Police: Paparazzi, guards, fight at Jolie chateau
 PARIS (AP) -- It sounds like a scene from "Fight Club." French police say camouflaged paparazzi who managed to get onto the grounds of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's chateau in southern France on Thursday fought with the Hollywood couple's guards. Both the paparazzi... |
Prof whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47. Pausch died at his home in Chesapeake, Va., said Jeffre... |
Farrow: nations should protest China at Olympics
 BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Mia Farrow said Friday the world should use next month's Olympic Games as a platform to demand that China end its support for Myanmar's junta. China is Myanmar's most important ally, providing economic, military and other aid while Western... |
Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim sued over undelivered books
 NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York publisher is suing Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim, saying they were paid advances for books they never delivered. Simon & Schuster Inc. says Brown was paid $75,000 in 2005 to deliver an autobiography called "Broken Silence" by February 2006; and... |
Bale asks for privacy in assault allegations
 BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Batman star Christian Bale asked for privacy Thursday in his first comments since allegations he assaulted his mother and sister at a London hotel, saying the incident was personal. The Welsh-born actor brushed off questions about the allege... |
Stan Lee to make a cameo in new 'X-Men' movie
 SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The creator of "X-Men" bumped into Wolverine at Comic-Con. After happy introductions between Stan Lee and Hugh Jackman, the actor announced that Lee would make a cameo in the upcoming 20th Century Fox movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," due out next... |
Estelle Getty remembered as funny, feisty, frugal
 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Estelle Getty always liked a bargain. Despite her sitcom success with "The Golden Girls," son Carl Gettleman told friends and family gathered at a private memorial service Thursday that his mother always chose frugal over flashy. He recounted a t... |
`Watchmen' aims to answer typical superhero films
 SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Zack Snyder is standing inside a 9,000 pound, tanklike metal pod in the center of the crowded Comic-Con floor. He nonchalantly points out the features of the Owl Ship, a real-life version of the flying vehicle from the award-winning graphic novel "... |
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