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Boy who was ‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ dies at 90
PORTLAND, Maine – Donn Fendler, who as a boy survived nine days alone on Maine’s…
Miley Cyrus slams “Supergirl,” says title character is woman
LOS ANGELES – Miley Cyrus is taking issue with the CW series, “Supergirl,” because she…
Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Spears to perform at Jingle Ball
NEW YORK – Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and Britney Spears are some of the acts…
Actor Daniel Craig would miss James Bond role ‘terribly’
NEW YORK – Daniel Craig apparently isn’t ready to retire as James Bond. The actor…
Amazon launches for-pay streaming music service
NEW YORK – Amazon is launching a paid streaming music service, the latest entry in…
Singer Lily Allen apologizes to refugees in Calais, France
LONDON – British singer Lily Allen has apologized for Britain’s handling of the migrant crisis…
Drake nabs 12 Soul Train Awards nominations; Beyoncé gets 8
NEW YORK – Drake has nabbed 12 nominations for the 2016 Soul Train Awards. Nominations…
Chris Pratt opens up about son’s premature birth in 2012
SEATTLE – Chris Pratt has opened up about his son’s premature birth while sharing his…
Daniel Stern revives ‘Rookie of the Year’ character for Cubs
CHICAGO – Actor Daniel Stern has brought back his character from his 1993 Chicago Cubs-themed…
Bound and gagged Kardashian Halloween costume pulled
LOS ANGELES – An online retailer has pulled a Halloween costume that made light of…
Singer Tanya Tucker in hospital for respiratory infection
NASHVILLE – Country singer Tanya Tucker is in a Nashville hospital recovering from a respiratory…
Nearly 6 months later, Prince superfans still mourning
NEW YORK – Have you ever missed someone so much that even the thought of…
Singer-songwriter Jacob Whitesides blazes his own music path
NEW YORK – If you’re a fan of singer-songwriter Jacob Whitesides and wondering when he…
Review: Christopher Guest’s ‘Mascots’ fails to really cheer
It should be a match made in comedy heaven — director and writer Christopher Guest,…
‘Event TV works’: Crossovers all the rage in fight for prime-time ‘eyeballs’
TORONTO – It’s a collision course of TV characters this fall. On Tuesday’s episode of…
Pre-‘Justice League,’ Affleck, Simmons bond on ‘Accountant’
LOS ANGELES – Ben Affleck has been thinking about J.K. Simmons a lot lately. The…
Cosby loses latest effort to get charges thrown out
PHILADELPHIA – Bill Cosby has lost his latest effort to have criminal sex-assault charges thrown…
US, Cuba stepping up efforts to save Hemingway artifacts
BOSTON – Ernest Hemingway was a pack rat who saved everything. Fortunately for fans of…
Review: A superhero CPA in Ben Affleck’s ‘The Accountant’
The bean counter cometh. In Gavin O’Connor’s “The Accountant,” starring Ben Affleck, the paper-pushing CPA…
Comic character Wonder Woman to be named UN ambassador
The United Nations will name the comic book character Wonder Woman as its new Honorary…
Elton John autobiography to be published in 2019
LONDON – Elton John is chronicling his “crazy life” in an autobiography to be published…
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Literature prize
STOCKHOLM – Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In making the…
Lil Wayne explains his ‘no such thing as racism’ comment
NEW YORK – Lil Wayne understands why some people criticized him for saying racism is…
Watching ‘House of Cards’ in Tehran, to hard-liners’ delight
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s government has long tried to keep out American pop culture, but…