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Country Singer Loretta Lynn in Hospital with Pneumonia

Loretta Lynn waves after performing the song ''Miss being Mrs.'' at the 39th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
Country-music singer Loretta Lynn, who grew up poor in Kentucky's coal-mining region before rising to fame, has canceled two performances after being diagnosed with pneumonia, a statement on her Web site said Saturday.
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Spielberg's Tintin film targets new audiences

Steven Spielberg's computer animated 3D adaptation of Belgian comic book hero Tintin premiered in Brussels on Saturday, aiming to capture a new global audience for the adventures of the boy reporter with the trademark quiff.
Ed Chernoff (R) a defense attorney for Dr. Conrad Murray, cross examines anesthesiology expert Dr. Steven Shafer, during Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles

Jackson doctor's attorneys challenge drug expert

Attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray on Friday challenged a top anesthesiology expert over assumptions he made in a courtroom demonstration on how Murray could have given Michael Jackson a deadly drug infusion.
Shah Rukh Khan and Arjun Rampal

Rift Between Shah Rukh and Arjun?

Speculations are obviously going to run high with the release date of Shah Rukh Khan's much-hyped film, Ra.One drawing near. News is doing the rounds that all is not well between Shah Rukh and Arjun Rampal.

Jessica Simpson Pregnant, Celebrity Magazine Confirms

Jessica Simpson, 31, says she's pregnant, OK! magazine announced in a cover story this week. The singer-cum-actress and her fiance, former NFL player Eric Johnson, 32, are scheduled to marry in Hawaii this November.
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Rules of Engagement premiere up, Big Bang top rated

With ratings for Game 2 of the World Series on Fox still pending, CBS currently holds the top ratings slot for Thursday, thanks largely to the top-rated The Big Bang Theory and a strong season premiere for Rules of Engagement, according to preliminary numbers.
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Young adult series Empty Coffin headed to big screen

New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen has sold the movie rights to his young adult novel series Empty Coffin to independent financier and production company Kerry Kimmel & Pollack and Eric Thompson's Vigilante Entertainment, the companies announced.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie presents the Nansen prize to Yemen's Society for Humanitarian Solidarity and its founder, Nasser Salim Ali Al-Hamairy (not pictured) at a ceremony in Geneva

Movie fans get glimpse of Jolie's Blood and Honey

The promotional trailer for Angelina Jolie's film directoring debut, In The Land of Blood and Honey, hit theaters Friday, giving a glimpse of the movie about love and violence in war-torn Bosnia.

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