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3/6/2008 11:19:58 PM
'Idol' cuts 4 more, leaving 12 finalists (AP)
3/6/2008 10:21:59 PM
In this undated image released by FOX, 'American Idol' contestant David Hernandez, 24, of Glendale, Ariz., is shown. (AP Photo/FOX)

In this undated image released by FOX, 'American Idol' contestant David Hernandez, 24, of Glendale, Ariz., is shown. (AP Photo/FOX)

AP - The top 12 "American Idol" finalists include an actress, a "Star Search" champion, an Australian, a male stripper and someone who already recorded a debut album.

Rowland feels 'complete' after surgery (AP)
3/6/2008 10:00:09 PM
Singer Kelly Rowland is seen before the start of the Pro Bowl football game in Honolulu, in this, Feb. 10, 2008, file photo. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, file)

Singer Kelly Rowland is seen before the start of the Pro Bowl football game in Honolulu, in this, Feb. 10, 2008, file photo. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, file)

AP - Kelly Rowland has gotten a little more bustylicious. Rowland, who sang "Bootylicious" with Beyonce in the group Destiny's Child, tells People magazine in its March 17 issue that she had plastic surgery last October to bring her "from an A-cup to a B-cup."

Unparalleled 'Wire' to conclude Sunday (AP)
3/6/2008 10:06:50 PM

David Simon works on additional dialogue recording for a new miniseries based on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Simon is also the creator of 'The Wire,' an HBO show which endeavored unlike any previous fictional series to depict a city in full. Its protagonist is Baltimore, framed by thousands of close-ups of its inhabitants, from the drug dealers on the corner to the politicians in City Hall. When it premiered in 2002, Simon, series creator and former Baltimore Sun reporter, set out with grand ambitions of social commentary and novelistic storytelling. An 'angry show,' he's called it. The final episode, the 60th, airs Sunday, March 9. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

AP - On "The Wire," it's tradition for Baltimore police to hold a wake for a fallen officer by laying out his body on a barroom pool table, singing the Pogues' "The Body of an American" and raising their glasses to the dearly departed.

Lincoln slavery letter on sale in NY (AP)
3/6/2008 10:02:59 PM

This photo released by Sotheby's Auction House in New York, Thursday, March 6, 2008, shows an 1864 letter that was hand written and signed by former President Abraham Lincoln. The letter was Lincoln's reply to a woman who mailed him a petition signed by American school children asking him to free America's 'little slave children.' The letter will go up on the block at Sotheby's in New York on April 3, 2008, and could draw a record price for a Lincoln manuscript. (AP Photo/Sotheby's Auction House)

AP - One of the most significant collections of Abraham Lincoln letters to be auctioned in decades includes his heartfelt reply to a group of youngsters who asked him to free America's "little slave children."

Bai Ling enters shoplifting plea deal (AP)
3/6/2008 10:01:18 PM

Chinese actress Bai Ling arrives at a party celebrating the new mobile service Helio and benefiting Heal the Bay in West Hollywood, Calif., in this Aug. 8, 2007, file photo. Bai Ling, 37, was charged earlier this week with petty theft for trying to take a pack of batteries and two Star magazines worth $16.22 from a store at Los Angeles International Airport. In the plea deal requested by her attorney, she agreed Wednesday, March 5, 2008, to plead guilty to disturbing the peace and to pay a fine and penalties totaling $700, city attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

AP - Bai Ling has copped a plea in her shoplifting case. The actress was charged earlier this week with petty theft for trying to take a pack of batteries and two Star magazines worth $16.22 from a store at Los Angeles International Airport.

