding work schedule with being a new mom.

    Shakira on her post-baby body: ‘I look decent’ May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
    Colombian superstar Shakira is learning how to balance her demanding work schedule with being a new mom one day at a time. "It's part of motherhood you know," she said of juggling personal and professional life. "You got to figure it out as you go." The 36-year-old singer and her soccer star boyfriend Gerard Pique welcomed their first child, Milan Pique Mebarak, on Jan. 22.

     
  • CNN is planning an unscripted series about Chicago that will be executive-produced by Robert Redford.

    Robert Redford to produce ‘Chicagoland’ series May 8, 2013 12:00 AM
    CNN is planning an unscripted series about Chicago that will be executive-produced by Robert Redford. The eight-part series, "Chicagoland," will premiere in 2014.

     
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