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Fox pulls 'Family Guy' Boston Marathon episode
Fox pulls 'Family Guy' episode depicting mass murder at Boston Marathon. The Family Guy episode was taken off the websites at Fox.com and Hulu.com.
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Pat Summerall dies, leave TV sportscasting legacy (+video)
Pat Summerall dies: The former football player turned sportscaster, Pat Summerall delivered the details on 16 Super Bowls, the Masters, and the U.S. Open tennis tournament with a simple, understated style.
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Colin Davis dies, leaves London Symphony Orchestra legacy
Colin Davis dies: The former conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis was considered a giant of Britain's classical music scene.
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Rebel Wilson of 'Perfect Pitch' hosts MTV Movie Awards (+video)
Rebel Wilson was the comedic host of the MTV Movie Awards Sunday. Rebel Wilson also won two awards for her performance in 'Perfect Pitch.'
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Coachella 2013: Red Hot Chilli Peppers rock in the wind (+video)
Coachella 2013. The Coachella music festival featured Red Hot Chilli Peppers, R. Kelly, and EDM. The Coachella 2013 festival returned to its rock and taste-maker roots with Blur, The Stone Roses, and Phoenix.
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Maria Tallchief dies, leaves legacy as first American prima ballerina
Maria Tallchief dies: One of the first native American prima ballerinas, Maria Tallchief was Osage Indian. Tallchief worked with choreographer George Balanchine.
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Jimmy Dawkins dies, leaves Chicago blues legacy
Jimmy Dawkins dies: A Chicago guitarist, known as Jimmy 'Fast Fingers' Dawkins, helped pioneer a percussive, aggressive West Side style, in contrast to the mellower grooves of South Side Blues.
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Jonathan Winters dies: Ground-breaking improv comic inspired funny men and women
Jonathan Winters dies following a long career as a comic and writer. Jonathan Winters dies after working with some of the greats in the comedic arts.
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Coma request Bob Seger: After waking up, Mich. woman attends Seger concert
Coma request Bob Seger: Evie Branan had one request after coming out of a five-year-long coma - go to a Bob Seger concert. So the Michigan woman's post-coma request to see Bob Seger was fulfilled Thursday night.
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Joan Baez returns to Vietnam after 41 years. Why? (+video)
Joan Baez is back in Hanoi for the first time since December 1972, when American B-52s were raining bombs on Vietnam. Joan Baez visited a bunker in Hanoi and sang "Oh Freedom," a song she often sung during civil rights rallies in the 1960s.
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Mick Fleetwood files for separation from wife of 17 years (+video)
Mick Fleetwood, drummer of Fleetwood Mac, is filing for legal separation from his wife. Mick Fleetwood and the rest of the band are on tour now. The band has been together for four decades.
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'Accidental Racist': Brad Paisley and LL Cool J draw ire
'Accidental Racist' puts racial dialogue under a microscope, drawing criticism for its collaborators: country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J.
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Roger Ebert gets his final 'thumbs up'
Roger Ebert's funeral was attended by family, friends, and fans. "It didn't matter to him your race, creed, color," said his widow. "He had a big enough heart to accept and love all."
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Judge Judy's new deal extends contract through 2017
Judge Judy and CBS Television Distribution said Monday that the feisty former New York state judge has signed on for two more years of 'Judge Judy.'
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Les Blank dies, leaving legacy of quirky documentary films
Les Blank dies: A documentary filmmaker, Les Blank made movies about garlic, gap-toothed women, Werner Herzog eating a shoe, and Dizzy Gillespie. Blank followed his instincts.
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Miranda Lambert takes ACM top female vocalist award (+video)
Miranda Lambert won the female vocalist of the year award from the Academy of Country Music Sunday. Miranda Lambert and husband Blake Shelton won best song of the year for "Over You."
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Halle Berry pregnant with her second child (+video)
Halle Berry pregnant: The Oscar-winning actress is pregnant with her first child by her fiance, Olivier Martinez. Halle Berry had a child with Gabriel Aubry five years ago.
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Robert Remini dies, leaves legacy as Andrew Jackson scholar
Robert Remini dies: The Andrew Jackson scholar wrote at least 10 books about the former president. Robert Remini also wrote books about Mormon leader Joseph Smith and President John Quincy Adams.
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 'A Room With a View' screenwriter, dies
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won two Acadamy Awards for screenwriting for her adaptations of the E.M. Forster novels "Howards End" and "A Room With a View." Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a novelist, too, and won the Man Booker Prize,
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Lollapalooza performers announced: Who made the cut?
Lollapalooza's headliners this summer include The Cure, in their very first Lollapalooza appearance, plus Mumford and Sons, The Killers, and Nine Inch Nails.
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