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Carrie Underwood aims for family fun with new variety show 'An All-Star Holiday Special'
CHRIS TALBOTT - December 5, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The variety show was once a television staple, and Carrie Underwood thinks it might be time for a resurgence. The country music star hosts Monday's "An All-Star Holiday Special" on Fox, and believes it's just the tonic for the regular TV lineup. "I...
Nicolas Cage wins UN award for humanitarian work, becomes UN goodwill ambassador
By Associated Press - December 5, 2009
UNITED NATIONS (AP) Nicolas Cage has won a U.N. award night for his humanitarian work and has been appointed a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented the actor and filmmaker with the U.N. Correspondents Association's Global Citizen of...
Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw in 3-car highway accident in NYC that killed woman; Brokaw unhurt
By Associated Press - December 5, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and his wife said they escaped injury in a three-car accident on a New York City highway that killed a 30-year-old woman and injured a mail truck driver Friday afternoon. The accident happened about 1 p.m. as Brokaw was driving in the left lane of...
Stephen Colbert's mock anti-Canada feud spirals on the Web, prompts site to label him a Canuck
By Associated Press - December 4, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) Stephen Colbert has been called what his mock pundit character would deem a traitorous insult: Canadian. The host of "The Colbert Report" is gasp! a Canuck, or at least has a Canadian heritage, says the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com. Colbert's great-great-grandfather...
Ireland's Liam Clancy, last of the 1960s folk revivalist Clancy Brothers, dies in Cork aged 74
SHAWN POGATCHNIK - December 4, 2009
DUBLIN (AP) Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Friday in a Cork hospital. He was 74. Clancy died in his hospital bed flanked by his wife Kim and daughters Siobhan and...
Doors open for Wayne Brady at White House, Carnegie Hall and as 'Let's Make a Deal' host
LYNN ELBER - December 4, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) Wayne Brady is savoring a big year, with doors opening to him at Carnegie Hall, the White House and, in multiples, on "Let's Make a Deal." The actor-singer-funnyman debuted in October as host of a revival of Monty Hall's classic game show, riding herd on eager...
Twisted Sister guitarist Eddie Ojeda goes 'Under The Blade' for emergency back surgery
WAYNE PARRY - December 4, 2009
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) Twisted Sister guitarist Eddie Ojeda is recuperating from emergency back surgery that forced him to miss the band's concert near Philadelphia. Ojeda experienced intense pain that prevented him from standing or sitting, went to a hospital and had surgery to...
Year-old NYC annex to Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will close Jan. 3
By Associated Press - December 4, 2009
CLEVELAND (AP) The year-old New York City annex to Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will shut down Jan. 3. A news release issued Thursday by S2BN Entertainment, a partner in the venture, gave no reason for the closing. Rock hall CEO Terry Stewart tells...
Iconic Russian actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov dies at 81
By Associated Press - December 4, 2009
MOSCOW (AP) Russian news reports say iconic film actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov has died in Moscow at age 81. Quoting the Russian Union of Cinematographers, the ITAR-Tass reported that Tikhonov died Friday in a Moscow clinic, several days after a heart attack. He was known in...
Fla. judge wants 'Girls Gone Wild' footage before deciding if suit continues against founder
By Associated Press - December 4, 2009
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) A judge in Florida wants footage to be turned over to the court so he can decide on a motion to dismiss a civil suit against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis. U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak on Wednesday ordered all relevant videos be handed to him so he...
