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Former Letterman writer cries foul over sexcapades

A former writer for David Letterman says she left his NBC show in the 1980s partly because she was uncomfortable with a work environment in which several female employees benefited from sexual relationships with high-ranking men.

Ricky Gervais says Golden Globes is perfect gig

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Ricky Gervais is known as an edgy comedian, and the Golden Globes are considered the least stuffy of film and television awards shows. So it's little wonder that Gervais sees his hosting job for the 2010 ceremony as a match made in Hollywood honors heaven.
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Parents lynch bookseller over abduction fear

A mob of angry parents lynched a book salesman and badly injured four of his colleagues after rumors spread that the men were part of a human smuggling ring, the official Xinhua agency said late Monday.
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Scarlett Johansson to make Broadway debut

Actress Scarlett Johansson will make her Broadway debut starring in a revival of American playwright Arthur Miller's drama A View from the Bridge, the show's organizers said on Monday.
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Damon, Brolin in talks for True Grit roles

Matt Damon is in discussions to star in Ethan and Joel Coen's remake of the John Wayne Western True Grit. Josh Brolin, who starred in the brothers' No Country for Old Men, is also in talks for a major role.
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Madonna launches Malawi school construction

Madonna launched the construction of a multi-million dollar girls' school she is building in Malawi on Monday and pledged to build similar schools in other countries if the project succeeds.
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Smiths' frontman Morrisey collapses on stage

Former Smiths' front man Morrisey was discharged from hospital in a much improved condition after staying overnight due to a collapse on stage in a concert in the U.K., medical officials said Sunday, according to CNN.com.
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At 37, Paul Simon's son makes his musical mark

Having suffered more than 15 years of false starts, failures and musical disappointments, singer-songwriter Harper Simon admits he has hardly charted the ideal path to pop stardom like his father, Paul Simon.
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Singer Morrissey stable after collapsing on stage

Morrissey, the former singer in the British band The Smiths, left hospital Sunday after spending the night there as a precautionary measure after collapsing on stage, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs get darker reading

New York theater insiders have been wondering for months exactly how Chicago director David Cromer -- currently hotter than hot thanks to the transfers of his acclaimed productions of Adding Machine and Our Town -- would handle the high-profile assignment of staging the Broadway revivals of Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, which will run in repertory under the heading The Neil S...
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Mixed signals for Michael Jackson album sales

The new Michael Jackson record This Is It hits stores around the world on Monday, kicking off a week of money-spinning events dedicated to the king of pop, but the outlook for the two-disc album is decidedly mixed.
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Peter Fonda motors on 40 years after Easy Rider

Forty years ago, actor Peter Fonda flew down America's highways on a motorcycle in counterculture classic Easy Rider. So what better way to celebrate the film's anniversary than with a bunch of bikers?
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Carly Simon has good time revisiting old songs

Carly Simon recorded her new album, Never Been Gone, at her Martha's Vineyard compound, and she delivers intriguing twists on her hits (You're So Vain, Anticipation) and other songs from past albums, as well as two new tunes.
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R&B singer Mario's Break Up connects with fans

The last time singer Mario saw the pinnacle of Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart was in 2005. That's when Let Me Love You -- from his 2004 second album, Turning Point -- reached No. 1. Four years and two albums later, the Baltimore crooner finds himself close to reclaiming that zenith.
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Hip-hop band the Roots branch out on nightly TV

For the past seven months, Questlove has been on the run. The Roots drummer, whose driver's license reads Ahmir Thompson, wakes up every day between 6 and 7 a.m. to catch an 8 a.m. train from his hometown of Philadelphia and usually doesn't return home until 11 p.m.

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