TORONTO - Howie Mandel's rise from Toronto carpet salesman to Hollywood personality is getting the documentary treatment.
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NEW YORK - Actress Alexis Bledel has been bookish and sweet on "Gilmore Girls" and "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." But the actress herself is now officially dangerous.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - There are plenty of sunny days to sweep the clouds away where SeaWorld is opening its next theme park.
LONDON - The Duchess of Sussex says her first year of marriage to Britain's Prince Harry has been difficult because of the pressure from Britain's tabloid press.
NEW YORK - The Weather Channel is moving beyond cold fronts and heat waves to wade into the politics of climate change, with a special planned for early next month that includes interviews with nine presidential candidates on the topic.
NEW YORK - Sen. Martha McSally, the Arizona Republican appointed to the seat once held by John McCain, has a book deal.
TORONTO - "Jojo Rabbit" director Taika Waititi is laying flat on the floor of a hotel conference room.
TORONTO - A brother of the late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie says a weekend benefit concert performance of his "Secret Path" album was a "powerful" show and he isn't ruling out making it an annual event, possibly in different cities.
NASHVILLE - The bestselling country duo of all time, Brooks & Dunn, joined the Country Music Hall of Fame alongside comedian and singer Ray Stevens and record executive Jerry Bradley on Sunday evening, in a star-filled ceremony full of tributes to their lasting legacies.
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LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co.'s "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" knocked "Joker" out of the No. 1 spot at the box office, but just barely.
NEWPORT, R.I. - Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence got married over the weekend in Rhode Island during a ceremony and reception studded with Hollywood stars.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A treasure trove of about 130 books once owned by a renowned Abraham Lincoln biographer has been donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.
CONCORD, Mass. - "Captain America" actor Chris Evans returned to his native Massachusetts this weekend to help dedicate the new home of a youth theatre company where as a youngster he honed his acting skills.
NEW YORK - Naomi Wolf and her U.S. publisher have split up amid a dispute over her latest book, "Outrages."
LOS ANGELES - The Latest on a jury's sentencing recommendation for a man dubbed "The Boy Next Door Killer" in California. (all times local):
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Dennis Rodman is pleading not guilty to a misdemeanour charge of slapping a man who was celebrating the former NBA star's birthday at a Florida bar last May.
WASHINGTON - Stepping briskly into a U.S. Capitol police vehicle Friday, Jane Fonda is returning to civil disobedience after a nearly half-century break, inspired by the climate activism of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and hoping to encourage older people like her to protest as well.
LOS ANGELES - Bill Macy, the character actor whose hangdog expression was a perfect match for his role as the long-suffering foil to Bea Arthur's unyielding feminist on the daring 1970s sitcom "Maude," has died. He was 97.
NEW YORK - Lady Gaga is recovering after falling off the stage while dancing with a fan at a concert.
NEW YORK - Adam Lambert, who rose on the music scene as the runner-up on "America Idol" in 2009, says he's happy to see more mainstream LGBTQ artists find major success.
TORONTO - Canadian horror/thriller filmmaker Vincenzo Natali is on the phone talking about his new Netflix project "In the Tall Grass" when his eight-year-old son interrupts.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - "The Casagrandes," Nickelodeon's new original animated series that centres around an 11-year-old girl trying to survive a big city, is one of the first cartoons in the U.S. to feature a multigenerational Mexican American family.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Netflix has released a movie based on the so-called Panama Papers despite an attempt by two lawyers to stop the streaming premiere.
LOS ANGELES - The vast catalogue of storied Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli is heading to the new HBO Max streaming service.
ATLANTA - Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal has donated a year's rent in a new home to an Atlanta woman whose 12-year-old son was paralyzed in a shooting at a football game.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - "I'd like to thank the academy" is a phrase many only ever get to say in front of their bathroom mirrors. But 16 student filmmakers actually got to utter those words on stage Thursday at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science in Beverly Hills.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Kim Kardashian West has joined a chorus of voices calling for clemency for a black man on Oklahoma's death row who has exhausted his appeals, arguing that a racist juror tainted the outcome of his 2002 trial.
WEATHERFORD, Texas - Bob Kingsley, a radio announcer who since the 1970s led country music fans counting down the weekly hits, has died in Texas.
HAVANA - Alicia Alonso, the revered ballerina and choreographer whose nearly 75-year career made her an icon of artistic loyalty to Cuba's socialist system, died Thursday at age 98.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump tweeted it as evidence of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's weakness. Pelosi raised it as a banner of strength.
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WAYLAND, Mich. - A Native American tribe is planning a $100 million expansion of its western Michigan casino that will include adding new dining, entertainment and gaming space.
NASHVILLE - Country music artists cried together and prayed together at an emotional CMT Artists of the Year awards show that reflected the tight-knit community of artists who supported each other through success and loss.
NEW YORK - Stephen Colbert will be sticking around for four more years.
TORONTO - Without meaning to, Brittany Lyseng has found herself building a life around breaking the glass ceiling.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Country music star Gretchen Wilson, whose hit song, "Here for the Party," features the lyrics, "And I ain't leaving till they throw me out," was ousted from a New Mexico hotel over noise complaints.
LAS VEGAS - The owner of a Las Vegas chapel where celebrity couples like Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have gotten married is staying wedded to her business.
TORONTO - Three books about political movements that shaped global history are in the running for this year's Cundill History Prize.
TORONTO - In crafting his autistic character for the Toronto-shot YouTube Original series "Impulse," Canadian actor Daniel Maslany consulted an expert and drew on his experiences from when he was younger.
LOS ANGELES - Dave Matthews is having a hard time imagining his band being included on the same Rock & Roll Hall of Fame list as other musical icons such as Whitney Houston.
MILAN - Placido Domingo will not receive a European cultural award this weekend in Vienna as previously announced.
TORONTO - Attawapiskat singer Adrian Sutherland says he was thinking of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau when he wrote a protest song ahead of the federal election about broken political promises.
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has started deliberating whether a man prosecutors have dubbed "The Boy Next Door Killer" will get a sentence of death or life in prison for the killings of two women and the attempted murder of a third.
HACKENSACK, N.J. - Seven years after hitting the road to perform and share their stories of recording with some of the biggest names in pop music, a New Jersey-based group of former A-list session musicians is being recognized for its efforts.
ATLANTA - With the filing of yet another criminal charge against a co-founder of Dragon Con, his attorney has renewed his call for a prosecutor to be barred from any matter involving his client.
NEW YORK - As he worked on early drafts of "The Catcher in the Rye," a novel which proved both scandalous and life-changing, J.D. Salinger considered adding his generation's idea of a trigger alert.
CANBERRA, Australia - Ronan Farrow's new book is being sold in Australia despite threats of defamation lawsuits that the Pulitzer-winning journalist believes led some Australian retailers to drop the bestseller.
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