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Sans chairs, celebrities come to Charlotte for DNC
Celebrities are flocking to Charlotte for the Democratic convention, albeit without the prop furniture that made Clint Eastwood's appearance at last ...
Trouble with the chair: Clint mocked for RNC bit
Clint Eastwood earned plenty of bad reviews for his latest performance: a bizarre, rambling endorsement of Mitt Romney. "Clint, my hero, is coming ...
Eastwood goes off-script in Romney endorsement
Clint Eastwood, the Hollywood filmmaker who knows all about sticking to the script, turned in a bizarre, unscripted endorsement of Republican Mitt ...
Robin Roberts exits 'GMA' with a promise to return
Robin Roberts said goodbye Thursday to her "Good Morning America" co-workers and audience. But only for a while. "See you later. See you soon.
With choreographed conventions, is something lost?
As Chris Christie's moment at the microphone neared, delegates to the Republican National Convention were atwitter at the chance to hear the New ...
Celeb presence will be smaller this year for Dems
Four years ago, Ben Affleck was a familiar presence around the Democratic convention, packing produce for charity and even winning a poker tournament.
Rosie O'Donnell suffers heart attack, gets stent
Rosie O'Donnell says she suffered a heart attack last week and is "lucky to be here." The 50-year-old comedian detailed the experience on her blog ...
F-bomb makes it into mainstream dictionary
It's about freakin' time. The term "F-bomb" surfaced in newspapers more than 20 years ago but will land Tuesday for the first time in the mainstream ...
Whirlwind awaits Douglas, gymnastics' newest queen
Too excited to sleep and too early to wander the Olympic village, Gabby Douglas messaged her family and asked if they could have a video chat.
EYES ON LONDON: A downpour - and who will medal?
___ IT'S RAINING, IT'S POURING Bound to happen. These Olympics are in London, after all. And the first serious rain of the athletics competition hit ...
La Toya Jackson to get a reality show on OWN
Oprah Winfrey has tapped La Toya Jackson to star in her own reality show. "Life with La Toya" is described as a "candid look" inside Jackson's life ...
Popular Irish author Maeve Binchy dies at 72
Bestselling Irish author Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most popular writers who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, died in Dublin after a ...
Couric launching a talk show, dreams of Broadway
Katie Couric is getting ready to star in a daytime talk show, but she dreams of starring in a Broadway musical. The ABC newswoman and TV personality ...
A movie star makes India confront its taboos
A Bollywood megastar is making India confront its dark side. Shining light on inequities like the rampant abortion of female fetuses, caste ...
Local TV stations keep adding newscasts
Defying trends that have hurt the news industry, the average broadcast television station in the United States has added nearly an hour's worth of ...
Alicia Keys' nonprofit to honor Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is getting a tribute from Alicia Keys. Keys announced Tuesday that her organization, Keep a Child Alive, will honor Winfrey at its Black ...
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes divorcing
It always seemed more than a little weird, didn't it? The whirlwind romance of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes with its very public, very emphatic ...
Who's landing the big interviews after Oprah?
Since Oprah Winfrey packed up the couch that Tom Cruise jumped on and ended her daytime talk show last year, no one has truly filled her role as the ...
Obama turns to NYC celebrities for campaign cash
President Barack Obama soaked in the support — and the campaign cash — of Manhattan's elite entertainers Thursday as his re-election team sought to ...