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PARIS (Reuters) – French feminist Simone Veil, who survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and went on to become one of France’s most popular politicians, joined the elite Academie Francaise Thursday. The Academie, a kind of linguistic supreme court that rules on Read More.. |
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Amid the tabloid photos, the Jenny Craig ads and her self-chastising Oprah visits, one thing has been easy to overlook about Kirstie Alley: She’s pretty darned funny. Alley’s new A&E reality series, which focuses on her obsession Read More.. |
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MADRID (AFP) – Miguel Delibes, one of Spain’s top novelists whose works portrayed the country’s upheavals following its 1936-39 civil war, died Friday after a lengthy battle with colon cancer. He was 89. Delibes, a former journalist whose works have been translated into Read More.. |
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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Friday said she never granted an interview to a journalist who quoted her in a British newspaper as saying her ex-husband Nelson Mandela had “let down” the blacks. “I did not give Naipaul an interview. It is therefore Read More.. |
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NEW YORK – Madonna doesn’t think a wife should withhold sex from a sloppy husband. But she believes a wife should dispose of her late husband’s prosthetic leg to spare the feelings of the wife’s current mate. This was some of Madonna’s relationship advice on Read More.. |
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LOS ANGELES – Michael “Big Mike” Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the “American Idol” judges giddy with a moving performance of “This Woman’s Work.” Lynche, a mountain of a guy who lives up to his nickname, performed last Read More.. |
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LOS ANGELES – Corey Haim’s story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded. Haim died Wednesday at 38, another chapter in Hollywood’s tragic history of Read More.. |
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LOS ANGELES – Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. Haim died early Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said. “As he got out of bed, he Read More.. |
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – First Lady Michelle Obama bowed to tradition Tuesday and donated the dazzling ball gown she wore for her husband’s presidential inauguration last January to the Smithsonian museum institution. The flowing, white, one-shouldered Jason Wu gown studded with Read More.. |
