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Comedian-actor George Carlin, known for his raunchy, but insightful humor, died Sunday in Los Angeles, his publicist said. He was 71.
Jeff Abraham says Carlin went into St. John’s Health Center on Sunday afternoon, complaining of chest pain. Carlin died at 5:55 p.m. PDT, the Associated Press reported.
Carlin, who had a history of [...]

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Candid footage of Marilyn Monroe on the set of her last completed overlay brought in $60,000 at an auction of movie memorabilia Saturday.
The two reels of uncommunicative, 8-millimeter color film shot on the set of "The Misfits" had been expected to draw starting bids of between $10,000 and $20,000.
The auction also included the [...]

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Forty-three years ago, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry hatched a show about a not-so-smart data agent constantly confounded before his own incompetence.
If that was considered funny a not many years after the Bay of Pigs inroad, there’s no reason to take for granted it wouldn’t be laughable today.
And it is, too, but [...]

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Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers following an "broadcast do a slow burn" incident at London’s Heathrow Airport.
According to the British Press Association, the 38-year-old pleaded guilty at Uxbridge magistrates’ court, west London to two counts of assaulting a police [...]

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This was no time for sensible shoes. Or sensible anything, for that matter.
So Georgina Owen Rafferty decided to rise to Thursday’s occasion — Ladies Day at the Royal Ascot race meeting — and have some Jimmy Choo high heels custom made to match her eye-blasting pink ensemble.
"They are incredibly comfortable," Rafferty said before [...]

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She burst on the music scene as one-third of Destiny’s Child, the highest-selling female group of all time.
And then she proved it doesn’t fight c assume three to make hits. Sassy Kelly Rowland showed the world she could go it singular and still hit No. 1 on the charts.
But instant this Grammy-winning [...]

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Politicians. They’re just along the same lines as us, or at least, that’s what they’re desperate to have us believe, notably during a campaign season in which the word "elitist" has been lobbed wide like a pinless hand grenade.
How else do you explain all the hard liquor drinking, hip shaking and (bad) crack wise [...]

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Ludacris is following the footsteps of P. Diddy and Jay-Z with a laundry list of projects, including a Web site, acting gigs and a show on the Planet Green network.
"It’s my responsibility with the power that I have to show different sides of myself, not purely my freedom of speech," the 30-year-old rapper told [...]

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Style-maker, TV host and opinionated fashionista Carson Kressley explains how to give yourself a complete makeover–inside and out.
Minimize the negative
As Coco Chanel said, "Fashion is architecture: It’s a matter of proportions." In other words: No matter which part of your body you dislike, there’s a clever fall down to divert the eye elsewhere. [...]

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Thousands of friends, colleagues and strangers joined President Bush and his wife, Laura, in paying respects on Tuesday to Tim Russert.
Several hundred people were in line more than an hour before the early afternoon start of the wake at St. Albans School, an elite private boys school on the grounds of Washington National Cathedral [...]

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