Television
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A new 'Tonight' dawns with Jimmy Fallon as hostFeb 16, 2014 4:30 am - NEW YORK - On the walls of Jimmy Fallon's office are photos. Lots of photos. Of his 2007 marriage to film producer Nancy Juvonen. Of their 6-month-old daughter, Winnie. ...
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Snake-handling pastor from reality TV dies from snake biteFeb 16, 2014 12:01 am - MIDDLESBORO, Ky. - Jamie Coots, a snake-handling Kentucky pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show "Snake Salvation," died Saturday after b...
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Review: NBC Olympics online deserves silver medalFeb 15, 2014 7:06 am - NEW YORK - NBC comes close to gold in delivering the Winter Olympics online from Sochi, Russia. Although NBC has scaled back on a few fronts compared with previous years...
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Class back on rise in UK - but elite differentFeb 15, 2014 4:45 am - LONDON - For the past three decades, many Britons had hoped the rigid class system that defined their country from Dickens to "Downton Abbey" was finally dying. Now they...
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'Happy Days' actor promotes books at Woodridge eventFeb 15, 2014 12:01 am - A duo of authors including the man best known as the Fonz on the 1970s TV show "Happy Days" used a Children's Literature Breakfast on Saturday in Woodridge to promote th...
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John Henson, son of Muppets creator, dies in NYFeb 15, 2014 12:00 am - SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — John Henson, the son of the late Muppets creator Jim Henson, has died in New York. He was 48. Cheryl Henson says her brother died of a “massive heart ...
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Plot thickens for 'House of Cards,' Kate MaraFeb 14, 2014 4:30 am - Everything that sounds surreal about Kate Mara's life seems perfectly normal to her. Frequently attending the Super Bowl? Not that out of the ordinary: Her family tree i...
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Not all escapist fare is for kidsFeb 14, 2014 4:30 am - Thanks to Harry Potter, "Lord of the Rings" and Hollywood's insistence that no big-budget movie be rated R, imaginative fantasy and sci-fi films have become synonymous w...
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'Waltons' patriarch Ralph Waite dies at 85Feb 14, 2014 12:01 am - LOS ANGELES - Ralph Waite, who played the father in TV's hit series "The Waltons," has died. Waite's manager, Alan Mills, says the actor died midday Thursday in the Pal...
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Netflix to show final season of 'Clone Wars'Feb 13, 2014 12:01 am - SAN FRANCISCO - Netflix's Internet video service is coming to the rescue of "Star Wars" fans left in limbo by the abrupt cancellation of "The Clone Wars," an animated te...