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First ‘American Idol’ finalist booted (AP)

Posted by Yahoo in Entertainment on March 17, 2010

Top 12 American Idol contestant Crystal Bowersox, center, works with Ford Designer Dean Carbis as contestant Didi Benami looks on to create a theme for their customized Ford Fiesta that fits with their personalities and musical inspirations, using color, custom body graphics, wheel treatments and other accessories, March 5, 2010 in Los Angeles. The 12 Ford Fiestas will be featured Wednesday March 17, 2010 on “American Idol.' (AP Photo/Ford, Susan Goldman, handout)AP - Lacey Brown is down and out on "American Idol."


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French polemic over fake game show electrocutions (AP)

Posted by Yahoo in Entertainment on March 17, 2010

Christophe Nick, TV producer of 'The Game of Death,' which is set to air Wednesday, talks to reporters Wednesday March 17, 2010 in Paris. State-run television is making headlines about a fake game show based on a 1963 experiment in the United States in which credulous participants obey orders to deliver increasingly powerful electric shocks to a man (an actor) until he appears to die. In the pilot, more than 4 in 5 believed they were participating in a real show and turned up the juice to the maximum, potentially deadly level . (AP Photo/Chrsitophe Ena)AP - A state-run TV channel is stirring controversy with a documentary about a fake game show in which credulous participants obey orders to deliver increasingly powerful electric shocks to a man, who is really an actor, until he appears to die.


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Reagan ‘GE Theater’ tapes restored, go to library (AP)

Posted by Yahoo in Entertainment on March 17, 2010

AP - All 208 episodes of television's "General Electric Theater," hosted by then-actor Ronald Reagan, are being delivered to former first lady Nancy Reagan on Wednesday as part of the two-year celebration of the late president's 100th birthday.

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Rolling Stones tunes supply ‘Idol’ surprises (AP)

Posted by Yahoo in Entertainment on March 17, 2010

In this publicity image released by Fox, the 12 male finalists for the ninth season of the reality singing competetion, 'American Idol,' front row from left, Andrew Garcia, John Park, Tyler Grady, Joe Munoz and Jermaine Sellers and, back row, from left, Lee Dewyze, Aaron Kelly, Tim Urban, Michael Lynche, Todrick Hall, Casey James and Alex Lambert, are shown. (AP Photo/Fox, Patrick Ecclestein)AP - Tim Urban couldn't get any satisfaction on "American Idol."


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Winfrey due in Philly for 2-week defamation trial (AP)

Posted by Yahoo in Entertainment on March 16, 2010

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2009 file photo, Oprah Winfrey arrives at the premiere of the film 'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire,' at AFI Fest 2009 in Los Angeles. Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted at the school, a U.S. judge ruled. The case is now set for trial on March 29, 2010 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)AP - 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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World’s shortest man, He Pingping, dies in Italy (AP)

Posted by Yahoo in Entertainment on March 16, 2010

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 file photo, the world's shortest man He Pingping and world's tallest man Sultan Kosen of Turkey, 27, pose together during an event organized by the Guinness World Records in Istanbul, Turkey. According to a spokesperson for Guinness World Records in London, He Pingping, has died at the age of 21, after developing chest problems while filming a television programme in Italy. The Chinese-born man, who became a record-holder in March 2008, was taken to hospital in Rome for treatment but died on Saturday March 13.(AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta, File)AP - 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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