Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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Yahoo! News: Politics News

Prosecutor: Defense will claim Jackson killed self (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:31 PM PST

** FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS ** FILE -In this Feb. 8, 2010 file photo, Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor, is escorted by Los Angeles County Sheriffs deputies as he arrives at the Airport Courthouse to face charges of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond, File)AP - The defense for the doctor facing trial for involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death will suggest the singer actually killed himself, a prosecutor said during a hearing Wednesday.

Tito Jackson to close 2010 with Atlanta concert (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:01 PM PST

FILE - In a Dec. 9, 2009 file photo, singer Tito Jackson arrives at the launch party for 'The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty' reality show debuting on A&E Network. Jackson is going solo. The 57-year-old musician and original member of the Jackson 5 says he will unveil some of his new material during a New Year's Eve performance in Atlanta. He also plans to perform some Jackson 5 classics at the city's 22nd Annual Peach Drop celebration. Jackson's debut solo album, 'So Far, So Good,' will be released in early 2011. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)AP - Tito Jackson is going solo.

`Spider-Man' actor leaves ICU for rehab center (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:45 PM PST

Reeve Carney, center, who plays Spider-man in the theatrical version 'Spider-man Turn off the Dark' is seen outside the Foxwoods Theatre in Times Square with Patrick Page, left, who plays The Green Goblin, Wednesday, Dec . 22, 2010, in New York. The curtain will go up again Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 on 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' after the producers of the accident-plagued Broadway musical agreed to new safety precautions to prevent another fall like the one that left a stuntman seriously injured. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - The father of a stunt actor who fell 30 feet while playing Spider-Man on Broadway says his son is out of the hospital's intensive care unit and has begun inpatient rehabilitation.

Prosecutor: Defense will claim Jackson killed self (omg!)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:31 PM PST

omg! - AP - The defense for the doctor facing trial for involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death will suggest the singer actually killed himself, a prosecutor said during a hearing Wednesday.

Jazz musician Billy Taylor dies at 89 (omg!)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:09 PM PST

omg! - Reuters - Billy Taylor, a leading jazz musician and composer who introduced the genre to wider audiences as a TV broadcaster, teacher and booster of new talent, died Tuesday in New York of heart failure, age 89.

PIC: Denise Richards Steps Out With Nikki Sixx (omg!)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:06 PM PST

omg! - The new couple left a movie theater hand-in-hand over the holidays

How Stars Get Thin Fast! (omg!)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:06 PM PST

omg! - Us reveals what Ali Fedotowsky, Jennifer Hudson and Kendra Wilkinson do to slim down

Prosecutor: Defense will claim Jackson killed self (omg!)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:18 PM PST

omg! - AP - A prosecutor says defense lawyers for Michael Jackson's doctor will claim at his involuntary manslaughter trial that the singer killed himself.

Stars Soak Up the Sun (omg!)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:00 PM PST

omg! - Sean "Diddy" Combs, Cindy Crawford, and more head to St. Barts and Los Cabos for the holidays.

Teen Mom's Amber Portwood Allowed to Contact Daughter (omg!)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 12:46 PM PST

omg! - After spending 24 hours in jail, the reality star faces more time behind bars if she reaches out to ex Gary Shirley

ME: Designer was strangled, held underwater in tub (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:32 PM PST

AP - A swimsuit designer found dead in an overflowing bathtub in a chic Manhattan hotel was strangled and drowned, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday.

Media blitz preps viewers for Winfrey OWN channel (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 11:47 AM PST

FILE - In this May 3, 2010 file photo, Oprah Winfrey arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala in New York. The Oprah Winfrey Network launching Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011 is wary of promising too much of a good thing — Winfrey herself.(AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)AP - The Oprah Winfrey Network launching Saturday is wary of promising too much of a good thing — Winfrey herself.

5 most famous ex-Mouseketeers (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:24 PM PST

AP - Long before he played a skinhead in "The Believer," a drug-addicted junior high school teacher in "Half Nelson" or a misfit who's in love with a blow-up doll in "Lars and the Real Girl," Ryan Gosling had a far simpler, more wholesome role. He was a member of "The Mickey Mouse Club."

Review: Inarritu's weighty, laborious `Biutiful' (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 11:04 AM PST

In this photo provided by Roadside Attractions, Javier Bardem, as Uxbal, is shown in a scene from 'Biutiful.' (AP Photo/Roadside Attractions, Jose Haro) NO SALESAP - Those concerned that a 2 1/2 hour movie titled "Biutiful" might bear some of the attributes typically characterized as "pretentious" will not be reassured by the opening, whispered dialogue, with the camera trained only on two sets of intertwined hands, and the subsequent scene in which an unknown figure informs that when owls die, "they spit hairballs out of their beaks."

Los Angeles TV writer found dead at Hawaii resort (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:18 PM PST

AP - Police in Hawaii are investigating the death of a Los Angeles writer and producer who was found in a room at an unnamed Waikoloa resort.

Blue Valentine a dreary look at a decayed marriage (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 03:01 PM PST

Reuters - "Blue Valentine" is a black-sympathy card to a marriage on the rocks.

Singer Edie Brickell resurfaces with two albums (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:52 PM PST

Reuters - It is common for musicians who once claimed fame to try to hold onto it by any means possible, but folk-pop singer Edie Brickell is content simply to make music with little concern over recapturing her former stardom.

Taylor Swift, Susan Boyle lead U.S. album chart (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:18 PM PST

Reuters - Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" ruled the Christmas week album chart in the United States, giving the pop-country starlet a fourth nonconsecutive week at the top.

Early reviews anger "Spider-Man" producers (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 05:17 PM PST

Reuters - More trouble for the producers of the ill-starred Broadway play "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark."

Singer Edie Brickell resurfaces with two albums (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:52 PM PST

Reuters - It is common for musicians who once claimed fame to try to hold onto it by any means possible, but folk-pop singer Edie Brickell is content simply to make music with little concern over recapturing her former stardom.
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