Entertainment

Rival takes on Jackson estate with help from Michael’s mother

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LOS ANGELES — For someone trying to sell a book, it couldn't get much better than this: Oprah Winfrey, the nation's reader-in-chief, was holding up a glossy volume of Michael Jackson...

Performance soul in black and white

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When Lisa Siciliano bought her neighbor’s camera on a whim in 2002, she had no idea that such a small decision would alter the course of her life...

Love high

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There are unsightlier hags in the world than Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal, and the seriously mood-swinging romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs offers several acres of surface appeal simply because their characters, Maggie and Jamie, spend a heartening amount of ...

Bungled burlesque

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The choicest dialogue in Burlesque provokes the sort of laughter that other, intentionally funny films only dream of generating. Gather ’round for some free samples...

Mark Vann Benefit celebrates eight years of charity

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Very few banjo players possess enough talent to influence a music scene so powerfully as the late Leftover Salmon banjoist Mark Vann. But when Vann lost his battle with melanoma in 2002 at age 39, some of his fellow bandmates came up with an idea to memorialize their...

About Face

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All right, so what if Ben Folds doesn’t get an invite; Face is closing in on another vocal-madness holiday gig at the Boulder Theater; part holy night, part holy crap, how do they do that...

Stepping outside the country box

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Phil Vassar found out that country music is still a play-it-safe genre when the song “Bobbi With An I” was floated to radio as a first single off of his current CD, The Traveling Circus...

‘Nothing’ is something for Janet Jackson’s fans

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LOS ANGELES — Janet Jackson's hit single "Nothing" — the theme song from Tyler Perry's...

Sirius, the house that Stern built, in danger of losing marquee...

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Howard Stern might be six live shows away from leaving the satellite pay-radio business he made credible five years ago...

Mark Wahlberg battled for ‘The Fighter’

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NEW YORK— In his role as 1990s welterweight "Irish Micky" Ward in "The Fighter," Mark Wahlberg faces jabs, low blows and dirty fighting — and that's just from his mother, crackhead brother and seven shrewish sisters...

Carrie Fisher considers herself a writer, not an actress

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Many people resolutely chase fame. Writer-performer Carrie Fisher...