Halle Berry pushes back against 'backyard' paps
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to get a shot of the actress holding her infant daughter, trespassing onto her private property and snapping them hanging out in the backyard....
McMahon works as pitchman for Kimmel in-show spots
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ed McMahon has a job. The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is reprising his role as pitchman with several comical commercial segments during "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of the four spots, which were filmed Thursday evening and feature McMahon and Jimmy Kimmel together, will air Monday during the late-night ABC talk show....
Rolling Stones switch recording deal to Universal
LONDON (AP) -- The Rolling Stones, the world's top-earning music act last year, have signed a long-term, exclusive worldwide contract with Vivendi SA's Universal Music, dealing a major blow to the group's former recording company, EMI Group PLC....
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....
Dixie Chicks' Martie Maguire welcomes 3rd daughter
NEW YORK (AP) -- Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks and her husband, Gareth, have welcomed another addition to their all-girl brood: daughter Harper Rosie Maguire....
Connie Francis hospitalized, misses NY performance
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- Singer Connie Francis is being treated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York where she was hospitalized after falling ill earlier this week....
Williams Jr. to continue 'Monday Night Football'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Hank Williams Jr., who has sung the opening theme for "Monday Night Football" since 1989, will continue the tradition this season....
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....
