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Today's Entertainment News:
Husband says Zsa Zsa Gabor is ill after surgery
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 02:02 pm PST
AP - Zsa Zsa Gabor has a high fever, fluid in her lungs, an infection that developed after her recent leg amputation, and hasn't recognized anyone since the surgery, leading doctors to say she probably suffered a stroke, her husband said Tuesday. Full Story
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Larry Hagman returning to 'Dallas' for its update
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:13 pm PST
AP - TNT says Larry Hagman is returning to Southfork Ranch for the pilot of an updated "Dallas." Full Story
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Elton John: Billy Joel needs rehab, tough love
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:47 pm PST
AP - Elton John says Billy Joel needs to get serious about rehab and "do something better" with his life. John makes the comments about his former touring partner in the Feb. 17 edition of Rolling Stone magazine. He tells the magazine the pair canceled many tours because of Joel's illnesses and "alcoholism." Full Story
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'The Bachelor' is Breaking Hearts Again
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:31 pm PST
omg! - Life and Style's Dawn Yanek dishes on reality TV drama. Full Story
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Taking Down the 'Plastics' in 'Mean Girls 2'
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:30 pm PST
omg! - Actress Meaghan Martin discusses her role in the "Mean Girls" sequel. Full Story
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Gervais, Globes differ on offer of hosting return
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 07:56 pm PST
omg! - AP - Ricky Gervais says that despite the acrimony over his job hosting the Golden Globes, he was asked to consider returning next year. Full Story
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'Glee's' Jane Lynch To Release Memoir In September
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 07:47 pm PST
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Jane Lynch is getting ready to step out of the shadow of her TV personality Sue Sylvester.

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Gervais says NBC wants him to host Globes again
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 07:42 pm PST
omg! - Reuters - More than two weeks after Ricky Gervais ripped Hollywood's high and mighty while hosting the Golden Globes, the controversy refuses to go away. Full Story
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Actress Lori Loughlin Booted From 90210
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 07:40 pm PST
omg! - She and costar Ryan Eggold will not return for a fourth season Full Story
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Hailee Steinfeld on 'True Grit'
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 07:30 pm PST
omg! - The Oscar nominated actress tells tales of working with the Coen Brothers. Full Story
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'The Whipping Man' marks playwright's strong debut
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:37 pm PST
AP - The Civil War officially ended when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865. A brash new play from a playwright making his New York debut puts the day of reckoning a little later. Full Story
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Jack LaLanne eulogized in Calif as inspiration
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 04:52 pm PST
AP - Jack LaLanne, the late guru of physical fitness for generations of homemakers, was remembered Tuesday by Arnold Schwarzenegger and other bodybuilders as a pioneer and an inspiration. Full Story
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Sheen's woes a headache to CBS, Warner
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 02:30 pm PST
AP - CBS is plugging the "Two and a Half Men"-sized hole in its current schedule, a problem that is eclipsed by the threat of losing the lucrative sitcom forever because of troubled star Charlie Sheen. Full Story
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'Hurt Locker' makers move to dismiss vet's lawsuit
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 02:43 pm PST
AP - The makers of "The Hurt Locker" are asking a federal judge to take part in a belated Oscar screening of sorts — to watch a DVD of the film and then dismiss an Iraq war veteran's claims it is based on him. Full Story
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"Real Housewives of Atlanta" wraps on record note
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 10:11 pm PST
Reuters - The season finale of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" broke viewership records for Bravo. Full Story
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"Hurt Locker" shoot back at war veteran's lawsuit
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:12 pm PST
Reuters - Producers of Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" have lobbed a free-speech grenade at Iraq war veteran Jeffrey Sarver, who filed a lawsuit on the eve of last year's Academy Awards claiming that the story of an Army bomb squad was a thinly veiled account of his own story. Full Story
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Elton John: Billy Joel needs rehab, tough love
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:47 pm PST
AP - Elton John says Billy Joel needs to get serious about rehab and "do something better" with his life. John makes the comments about his former touring partner in the Feb. 17 edition of Rolling Stone magazine. He tells the magazine the pair canceled many tours because of Joel's illnesses and "alcoholism." Full Story
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Cop drama scores U.S. distributor despite bad buzz
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:11 pm PST
Reuters - The cop drama "The Son of No One," which became a hot topic at Sundance after a dozen or so audience members walked out of the theater during a screening, has landed a U.S. distributor. Full Story
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Musical 'Dangerous Beauty,' With Jenny Powers, James Snyder, Michael Rupert, Premieres in CA
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 02:16 pm PST
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Renaissance Italy was not an easy place for a girl in love. Ask Shakespeare's Juliet. Better yet, ask Veronica Franco, the poet-lover of the new musical Dangerous Beauty, beginning a world-premiere run Feb. 1 at Pasadena Playhouse.

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"Hurt Locker" shoot back at war veteran's lawsuit
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:12 pm PST
Reuters - Producers of Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" have lobbed a free-speech grenade at Iraq war veteran Jeffrey Sarver, who filed a lawsuit on the eve of last year's Academy Awards claiming that the story of an Army bomb squad was a thinly veiled account of his own story. Full Story
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