Longtime "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek was hospitalized today after a minor heart attack, a spokesman for the game show said.
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MUNICH -- German publishing giant Axel Springer AG, whose attempt to take control of the ProSiebenSat.1 family of TV channels two years ago stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy, now intends to rid itself of its remaining interest in the broadcaster for the sum of 509.4 million euros ($749.7 million), the company said in a statement released Monday night.
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PARIS -- The small screen was honored with a big celebration in France Monday night as TV France International and producers organization PROCIREP gave prizes to the country's top TV programs.
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MILAN, Italy -- Two-time Oscar nominee John Malkovich and Oscar-winning French director Claude Lelouch will receive Capri Legend Awards for lifetime achievement at the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival on Dec. 30.
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UPDATED 8:30 A.M. PT: With seven nominations, Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild" led the pack as the Broadcast Film Critics Assn. announced its nominees for its 13th annual Critics’ Choice Awards Tuesday morning in New York.
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CBS won Monday's primetime, even though only "How I Met Your Mother" and "CSI: Miami" were originals. "CSI: Miami" was the night's top show in adults 18-49, while a two-hour "Deal or No Deal" was tops in viewership.
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Ike Turner, the musician who gave the world what many historians consider the first rock 'n' roll record -- "Rocket 88" in 1951 -- but bitterly acknowledged in his later years that he was most famous for being the abusive husband of Tina Turner, died Wednesday in suburban San Diego. He was 76.
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Dan Crane's book could become the next film starring Will Ferrell.
The book
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David Chase is headed to federal court to defend his role in creating the hit HBO mob drama, "The Sopranos."
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The larger-than-life stars of 'The Bucket List' make an odd couple, on-screen and off.
Jack doesn't do hugs. The iconic bad boy -- do we even need to mention his last name? -- isn't one for playing false palsy-walsy for the cameras, and on a recent afternoon, he was vaguely peeved that the photographer for The Times suggested that he sling his arm around Morgan Freeman for a portrait of public bonhomie.
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*Musician Ike Turner, the legendary rock-n-roll pioneer whose contributions to the genre were overshadowed by his abuse of ex-wife Tina Turner, has died at age 76, a statement from his management company confirms.
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*It started out as "stress and exhaustion." Then it was an "infected appendix" that handlers for rapper Bow Wow said led to his sudden hospitalization Thursday following a Cincinnati tour stop.
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*Fox.com columnist Roger Friedman heard that Michael Jackson is in talks with AEG Live's Randy Phillips to mount a three-month tour next year - from March through May - with proceeds going toward his massive debt.
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*Marion Jones was officially stripped of her five Olympic medals Wednesday by The International Olympic Committee following her admission that she lied about using performance enhancing drugs.
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*The students at Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls are off on summer break following a first year marred by allegations of sexual abuse. But looking back on the semester, Winfrey says "I don't' regret" opening the school.
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India's billion-plus population is mad for movies, and Hollywood is hungry for a piece of the Hindi film market. Sony Pictures took the plunge recently with a highbrow romance -- and found itself going head to head on opening weekend with a home-grown superstar.
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PARIS -- French cinema struck out at the boxoffice in November with transport strikes causing admissions to drop 21.6% from the same month in 2006 to 13.1 million, government film organization the CNC said Wednesday.
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Chris Messina is in negotiations to star opposite Amy Adams and Meryl Streep in Nora Ephron's comedy "Julie & Julia" for Columbia.
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Spike TV has ordered a second season of its late-night series "MANswers." The cable network has given a 10-episode pickup to the show, which revolves around male-oriented trivia.
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Bebo launched its Open Applications Platform on Wednesday, an initiative that will allow third-party developers, like NBC, to create applications for the social network.
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HBO has become the first TV network to get ratings for VOD programming.
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He may not have won "American Idol," but Chris Daughtry is the king of the album charts this year, according to Billboard's chart year , which ran from December 2006 to November 2007 .
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Will Smith rises above the perception that black actors aren't stars overseas.
IN Richard Matheson's novel "I Am Legend," the apparent last man on Earth is described as "born of English-German stock" with bright blue eyes. When the latest movie version of the 1954 sci-fi thriller opens Friday, Matheson's hero will be played by the notably not English-German Will Smith.
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The need for a constant feed of gossip and what's new cheapens the nature of celebrity and what's of lasting importance.
BEFORE he gunned down eight people in an Omaha mall Dec. 5, Robert A. Hawkins left a note explaining his actions: His life had been ruined by a break-up and job loss, but now at least he was going to be famous.
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The Rock Hall of Fame takes a step back with its '08 inductees. Can we blame it on Madonna?
The naming of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees always causes a flurry of outcries: the list is "not rock enough"; Kiss or Poco or Connie Francis should have been in there; the induction ceremony should be in Cleveland, not New York; and who cares what Rolling Stone honcho Jann Wenner and his cronies think anyway? All of that's been expressed in the commentary over Thursday's announcement of the hall's 2008 class.
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*The phrase, "even if you were the last man on earth ..." takes on new meaning come this weekend, when the latest Will Smith blockbuster "I Am Legend" hits theaters nationwide.
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*It was widely reported yesterday that Tina Turner, who suffered years of harsh physical and emotional abuse from Ike Turner during their volatile marriage, had nothing to say regarding her ex-husband's death on Wednesday at age 76.
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*It was a good day for Denzel Washington on Thursday, as two of his films - "American Gangster" and "The Great Debaters" - earned Golden Globe nominations for best drama by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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*Gary Sheffield, David Justice and Mo Vaughn were among the names announced Thursday in the long-awaited Mitchell Report, a roster featuring present and past major league baseball players who are linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
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*About 2000 mourners bid a final farewell Thursday to Pimp C, one half of rap duo Underground Kingz (UGK) who played an important role in the emergence of the hip hop's Dirty South sound.
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Francis Ford Coppola's first film in a decade is an idea-driven film based on a Romanian philosopher's delicate novella. It's about an aged academic who becomes young again when he's struck by lightning.
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On the surface, the sci-fi blockbuster is about Will Smith battling an army of light-phobic zombies. But NPR movie critic Bob Mondello says that the film has some serious terrorism subtext that could only be a product of post-Sept. 11 America.
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Pascal Lamorisse, the child star of the award-winning short film "The Red Balloon," is re-releasing the popular children's film directed by his father, Albert.
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