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Lady Gaga fires back in NY court at music producer
Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million. (Updated: 03/19/10 8:47 PM )
Guests for the Sunday TV news shows
Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: (Updated: 03/19/10 6:21 PM )
Canadian sci-fi writer convicted in border case
A Canadian science fiction writer has been convicted of assaulting, obstructing and resisting a police officer during an inspection in Michigan last year by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers. (Updated: 03/19/10 3:21 PM )
Court: Anna Nicole Smith gets none of oil fortune
The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. (Updated: 03/19/10 8:17 PM )
Ellen presents $30K to Miss. lesbian in prom flap
A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her school's prom policy has received a $30,000 scholarship on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." (Updated: 03/19/10 3:11 PM )
Oprah, schoolgirls to testify at defamation trial
Oprah Winfrey and several schoolgirls allegedly abused at her academy in South Africa are expected to testify in a trial over a defamation lawsuit brought by the school's former headmistress, whose performance Winfrey criticized. (Updated: 03/19/10 2:09 PM )
Do famous and tweet-happy care about following?
Twitter is so many things to so many people: infomercial, backyard fence, brain dump. The funny, famous, famous for the wrong reasons or simply very useful have thousands of followers, but who do THEY follow? (Updated: 03/19/10 12:39 PM )
Volunteer day promoted to honor Mister Rogers
Mister Rogers cared deeply about his neighbors and his neighborhood, both in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and in real life. (Updated: 03/19/10 1:29 PM )
Rome to display ancient Greek silverware
A collection of ancient Greek silverware dating to the third century B.C. is going on display in Rome after being returned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York, officials said Friday. (Updated: 03/19/10 12:30 PM )
Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace
Geneva's new "Parsifal" production escaped the boos heard after several recent Richard Wagner opera premieres at the Grand Theatre, with a richly colored staging accompanying music that was at times so sensuous the allegory of Christian salvation seemed destined to end in embrace. (Updated: 03/19/10 1:39 PM )
Icahn launches hostile bid for all of Lions Gate
Activist shareholder Carl Icahn raised the stakes in his yearlong dispute with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday, launching an all-out bid to take over the movie studio following disagreements over its spending. (Updated: 03/19/10 5:12 PM )
Ian McEwan plans opera version of 'Atonement'
It was a book, then an award-winning film. Now Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is to become an opera. (Updated: 03/19/10 1:39 PM )
No charges for son over conductor's Swiss suicide
British prosecutors said Friday that they will not charge the son of conductor Edward Downes and his wife with assisting the couple's suicides at a Swiss clinic last year. (Updated: 03/19/10 8:54 AM )
Demi Moore's Twitter account part of suicide help
Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening Friday when an 18-year-old man threatened to commit suicide. (Updated: 03/19/10 2:19 PM )
Theater owners say thanks to hitmaker Bruckheimer
Like most people who receive lifetime-achievement awards, Jerry Bruckheimer wants everyone to know he's not finished yet. (Updated: 03/19/10 11:04 AM )