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Jessica Simpson investigates standards of beauty
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Singer and sometimes actress Jessica Simpson has paid the price of beauty, and now she’s examining people’s obsession with looking good.
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NBC’s prime-time viewership improves without Leno
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Two weeks into non-Jay Leno programming, NBC’s audience for the final hour of prime-time TV has increased by 45 percent.
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Winfrey due in Philly for 2-week defamation trial
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Media mogul Oprah Winfrey is expected to spend two weeks defending herself at trial in a defamation case linked to the sex-abuse scandal at her girls school in South Africa.
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Nielsen’s list of top 20 shows for March 8-14
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Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for March 8-14. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.
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Virgin America apologizes for LA-to-NY grounding
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Virgin America has offered refunds to "Dancing With the Stars" judge Carrie Ann Inaba and other passengers who were stranded for hours on a grounded plane bound for New York from Los Angeles.
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`Growing Pains’ producer sentenced for child porn
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An executive producer for the 1980s sit-com "Growing Pains" has been sentenced in Arkansas to 7 1/2 years in prison for distribution of child pornography.
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Ireland names Gabriel Byrne its culture ambassador
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Irish actor Gabriel Byrne, star of the HBO series "In Treatment," has been appointed Ireland’s ambassador for culture.
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World’s shortest man, He Pingping, dies in Italy
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The world’s shortest man has died in Italy, where he was to take part in a TV show, the program’s production company said Tuesday.
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Expect huge TV audiences for Woods’ Masters return
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CBS Sports’ president thinks that Tiger Woods’ return to golf will be one of the "biggest media spectacles in recent memory."
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Charlie Sheen back at work on `Two and a Half Men’
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Charlie Sheen is back at work and shooting has resumed on "Two and a Half Men."
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Glitch leads to adult video on kids channels in NC
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A cable TV spokeswoman says preview clips for adult programming appeared on two channels dedicated for kids in North Carolina because of an "equipment failure."
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Heavyweight to featherweight: Tyson races pigeons
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Former world heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will take flight on Animal Planet with a new sport _ pigeon racing.
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Betty White set for full season of TV Land sitcom
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Betty White’s dance card continues to fill.
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Sheen pleads not guilty in domestic violence case
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Actor Charlie Sheen pleaded not guilty to domestic violence charges on Monday, nearly three months after his wife told Colorado police in a 911 call he put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her.
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ESPN’s Erin Andrews’ stalker to get sentence in LA
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The man convicted of stalking ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shooting nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole facing sentencing in a Los Angeles courtroom.
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Survey: Readers don’t want to pay for news online
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Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be "like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons," a new consumer survey suggests.
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’Mission: Impossible’ star Peter Graves dies in LA
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Peter Graves, whose calm and intelligent demeanor was a good fit to the intrigue of "Mission Impossible" as well as the satire of the "Airplane" films, has died.
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’Celebrity Apprentice’ begins with a 1st firing
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Writer-comedian Carol Leifer (LEEF’-ur) is the first person to go as NBC’s "Celebrity Apprentice" starts a new season.
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MSNBC host Keith Olbermann’s dad dies in NYC at 80
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The father of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has died in New York City at age 80.
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History channel offering series to schools
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The History channel says it will give a free DVD copy of its sprawling 12-hour series on American history to any school in the country that wants one.
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ABC, Lifetime among winners of GLAAD Media Awards
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Joy Behar, Cynthia Nixon and the ABC drama series "Brothers & Sisters" are among this year’s recipients of media awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
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Guests for the Sunday TV news shows
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Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
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’Idol’ contestants discuss elimination from show
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LOS ANGELES (AP _ Tweens probably don’t know who Patsy Cline is, which is why Lilly Scott thinks she was voted off "American Idol" Thursday night.
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`South Park’ begins 14th season by taking on Tiger
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Golf clubs in hands or not, the kids of "South Park" are ready to take on Tiger Woods.
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DioGuardi, dad of ’Idol’ judge, to run for Senate
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The father of "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi (KEHR’-uh dee-oh-GWAHR’-dee), former Republican congressman Joe DioGuardi, is set to announce he is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand.
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