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• Celebrity Birthdays

  Associated Press - 29 minutes
  Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 27-Aug. 2: July 27: TV producer Norman Lear is 86. Singer Harvey Fuqua of The Moonglows is 79. Actor Jerry Van Dyke ("Coach") is 77. Actor John Pleshette ("Knots Landing") is 66. Singer Bobbie Gentry is 64. Actress-director Betty Thomas ("Hill Street Blues") is 60. Singer Maureen McGovern is 59. Actress Roxanne Hart ("Chicago Hope") is 56. Country guitarist Duncan Cameron of Sawyer Brown is 52. Country singer Stacy Dean Campbell is 41. Singer more »

• Murphy segues from "Nip/Tuck" to "Glee" club

  Reuters - 34 minutes
  " Nip/Tuck " creator Ryan Murphy is getting into the " American Idol " spirit with "Glee," an hourlong comedy that has been put on the fast track by Fox for a potential March launch. The project, which is now casting, is set in the cutthroat world of high school glee clubs. "Glee" centers on Will, a thirtysomething Spanish teacher at an Ohio high school who has the daunting task of taking over the school's glee club -- the worst in the country -- which has become more »

• "Magi-Nation" spawns online game

  Reuters - 1 hour and 17 minutes
  Canadian cartoon producer Cookie Jar Entertainment said Wednesday that an online multiplayer game spun off from its kids' TV series "Magi-Nation" will be carried by the WildTangent game portal. Toronto-based Cookie Jar said the online adventure game, "Magi-Nation: Battle for the Moonlands," will be made available to WildTangent's 30 million monthly users as part of a distribution agreement. Cookie Jar and Korea's Daewon initially adapted the "Magi-Nation" more »

• Cartoon Network draws on comics for movies

  Reuters - 1 hour and 21 minutes
  Cartoon Network is developing movies based on the comic-book titles "Firebreather," "The Vanishers" and "Mice Templar." "Firebreather," created by Phil Hester, and "Mice," by Mike Avon Oeming and Bryan Glass, will be developed as animated movies, while "Vanishers," created by Chuck Dixon, will be produced as a live-action movie. "Firebreather" tells the story of awkward teenager Duncan Rosenblatt, a typical high school kid except that his dad is a fire-breathing dragon more »

• Balthazar Getty says he's separated from his wife

  Associated Press - Wed Jul 23, 5:19 PM PDT
  Balthazar Getty says he's separated from his wife and is embarrassed by recent photos of him kissing a topless Sienna Miller in Italy. "The breakdown of a marriage is a very difficult and painful experience, especially when children are involved," Getty, 33, told The Associated Press, revealing that he's split from from wife Rosetta, with whom he has four children. "In light of the fact that many pictures have surfaced in print and on the Internet, which has caused myself more »

• Waging the image campaign overseas

  Associated Press - Wed Jul 23, 5:02 PM PDT
  Barack Obama has packed his overseas trip with presidential images: a helicopter ride over Iraq with the U.S. military commander; a visit to a Holocaust memorial; a meeting at Afghan President Hamid Karzai's palace. He even found time to sink a three-point basketball shot before cheering U.S. soldiers. John McCain His most memorable picture of the week was riding a golf cart with former President George Bush at Bush's Kennebunkport vacation home in Maine. If the image campaign more »

• Protesters denounce Fox News as racist

  Reuters - Wed Jul 23, 3:53 PM PDT
  Protesters gathered on Wednesday outside Fox News Channel to denounce what they claim is its racist campaign coverage, including a pundit who called Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama a terrorist. The crowd of some 150 people wielded a petition with more than 600,000 signatures objecting to news coverage by Fox, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, organizers said. Some demonstrators held signs that crossed out the network's "Fair and Balanced" slogan more »

• 2 eagles named by Miley, Billy Ray to be set free

  Associated Press - Wed Jul 23, 3:55 PM PDT
  Two 14-week-old American bald eagles named by Disney star Miley Cyrus and her country singer father, Billy Ray Cyrus , will be released into the wild Thursday at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. The American Eagle Foundation has released more than 90 eagles from Dolly Parton 's Dollywood theme park in East Tennessee since the 1990s. The eagles were named Tennessee (after the Cyrus' home state) and Hope (Miley's given middle name before she had it legally more »

• NBC, Fox file copyright lawsuit against video site

  Reuters - Wed Jul 23, 3:26 PM PDT
  NBC and Fox News Channel sued video-sharing service Redlasso for copyright infringement on Wednesday, accusing the website of showing programs like "The Tonight Show" and "The Fox Report with Shepard Smith" without permission. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, comes two months after the television networks complained in a letter to the closely held website that it violated copyright laws by running unauthorized clips and full-length programs. After receiving more »