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Air Force captain wins new car on 'Jay Leno Show'
An audience member at The Jay Leno Show is especially grateful this Thanksgiving. He won a new car.
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Jay Leno
Critic's Corner Weekend: 'Monk,' Rock Hall concert
Monk (USA, tonight, 9 ET/PT) kicks off a two-part series finale that will end, we're promised, with the solution to Trudy's murder. ...
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Monk
To watch or to DVR? Let TV critic Robert Bianco help out
Having a tough time working your week around all of the television series demanding your attention? USA TODAY gives you an hour-by-hour, ...
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Robin Wright keeps the focus on her work, not divorce
Ask Robin Wright to come up with three adjectives to describe herself, and there's a long silence.
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'Pippa Lee' is just perfect for Robin Wright
Every once in a while, a multidimensional role comes along that seems tailor-made for an actor. It happens less often for actresses.
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These box sets are big on price, huge on content
Since surfacing 60 years ago, the music of Miles Davis has loomed large in the jazz world. This week,it's literally never been ...
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New on DVD: Baseball, comedy and skiing
Major League Baseball, stand-up comedy and competitive skiing. Three vocations packed with pressure ignite the week's home viewing ...
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National Day of Listening promotes oral history
A national oral history project is trying to start a new tradition for Black Friday. Instead of hunting for bargains, StoryCorps ...
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Swiss: Polanski to be quietly moved to Alpine chalet
Roman Polanski will be quietly transferred from a Zurich jail to house arrest in his Alpine chalet, Swiss authorities said Thursday, ...
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Roman Polanski
Osmond's 'Stars' partner goes to Broadway
Donny Osmond may have been the celebrity winner on ABC's Dancing With the Stars, but his professional dancing partner already ...
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Dancing With The Stars
Ex-CNN host Lou Dobbs weighs Senate run
Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2012 as a stepping stone to a possible ...
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Nude photo of Polanski, Tate to be auctioned
A nude photo of filmmaker Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate taken just months before her death will be sold at auction next month.
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Roman Polanski
Whilce Portacio chats about 'Image United' and Fortress
Comic series Image United debuts today in comic-book shops across the USA. The collaborative nature of the series marks an exciting ...
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Lambert says he got carried away, but not sorry
Adam Lambert admits he got carried away with his sexually charged American Music Awards performance, but he's offering no apology.
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Adam Lambert
American Music Awards
'Messenger' star Morton spreads word on foster care
It's fitting that Samantha Morton is co-starring in a drama called The Messenger, in limited release now.
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Samantha Morton
Polanski wins bail in Switzerland, stays in jail
A Swiss court granted Roman Polanski bail on Wednesday, accepting $4.5 million to allow him to remain under house arrest at his ...
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Roman Polanski
'Image United' co-creator Rob Liefeld discusses big series debut
The first issue of the groundbreaking Image United comic comes out today. United, which reunites the original founders of Image ...
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Donny Osmond wins 'Dancing With the Stars'
Donny Osmond was named the winner of ABC's Dancing With the StarsTuesday night.
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Dancing With The Stars
Julie Powell's revelations in 'Cleaving' cut to the bone
Writer Julie Powell, the Julie of the hit book and movie Julie & Julia, looks like a butcher.
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Critic's Corner Holiday: 'Cougar Town,' Thanksgiving programming
ABC's Cougar Town (tonight, 9:30 ET/PT) celebrates the holiday with what may be its best episode yet as Jules (Courteney Cox) ...
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Cougar Town
Courteney Cox
Final Word: True then, true now: A box won't box a kid in
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, which can mean only one thing. Christmas is around the corner.
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First lady Michelle Obama wears Naeem Khan to state dinner
First lady Michelle Obama chose to wear a gleaming silver-sequined, flesh-colored gown Tuesday night to the first state dinner ...
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Michelle Obama
25 recordings inducted into Grammy Hall of Fame
The Doors' Riders On The Storm and the Beach Boys' California Girls are among 25 recordings being inducted into the Grammy Hall ...
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The Grammy Awards
The Doors
The Beach Boys
First look: 'Shrek Forever After': Fourth, final film is first in 3-D
Even fairy tales must come to an end. The once-upon-a-time spoofing that began with 2001's 'Shrek' will conclude when 'Shrek ...
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Shrek
Animal welfare groups put cooperation to work
Animal welfare groups are regularly partnering on a range of projects, from saving animals in natural disasters to rescuing puppy-mill ...
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Animal Collective
Nielsens: Music awards take the prize
Sunday's American Music Awards notched 14.2 million viewers, up 2 million from last year, for its biggest haul since 2002.
