Celebrities
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Colbert’s sister to seek South Carolina House seatJan 18, 2013 2:37 pm - Stephen Colbert sometimes jokes about running for political office in his native South Carolina. One of his older sisters is doing it. Elizabeth Colbert-Busch will seek ...
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Armstrong interview gives boost to Winfrey’s networkJan 18, 2013 9:57 am - NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Lance Armstrong is more than an illustration of a hero athlete tumbling from the heights. It’s also a pivotal moment for a famo...
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Alicia Keys to sing Super Bowl anthemJan 18, 2013 9:00 am - Alicia Keys is adding her voice to the Super Bowl show. The Grammy-winning R&B singer has been lined up to perform the national anthem before the NFL championship game o...
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Robert Wagner not interviewed in new Wood inquiryJan 18, 2013 7:51 am - LOS ANGELES — Robert Wagner has declined to be interviewed by detectives in a renewed inquiry into the drowning death of his wife Natalie Wood three decades ago, an inve...
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Dear Abby’s legacy: Wit, warmth, and snappy adviceJan 18, 2013 7:50 am - NEW YORK — Two men had recently bought a house together in San Francisco, and the neighbors were annoyed. The men were entertaining “a very suspicious mixture of people,...
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‘Dear Abby’ columnist dies at age 94Jan 17, 2013 12:17 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — Pauline Friedman Phillips, who as Dear Abby dispensed snappy, sometimes saucy advice on love, marriage and meddling mothers-in-law to millions of newspaper...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger takes aim at gun controlJan 17, 2013 7:53 am - LOS ANGELES — Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t think there’s a parallel between film and real-world gun violence. The 65-year-old former governor of California returns to t...
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Paul Reiser talks Zanies gig, family life and making music on MarsJan 17, 2013 4:00 am - Comedian and actor Paul Reiser, perhaps best-known for his hit 1990s NBC sitcom "Mad About You," has recently returned to the stand-up comedy stage after a nearly 20-yea...
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Tight security, protests expected at inaugurationJan 16, 2013 2:26 pm - WASHINGTON — Tea party fervor has surged and waned in the past four years, Occupy encampments are long gone from parks in the nation’s capital, and the crowd for Preside...
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Conrad Bain of 'Diff'rent Strokes' dies at 89Jan 16, 2013 11:00 am - NEW YORK — Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the ...