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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- With a flawless voice that recalled past "American Idol" finalist Jennifer Hudson and a sense of determination after not making it in previous seasons, Candice Glover did the one thing Hudson wasn't able to do: She won the title of "American Idol."...

NEW YORK (AP) -- That's a wrap!...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A painting of actress Bea Arthur topless has sold for $1.9 million at a New York City auction....

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Los Angeles County prosecutors say they've charged a former "Days of Our Lives" actor with selling cocaine out of his Agoura Hills home....

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NEW YORK (AP) -- What do you get when you take a 70-page melodrama at the center of "War and Peace" and turn it into a musical? Now layer dance music onto the traditional Russian folk music. Now put it in a tent. While you're at it, throw in a meal and strobe lights....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Chabon had long been mystified by that Bob Dylan lyric about "midnight's broken toe."...

NEW YORK (AP) -- As "The Office" airs its series finale after eight years on NBC, the time feels right to salute the show that spawned it....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has a new process to select artists who receive one of the nation's top arts prizes, the Kennedy Center Honors, after an outside group last year said Latinos have been largely excluded....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ticketmaster has agreed to settle claims for up to $23 million over a lawsuit affecting more than a million people who, after buying a ticket online, were enrolled in a rewards program that cost $9 a month but never gave them any benefits....

CANNES, France (AP) -- Sofia Coppola was just 8 years old when she first came to the Cannes Film Festival. Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, was there to premiere a work-in-progress cut of a film he had spent years wrestling with: "Apocalypse Now."...

NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Vampire Diaries" is known for its twists and turns, and one of its stars, Ian Somerhalder, says Thursday night's season finale won't be any different....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jane Lynch doesn't mind being upstaged by her latest co-star, Olivia - after all she "has no bad side, she is always ready to pose and she sits perfectly still when you put her in your lap....

CANNES, France (AP) -- Emma Watson is reveling in her post-"Potter" freedom at the Cannes Film Festival, relishing a Valley Girl role far from her wise-beyond-her-years Hermione....

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The guys in Vampire Weekend changed how they wrote songs, how they record and what an album of theirs even looks like - the cover for "Modern Vampires of the City" is not another artsy old Polaroid, but a 1966 black-and-white photo of a smoggy New York skyline....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The USA television network is looking for laughs, and announced Thursday it will premiere its first-ever situation comedies next winter....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The CW network is bringing a popular radio music series to television and is going heavy on escapist fare in its new programming for next season....

BERLIN (AP) -- It probably wasn't the reception Barbie was hoping for at the start of her European tour....

CANNES, France (AP) -- Cannes has been the birthplace of many a star, and the latest candidate to shine is Marine Vacth, who plays a teenager confronting the complexities of adolescent sexuality in Francois Ozon's "Jeune et Jolie" ("Young and Beautiful.")...

CANNES, France (AP) -- Julianne Moore sometimes identifies with the characters she plays but when it came to playing a bad mother in "What Maisie Knew," she couldn't relate....