Hollywood remembers Johnny Grant (AP)
3/6/2008 9:22:45 PM
H.B. Barnum's Gospel Choir performs at the memorial service for Johnny Grant at the Pantages Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Thursday, March 6, 2008. Grant, the honorary mayor of Hollywood who traveled the world as Tinseltown's chief ambassador for more than a half-century, died Jan. 9, of natural causes. He was 84. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

H.B. Barnum's Gospel Choir performs at the memorial service for Johnny Grant at the Pantages Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Thursday, March 6, 2008. Grant, the honorary mayor of Hollywood who traveled the world as Tinseltown's chief ambassador for more than a half-century, died Jan. 9, of natural causes. He was 84. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

AP - It was fitting that Johnny Grant would be memorialized on Hollywood Boulevard.

'Idol' cuts 4 more, leaving 12 finalists (AP)
3/6/2008 10:21:59 PM
In this undated image released by FOX, 'American Idol' contestant David Hernandez, 24, of Glendale, Ariz., is shown. (AP Photo/FOX)

AP - The top 12 "American Idol" finalists include an actress, a "Star Search" champion, an Australian, a male stripper and someone who already recorded a debut album.

NY judge: Defendant's TV work a mistake (AP)
3/6/2008 11:06:27 PM
AP - A federal judge gave a harsh review of the television antics of the son of a former organized crime boss as she sentenced him to a year and a day in prison, saying he earned his prison time with a big blunder: acting work that disrespected the court system.

Actors benefit as major networks run cable shows (Reuters)
3/6/2008 10:56:46 PM
Reuters - Actors who land on successful television series often eagerly await the day when their shows go into syndication, with the promise of increased residuals.

Come Look at the Freaks - Again; Condon Attached as Director of Revised 'Side Show' (Playbill)
3/6/2008 6:46:33 PM
Playbill - Side Show, the cult Tony Award-nominated musical about conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, seen in a short Broadway run in 1997-98, is being revised by creators Bill Russell and Henry Krieger, under the guidance of director Bill Condon.

Spears' father gets $2,500 per week (AP)
3/6/2008 10:03:56 PM

In this courtroom sketch, from left: Britney Spears' father James Spears, an unidentified family friend and Spears' mother Lynn Spears ask Commissioner Reva Goetz for a court-ordered temporary conservatorship over pop singer Britney Spears and her estate, in this Feb.1, 2008 file sketch in Los Angeles. A Superior Court commissioner granted Britney Spears' father control of his daughter's estate for another five months on Wednesday, March 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Mona Shafer Edwards)

AP - Being Britney Spears' father is now a paying gig Â— through most of the summer, at least. A court has ordered the troubled pop star's estate to pay James Spears' $2,500 in weekly compensation and authorized him to lease a car. On Wednesday, his authority to handle his daughter's affairs, which was scheduled to expire March 10, was extended until July 31.

Spanish Designer Robert Verino Celebrates 25 Years (Fashion Wire Daily)
3/6/2008 12:15:00 PM
FWD101 Robert Verino poses with Olatz Schnabel at a reception for the exhibit

FWD101 Robert Verino poses with Olatz Schnabel at a reception for the exhibit

Fashion Wire Daily - Spanish designers don't generally get much ink in the U.S., and Madrid's fashion week doesn't have quite the same clout as Milan, London or Paris, yet.

Faked books follow long tradition of literary swindles (AFP)
3/6/2008 10:51:15 PM
Recent hoaxes by two best selling authors; one a former truck stop prostitute (L) and the other a recovered crack addict (R), seen here in 2006. Both writers, JT LeRoy and James Frey, were targetted by investigative journalists casting doubts on the former's real identity [and gender] and challenging the latter's autobiographical accuracy.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)

Recent hoaxes by two best selling authors; one a former truck stop prostitute (L) and the other a recovered crack addict (R), seen here in 2006. Both writers, JT LeRoy and James Frey, were targetted by investigative journalists casting doubts on the former's real identity [and gender] and challenging the latter's autobiographical accuracy.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)

AFP - Two much touted books exposed as fakes in recent weeks -- a searing US memoir on life with gangs and drugs and a best-seller-turned-movie on the Holocaust-- have rocked the publishing world but are only the latest in an ignominious literary tradition of bogus tales and trumped-up protagonists.

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