Lawmakers get few answers on Comcast/NBC deal (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. lawmakers on Thursday raised concerns that the Comcast deal to take control of NBC Universal could limit customers' access to programing and drive up cable prices.
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Top 20 Concert Tours (AP)
AP - The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
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Vargas Llosa's real "Aunt Julia" dies in Bolivia (Reuters)
Reuters - The Bolivian woman who inspired Mario Vargas Llosa's 1977 novel "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter," and married Peru's best-known writer when he was 19, has died at age 84.
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Betty White to host 'Saturday Night Live' (AP)
Conan O'Brien will take his show to theaters (AP)
Conan O'Brien takes his show to theaters
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'Top Secret' Moves From Courtroom to Classroom to Off-Broadway (Playbill)
Playbill - The fact-based drama Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers is a reminder of how bold American journalism used to be - and can be again.
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Malkovich to tread London boards
Oscar-nominated actor John Malkovich is to play a Josef Fritzl-style Austrian psychopath at the Barbican, in London, next year, it is announced.
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More BBC services facing review
The BBC Trust announces it will review how well some radio services perform in terms of their quality, distinctiveness and value for money.
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Pro Football Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen dies at 69 (AP)
AP - Pro Football Hall of Famer and former television actor Merlin Olsen has died. He was 69.
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HBO brings WWII veterans to memorial in DC (AP)
AP - Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Elizabeth Dole are joining 250 veterans at the World War II memorial in Washington to honor their service.
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Hoodwinked?
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Seinfeld set as guest co-host Thursday on 'Live!'
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Elvis' clash with media on view at Newseum in DC (AP)
AP - A spark that helped ignite Elvis Presley's fame more than 50 years ago was lit by the newspaper editors and critics who hated him.
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How free markets sank the U.S. economy (Reuters)
Reuters - Two years ago, a poisonous brew of bad economics, lax regulation, and egregious behavior boiled over, scalding the financial system and pitching the United States into its steepest downturn since the Great Depression.
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Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales (AP)
AP - In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records.
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Take That star sorry for affairs
Take That star Mark Owen says he is "deeply sorry" after admitting he cheated on his partner of five years, before they married in 2009.
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Miu Miu's Regal Pop (Fashion Wire Daily)
Fashion Wire Daily - It was 1960s modernism meets Louis XIV at the latest collection of Miu Miu, the final show of Paris fashion week that ended Wednesday evening, March 10.
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Pink Floyd wins UK court battle with EMI label (Reuters)
Reuters - British rock band Pink Floyd on Thursday won a court battle with EMI in a ruling that prevents the record company from selling single downloads on the internet from the group's concept albums.
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