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CBS' Big Bang Theory pulled up to American Idol for a tie in the ratings Thursday night, while Fox was the highest rated and most-watched network as its new drama The Finder improved by 32 percent, according to preliminary numbers.

Nick Santino, a Brooklyn-born actor who appeared on several episodes of All My Children committed suicide on Wednesday, after being stricken with grief because he was forced to euthanize his beloved pit bull Rocco, according to reports.

Actress Demi Moore suffered convulsions and seemed only semi-conscious after smoking an undisclosed substance before being rushed to hospital earlier this week, according to the tape of a medical emergency call released on Friday.

When This Means War hits theaters on Valentine's Day, the Reese Witherspoon action comedy will arrive with a PG-13 rating, TheWrap has confirmed.

Sarah Jessica Parker will play feminist icon Gloria Steinem in the upcoming porn biopic Lovelace.

Jim Murphy, co-executive producer of Anderson Cooper's syndicated daytime talk show Anderson, has stepped down.

The Academy has made an unusual exception for The Tree of Life, determining that the film has four true producers and should not be limited by an AMPAS rule that limits the number of producers on a Best Picture nominee to three.

ABC beefed up its comedy stockpile Friday with orders for three pilots. How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life, created by Claudia Lonow (Friends With Benefits, Accidentally on Purpose and, more recently, the troubled cross-dressing sitcom Work It), will follow the adventures of recent divorcee and single mother Polly, who moves in with her eccentric parents, Elaine and Max, who are full of life but know no boundaries. Lonow is also executive-prod...

Power couple Jay-Z and Beyonce joined a list of top music executives, led by Live Nation Entertainment chairman Irving Azoff, on Billboard magazine's first Power 100 chart on Friday.

Dick Clark Productions Chief Executive Officer Mark Shapiro had to admit in Los Angeles District Court late this week that he employed bluffs and half-truths to get NBC to agree to an $150 million deal to air the Golden Globes.

Penelope Ann Miller, Michael Shannon and Zoe Saldana are the first confirmed presenters for this year's Film Independent Spirit Awards, Film Independent announced exclusively to TheWrap on Friday.

The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson asked on Friday to be released from jail, pending an appeal that could take a year to be heard.

Twitter has gone into overdrive again with a death hoax, and this time British singer Adele is the victim. Although there are no official reports that the singer has passed, on Saturday RIP Adele became a trending topic on Twitter, igniting speculations as to whether the singer is really dead.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at a Los Angeles-area church on Saturday to remember rhythm-and-blues singer Etta James, saying she overcame great personal and professional hurdles to sing the times that she lived.

Dimitra Arliss, the actress who played a hired killer alongside the likes of Robert Redford and Paul Newman in the comedy The Sting, died in Los Angeles earlier this week at the age of 79.

He has become dull, shrill, and predictable.

All about Spice and K2, the hot new drugs Demi Moore may have smoked before being rushed to the hospital Monday night.

What happened? After a spectacular showing on Republic Day, when the film broke box office records and beat out Salman Khan's Bodyguard in first-day earnings, Agneepath box office collections nosedived on Friday. Now, investors and analysts worry the Bollywood movie may become 2012's most unexpected flop -- they would do well, however, to wait until the weekend is over before they consign the blockbuster movie to the scrap heap.

A funeral service for legendary singer Etta James was held on Saturday, in Southern California and presided over by the Rev. Al Sharpton who began the service by reading a note from President Barack Obama.

If his son gets into deeper trouble, Ray's future political ambitions might be thwarted.

The list of presenters for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, or SAG, which will be held on Sunday, in Los Angeles has been announced. The award ceremony will be aired live on TNT and TBS.

The combination of beauty and brains is considered a rare phenomenon. We present the six most powerful and glamorous female politicians...

A free college education is unheard of these days but Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is giving $106,000 worth of education to its students for free. Here's how to get the free liberal arts education.

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While Newt Gingrich is out convincing the American voting population why he is the best person to be Republican presidential nominee, many eyes are focused on his wife Callista, whose hair has been attracting much attention for some time now. Here are five interesting things to know about Callista Gingrich's hair.

Diane von Furstenberg, President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has issued new guidelines, aimed at keeping fashion models healthy and preventing their suffering from any kind of eating disorders.

The eagerly anticipated Old Masters paintings auction, conducted separately at international auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's, fetched over $120 million in sales, with certain pieces of art selling for more than $4 million each.

Demi Moore is the victim of a death hoax that began trending on Twitter late Friday, with the topic RIP Demi Moore fueling speculations that the actress has died. But the Twitter rumor is not true, as there has been no official report that the recently hospitalized actress has died.

It seems like every now and then, a new trend will appear on Twitter or Facebook proclaiming the death of a celebrity. This week, the Twitter-verse experienced the death of Cher.