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Lady Gaga fires back at music producer in NY court, files response challenging $30M lawsuit
NEW YORK - Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million. Her lawyer said in a court filing made public Friday the agreement at t...
Crash Karma hoping a revival of '90s music is just around the corner
TORONTO - Crash Karma's debut album features plenty of 1990s alt-rock hallmarks: crunchy guitar riffs, chugging percussion, soaring solos and even former I Mother Earth frontman Edwin's inimitable how...
Indians coach Steve Smith bonds with daughter on TV race around world
GOODYEAR, Ariz. - Cleveland Indians third-base coach Steve Smith never imagined any experience topping the joy of winning a World Series. Racing around the world with his daughter changed his mind....
Demi Moore, Nia Vardalos tweets involved in intervention in suicide threat
CASSELBERRY, Fla. - Actresses Demi Moore and Canadian Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening Friday when an 18-year-old man...
Mom of octuplets may lose home, mortgage holder says he is foreclosing
LA HABRA, Calif. - Octuplets mom Nadya Suleman could be kicked out of her Southern California home. Mortgage holder Amer Haddadin says he is starting foreclosure proceedings on the US$565,000 La Ha...
Talk show host Ellen presents US$30K scholarship to lesbian student in prom flap
JACKSON, Miss. - A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her high school's prom policy has received a US$30,000 scholarship on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." Constance McMillen wa...
Oprah, South African schoolgirls to testify at defamation trial in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA - TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey and several schoolgirls allegedly abused at her academy in South Africa are expected to testify in a trial over a defamation lawsuit brought by the schoo...
Volunteer day will honour late Mister Rogers; kids' TV icon would have been 82
PITTSBURGH - Mister Rogers cared deeply about his neighbours and his neighbourhood, both in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and in real life. Now, friends of the late television icon want to honou...
BBM Canada: 'House' top TV program in Canada for the week of March 8-14
TORONTO - Here are the top 10 television programs in Canada, with viewer numbers, for the week of March 8-14: 1 "House" (Global, Monday) - 2,866,000 2 "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" (Global, Th...
In twitosphere, are the funny, famous in it for tweets, or do they also follow?
Twitter is so many things to so many people: infomercial, backyard fence, brain dump. The funny, famous, famous for the wrong reasons or simply very useful have thousands of followers, but who do THEY...
Demi Moore, Nia Vardalos apparently involved in Twitter intervention in suicide threat
CASSELBERRY, Fla. - Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening Friday when an 18-year-old man threaten...
Oprah, South African schoolgirls to testify at Winfrey's defamation trial in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA - TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey and several schoolgirls allegedly abused at her academy in South Africa are expected to testify at an upcoming trial in Philadelphia. The school's for...
Mario goes to school: Designer behind Nintendo's Wii looks to create educational aids
LONDON - Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping his world of magic mushrooms and ravenous dinosaurs for the staid confines of the classroom? The man behind the massively popular video game franchise th...
Martha Stewart to give presentation at Canada Blooms in Toronto Saturday
TORONTO - Martha Stewart will be flexing her green thumb in Toronto Saturday as she shares some of her gardening know-how at Canada's largest flower and garden festival. The household style maven i...
Ancient Greek artifacts go on display in Rome after being returned by the Met
ROME - A collection of ancient Greek silverware dating to the third century B.C. is going on display in Rome after being returned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York, officials said Friday. The ...
Chicago Art Institute exhibition looks at enigmatic period in Matisse's art
CHICAGO - A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago takes a close - sometimes even microscopic - look at one short and enigmatic phase in the 65-year-long artistic career of France's Henri Mati...
From page to stage: Novelist Ian McEwan adapting doomed-romance novel Atonement as opera
LONDON - It was a book, then an award-winning film. Now Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is to become an opera. McEwan says he is working on an adaptation with composer Michael Berkeley and poet Craig Rain...
Review: Kudos to code breaker for chronicling unwritten rules of baseball
"The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime" (Pantheon Books, 304 pages, US$25), by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca: Major League ...
Jessica Simpson's 'Price of Beauty' investigates standards of beauty
NEW YORK - Singer and sometimes actress Jessica Simpson has paid the price of beauty, and now she's examining people's obsession with looking good. She made headlines last year when photos of her p...
Jaden Smith joins family action business with starring role in new 'Karate Kid'
LAS VEGAS - Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's family is getting crowded with action heroes now that their 12-year-old son, Jaden, is beating up on bad guys. Jaden Smith stars in the title role of "The ...
Theatre owners say thanks to hitmaker Jerry Bruckheimer
LAS VEGAS - Like most people who receive lifetime-achievement awards, Jerry Bruckheimer wants everyone to know he's not finished yet. "Hopefully, there's more to come," said Bruckheimer, the produc...
Demi Moore apparently tweeted intervention for young man threatening suicide
CASSELBERRY, Fla. - Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening when a young man threatened to commit s...
Lady Gaga spokesman declines to address music producer's US$30 million lawsuit
NEW YORK - Lady Gaga's spokesman is declining to comment on a music producer's lawsuit. Rob Fusari filed the US$30.5 million lawsuit in Manhattan against the Grammy Award-winning performer on Wedne...
Riots erupt after South African hip-hop star granted bail in hearing on child drag-race deaths
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South African police have fired water cannons at angry youths and children protesting a court decision to grant bail to a hip-hop artist accused of killing four children i...
Demi Moore apparently involved in Twitter intervention for young US man threatening suicide
CASSELBERRY, Fla. - Actress Demi Moore is apparently part of an online chain of posts that warned Florida authorities that a young man might be trying to commit suicide. Her Twitter account, mrskut...
Bullock still poised for a successful future despite airing of personal pain
LOS ANGELES - Sandra Bullock reached the pinnacle of her profession on March 7, when she won an Academy Award. Her husband, Jesse James, was by her side. He even teared up when she went on stage to ac...
Fess Parker, idol of baby boomers as Davy Crockett, dies in California at 85
LOS ANGELES - Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao A...
Polanski lawyers cite new evidence in appeal of ruling that director appear in LA court
LOS ANGELES - Roman Polanski's attorneys filed an appeal Thursday asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director's 32-...
Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie among writers to be featured at literature event in NYC
NEW YORK - Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Sherman Alexie will be among the writers featured at the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in New York City. Readings a...
Music producer files $30M lawsuit against Grammy Award-winning singer Lady Gaga in NYC court
NEW YORK - A songwriter and music producer says in a New York City lawsuit pop star Lady Gaga squeezed him out of her lucrative career after he co-wrote some of her songs, came up with her stage name ...
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