LOS ANGELES, Leila Macor- When a faux Hugh Hefner, clad in his trademark smoking jacket, finishes his karaoke song, he turns to Marilyn Monroe and asks: "Do you want to marry me?" The Marilyn...
ORLANDO, Florida- He's got an iconic personal plane, a fortress-on-wheels armored car and lives in a historic home: so what do you get the President of the United States for his birthday? How about...
"We cannot fight anymore against the government's will to transform the Romanian Cultural Institute into a propaganda tool" for nationalistic purposes, its outgoing president, essayist Horia...
LOS ANGELES- US novelist Gore Vidal, the iconoclastic commentator on American life and history in works such as "Lincoln" and "Myra Breckinridge," died Tuesday at age 86, his family said. The...
WARSAW- US pop star Madonna aired a World War II-era newsreel on the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw Uprising at the top of her Wednesday gig in the city marking the day 68 years ago when the bloody...
"When I was a boy, I often went to play in the cemetery," recalls Mithaq Jabbar Abdullah, now 34. "There were roses, it was like a garden." "But starting from the embargo against Iraq in the 1990s,...
LOS ANGELES- Batman flick "The Dark Knight Rises" held on to the top spot at North American box offices this weekend despite last week's mass shooting in Colorado, according to figures released...
PARIS- Your mother was right: Pop music has become louder and less original over the years. At least, this is the conclusion of a computer analysis of nearly half-a-million songs recorded between...
LOS ANGELES- Michael Jackson's mother will share custody of his children with his nephew, lawyers said Friday after a hectic week for the musical family. Katherine Jackson, 82, met with her grandson...
SAO PAULO- Celebrated Brazilian author Paulo Coelho released his latest novel Wednesday, "Manuscript Found in Accra," examining "values that span time." It is Coelho's 22nd offering -- previous...
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