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Report: Actress Remini breaks with Scientology

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 01:33 AM PDT

FILE - Actress Leah Remini arrives at the CBS CW Showtime press tour party in Beverly Hills, Calif. in this July 28, 2010 file photo. Remini is expressing appreciation to fans and others following her decision to leave the Church of Scientology. In a statement issued Thursday July 11, 2013 by her talent agency, the former LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Leah Remini is expressing appreciation to fans and others following word of her decision to leave the Church of Scientology.

Paula Deen dumps legal team after admitting slurs

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 08:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2012 file photo, celebrity chef Paula Deen poses for a portrait in New York. Deen has replaced her lead legal team, the latest fallout from her admission she used racial slurs in the past. Deen announced last week she had cut ties with her longtime agent who helped make her a Food Network star and start a media and merchandising empire that has largely collapsed. Grace Speights, an attorney for Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, has been retained as the new lead counsel for Paula Deen Enterprises Inc. and other defendants in an employment discrimination lawsuit, according to Jennifer Costa, a spokeswoman for the Washington-based firm. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, File)SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Paula Deen has replaced her lead legal team, the latest fallout from her admission she used racial slurs in the past.

Justin Bieber apologizes for presidential antics

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 04:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2012 file photo, Justin Bieber performs at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Bieber has apologized by phone to Bill Clinton for cursing the former president and spraying his photo with cleaning fluid in a New York City restaurant kitchen earlier this year. Clinton's office said Thursday the pop star called and "he apologized and offered to help the Clinton Foundation." Clinton's office declined to provide any other details. (Photo by Isaac Brekken/Invision/AP, File)CHICAGO (AP) — Justin Bieber apologized by phone to Bill Clinton, the former president's office said Thursday, for cursing Clinton and spraying his photo with cleaning fluid in a New York City restaurant kitchen earlier this year.

Aretha cancels hometown show citing treatment

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 09:44 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 24, 2012, file photo Grammy-winning singer Aretha Franklin attends her seventieth birthday party in New York. Franklin, in a letter distributed Friday, July 12, 2013, by her publicist, canceled a Detroit-area performance set for July 27, citing ongoing treatment. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)CLARKSTON, Mich. (AP) — Aretha Franklin has canceled a Detroit-area performance set for July 27, citing ongoing treatment.

Zucker: Criticism of CNN Zimmerman focus is 'bunk'

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 09:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 6, 2013 file photo, President of CNN Worldwide Jeff Zucker attends a screening of "Girls Rising" at the Paris Theater in New York. Zucker is dismissing charges that his network has gone low brow with its focus on the George Zimmerman murder trial in Florida. He called the criticism NEW YORK (AP) — CNN boss Jeff Zucker said Friday that criticism that his network underplayed the Egyptian coup in favor of the George Zimmerman murder trial is "a bunch of bunk."

Stars pray for Randy Travis after brain surgery

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 05:19 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 7, 2013 file photo, Randy Travis performs on day 2 of the 2013 CMA Music festival at the LP Field in Nashville, Tenn. Publicist Kirt Webster on Wednesday night, July 10, 2013 said that the 54-year-old Travis is in surgery after suffering a stroke while he was being treated for congestive heart failure because of a viral illness. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP, File)NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music stars and fans joined together to urge prayers for Randy Travis on Thursday after he underwent brain surgery following a stroke at a Texas hospital.

20th Century Fox to create musicals from its films

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 06:09 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Get ready for more stage versions of your favorite movies — 20th Century Fox has formed a new joint venture to turn the studio's vast arsenal of films into musicals.

Jay Chou unafraid to spend money on 'Rooftop' art

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 02:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 6, 2013 file photo, Taiwanese singer Jay Chou arrives for the 24th Golden Melody Awards in Taipei, Taiwan. Chou wasn't afraid to spend money to make his second directorial feature, TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Jay Chou wasn't afraid to spend money to make his new film, "The Rooftop," into a work of art. Nor is the Taiwanese superstar afraid of addressing criticism of his acting, something for which he has been berated ever since 2007's "Secret."

Tehran art auction lures spenders amid hard times

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 11:20 PM PDT

In this picture taken on Monday, July 1, 2013, two Iranian women look at paintings in an art gallery, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Some arrived in Porsches or BMWs, which were whisked away by valet parking attendants. The hotel lobby was awash with the celebrated and powerful including A-list actors, well-known artists and captains of commerce.

Bieber listed as underage guest at Chicago club

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 03:16 PM PDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Pop star Justin Bieber is listed as an underage guest on a citation that Chicago police issued to a nightclub.

Hamm taking plunge into sports world as ESPYs host

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 03:13 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jon Hamm is going from a presenter to host of the ESPY Awards, a natural segue for the former three-sport prep athlete who is unabashed in his love for his hometown St. Louis Cardinals.

