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  • Man pleads innocent to taping Erin Andrews nude

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 24

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Chicago insurance man pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he peeped into television sports reporter Erin Andrews' hotel room when she was nude, took video of her and tried to sell the footage.

  • McKellen, Weisz win at London theater awards

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    LONDON - Rachel Weisz took top acting honors and Ian McKellen was recognized for a half-century in the theater Monday at London's Evening Standard Theater Awards.

  • ABC gets complaints about Lambert's performance

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    NEW YORK - ABC says more than 1,500 people have called to complain about Adam Lambert's sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards.

  • British singer Susan Boyle performs on NBC's

    Susan Boyle set for biggest UK album of 2009: HMV

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 24

    LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish singer Susan Boyle, who shot to fame after her audition for "Britain's Got Talent" was aired in April, appears set to have the biggest album in Britain this year, music retailer HMV said on Monday.

  • Fox says will make profit with sci-fi epic Avatar

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 24

    By Ingrid Melander

  • Darwin book found on shelf worth up to $100,000

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 24

    LONDON (Reuters) - A first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," which had been kept in a toilet bookcase for years, will go on sale this week and is expected to fetch 40-60,000 pounds ($66-100,000).

  • Fox CEO wants US to join France on Internet piracy

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    ATHENS, Greece - The chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment said Monday the U.S. should join France in cutting off the Internet connection of users who repeatedly download copyright-protected films.

  • LA committee to review Jackson memorial costs

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles City Council committee plans to discuss the $3.2 million taxpayers spent on the Michael Jackson memorial.

  • Brad Pitt's production company enters "Dark Void"

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 24

    By Steven Zeitchik

  • Adam Lambert ready to shake up pop world with CD

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    LOS ANGELES - During rehearsals for his outlandish American Music Awards performance, amid a thundercloud of throbbing theater lights and special-effects fog, Adam Lambert effortlessly governs the sprawling stage while gripping a microphone in his gloved hands and donning a tight T-shirt slathered with an image of David Bowie's face.

  • Michael Jackson 'Opus' book offers rare images

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    NEW YORK - Nate Giorgio, an artist who Michael Jackson relied on to illustrate him over the years, recalls the last time he saw the singer, just days before his death this summer.

  • Winners at the American Music Awards

    AP - Monday, November 23

    Complete list of winners at the American Music Awards:

  • Taylor Swift wins five American Music Awards

    Reuters - Monday, November 23

    By Dean Goodman

  • Sting warns of hydroelectric project in Amazon

    AP - Monday, November 23

    BRASILIA, Brazil - British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest.

  • Jackson, Swift face off at American Music Awards

    AP - Monday, November 23

    LOS ANGELES - Janet Jackson kicked off the American Music Awards with a medley of some of her biggest hits, but it was her late brother Michael who was poised to be one of the night's big winners, up for five American Music Awards, including entertainer of the year.

  • Attorney: Jackson's doctor returning to work

    AP - Monday, November 23

    LAS VEGAS - Michael Jackson's former personal physician is returning to work at his Houston clinic for the first time since before the pop singer's death, his lawyer said Sunday.

  • Renelly Morel (R), digital marketing manager for Ubisoft, works out with Your Shape on November 6, in San Francisco. French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft will have a virtual fitness coach whipping Wii users into shape.

    Ubisoft steps up videogame fitness with virtual coach

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - - French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft will have a virtual fitness coach whipping Wii users into shape starting Tuesday.

  • Actor Robert Pattinson, star of the new film

    Smash "Twilight" sequel enters record books

    Reuters - Monday, November 23

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The "Twilight" sequel scored the third-biggest opening weekend of all time at the North American box office on Sunday, as millions of young women swooned over the complex love triangle involving a high school girl, a vampire and a werewolf.