Katie Holmes' latest Broadway run cut short

Katie Holmes plays Lorna in Dead Accounts by Theresa Rebeck. The plays Broadway run will end Jan. 6. (Joan Marcus/Boneau/Bryan-Brown/Associated Press) Katie Holmes' latest turn on Broadway has been cut short after the play she starred in, Dead Accounts,...

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Twitter followers are up for sale

In an age when having a strong social media profile is a mark of success, some comedians, musicians and artists are turning to services that sell Twitter followers. It's a new business geared to the digital era – with companies that sell "bots" or computer-generated...

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Ewan McGregor, Kate Bush on Queen's honour list

Actor Ewan McGregor, fashion designer Stella McCartney and Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the so-called "God particle," are among the hundreds being honoured by Queen Elizabeth II this New Year. The list is particularly heavy with...

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Kanye West, Kim Kardashian expecting 1st child

A kid for Kimye: Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are expecting their first child. The rapper announced at a concert Sunday night that his girlfriend is pregnant. Kardashian was in the crowd at Revel Resort's Ovation Hall in Atlantic City with her mother,...

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Rescue Me singer Fontella Bass dies at 72

Fontella Bass performs at New York's Apollo Theatre in 2010. The St. Louis-born soul singer died Wednesday in St. Louis. (Louis Lanzano/Associated Press) Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with Rescue Me...

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Katie Holmes' latest Broadway run cut short

Katie Holmes plays Lorna in Dead Accounts by Theresa Rebeck. The plays Broadway run will end Jan. 6. (Joan Marcus/Boneau/Bryan-Brown/Associated Press) Katie Holmes' latest turn on Broadway has been cut short after the play she starred in, Dead Accounts,...

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Twitter followers are up for sale

In an age when having a strong social media profile is a mark of success, some comedians, musicians and artists are turning to services that sell Twitter followers. It's a new business geared to the digital era – with companies that sell "bots" or computer-generated...

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Music therapy offers hope for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s

Music might help people with cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, a study suggests. Frank Russo, a cognitive scientist doing research at Ryerson University in Toronto, is using new technology to probe the link between...

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Rescue Me singer Fontella Bass dies at 72

Fontella Bass performs at New York's Apollo Theatre in 2010. The St. Louis-born soul singer died Wednesday in St. Louis. (Louis Lanzano/Associated Press) Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with Rescue Me...

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Katie Holmes' latest Broadway run cut short

Katie Holmes plays Lorna in Dead Accounts by Theresa Rebeck. The plays Broadway run will end Jan. 6. (Joan Marcus/Boneau/Bryan-Brown/Associated Press) Katie Holmes' latest turn on Broadway has been cut short after the play she starred in, Dead Accounts,...

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Twitter followers are up for sale

In an age when having a strong social media profile is a mark of success, some comedians, musicians and artists are turning to services that sell Twitter followers. It's a new business geared to the digital era – with companies that sell "bots" or computer-generated...

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Music therapy offers hope for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s

Music might help people with cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, a study suggests. Frank Russo, a cognitive scientist doing research at Ryerson University in Toronto, is using new technology to probe the link between...

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British film composer Richard Rodney Bennett dies at 76

Richard Rodney Bennett, a British-born composer for film, ballet, opera and the concert hall, died Christmas Eve in New York. He was 76. Bennett, who had made his home in New York for the past 20 years, moved between the jazz and classical worlds throughout...

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Natalie Portman tops Forbes list of most bankable stars

Natalie Portman has topped a Forbes.com list of stars who give the best bang for the buck in box-office returns. Long a popular actress, Portman got a boost in the standings by her turn in Oscar-winner Black Swan, an indie film made for $13 million...

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You're an app now, Charlie Brown

A small Vancouver company has created an iPad app based on A Charlie Brown Christmas that attempts to capture the magic of the 1965 TV Christmas classic. Company founder Calvin Wong always loved the TV special and wanted to create a version children...

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Rescue Me singer Fontella Bass dies at 72

Fontella Bass performs at New York's Apollo Theatre in 2010. The St. Louis-born soul singer died Wednesday in St. Louis. (Louis Lanzano/Associated Press) Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with Rescue Me...

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Jack Klugman, Oscar from The Odd Couple, dies at 90

Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV's The Odd Couple and the crime-fighting coroner in Quincy, M.E., died Monday, a son said. He was 90. Klugman, who lost his voice...

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Charles Durning, king of character actors, dies at 89

Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge. His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate...

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Hollywood studios rake in record $10.8B for 2012

Ticket sales at U.S. theatres are up for the first time in three years as Hollywood studios took in a record $10.8 billion US domestically in 2012. The industry rebounded this year, with ticket sales projected to rise 5.6 per cent to 1.36 billion by...

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Gerry Anderson, British creator of Thunderbirds, dies at 83

Gerry Anderson, puppetry pioneer and British creator of the sci-fi hit Thunderbirds TV show, has died. He was 83. Anderson's son Jamie said his father died peacefully in his sleep on Wednesday at a nursing home in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, U.K.,...

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Hillsborough charity single takes U.K. Christmas No. 1 spot

A charity single honouring the victims of one of Britain's worst-ever sporting disasters has become the U.K.'s Christmas No. 1 on the pop music chart. According to the Official Charts Company, the cover track He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother by the ensemble...

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5 key developments in books in 2012

Millions of readers pushed the Fifty Shades trilogy into bestseller status. (Random House/Associated Press) 2012 was a strange year in publishing, with an erotic trilogy dominating the bestseller lists as other hit authors flailed. The publishing industry...

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Jack Klugman, Oscar from The Odd Couple, dies at 90

Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV's The Odd Couple and the crime-fighting coroner in Quincy, M.E., died Monday, a son said. He was 90. Klugman, who lost his voice...

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Charles Durning, king of character actors, dies at 89

Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge. His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate...

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Hillsborough charity single takes U.K. Christmas No. 1 spot

A charity single honouring the victims of one of Britain's worst-ever sporting disasters has become the U.K.'s Christmas No. 1 on the pop music chart. According to the Official Charts Company, the cover track He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother by the ensemble...

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5 key developments in books in 2012

Millions of readers pushed the Fifty Shades trilogy into bestseller status. (Random House/Associated Press) 2012 was a strange year in publishing, with an erotic trilogy dominating the bestseller lists as other hit authors flailed. The publishing industry...

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Jack Klugman, Oscar from The Odd Couple, dies at 90

Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV's The Odd Couple and the crime-fighting coroner in Quincy, M.E., died Monday, a son said. He was 90. Klugman, who lost his voice...

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