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American Music Awards
'Me and Orson Welles' could use a little direction
Bad grammar aside, Me and Orson Welles be a much better movie if the first part of the title were excised, or at least scaled ...
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Disney's 'Princess and the Frog' is royally charming
What a pleasure, after a season of bland computer-generated tales, to be swept up in the visual magic of The Princess and the ...
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Kermit The Frog
'The Road' traverses bleak, bold terrain
If civilization were obliterated, what shreds of humanity would remain in those who survived? The Road tries to answer that ...
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'Imperial Cruise' hits rough waters in attack of Roosevelt
Just two months after Ken Burns canonized Theodore Roosevelt, James Bradley comes along to demonize him.
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TV movie spreads 'Christmas' idea: Foster a dog over the holidays
Greg Kincaid's best-selling novel A Dog Named Christmas has been turned into a TV movie airing Sunday on CBS (9 p.m. ET). The ...
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Book Buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing
Sarah Palin's memoir is selling huge; a look at the monumental influence of Oprah's Book Club; and Colum McCann's award winner ...
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Sarah Palin
The List
Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora honored in N.J.
The New Jersey town where Richie Sambora grew up says Bon Jovi's lead guitarist can come home whenever he wants.
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Richie Sambora
Bon Jovi
'A Very Special Christmas 7' features fresh young voices
Sean Kingston, Mitchel Musso and the Carter Twins are very special choirboys, young arrivals to a holiday legacy of all-star ...
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Sean Kingston
Mitchel Musso
ABC's 'Good Morning America' cancels Adam Lambert
Adam Lambert's racy American Music Awards performance cost him a gig on Good Morning America, but he will perform live instead ...
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Adam Lambert
Good Morning America
American Music Awards
A.R. Rahman, Jennifer Hudson headline state dinner
It is an all-star lineup for Tuesday's first state dinner of the Obama White House: Oscar-winners Jennifer Hudson and A.R. Rahman ...
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Jennifer Hudson
A.R. Rahman
Chef Paula Deen smacked by a ham
Celebrity chef Paula Deen got an unexpected serving of ham across her face. The Food Network star was helping unload 25,000 pounds ...
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Filmmaker Tyler Perry donates $1M to NAACP
Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the NAACP to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the civil rights organization.
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Tyler Perry
'Last Days' a pulp thriller with high expectations
Imagine an American society where a secretly transmitted broadcast signal will rid citizens of criminal impulses. Imagine an ...
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Pulp
Mya is 3 points from perfect at 'Dancing' finale
Mya is poised to take the Dancing With the Stars title after finishing three points away from perfect during the final night ...
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Mya
Dancing With The Stars
First look: Harrison Ford goes to 'Extraordinary Measures'
Harrison Ford hasn't done this for a while: saved someone else's family. But in 'Extraordinary Measures,' he's a loner scientist ...
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Harrison Ford
The Extraordinary
Critic's Corner Tuesday: 'V,' 'NCIS' and 'LA,' 'The Good Wife'
After a fast fall run, V (ABC, 8 ET/PT) exits the air tonight with a cliffhanger that will have to hold fans until March.
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The Good Wife
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart: Are they or aren't they?
'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' is a hit, but fans seem to be almost as obsessed with news about whether stars Robert Pattinson ...
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Robert Pattinson
Twilight
New Moon
Kristen Stewart
Cryptic 'V' character is alien to Baccarin
As the leader of the alien Visitors, Morena Baccarin sports prime time's most prominent pixie haircut.
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Morena Baccarin
A steady stream of video games are on tap for after the holidays
As if video-game players aren't already overtaxed with hits this fall Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed 2, Super ...
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'A Very Special Christmas 7' features fresh young voices
Sean Kingston, Mitchel Musso and the Carter Twins are very special choirboys, young arrivals to a holiday legacy of all-star ...
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Music
Sean Kingston
Mitchel Musso
Julian Lennon, decade later, back in music biz with 'Lucy'
A few years ago, Julian Lennon pictured himself as a man who could write music again. Recently, he saw himself as someone who ...
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Julian Lennon
'Fela!': An energetic Afrobeat musical to exclaim over
It may be worth nothing that this decade's most exhilarating new Broadway musicals were developed, at least in part, by creative ...
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A chat with Howie Mandel, author of 'Don't Touch Me'
USA TODAY talks with Howie Mandel, comedian and host of 'Deal or No Deal,' about his new book, 'Here's the Deal: Don't Touch ...
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