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Raven-Symone's weight loss: Is that hot or what?
Raven-Symone rocked a slim new figure at the People's Choice Awards -- and she said the weight loss pretty much happened naturally. The onetime star of Disney's "That's So Raven," now 25, found...
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Drunk driver gets prison in San Diego deputy's death
A drunk driver held responsible for a crash that killed a San Diego County sheriff's deputy was sentenced Friday to seven years and eight months in prison. Jose Lopez Jasso, 34, was driving the...
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Disney still flogging away at its 'Toy Story 3' best picture campaign
As I've noted in the past, I think Pixar's "Toy Story 3" is easily one of the best films of 2010, but its chances of winning an Oscar for best picture this year are about as good (and I say this as a...
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Obama State Department deletes 'Mother, 'Father' from forms for more correct...
No more "Mother" and "Father" for the Obama administration's State Department. The department has announced that it is replacing the traditional parental designations on its passport applications (see...
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13 MLA panels we missed
The Modern Language Assn. is holding its annual conference in Los Angeles -- during the first week of January, for the first time in many years, rather than between Christmas and New Year's. Professors...
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Performance review: Sutton Foster at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
The role of the all-American ingénue turned New York diva comes naturally to Sutton Foster. “I was the girl in those songs,” the Tony-winning star said Thursday during her cabaret performance at the...
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Jane Krakowski of '30 Rock' is pregnant
Jane Krakowski, the "30 Rock" star who's engaged to Psycho Bunny designer Robert Godley, is pregnant. Krakowski, 42, revealed her new shape on a beach in the Caribbean on Thursday, walking in the surf...
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Galaxy should forget loaning David Beckham to Tottenham and just sell him...
With Major League Soccer's Galaxy acting more and more like a minor league outfit by refusing any comment whatsoever, the vaunted David Beckham-to-Tottenham Hotspur story refuses to go away. On Friday...
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NPR: Juan Williams and Ellen Weiss are gone and nobody gains
A little more than two months after it bounced commentator Juan Williams, NPR this week forced out Ellen Weiss, the news executive who let Williams go. Neither departure makes a lot of sense. Williams...
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Music review: Gustavo Dudamel starts off the L.A. Phil year with new beginnings
On the heels of a late-December PBS broadcast of this season’s Los Angeles Philharmonic opening night gala, “Celebración”; an hour-long special on Gustavo Dudamel hosted by Tavis Smiley; the Berlin...
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Las Vegas doubles down on luxe shopping
Las Vegas the fashion capital of the West? When it comes to shopping, it may just be. All through the recession, luxury brands have continued to pour money into the $28.2-billion retail market, adding...
View ArticleCotton Bowl 2011: National Anthem by Little Big Town is sort of an encore...
If the National Anthem at Cotton Bowl 2011 sounded a little familiar, well, you just might be watching a little too much college football. Little Big Town, the country group that delivered four-part...
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Theater review: 'Hair' at the Pantages Theatre
Baby boomers just started turning 65, which means more and more ex-hippies will be added to the rolls of Social Security. But if you think time has rendered “Hair” old-fashioned, you need to check...
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