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The perfect diva and the unattainable total package

HOLLYWOOD -- Everyone knows that Taylor Swift can't sing. The teen star might hold the zeitgeist in her pink satin clutch, but she's regularly criticized for her live vocal performances, which tend toward wild notes and shortness of breath. Her turns onstage at the recent Country Music As…

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Actor Gael Garcia Bernal’s new role is ‘provocative’

NEW YORK -- Gael Garcia Bernal calls his latest film "provocative."

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Tyler Perry donates $1 million to NAACP

BALTIMORE -- Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the NAACP to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the civil rights organization.

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Morris keeps 'Cold Case' character fresh

Before signing on to star as the lead detective in the CBS missing-persons drama "Cold Case," Kathryn Morris was courted by Steven Spielberg and Rod Lurie. She played every male's fantasy in HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man" and in John Woo's "Paycheck." Now, seven years into playing "C…

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’Fringe’ star John Noble celebrates weird science

Dr. Walter Bishop follows in a long line of mad scientists. An unbalanced genius like Bishop going at it in his lab is a pop-culture staple. Or even, some would say, a cliche.

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Winfrey’s push toward finale won’t be small

Back in 1996, when Phil Donahue taped the finale of his groundbreaking daytime TV talk show in New York, the once-dominant program had become such an afterthought that it didn't even air in that market.

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‘Dancing with the Stars’ crowns Donny Osmond

NEW YORK -- Donny Osmond was declared the new champion of "Dancing with the Stars" on Tuesday night, taking home the show's mirror ball trophy in the season finale of the ABC contest reality program.

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Lambert's performance shocks AMA viewers, fans

Where can a singer thrust a man's face into his crotch, walk his dancers on a leash and force his keyboardist into a lip lock -- all while mewling like a hair metal hero of yore?

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'Jon and Kate Plus 8' equals 0 new episodes

NEW YORK -- You might say our national nightmare is over. Or is it just a TV series?

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Let's start missing Oprah now

NEW YORK -- Is it too soon to begin missing Oprah?

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On her OWN: Winfrey's departure a problem for TV stations

For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.

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Undeath becomes her: Fanning has fangs in new ‘Twilight’ pic

Dakota Fanning, at 15, has more acting credits than most of the other young stars of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" combined. But that didn't stop the young actress from agreeing to take on what is essentially a cameo in the new film.

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When Sarah met Oprah

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and daytime talk-show diva Oprah Winfrey got together to further their careers Monday and vie for the spotlight.

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'Blind Side' role: Fame won't sack this rising star

The applause, from an audience that matters, was thunderous. Of course John Lee Hancock, the director of "The Blind Side," was pleased. But his discovery, the young man whose life could change in much the way his character's life changes in the movie, was stunned.

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John Mayer makes sure music rises above tabloids

NEW YORK -- If you're engrossed in the tabloid Internet-gossip that has come to define the celebrity world, then John Mayer's latest CD, "Battle Studies," could provide enough fodder to fill at least a dozen Perez Hilton blog posts or at least one story in Us Weekly.

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Tom Lodge lived real ‘Pirate Radio’ story

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- On Easter Sunday in 1964, Tom Lodge and his friends found themselves aboard an old ferry ship anchored a bit more than three miles off the southeastern coast of Great Britain.

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Palin avoids going rogue in Oprah, Walters interviews

NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that a 2012 presidential bid is "not on my radar," but wouldn't rule out playing some role in the next presidential election.

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Kids, critics crowd around Mister Rogers statue

PITTSBURGH -- Amy Mee wasn't standing in front of the new Fred Rogers statue for long before she was interrupted by her 6-year-old daughter, Sarah.

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And McKellen makes Two in 'Prisoner'

NEW YORK -- A man named Michael from New York wakes up in the desert, much to his surprise.

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John King replaces Lou Dobbs' show on CNN

NEW YORK -- John King is replacing Lou Dobbs on CNN.

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