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• Opening statements begin in Anna Nicole trial (AP)
• `Baseball' filmmaker backs belated honors for Rose (AP)
• Coroner: Pneumonia killed Brittany Murphy husband (AP)
• Tony Robbins' series pulled from NBC schedule (AP)
• PBS chief defends airing of George Shultz film (AP)
• 5 most memorable movies about greed (AP)
• Tony Robbins' series pulled from NBC schedule (AP)
• Review: 'Other Guys' a buddy-cop movie that works (AP)
• Lady Gaga to Green Day, Lollapalooza boasts motley cast (Reuters)
• Microsoft and Salesforce settle patent (Reuters)
• 'Dream of the Burning Boy' Added to Roundabout Season; Theresa Rebeck Is Company's New Artistic Associate (Playbill)
• 40 US billionaires pledge half wealth to charity (AFP)
• NY library to honor Steve Martin for gift of ideas (AP)
• New Dali exhibition exclusively at Atlanta museum (AP)

Opening statements begin in Anna Nicole trial (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:14 PM PDT AP - Two doctors violated their responsibility to protect Anna Nicole Smith by prescribing massive amounts of drugs with the connivance of her lawyer-boyfriend, even though they knew she was addicted to painkillers, a prosecutor argued Wednesday.

`Baseball' filmmaker backs belated honors for Rose (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 01:54 PM PDT AP - Ken Burns makes sweeping documentaries about subjects including baseball, but he's very concise about whether Pete Rose should make it into the sport's Hall of Fame.

Coroner: Pneumonia killed Brittany Murphy husband (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 11:35 AM PDT AP - Brittany Murphy's husband Simon Monjack died from pneumonia, the same illness that killed his actress wife months earlier, coroner's officials said Wednesday.

Tony Robbins' series pulled from NBC schedule (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:38 PM PDT AP - Tony Robbins' reality show has been pulled from NBC's schedule after just two airings.

PBS chief defends airing of George Shultz film (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 12:35 PM PDT AP - PBS chief Paula Kerger says she doesn't regret airing a documentary series last month on former Secretary of State George Shultz that some critics argued was tainted by its funding.

5 most memorable movies about greed (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," Gordon Gekko famously assured us. "Greed is right. Greed works."

Tony Robbins' series pulled from NBC schedule (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:38 PM PDT AP - Tony Robbins' reality show has been pulled from NBC's schedule after just two airings.

Review: 'Other Guys' a buddy-cop movie that works (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:21 PM PDT AP - If the mismatched-buddy cop movie seems egregiously overdone, the idea of a parody of that genre would seem especially needless — which is what makes "The Other Guys" such a wonderful surprise.

Lady Gaga to Green Day, Lollapalooza boasts motley cast (Reuters) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:22 PM PDT Reuters - More than 250,000 music fans will gather on the shores of Lake Michigan this weekend for an expanded three-day Lollapalooza music festival, which hopes to buck a dismal summer concert season of cuts and cancellations.

Microsoft and Salesforce settle patent (Reuters) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:04 PM PDT Reuters - Microsoft Corp and Salesforce.com Inc reached a patent agreement on Wednesday, settling a recent flurry of lawsuits between the two software companies that threatened to crimp Salesforce's profit.

'Dream of the Burning Boy' Added to Roundabout Season; Theresa Rebeck Is Company's New Artistic Associate (Playbill) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:11 PM PDT Playbill - Playwright Theresa Rebeck has been named an associate artist of Roundabout Theatre Company as part of an "expansion of initiatives" to support dramatists and new works, the New York City not-for-profit announced on Aug. 4.

40 US billionaires pledge half wealth to charity (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 03:03 PM PDT AFP - Bill Gates and Warren Buffett think fellow US billionaires should donate most of their vast fortunes to charity -- and they revealed Wednesday that 40 are set to do just that.

NY library to honor Steve Martin for gift of ideas (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 12:40 PM PDT AP - Steve Martin has been recognized in New York as a literary lion.

New Dali exhibition exclusively at Atlanta museum (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 11:33 AM PDT AP - A new exhibition opening exclusively in Atlanta explores artist Salvador Dali's late work, including several major pieces that haven't been seen in the U.S. in half a century.

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