HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Perhaps there was one heartbreak too many for Mindy McCready. The former country star appears to have taken her own life Sunday afternoon in Heber Springs, Ark. Authorities say McCready died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot to the head and an autopsy is planned. She was 37, the mother of […]
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SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian film about a woman in need benefiting from the kindness of others won top honors at the world’s biggest short-film festival. “We’ve All Been There” director Nicholas Clifford received the Tropfest first-place award Sunday from judging panelist and “Avatar” actor Sam Worthington. Worthington earlier said, “It’s not about budget, it’s […]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The CIA thrillers “Argo” and “Zero Dark Thirty” have won top screenplay honors from the Writers Guild of America. The guild’s adapted screenplay award Sunday went to Chris Terrio for “Argo,” director Ben Affleck’s tale of the CIA’s daring masquerade of six U.S. diplomats as a Hollywood film crew to rescue […]
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LONDON (AP) — London Fashion Week moved into high international gear Saturday with a debut collection from Barbadian pop diva Rihanna, a Native American-inspired show by Brazilian-born Issa and a host of other eclectic offerings. No one went to Rihanna’s Saturday night debut as a fashion designer expecting demure dresses set off with tasteful pearls. […]
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ATLANTA (AP) — Stevie Wonder is not happy with Lil Wayne’s vulgar lyrics that reference Emmett Till, a black teen who was killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The R&B legend says the rapper’s disturbing verse should not have made it beyond the recording studio for the world to hear. “You […]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Kardashian’s divorce case returns to court on Friday with an attorney for the reality star urging a speedy end to her marriage to NBA player Kris Humphries. Attorneys for the former couple disagree over a timetable for a trial to end the marriage, which Humphries wants annulled. Kardashian, who is […]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer for Kim Kardashian’s estranged husband wants to end his involvement in the former couple’s divorce proceedings. Marshall Waller says irreconcilable differences have arisen between him and Kris Humphries, and he should be allowed to leave the case. He filed paperwork Thursday, one day before he and Kardashian’s attorney are […]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — By now it’s clear that nothing and no one can kill Bruce Willis, whose fifth film in the “Die Hard” franchise, the horribly titled “A Good Day to Die Hard,” opens this week. It is not his finest hour. At 57, he still wreaks havoc and looks great in a tight […]
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NEW YORK (AP) — Emma Bing, the inspiration for the pregnancy bible “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” has given birth in Los Angeles to a boy. Lennox Page Ali, whose father is musician Russell Ali, was born Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, weighing in at 5 pounds, 15 ounces, family spokeswoman Heidi Schaeffer said. […]
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters played house band for Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty and Rick Springfield at a sold-out concert in New York City. Nicks, Fogerty and Springfield performed at the Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Calif., in the late 1960s through the early ’90s. They are the subjects […]
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