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Emma Donoghue says massive success of novel 'Room'is a 'freak situation'
TORONTO - She'll find out Tuesday whether she's made the short list for the Man Booker Prize for fiction, but Ontario-based author Emma Donoghue already has many reasons to celebrate. Last October,...
Standup comic Robert Schimmel, frequent guest on Howard Stern show, dies after car accident
PHOENIX - Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60. Schimmel's spokesman, Howard Bragman,...
Larry Ashmead, editor of Asimov, Hillerman and other writers, dies at age 78 in NY
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Larry Ashmead, a former book editor who worked with Isaac Asimov, Tony Hillerman and other authors, has died at 78, his former employer, former employer, HarperCollins, said Friday. ...
Prom-less young mom Bristol Palin tells Leno 'Dancing with the Stars' was an easy choice
BURBANK, Calif. - Bristol Palin said she didn't think twice before waltzing into "Dancing with the Stars," though she's barely danced in her life. In an appearance Friday on NBC's "Tonight Show wit...
'Twilight' actor Taylor Lautner settles suit with Calif. dealership over late delivery of RV
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A lawyer for Taylor Lautner says the "Twilight" star has settled a lawsuit with an RV dealership he claims didn't deliver a $300,000 coach in time for a movie shoot. Attorney ...
David Arquette takes break from 'Scream 4' to plug new film at Montreal fest
MONTREAL - David Arquette took a break from filming the latest instalment of the "Scream" horror franchise to make a rocket-fast trip to Montreal to plug his new film "The Land of the Astronauts." ...
German court rules against YouTube in copyright dispute over Brightman videos
BERLIN - A German court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s subsidiary YouTube LLC must pay compensation after users uploaded several videos of performances by singer Sarah Brightman in violation of copyr...
Witness recants, says he didn't see Anna Nicole's boyfriend force drugs on her
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A South Carolina man whose family became involved with Anna Nicole Smith has recanted statements critical of the former model's lawyer-boyfriend Howard K. Stern. Ford Shelley ...
Want your 'Bad Romance'? Carillon chimes Lady Gaga hit across school campus
AMES, Iowa - An Iowa State University music professor says the Lady Gaga club anthem "Bad Romance" translates better than you might think into the 33-metre-tall, organ-like instrument known as a caril...
Ne-Yo says T.I. 'makes a lot of poor decisions'; has had many chances
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Ne-Yo says T.I. has had many chances — and it's time he gets his act together. After T.I. was arrested in a drug case, Ne-Yo called him one of the smartest people in the mus...
