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MJ Doctor Warrants Unsealed
LAS VEGAS – A NEVADA judge released warrant documents on Wednesday similar to those previously disclosed in the investigation of pop singer Michael Jackson’s death. However, Clark County District Court Judge Valerie Adair decided...
MJ Doctor Warrants Unsealed
LAS VEGAS – A NEVADA judge released warrant documents on Wednesday similar to those previously disclosed in the investigation of pop singer Michael Jackson’s death. However, Clark County District Court Judge Valerie Adair decided...
King’s New E-Book Delayed
NEW YORK – THE latest weapon in the publishing price wars: Stephen King. Scribner announced on Wednesday that the digital edition of King’s Under the Dome, a 1,000-plus page novel, would not be released until Dec 24, virtually th...
King’s New E-Book Delayed
NEW YORK – THE latest weapon in the publishing price wars: Stephen King. Scribner announced on Wednesday that the digital edition of King’s Under the Dome, a 1,000-plus page novel, would not be released until Dec 24, virtually th...
Lasseter To Get Producer Prize
LOS ANGELES – ANIMATION pioneer and Toy Story creator John Lasseter is getting a career honour from the Producers Guild of America. Lasseter is receiving the David O Selznick Achievement Award at the guild’s awards show Jan 24. ...
Lasseter To Get Producer Prize
LOS ANGELES – ANIMATION pioneer and Toy Story creator John Lasseter is getting a career honour from the Producers Guild of America. Lasseter is receiving the David O Selznick Achievement Award at the guild’s awards show Jan 24. ...
Ex-Smallville Star In Drug Bust
LOS ANGELES – A FORMER actor in Superman-themed US television series ‘Smallville’ was arrested in Los Angeles on drugs charges, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Sam Jones, 26, who played the young Clark Kent’s...
Ex-Smallville Star In Drug Bust
LOS ANGELES – A FORMER actor in Superman-themed US television series ‘Smallville’ was arrested in Los Angeles on drugs charges, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Sam Jones, 26, who played the young Clark Kent’s...
Autograph Pays For Operation
MOSCOW – VLADIMIR Komarov always cherished his signed photo of French actress Brigitte Bardot, but has cashed it in to pay for an operation, the popular Russian daily Tvoi Den reported on Wednesday. The 50-year-old miner from the Ural ...
Autograph Pays For Operation
MOSCOW – VLADIMIR Komarov always cherished his signed photo of French actress Brigitte Bardot, but has cashed it in to pay for an operation, the popular Russian daily Tvoi Den reported on Wednesday. The 50-year-old miner from the Ural ...
MTV Makes Horror Movie
LOS ANGELES – MTV, which made its name as the home of the music video three decades ago, will launch a drive into scripted original programs on Friday that executives hope will mark a new era for the youth-oriented cable channel. At a ...
MTV Makes Horror Movie
LOS ANGELES – MTV, which made its name as the home of the music video three decades ago, will launch a drive into scripted original programs on Friday that executives hope will mark a new era for the youth-oriented cable channel. At a ...
‘Earhart’s Hair’ Actually Thread
WASHINGTON – AN AVIATION museum in the US state of Ohio that believed it was displaying a hair sample from famed flyer Amelia Earhart made an unfortunate discovery, after DNA analysis revealed it to be a piece of thread. ‘In a di...
‘Earhart’s Hair’ Actually Thread
WASHINGTON – AN AVIATION museum in the US state of Ohio that believed it was displaying a hair sample from famed flyer Amelia Earhart made an unfortunate discovery, after DNA analysis revealed it to be a piece of thread. ‘In a di...
DIY Wiki-Magazine Soon
JERUSALEM – THE founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia said on Wednesday he had entered into a partnership with computer company Hewlett Packard that will allow users to create and print magazines. Jimmy Wales, founder of the user-ed...
DIY Wiki-Magazine Soon
JERUSALEM – THE founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia said on Wednesday he had entered into a partnership with computer company Hewlett Packard that will allow users to create and print magazines. Jimmy Wales, founder of the user-ed...
Retrial For Travolta Case
NASSAU (Bahamas) – A JUDGE in the Bahamas has ordered a retrial in the John Travolta extortion case because of possible juror misconduct. Judge Anita Allen issued the order on Wednesday after a local politician said in a speech on TV a...
Retrial For Travolta Case
NASSAU (Bahamas) – A JUDGE in the Bahamas has ordered a retrial in the John Travolta extortion case because of possible juror misconduct. Judge Anita Allen issued the order on Wednesday after a local politician said in a speech on TV a...
Faye’s ‘Not Ill’
TAIPEI – ACTOR Li Yapeng has denied tabloid stories that his wife, pop queen Faye Wong, has a gynaecological ailment and is dangerously thin. ‘We have been staying in Hong Kong lately. She is as happy as a bird every day,’ h...
Eight Mile Style Sues Apple
DETROIT – EMINEM’S music publisher wants a bigger slice from Apple. Interpret contracts IF THE case isn’t settled, the trial before US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor will center on how to interpret contracts. Eight...
Zeta-Jones In Stage Musical
NEW YORK – THERE will be more than a little star power in the upcoming Broadway revival of A Little Night Music, the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury will share top billing in the producti...
Smith Given Deadly Drug Combo
LOS ANGELES – A PHARMACIST asked to provide powerful medications for late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith described the combination of drugs as a prescription for ‘pharmaceutical suicide’ and refused to fill the order, according to ...
Travolta’s Extortion Trial
NASSAU (Bahamas) – PROSECUTORS said on Tuesday that a paramedic who treated John Travolta’s son shortly before he died in the Bahamas threatened to release private information unless the movie star paid US$25 million (S$35 million). ...
Burberry’s Back
LONDON – BURBERRY and its creative director Christopher Bailey made a triumphant return to London on Tuesday night, winning over a star-studded audience at the glitziest event of the capital’s fashion week. Many good shows ...
Locklear Returns To Melrose
LOS ANGELES – ACTRESS Heather Locklear, who played a scheming advertising executive in 1990s drama Melrose Place, is reprising the role in the new version of the show, the CW television network said on Tuesday. Locklear will star again...
Khloe Kardashian To Wed Odom
LOS ANGELES – THE Kardashians are adding another family member: basketball star Lamar Odom. Khloe Kardashian’s spokeswoman said the reality TV starlet will marry the Los Angeles Lakers forward Sunday. Kardashian, 25, app...
Gellar Welcomes Baby Girl
LOS ANGELES – IT’S A girl for Scooby-Doo stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. The couple named their newborn daughter Charlotte Grace Prinze. A spokeswoman for the actress said the baby was born Saturday. I...
