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SEC, Big 12 get 12-year deal from ESPN for Sugar
The Big 12 and Southeastern Conference have agreed to a 12-year deal with ESPN for the rights to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. A person familiar with ...
Author barred from Atlanta Jewish book festival
An author whose outspoken criticism of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian West Bank got him banned from a Jewish book festival in Atlanta spoke ...
London show views death through artists' eyes
Try as we might, there's no escaping death. Art collector Richard Harris has decided to embrace it instead — and wants the rest of us to do the same.
NBC names new top producer for 'Today'
NBC News is staying in-house in its effort to turn around the "Today" show. The network on Wednesday appointed a 23-year veteran of the morning news ...
Review: 'The Twilight Saga' ends with real bite
Finally — finally! — the "Twilight" franchise embraces its own innate absurdity with the gleefully over-the-top conclusion, "The Twilight Saga: ...
Artist Marshall Bouldin dead at age 89
Portrait artist Marshall Bouldin III, whose paintings have been displayed in the White House and in more than 400 public and private collections ...
Chris Pine on Jack Frost, Jack Ryan, the bogeyman
As a kid, Chris Pine used to be afraid of the bogeyman. Now he fights one on the big screen. The 32-year-old American actor is taking on his first ...
Vogue shows Raf Simons at head of Dior table
After almost two years of ups, downs and more than a little bit of drama, could it be one big happy family at Christian Dior now, with Raf Simons ...
Kaley Cuoco gets a bang out of 'Big Bang Theory'
"I know this sounds like it's not true," says Kaley Cuoco, "but as huge as the show is, it's just part of my life — not my whole life." "The Big Bang ...
Review: 'Barrymore' a showcase for Plummer
Fourteen years' passage is no great obstacle for Christopher Plummer in "Barrymore," which recreates the quasi-one-man show that earned him a Tony in ...
Former Obama regulatory chief has book deal
A former Obama administration official has a book coming about how government might work in the future. Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama's ...
Archduke Joseph Diamond fetches record $21.5M
Christie's auctioned off the Archduke Joseph Diamond for nearly $21.5 million Tuesday night, a world auction record price per carat for a colorless ...
Sportsmen's bill clears a Senate hurdle
Congress is back in town after the election to find a way around automatic tax increases and spending cuts in January. But first, lawmakers are ...
Review: A gorgeous but distant 'Anna Karenina'
All the world's a stage, very literally, in Joe Wright's wildly theatrical adaptation of "Anna Karenina." If you thought the director's ...
David Stern estimates NBA revenue up 20 pct to $5B
NBA Commissioner David Stern estimates revenue will be a record $5 billion in the current season, an increase of about 20 percent from the league's ...
Football, politics boost NBC's ratings
The football and political seasons were a boost to NBC in last week's television ratings. NBC finished a strong second to typical leader CBS in the ...
AAA: Thanksgiving travel should increase slightly
Slightly more Americans will hit the road this Thanksgiving, according to AAA. That includes people who are choosing to drive instead of fly as ...
Eisner gets back into movies with Universal deal
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner is getting back in the movie business. The 70-year-old said Tuesday that the media company he founded, The Tornante ...
Michael Uslan's 1980 choice for Joker up for sale
Here's the Joker! Film producer and comics fan Michael Uslan, who acquired the rights to make Batman as a movie in 1979, knew nearly a decade before ...
Good Housekeeping picks top toys for holidays
Not all the testers for Good Housekeeping's annual Best Toys list wear lab coats. Some are barely out of diapers. For its 2012 list, engineers ...
Prize-winning poet Jack Gilbert dead at age 87
Jack Gilbert, a prize-winning poet known for his clear and subtle verse, has died at age 87. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Gilbert died ...
Fate of pets adds to stress of storm survivors
Kate and Warren Sherwood had to think quickly about what to take when Superstorm Sandy's surge flooded their barrier island and caused five houses on ...
4 stolen paintings found in South Africa cemetery
An informer's tip led South African police to a private cemetery Tuesday where they found four paintings hundreds of miles away from where they had ...
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree survived Sandy
The Christmas tree that will dominate New York's Rockefeller Center survived the winds of Superstorm Sandy that left a path of destruction in a New ...
Hong Kong thriller 'Cold War' touted in Taiwan
After years of shooting big-budget movies in mainland China, actors Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka Fai returned to their native Hong Kong to make a ...