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Source: J-Lo close to deal for `American Idol’ (AP)

FILE - Jennifer Lopez arrives for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, during the 63rd Cannes international film festival, in Cap d'Antibes, southern France in this May 20, 2010 file photo. Lopez is close to signing a deal to join Fox TV's 'American Idol' as a judge, a person familiar with the negotiations said late Thursday July 29, 2010. The person, who was not authorized to comment publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity.  (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File)AP - Former "Fly Girl" Jennifer Lopez is poised to return to television — this time as a judge on "American Idol."


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Ellen DeGeneres out as ‘American Idol’ judge (AP)

FILE - In this April 6, 2008 file photo, Kristy Lee Cook appears at the 'Idol Gives Back' fundraising special of 'American Idol' in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)AP - Ellen DeGeneres is leaving "American Idol" after one season as a judge for the hit Fox TV singing contest.


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DC sniper claims conspirators in Shatner interview (AP)

FILE - Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo appears in a Sunday, Nov. 9, 2003 Chesapeake, Va., Sheriff's office handout booking photo. Malvo, convicted in the deadly sniper attacks that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area in 2002, says two others planned to participate in the attacks but backed out. The revelation comes in a prison interview for the Thursday premier of 'Confessions of the DC Sniper with William Shatner: An Aftermath Special' on the A&E television network. (AP Photo/Chesapeake Sheriff's office )AP - Convicted DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo tells actor William Shatner on a cable TV special that he and his partner tried to recruit fellow shooters for their 2002 spree and that his accomplice killed one man for backing out, according to the program set for airing Thursday.


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Franklin and Rice make music at Philly concert (AP)

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Aretha Franklin pose after they performed their first song together at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 27, 2010.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Condoleezza Rice is no stranger to the whims of royalty. So when the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, decided the two should get together to play a song or two for charity, it was decreed.


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ABC programming chief McPherson abruptly resigns (AP)

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2006 file photo, ABC executive Stephen McPherson talks with a reporter before participating in a panel discussion at a meeting of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society in Beverly Hills, Calif. McPherson on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 abruptly resigned from the network after a six-year tenure in which the network aired such provocative series as 'Desperate Housewives' and 'Lost' but ended last season in third place among the big four networks. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)AP - ABC programming chief Stephen McPherson has abruptly resigned from the network after a six-year tenure in which the network aired such provocative series as "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" but ended last season in third place among the big four networks.


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Woo joins cast of Chinese propaganda blockbuster (AP)

File - In this Saturday, June 13, 2009 file photo, Hong Kong film director John Woo poses on the red carpet prior to the opening ceremony of the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival at Shanghai Grand Theater in Shanghai, China. Woo is the first celebrity to join the cast of the second major film in the leading Chinese state film studio's campaign to reform the propaganda genre with a heavy dose of star power. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - A-List filmmaker John Woo is the first celebrity to join the cast of the second major film in the leading Chinese state film studio's campaign to reform the propaganda genre with a heavy dose of star power.


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