Crystal touts tourism for NY hometown after Sandy

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 08:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2012 file photo, actor Billy Crystal arriving at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. Crystal, who already donated $1 million to help Long Beach, N.Y., rebuild after Superstorm Sandy, has donated his time to appear in a TV ad that trumpets LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — Billy Crystal is going to bat for his New York hometown following the pummeling it took from Superstorm Sandy.

For Amazon, another role: comic book publisher

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 02:50 PM PDT

SEATTLE (AP) — Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. will start publishing more original comics through its new imprint, Jet City Comics.

Lil Twist arrested for suspected DUI in Bieber car

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 01:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2013 publicity image originally released by Nikura USA, Hip hop artist, Lil Twist, born Christopher Moore, debuts his new headphone collection at International CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Nev. Lil Twist has been arrested for investigation of driving under the influence after being stopped in Southern California while he was behind the wheel of Justin Bieber's luxury sports car. Steve Whitmore, a spokesman with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, says 20-year-old Christopher Moore was pulled over shortly before 3:30 a.m. Thursday, July 11, on a Calabasas road leading to a gated community where Bieber lives. (AP Photo/ Nikura USA, Al Powers, File)CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — The rapper known as Lil Twist has been arrested for investigation of driving under the influence after being stopped in California while he was behind the wheel of Justin Bieber's luxury sports car.

Beau convicted of murder in NY designer's death

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 03:43 PM PDT

FILE- In this March 8, 2011, file photo, Sylvia Cachay, mother of Sylvie Cachay, speaks to reporters outside State Supreme court in New York accompanied by her husband Antonio Cachay, right. Nicholas Brooks, whose father was an Oscar-winning composer who wrote NEW YORK (AP) — The playboy boyfriend of a fashion designer was convicted Thursday of strangling and drowning her in the bathtub of a swank hotel room after a tumultuous six-month relationship.

Early Heller story to be published this month

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 09:07 AM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 26, 1998 file photo shows author Joseph Heller along the Coney Island boardwalk in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Heller's short story, "Almost Like Christmas," will appear next week in Strand Magazine. It is a about the stabbing of a Southern white, the town's thirst for revenge and the black man who has resigned himself to blame. Written in the late 1940s or early '50s, after Heller had returned from World War II, the story has rarely been seen and offers a peak at the early fiction of one of the 20th century's most famous writers. (AP Photo/Todd Plitt, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Before Joseph Heller satirized the madness of war in "Catch-22," he told a serious tale about the tragedy of racism.

Sam Mendes returning to direct 24th Bond film

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 09:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 25, 2013 file photo, director Sam Mendes arrives for the opening night of the musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," at the Drury Lane Theatre in central London. Mendes is coming back to direct another James Bond film with Daniel Craig following the enormously successful NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Mendes is coming back to direct another James Bond film with Daniel Craig following the enormously successful "Skyfall."

Auction selling copyright with Monroe negatives

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 10:30 AM PDT

In this photo provided by Profiles in History, July 9, 2013, is a 1955 portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe by fashion and celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene. Now 3,700 never-before published negatives and transparencies that Greene shot of the Hollywood siren in the 1950s are going on the auction block. (AP Photo/Milton H. Greene)NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion and celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene was only 26 years old when he photographed Marilyn Monroe for Look magazine. He went on to take thousands of photos of the Hollywood siren, capturing both her vulnerability and her sex-bomb persona.

Pastor of his domain: Real Kramer a real minister

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 09:34 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The real-life inspiration for the zany Kramer character on "Seinfeld" can now help fans say "I do."

55-carat diamond goes on temporary view in NYC

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 10:05 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by the American Museum of Natural History shows a rare 19th century 55.08-carat diamond has gone on temporary view at the museum in New York. The Kimberley Diamond gets its name from the mine in South Africa where it was found sometime before 1868. It was cut from a 490-carat crystal. The champagne-colored, emerald-cut diamond will be on display through the end of June 2014. (AP Photo/American Museum of Natural History, Denis Finnin)NEW YORK (AP) — A rare 19th century 55-carat diamond has gone on temporary view at New York's American Museum of Natural History.

Zucker: Criticism of Zimmerman focus is 'bunk'

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 07:43 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN boss Jeff Zucker is dismissing charges that his network has gone lowbrow with its focus on the George Zimmerman murder trial in Florida.

Kevin Costner selling land in South Dakota

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 06:11 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2013 file photo, Hollywood actor Kevin Costner watches the men's downhill at the Alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria. Costner is asking $14 million for 1,000 acres of land he owns near the Old West gambling town of Deadwood in western South Dakota's Black Hills. The property includes the site of the ill-fated Dunbar casino resort, a $100 million project that would have included a golf course and a steam-powered passenger train. It never materialized. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — Hollywood actor Kevin Costner is asking $14 million for 1,000 acres of land he owns near the Old West gambling town of Deadwood in western South Dakota's Black Hills.

UK broadcaster Alan Whicker dies at 87

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 05:45 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Veteran British broadcaster Alan Whicker, known for his globe-spanning travel shows over a career spanning 60 years, has died. He was 87.
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