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Danny Cahill is biggest loser in history of NBC's 'The Biggest Loser,' dropping 239 pounds
By Associated Press - December 9, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) The latest winner of NBC's "The Biggest Loser" is the biggest loser in the show's history. Danny Cahill, a 40-year-old land surveyor and musician from Broken Arrow, Okla., lost 239 pounds to win the $250,000 grand prize. Cahill went from 430 pounds to 191...
SD charitable trust refiles 'Dukes of Hazzard' royalties lawsuit in federal court in LA
DIRK LAMMERS - December 9, 2009
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) A charitable trust set up by "The Dukes of Hazzard" creator has filed a new $15 million federal lawsuit against Warner Bros., claiming the studio and its television production company shortchanged it on royalties stemming from the hit series. First National Bank...
Aiken in spotlight as NC county elections board examines former Idol star's registration
GARY D. ROBERTSON - December 9, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Elections officials dropped an investigation into 2003 "American Idol" runnerup Clay Aiken's voter registration on Wednesday, weeks after the singer ruffled feathers by slamming some local school board candidates on his blog. The Wake County Board of Elections...
FBI: Michigan pair used photos to try to extort $680,000 from TV-stage actor John Stamos
ED WHITE - December 9, 2009
DETROIT (AP) Prosecutors have charged two people with threatening to sell photos of actor John Stamos unless he paid them $680,000. The actor's spokesman said Tuesday that the pictures were benign. Allison Coss and Scott Sippola were arrested Dec. 3 on an extortion charge at an...
Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais says attractive, thin, young stars will be targets at show
LYNN ELBER - December 9, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) Ricky Gervais said he plans to play it loose and off-the-cuff as host of next month's Golden Globes, with Frank Sinatra and his pals as role models. "I want to host it a little bit more like someone from the Rat Pack would host," Gervais said. There won't...
Correction: 'SNL' Christmas special story
By Associated Press - December 8, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) In a Dec. 7 story about a planned Christmas special by "Saturday Night Live," The Associated Press misspelled a cast member's first name. Her name is Kristen Wiig, not Kristin.
Chris Cuomo leaving 'Good Morning America' for ABC's evening newsmagazine
By Associated Press - December 10, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) ABC says Chris Cuomo is leaving "Good Morning America" to co-host the newsmagazine "20/20." The move paves the way for the announcement expected imminently that George Stephanopoulos will join the morning show. Cuomo has been the newsreader on "Good...
CBS chief says advertisers paying 25 percent more than earlier in year, as confidence returns
ANDREW VANACORE - December 8, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves said Tuesday that advertisers are now paying 25 percent more for TV commercial time than they did in the spring. Moonves' comments, at a UBS media conference in New York, came a day after Viacom Inc. gave a similarly upbeat report on the ad...
Soap opera 'As the World Turns' canceled after more than a half-century on the air
DAVID BAUDER - December 9, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) Procter & Gamble, the company responsible for the phrase "soap operas," is out of the daytime drama business after 76 years now that CBS is making "As the World Turns" stop spinning. The network announced the cancellation on Tuesday, the day "As the World Turns" broadcast its...
Not standing by her man: SC first lady wouldn't have attended husband's teary news conference
BRUCE SMITH - December 8, 2009
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) Even if her straying husband had asked her to, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she wouldn't have stood with Gov. Mark Sanford when he faced cameras to tell the world about his affair with an Argentine woman. Jenny Sanford told ABC's Barbara Walters...
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