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Rivers hired 'Celebrity Apprentice' finale
NEW YORK - Comedian Joan Rivers was hired by mogul Donald Trump and poker champ Annie Duke was fired on the final faceoff of the reality TV show "Celebrity Apprentice."

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Heartbreaking finish to CBS' 'Amazing Race'
The Amazing Race's Sibling Attorneys Score Victory E! Online
Star Trek's Big Box-Office Bang E! Online -
Jennifer Lopez Reveals Daughter's Medical Scare E! Online

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The UK's 'Calendar Girls' are back
LONDON - A group of English women who posed naked for a calendar 10 years ago to raise money for cancer research are shedding their clothes again.
Pop star Kylie dreams of film roles, not U.S. success Reuters -
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop singer Kylie Minogue is not bothered that the music stardom she enjoys in Britain and Australia has eluded her in the United States but says she fantasizes about a credible film career.
Charley Pride, Marty Stuart headline Miss. event
TUNICA, Miss. - Country music artists Charley Pride and Marty Stuart and bluesman Pinetop Perkins will headline the third annual Mississippi Grammy gala.
Tens of thousands mob streets for Pacquiao parade AFP -
MANILA (AFP) - Tens of thousands lined the streets Monday for the welcome home parade of Manny Pacquiao, the most popular sportsman in the Philippines, after he won his sixth world boxing title in the United States.
Court battle over HK tycoon's billions begins AFP -
HONG KONG (AFP) - A court battle over the fortune of eccentric Hong Kong tycoon Nina Wang began Monday, pitting a charitable foundation against a feng shui master for her estimated 13-billion-dollar estate.

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Cruise, Diaz, Apatow chat on AMC's `Storymakers'
NEW YORK - Tom Cruise says he'd try film directing if he weren't so busy with a different kind of off-camera project: fatherhood.
Jamie Oliver putting U.S. city on a diet Reuters -
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC is teaming with British chef Jamie Oliver and Ryan Seacrest for a new series that gives healthy makeovers to an entire city.
Rivers hired 'Celebrity Apprentice' finale
NEW YORK - Comedian Joan Rivers was hired by mogul Donald Trump and poker champ Annie Duke was fired on the final faceoff of the reality TV show "Celebrity Apprentice."
The Amazing Race's Sibling Attorneys Score Victory E! Online -
Los Angeles (E! Online) - Tammy and Victor Jih soared to victory in tonight's season 14 finale of The Amazing Race. Of course, after the legal eagles won an earlier stage at a place called the Bird's Nest, perhaps it was only natural.
"Web Soup" on menu at G4 cable channel Reuters -
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Cable network G4 has ordered a Web-centric spinoff of popular E! series "The Soup."

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The UK's 'Calendar Girls' are back
LONDON - A group of English women who posed naked for a calendar 10 years ago to raise money for cancer research are shedding their clothes again.
Pop star Kylie dreams of film roles, not U.S. success Reuters -
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop singer Kylie Minogue is not bothered that the music stardom she enjoys in Britain and Australia has eluded her in the United States but says she fantasizes about a credible film career.
"Star Trek" beams up $72.5 million in first weekend Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new "Star Trek" movie beamed up an estimated $72.5 million in North American ticket sales its first weekend in theaters, dominating the box office and re-energizing a 40-year-old science-fiction franchise.
"Star Trek" a rare hit among TV adaptations
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Forget all those bad 'boldly going' puns.
Star Trek's Big Box-Office Bang
Los Angeles (E! Online) - J.J. Abrams' retooled, timeline-tweaking Star Trek scored an estimated $72.5 million Friday-Sunday opening weekend, Exhibitor Relations reported today, coming in on the high side of projections and blowing past previous franchise hits—and misses.

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Review: Curtain falls on Met's "Ring" production
NEW YORK - The Rhine overflowed its banks, Valhalla went up in flames, and the world according to Otto Schenk came crashing down one final time as the Metropolitan Opera retired its venerable production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle.
Pop star Kylie dreams of film roles, not U.S. success
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop singer Kylie Minogue is not bothered that the music stardom she enjoys in Britain and Australia has eluded her in the United States but says she fantasizes about a credible film career.
Bentley, Brooks & Dunn honored for overseas work
NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Country artists Brooks & Dunn and Dierks Bentley have been honored by the Country Music Association for promoting the genre overseas.
Charley Pride, Marty Stuart headline Miss. event
TUNICA, Miss. - Country music artists Charley Pride and Marty Stuart and bluesman Pinetop Perkins will headline the third annual Mississippi Grammy gala.
Janes' Addiction singer hurts leg at Atlanta show
ATLANTA - Janes' Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell is recovering from a torn calf muscle he suffered on stage at a concert in Atlanta.

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Bale apologizes for angry rant
Christian Bale and his 'Terminator Salvation' co-stars talk about the actor's angry tirade on the film's set in February. (May 11)
ShowBiz Minute: Rivers, Star Trek, Maguire
Joan Rivers wins 'Celebrity Apprentice;' 'Star Trek' tops U.S. box office; Tobey Maguire welcomes baby boy. (May 11)
Toxic cycle
Fashion designer Wayne Cooper's assault on his wife and their subsequent split has been played out in all its ugliness in the media for weeks. Now it's been revealed they are reuniting. Returning to once-violent situations is a common occurrence.
Footloose teen Australia 7 News
An American student will miss out on graduating after rebelling against a ban on dancing and rock music.
Desmond Tutu, Oprah give commencement speechs WRAL Raleigh
Some big names - talk show host Oprah Winfrey, Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Sarah Parker - headlined at college graduations around the Triangle Sunday.
"Star Trek" beams up $72.5 million in first weekend
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new "Star Trek" movie beamed up an estimated $72.5 million in North American ticket sales its first weekend in theaters, dominating the box office and re-energizing a 40-year-old science-fiction franchise.
"Star Trek" flies to No. 1 at foreign box office
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The rejuvenated "Star Trek" earned a decent but hardly spectacular $35.5 million from 54 foreign countries during the weekend, less than half of what it grossed in North America.
Credit crunch dulls glitz of Cannes festival
LONDON (Reuters) - The stars will still turn up and the movie line-up looks good but the tone of the Cannes film festival will be more black and white than technicolor in 2009.

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She's Hired!: Rivers wins 'Celebrity Apprentice'
NEW YORK - Comedian Joan Rivers was hired and poker champ Annie Duke was fired on the final faceoff of "Celebrity Apprentice."
Star-crossed lovers: `Trek' ship mates lock lips
LOS ANGELES - William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols shared TV's first interracial kiss on "Star Trek" in the 1960s.
Heartbreaking finish to CBS' 'Amazing Race'
NEW YORK - Some quick thinking at the end won $1 million for a brother-sister team of Harvard-educated lawyers on the CBS game of "Amazing Race."
Hollywood writer John Furia Jr. dies at age 79
LOS ANGELES - Prolific screen and television writer John Furia Jr., who penned popular series including "Bonanza," "The Waltons" and "Hawaii Five-O" among many others, has died. He was 79.
Janes' Addiction singer hurts leg at Atlanta show
ATLANTA - Janes' Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell is recovering from a torn calf muscle he suffered on stage at a concert in Atlanta.