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Lancome in contract wrangle with former spokeswoman Uma Thurman

NEW YORK - French cosmetics giant Lancome and Uma Thurman are wrangling over the use of her name and image in an advertising campaign. The company asked for a ruling against the actress, who it say...

Canadian selected Playboy's Playmate of the year for 2008

LOS ANGELES - Another Canadian has become a big name at the Playboy Mansion. Jayde Nicole is Playboy's 2008 Playmate of the Year. The 22-year-old brunette bombshell is featured in a ten-page nude p...

A family that built Saudi Arabia and shaped a wayward son: review

In Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars," the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2004 account of the CIA, Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden, the bin Laden family gets passing treatment. We learned that Osama was one of roughly...

Hulk Hogan's son won't fight reckless driving charge, sentencing Friday

CLEARWATER, Fla. - The son of wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan plans to drop his fight against reckless driving charges and could be sentenced Friday to up to five years in state prison, according to pr...

Mellow country music superstar Eddy Arnold dies Thursday at 89

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like "Make the World Go Away" made him one of the most successful country singers in history, died Thursday morning, days short of his 90...

Jeff Probst tells how he's survived all 16 seasons of 'Survivor'

NEW YORK - After all this time, you don't associate Jeff Probst with traffic gridlock, yowling sirens, or office towers crowding the sky. It's not that Probst seems out of place in a metropolis lik...

Gordon Pinsent to host CBC Radio show on 'the art of the obituary'

TORONTO - Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent will host a CBC Radio One morning show this summer offering "an unconventional take on the art of the obituary," the public broadcaster said Thursday. "The L...

New DVD releases include a rather timely 'Indiana Jones' boxed set

Selected home-video releases: "Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection" Professor Henry Jones Jr. is offering a refresher course on his past achievements before you join the throng to see his la...