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Author assumes guise of kid in letters punking the famous, infamous in new book

WASHINGTON - Over the years, "Little Billy" learned much from the country's top minds. Secretaries of state, touched by the 10-year-old's handwritten letters on grade-school notepaper, wrote back a...

HBO brings World War II veterans to DC memorial to promote 'Pacific' miniseries

WASHINGTON - Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Elizabeth Dole are joining 250 veterans at the Second World War memorial in Washington to honour their service. HBO brought the veterans to the memorial...

Michael 'Big Mike'Lynche draws tears from Kara, raves on 'American Idol'

LOS ANGELES - Michael "Big Mike" Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the "American Idol" judges giddy with a moving performance of "This Woman's Work." Lynche, a mountain of a guy...

Museum explores why media saw Elvis as nothin' but a hound dog

WASHINGTON - A spark that helped ignite Elvis Presley's fame more than 50 years ago was lit by the newspaper editors and critics who hated him. They detested his voice and thought his moves were un...

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Famous Van Gogh work "The Bedroom" undergoing restoration before blogs cameras

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - One of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings, "The Bedroom," has been taken away for restoration, but art lovers don't have to miss it. They can follow the cleanup on a blo...

Judge rules in favour of Pink Floyd in battle with EMI over online sales of MP3s

LONDON - In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of t...

Disney shoots adventure film southern Indian Telugu dialect

HONG KONG - Encouraged by the reception of its Hindi animated movie, Disney is shooting a new adventure film in the southern Indian dialect of Telugu as it deepens its localization drive in the populo...

Conan taking his show on 30-city tour beginning next month; 3 Canadian dates

NEW YORK - Without a TV show to do every night, Conan O'Brien is taking his act on the road. And he's stopping in Canada. The former "Tonight Show" host announced a 30-city theatre tour on Thursday...

'Valleys of Neptune'tops HMV Canada CD sales chart; 'Need You Now' top country CD

TORONTO - The following is HMV Canada's top 10 CDs based on national sales for the week ending March 13. CDs 1 Valleys of Neptune - Jimi Hendrix 2 Plastic Beach - Gorillaz 3 Need You N...

'The Bishop's Man'tops Maclean's fiction list for the week ending March 9

TORONTO - Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week of March 9 compiled by Maclean's magazine. FICTION 1 (2) The Bishop's Man - Linden MacIntyre 2...