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Has Beckham built a lasting brand?

 May 20, 2013; Updated: 6:35 pm

David Beckham's pecs are at least as much a part of his brand as his kick; his brand of shoes ultimately more lucrative than the game he's giving up. Listed as the world's highest-earning athlete for 2013, Beckham's retirement from play...

Royal infant on the way, but residence unclear

 May 19, 2013; Updated: 3:56 pm

Is it a boy? A girl? Prince William and the former Kate Middleton aren't telling, and palace officials are not revealing where the royal baby will spend its first few months, since renovation of their future home at Kensington Palace is...

$1 million in jewelry stolen near Cannes film fest

 May 18, 2013; Updated: 5:32 pm

Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes...

DiCaprio, Spielberg open a stormy Cannes

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 5:12 pm

The Cannes Film Festival got off to a blockbuster, if stormy start, as Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" opened on a soggy French Riviera.

Amid heavy rain, dancing flappers flocked down the Cannes red carpet Wednesday night, bringing a...

Check it: health is new priority in rap

 May 11, 2013; Updated: 12:31 am

Hip-hop may need a checkup.
The culture that in the 1990s lost its brightest stars to gun violence has in recent years seen a series of notable rappers die of drug- and health-related causes. Since...

For Lisa Lampanelli, it’s nice to be the ‘Queen of Mean’

 May 11, 2013; Updated: 4:58 pm

We haven't seen the last of Lisa Lampanelli on the Comedy Central Roasts, not according to the "Queen of Mean" herself.
Lampanelli, the 51-year-old insult comic, said she simply skipped the last two...

‘Young and Restless’ star Jeanne Cooper dies at 84

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 4:46 pm

Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on "The Young and the Restless," has died. She was 84.

Cooper died Wednesday morning in her sleep, her son the actor Corbin...

Raw arrest video: Reese Witherspoon pleads no contest, fined after arrest

 May 4, 2013; Updated: 2:39 pm

Reese Witherspoon pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and paid a $100 fine after berating a state trooper in Atlanta while her husband was given a sobriety test, an embarrassing exchange caught on a dashboard camera after the usually...

Comedian Marc Maron finally having his moment

 May 4, 2013; Updated: 5:36 pm

Soon after taking the stage, Marc Maron decides to skip the act.
He's got a packed room at a downtown New York club, all eager to see the 49-year-old comic tape what will be a comedy special for...

will.i.am looks past the pop charts

 May 4, 2013; Updated: 5:25 pm

Will.i.am wants to be known as a maker - not just of music, but things, from cars to headphones.

The Black Eyed Peas frontman is computer chip-maker Intel's "director of creative innovation." He's also partnered with Coca-Cola to create a...

Early Hollywood superstar Deanna Durbin dies at 91

 May 3, 2013; Updated: 5:25 pm

Deanna Durbin, a star whose songs and smile made her one of the biggest box office draws of Hollywood's Golden Age, has died. She was 91.

Family friend Bob Koster of Los Angeles said Durbin died on about April 20 in a village outside Paris,...

Trebek about to retire from ‘Jeopardy?’

 May 2, 2013; Updated: 4:33 pm

Speculation has been swirling recently that when Alex Trebek's contract is up in 2016, the long-running host of "Jeopardy" will finally retire.

But don't say that to Alex Trebek.

"Everybody's speculating on my retirement and I don't...

Doors drummer protects Jim Morrison legacy in book

 April 30, 2013; Updated: 3:54 pm

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Accidental outlaw Willie Nelson celebrates 80th

 April 29, 2013; Updated: 5:51 pm

America loves its outlaws, and few are as admired and lionized as Willie Nelson.
As the enduring American icon's 80th birthday has approached, he's been honored with lifetime achievement awards,...

Zach Braff launches Kickstarter campaign for film

 April 25, 2013; Updated: 5:12 pm

Since directing "Garden State," Zach Braff has continually prepared music in an iTunes playlist titled, "For Next Movie." Nine years and hundreds of saved songs later, Braff hopes he's finally making his follow-up to "Garden State" - if his fans...

Major Beach Boys memorabilia on the auction block

 April 22, 2013; Updated: 5:39 pm

The material sat in a Florida storage facility for many years, apparently forgotten, until the storage company finally sold it off in bulk because payments had not been made.
Only then did a buyer open...

Molly Ringwald, The ‘Breakfast Club’ and all that jazz

 April 20, 2013; Updated: 5:30 pm

Molly Ringwald has moved from "The Breakfast Club" to the jazz club.
The redheaded actress who describes herself as "your former teen-age crush" in her Twitter bio will always live in her generation's...

Quinto trusts his instincts for good causes, Spock

 April 18, 2013; Updated: 6:01 pm

Zachary Quinto might be headed into other worldly places this summer in "Star Trek Into Darkness," but he says a social issue that's near and dear to him is taking care of the earth.
He turns off the...

Rob Lowe returns to the '80s with TV miniseries

 April 15, 2013; Updated: 12:14 pm

These days, Rob Lowe is an established actor and bestselling author working on his second memoir. But back in the 1980s, he was a hunky newcomer, a teen idol riding the crest of a decade that brought sweeping cultural, technological and...

Joan Baez returns to past in Vietnam

 April 13, 2013; Updated: 4:46 pm

At 72, Joan Baez is not short of events to anticipate: She has her mother's 100th birthday party, a tour of Australia and a new passion - painting - to explore. But the folk singer and social activist has spent a few days reliving her...

Jolie joins G-8 to urge end to sexual violence

 April 12, 2013; Updated: 3:16 pm

Angelina Jolie brought her celebrity wattage to London on Thursday to back an urgent cause: fighting sexual violence in military conflicts.
The Hollywood star joined British Foreign Secretary William...

Comic legend Jonathan Winters dead at 87

 April 12, 2013; Updated: 1:30 pm

Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87.

Annette Funicello, Mouseketeer and film star, dies

 April 8, 2013; Updated: 2:16 pm

NEW YORK — Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a perky, cute-as-a-button Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s, then teamed up with Frankie Avalon on a string of '60s fun-in-the-sun movies with names like...

Ron Howard: He's kind of a big deal...

 April 6, 2013; Updated: 5:39 pm

Aside from an impressive filmography, director Ron Howard is reportedly a pleasant, easygoing guy who plays well with others - no easy feat in Hollywood.
He regularly answers fan tweets; he often casts...

Sun-Times reports famed film critic Roger Ebert has died

 April 4, 2013; Updated: 3:54 pm

The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert has died. He was 70.

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