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South Africa's Soweto gets its fashion week
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:29AM May 24, 2012 CommentJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Struggling but deserving designers got a chance to show work inspired by the creativity and history of South Africa's most famous township as Soweto's first fashion week opened Thursday.
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Lady Gaga Angers Thai Fans
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LAS VEGAS, NV - SEPTEMBER 24: Singer Lady Gaga performs at the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 24, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
BANGKOK (AP) — Lady Gaga wants to go shopping in Bangkok — for a fake Rolex.
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'G.I. Joe' gets new marching orders, moves to 2013
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:06AM May 24, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Just a month before its June release in the U.S., Paramount Pictures delayed the debut of "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" by nine months after another movie based on a Hasbro plaything was trounced at the box office by "The Avengers."
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Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:16AM May 24, 2012 CommentPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Paul Fussell, an acclaimed literary scholar who won a National Book Award in 1976 for "The Great War and Modern Memory," died Wednesday morning at age 88.
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Former nanny sues Sharon Stone, claims harassment
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:33PM May 23, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — A former nanny for Sharon Stone sued the actress Wednesday claiming the Oscar-winner repeatedly insulted her Filipino heritage and fired her after discovering she had been paid overtime.
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'Duck' Dunn remembered on Memphis' Beale Street
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:21PM May 23, 2012 CommentMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The late bass player Donald "Duck" Dunn was honored Wednesday in the city where he performed on some of R&B's best-known hits, with musicians leading a lively funeral march down Memphis' Beale Street.
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Stage and screen actress Janet Carroll dead at 71
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:49PM May 23, 2012 CommentActress Janet Carroll, who played the mother of Tom Cruise's character in the movie "Risky Business," has died. She was 71.
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3 Doors Down guitarist Matt Roberts leaves band
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:30PM May 23, 2012 CommentESCATAWPA, Miss. (AP) — 3 Doors Down says on its website that founding member and guitarist Matt Roberts has left the rock band because of health problems.
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Anne Hathaway's ex to be released from Pa. prison
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:12PM May 23, 2012 CommentLORETTO, Pa. (AP) — An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway is about to be released from a Pennsylvania federal prison following a real-estate scam.
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Play on: Google posts synthesizer tribute to Moog
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:49PM May 23, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Bob Moog's synthesizer helped change the sound of modern music. On what would have been his 78th birthday, Google is paying tribute to the man with a virtual version of his famous Moog on their homepage — and it's completely playable.
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46th Annual CMA Awards to be Held Nov. 1
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Musician Carrie Underwood performs onstage during 2011 Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club on May 1, 2011 in Indio, California.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Country Music Association's 46th annual awards show is scheduled for Nov. 1.
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Injury forces Michael McKean out of Broadway show
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:18PM May 23, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Broadway producers scrambled Wednesday to fill Michael McKean's part in a revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" as the actor recovers from a broken leg after being struck by a car.
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55 years later, 'On the Road' is finally a movie
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:57PM May 23, 2012 CommentCANNES, France (AP) — Fifty-five years after its publication, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is finally burning on the big screen.
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AP Photos: Cannes red carpet gets Bond girl flair
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:24PM May 23, 2012 CommentBerenice Marlohe, the newest Bond girl, has been making the red carpet at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival look like a day at the beach.
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'Cake Boss' kin sentenced for child sex assault
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:13PM May 23, 2012 CommentMORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — The brother-in-law of "Cake Boss" television star Buddy Valastro has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in New Jersey.
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Phillip Phillips is the new 'American Idol'
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:06PM May 23, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Phillip Phillips, a bluesy Georgia guitar man, was crowned the new "American Idol" on Wednesday after defeating teenager Jessica Sanchez in record viewer voting. He was the fifth male "Idol" winner in a row.
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Bristol Palin reality series to premiere June 19
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:58AM May 23, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Lifetime network has set a premiere date for its new reality series about Bristol Palin's home life in Alaska.
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Japanese video game author wins Spanish prize
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:27AM May 23, 2012 CommentMADRID (AP) — Japan's Shigeru Miyamoto, considered the father of the modern video game, has been awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.
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LA designer says Facebook bride wore her dress
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:33AM May 23, 2012 CommentDENVER (AP) — Los Angeles-based designer Claire Pettibone says Priscilla Chan was wearing one of her dresses when she married Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:22AM May 23, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry.
