Celebrities
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Barbara Walters to retire next yearMar 29, 2013 7:34 am - NEW YORK — Barbara Walters plans to retire next year, ending a television career that began more than a half century ago and made her a trailblazer in news and daytime T...
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‘Harry Potter’ actor Richard Griffiths dies at 65Mar 29, 2013 7:33 am - LONDON — Richard Griffiths, the versatile British actor who played the boy wizard’s unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died. He was 65. Agent S...
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Dido puts family before her new albumMar 28, 2013 4:00 pm - WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Dido had been planning a relatively quick return to the spotlight after 2008's “Safe Trip Home.” She holed up in Los Angeles and London studios ...
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Harrison Ford not ready to talk ‘Star Wars’ sequelsMar 27, 2013 8:26 am - LOS ANGELES — Harrison Ford isn’t ready — “yet” — to talk about his reported part in Disney’s planned “Star Wars” sequel, but he praises its director, J.J. Abrams. “I th...
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Singer Dionne Warwick files for bankruptcyMar 27, 2013 7:35 am - NEWARK, N.J. — Singer Dionne Warwick claims in a recent bankruptcy filing that she owes nearly $10 million in back taxes and her monthly expenses exceed $20,000. The Sou...
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Robin Roberts to get ESPY award for courageMar 26, 2013 12:01 pm - NEW YORK — ESPN is staying in the family in giving its Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Robin Roberts at its annual ESPY awards this summer. The “Good Morning America” ancho...
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From ‘Idol’ to tour, Urban has no time to idleMar 26, 2013 10:34 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Keith Urban’s to-do list goes something like this: Provide the voice of reason on “American Idol,” choose and record songs for a new album, plan a tou...
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Usher, Fogerty sign on for Rock Hall ceremonyMar 26, 2013 10:34 am - CLEVELAND — Usher, Carole King, John Fogerty, Spike Lee, Harry Belafonte and others have been added to the list of performers and presenters for the next Rock and Roll H...
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Top-rated 'Young and Restless' marks 40 yearsMar 25, 2013 9:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Love, loss, breakups, makeups, murder, mayhem, backstabbing, social climbing. Forget about a lifetime, that's just an afternoon on “The Young and the Restl...
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A whole new late night war over ‘Tonight’?Mar 24, 2013 5:07 pm - NEW YORK — Why couldn’t NBC just leave well enough alone? But, no, word leaked last week that “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon will unseat Jay Leno as the new host of the ...