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Miss USA 2013: Top 6 Questions & Answers (+video)
The Miss USA pageant doesn't ask contestants to perform a talent or support a charity. But it does ask some challenging questions of its contestants. What did the celebrity judges ask the final six contestants – and how did the women answer?
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The 20 best TV sitcoms of all time – readers' choice
What did Monitor readers choose as the best sitcom in the history of television?
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Bestselling books the week of 5/26/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 5/19/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Kepler epitaph? Eight most intriguing finds of troubled telescope.
Kepler, the space telescope designed to help us find other Earth-like planets, is on the fritz. Scientists hope they will be able to fix it remotely, but if they can't, its brief, brilliant career could be over. Here are eight of its most important discoveries.
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'The Company You Keep' never quite figures out what it wants to be
'Company,' directed by and starring Robert Redford, is equally preachy and melodramatic.
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American Idol: One more contestant leaves singing the blues
On Thursday night, after a somewhat tumultuous night of rock performances, one more Idol is sent home. Has another boy fallen by the wayside?
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American Idol: What really goes on behind the scenes? (+video)
American Idol: After years of watching from home, this writer joins the American Idol audience and gets a glimpse of what goes on during a live show. Required wardrobe: Hip clothing and tennis shoes.
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Culture Cafe Kendra Wilkinson quits 'Splash.' Why? (+video)
Kendra Wilkinson quits the ABC the reality competition 'Splash,' saying she was unable to complete the required dive. Kendra Wilkinson quits after one other contestant withdrew due to injury and two others were eliminated.
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Justin Bieber's infant monkey held by German authorities
German authorities at the Munich airport placed pop star Justin Bieber's baby monkey in a shelter after he failed to show the proper documents. Mr. Bieber has 4 weeks to get his paperwork in order to collect his tiny friend or the shelter will look for a permanent home.
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15 promising nonfiction books for spring 2013
April showers bring May flowers. Here's some fresh non-fiction to check out this spring while you enjoy the new greenery.
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Culture Cafe Hilary Duff will play Ashton Kutcher's love interest on 'Two and a Half Men'
Hilary Duff will play Ashton Kutcher's potential paramour on the May season finale of the CBS sitcom. Hilary Duff's character romances Ashton Kutcher's, but Kutcher's Walden falls for her grandmother instead.
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Kate Hudson gives advice to teen girls at leadership forum
Kate Hudson spoke to teenage girls at the ANNpower Leadership Forum, a program which features female speakers from the worlds of business, entertainment and nonprofit. Kate Hudson told forum attendees to take risks and trust their own talent.
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Bestselling books the week of 4/1/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Angelina Jolie funds Afghan girls' schools with new jewelry line
Angelina Jolie opens a school for 200-300 girls in Afghanistan, in an area outside Kabul that has a high refugee population. This is the second girls' school Jolie is funding, and she says she plans to fund more with proceeds from her new jewelry line.
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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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Maroon 5 plans: The band will tour, release new album
Maroon 5's plans include a summer tour and a new album. Maroon 5's plans include outdoor concerts, with frontman Adam Levine saying outdoor performances are 'kind of the purist form of a tour.'
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Phil Ramone dies, leaving 14-Grammy legacy with biggest stars
Phil Ramone dies: A Grammy-award winning engineer and producer, Phil Ramone worked with some of the biggest names in the music business, including Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles.
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American Idol trails The Voice, hits all-time low in ratings (+video)
American Idol is struggling this season in the ratings. The Voice topped American Idol for the first time ever in the weekly ratings race.
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Meet Cyro, the robotic jellyfish that will haunt your dreams
Engineers at Virginia Tech are working on a gigantic, synthetic robo-jellyfish, which could eventually have military applications.
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Taylor Swift on 'New Girl': The singer will guest star on the sitcom's season finale
Taylor Swift will appear on 'New Girl,' which stars actress Zooey Deschanel as a woman who lives with three male roommates. Taylor Swift will visit 'New Girl' on May 14.
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Kate Winslet joins YA adaptation movie 'Divergent'
Kate Winslet will play the leader of a scholarly people known as the Erudite in the new movie, according to the film's studio Summit Entertainment. Kate Winslet recently appeared in the movie 'Contagion' and starred in the miniseries 'Mildred Pierce.'
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The 25 best country songs of all time (+video)
Check out Country Music Television's rankings of the best country music songs ever released.
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Fran Warren dies, leaves 'Sunday Kind of Love' legacy (+video)
Fran Warren dies: One of the singer's biggest hits was the 1947 "Sunday Kind of Love." Fran Warren was also an actress who appeared in an Abbott and Costello film.
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Chapter & Verse Emma Watson rumors: The star addresses 'Fifty Shades of Grey' stories
Emma Watson addressed rumors via Twitter that she would star in the film adaptation of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' Emma Watson was the subject of rumors that she was attached to star in the film after hackers obtained documents from a film company.
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With Steven Seagal in tow, Putin pushes for Soviet-era phys-ed revival
The Russian president said that a revival of the Soviet-era mass physical training program, albeit in a less ideological form, is necessary for the health of his country's children.
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Culture Cafe 'Olympus Has Fallen' and 'White House Down': Two action movies put the White House in peril
It seems to come around every so often in Hollywood – this year, the movies with close release dates and similar concepts are 'Olympus Has Fallen' and 'White House Down,' in which enemy forces take over the White House and put the president in peril.
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Modern Parenthood Jada Pinkett-Smith: She posts a mom’s-eye view of bullying young stars
Jada Pinkett-Smith aired her feelings on Facebook about the media's treatment of young stars like Justin Bieber and Quvenzhane Wallis. Now the media says she's an overprotective Mama Bear.
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Richard Burton's ex-wife dies: Who was she?
Richard Burton's ex-wife dies: Born Sybil Williams in Wales, she became a 1960's post-divorce success story after Richard Burton left her to marry Elizabeth Taylor.
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Global News Blog Iran to sue Hollywood for fear-mongering with 'Argo'
This is not the first time Iranian officials have complained about the portrayal of Iran in Hollywood cinema.
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