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DeGeneres, de Rossi plan to marry, AP is told
(AP)
 AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) Ellen DeGeneres is putting the California Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage into action she and Portia de Rossi plan to wed, DeGeneres announced during a taping of her talk show.
Taylor Hicks to play Teen Angel in Broadway's `Grease'
(AP)
 AP - Taylor Hicks is going from "Idol" to "Angel."
Cannes balances glamor with `Blindness'
(AP)
 AP - CANNES, France (AP) Fernando Meirelles did boys with guns in "City of God" and murderous corporations in "The Constant Gardener." With "Blindness," the opening night entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the Brazilian director exposes the world's ultimate savages: your friends and neighbors.
USOC still working on TV network for Beijing
(AP)
AP - The U.S. Olympic Committee's aggressive plan to start its own cable network is moving forward, though officials are giving no indications that the network will be on the air before the Beijing Olympics, as the federation had once hoped.
Country star Shania Twain, husband splitting up
(AP)
 AP - TORONTO (AP) Shania Twain and husband-producer Robert "Mutt" Lange are splitting up after 14 years of marriage. The 42-year-old Canadian country superstar and 59-year-old Lange married in 1993 and have a 6-year-old son named Eja. Her publicist provided no further details Thursday about the couple's breakup.
Actor John Phillip Law, angel in 'Barbarella,' dies at 70
(AP)
 AP - John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic "Barbarella" and a lovesick Russian seaman in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," has died. He was 70.
Taylor Hicks to play Teen Angel in Broadway's `Grease'
(AP)
AP - Taylor Hicks is going from "Idol" to "Angel."
DeGeneres, de Rossi plan to marry, AP is told
(AP)
AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) Ellen DeGeneres is putting the California Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage into action she and Portia de Rossi plan to wed, DeGeneres announced during a taping of her talk show.
Lou Reed to host satellite radio show on Sirius
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Rocker Lou Reed is taking a walk on
the wild side to Sirius Satellite Radio Inc, where he will host
his own weekly show, the company said.
Plaque in Buffalo, NY, Marks Site of Building That Inspired Hit 'Over the Tavern'
(Playbill)
Playbill - The building that housed the real-life people who inspired the stage comedy, Over the Tavern, a snapshot of Catholic family life in Buffalo in the late '50s, has been immortalized in cement in the western New York city.
Molly Sims going back to school in "Hickory Nation"
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Former "Las Vegas"
actress Molly Sims has joined the cast of the indie drama
"Hickory Nation."
Dior CEO named head of German fashion house Boss
(AFP)
 AFP - Claus-Dietrich Lahrs, the CEO of leading French fashion house Christian Dior Couture, was Thursday named head of German ready-to-wear company Hugo Boss, a statement from that company said.
Baseball when the grass and everything else was real
(AP)
 AP - "But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870" (286 pages, Ivan R. Dee, $27.50) by Peter Morris: Any institution that endures in American culture passes through an interesting transitional period the time when it straddles the line between an informal practice and a more structured, formal activity.
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