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'Big Mike' draws tears, cheers on 'American Idol'
(AP)
AP - Michael "Big Mike" Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the "American Idol" judges giddy with a moving performance of "This Woman's Work."
Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition
(AP)
AP - Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
Conan's lone Twitter followee: 'It's totally nuts'
(AP)
AP - Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers.
Census campaign targets tech-savvy Hispanic youth
(AP)
AP - Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census announced a new campaign Thursday that aims to reach the hard-to-count demographic through its smart-phone-toting youngsters.
Israeli novel, Russian poem collection win prizes
(AP)
AP - An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation.
'The Scottsboro Boys' examines racial injustice
(AP)
AP - Let's get right to the point. "The Scottsboro Boys" is a staggeringly inventive piece of musical theater.
CW eyeing dance, weight-loss competition series
(Reuters)
Reuters - The CW is developing two competition series using popular unscripted subject matter: dancing and weight loss.
Witherspoon: First lady is DC's top fashionista
(AP)
AP - Actress Reese Witherspoon says her "Legally Blonde" character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation's capital by first lady Michelle Obama.
'Big Mike' draws tears, cheers on 'American Idol'
(AP)
AP - Michael "Big Mike" Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the "American Idol" judges giddy with a moving performance of "This Woman's Work."
"2012" debuts atop three video charts
(Reuters)
Reuters - The end-of-the-world drama "2012" debuted at the top of all three home video charts the week ending March 7, the first release in nearly a month with a box office pedigree of more than $100 million.
Australian authors protest China visa refusal
(Reuters)
Reuters - More than 90 Australian authors signed a letter on Thursday decrying China's refusal to grant a visa to one of the country's most celebrated writers because he was HIV-positive, a move that Beijing defended.
Corey Haim dies of overdose in Los Angeles
(Reuters)
Reuters - Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent prescription drug overdose. He was 38.
Louis Vuitton's Silver Screen Femininity
(Fashion Wire Daily)
Fashion Wire Daily - It was all very 1950s heroine chic at Louis Vuitton Wednesday, March 10, in Paris, when the label's designer Marc Jacobs sent out a series of proper, feminine looks onto a runway that circled a huge water fountain in a courtyard of the Louvre Museum.
Israeli novel, Russian poem collection win prizes
(AP)
AP - An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation.
Fashion's latest fixation: 3D
(The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)
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