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Tributes paid to Are You Being Served? star Sugden

July 3, 2009 08:01:00

Tributes are paid Are You Being Served? star Mollie Sugden, who died this week aged 86.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, television, death, united-kingdom, england

Jackson's ex plans custody fight

July 3, 2009 07:15:00

Michael Jackson's ex-wife says she plans to fight for her two children, as public memorial details announced.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, pop, community-and-society, death, human-interest, people, united-states

Fans dismayed at Jackson funeral plans

July 3, 2009 06:41:00

A week since Michael Jackson's death, there is still confusion over his funeral arrangements.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, pop, community-and-society, human-interest, people, united-states

Jackson 'had secret girlfriend'

July 2, 2009 21:40:00

Michael Jackson had a secret long-term girlfriend at the time he died, says his former bodyguard.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, human-interest, people, united-states

Jacko shatters chart records

July 2, 2009 13:13:00

Michael Jackson is once again the king of the pop charts. [MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, death, united-states

Ukrainians seek to name village after Jackson

July 2, 2009 13:01:00

Residents of a Ukrainian village want to rename it after the late pop singer Michael Jackson. [MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, death, offbeat, ukraine, united-states

Carradine died of asphyxiation: pathologist

July 2, 2009 12:17:00

The medical examiner who oversaw a private autopsy on David Carradine says that the Kung Fu star died from asphyxiation and the way the actor's body was bound allowed him to rule out suicide. [MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, feature-films, death, actors, united-states

Aussies to rock for Tassie devils

July 2, 2009 10:38:00

Australian rock artists will play a series of concerts to raise money for the threatened Tasmanian devil, which has been ravaged by a contagious facial tumour disease.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, endangered-and-protected-species, australia, nsw, gosford-2250, sydney-2000, hobart-7000

Ono wins rights to Lennon footage

July 2, 2009 10:26:00

Singer John Lennon's widow has won a lawsuit against a group of collectors who disputed her rights to movie footage capturing intimate moments of the former Beatles legend.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, united-states

Jolie, Aniston are Hollywood's top-earning actresses

July 2, 2009 10:23:00

Brad Pitt's current squeeze and former wife are Hollywood's biggest female moneymakers.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, feature-films, actors, united-states

Kevin Jonas gets engaged

July 2, 2009 10:13:00

Kevin Jonas, the eldest member of the the Jonas Brothers band, may soon shed his purity ring as People magazine is reporting the 21-year-old pop star is now engaged.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, people, united-states

Pre-fame Madonna nudes go on show

July 2, 2009 10:11:00

Nude Madonna photos, taken while she was a struggling 20yo, are on display in London.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, music, photography, united-kingdom, england

Are You Being Served? star Mollie Sugden dies

July 2, 2009 09:00:00

Mollie Sugden, the TV actress who played the cat-obsessed Betty Slocombe in Are You Being Served?, has died aged 86.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, feature-films, television, death, actors, united-kingdom, england

Salinger spin-off book blocked

July 2, 2009 08:29:00

The publication of a book that novelist JD Salinger said ripped off his classic The Catcher In The Rye has been halted by a US judge.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, united-states

Oscar winner Karl Malden dead at 97

July 2, 2009 08:00:00

Marlon Brando's Oscar-winning sidekick in A Streetcar Named Desire has died aged 97.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, feature-films, television, death, actors, united-states

Jackson won't be buried at Neverland

July 2, 2009 06:49:00

The family of Michael Jackson has ruled out the possibility of burying the pop star at his Neverland Ranch, adding no "private or public" services would be held at the estate.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, bands-and-artists, death, united-states

Jackson requested powerful sedative: nurse

July 1, 2009 14:06:00

A former nurse who cared for Michael Jackson has told CNN the pop star pleaded with her to provide him a powerful sedative in the last months of his life.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, death, drugs-and-substance-abuse, united-states

Lockie Leonard filming ends

July 1, 2009 14:03:00

Filming of the second series of Lockie Leonard wraps up in Albany, in southern Western Australia, this week.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, television, albany-6330

Keeping the Doctor Who torch burning

Feature

July 1, 2009 13:40:00

Russell T Davies is the man credited with reviving the television show Doctor Who and is now about to screen a third series of its spin-off Torchwood.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, television, people, australia, united-kingdom

Jackson's 'Suit of Lights' glove for sale

July 1, 2009 12:42:00

He was famously called "The Gloved One", and now anyone can slip their hand into one of only two Michael Jackson white gloves that could sell in the six figures, an auctioneer says.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, death, human-interest, united-states

Actor fails to win Skippy profits

July 1, 2009 12:32:00

More than 40 years after leaving the set of Skippy The Bush Kangaroo, actor Tony Bonner has failed to win a share of the iconic television show's profits.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, television, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, australia, nsw, sydney-2000

Mr Squiggle rockets to 50th birthday

July 1, 2009 11:49:00

One of Australia's favourite puppets, Mr Squiggle, has turned 50.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, television, family-and-children, human-interest, people, information-and-communication, broadcasting, abc, australia

Promoter pushes for all-star Jackson tribute show

July 1, 2009 11:36:00

The promoter of Michael Jackson's planned run of 50 concerts in London wants his family to stage an all-star show in his memory and said today he had discussed the idea with them.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, death, united-kingdom, england, united-states

Angel Fawcett farewelled in LA

July 1, 2009 11:22:00

A private funeral service has been held for actress Farrah Fawcett, who died last week aged 62.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, television, death, cancer, united-states

More than 1m tipped for Jackson funeral

Feature

July 1, 2009 09:44:00

From Elvis Presley to Princess Diana, iconic funerals are often marked by massive crowds, celebrity mourners and gut-wrenching emotion - and Michael Jackson's memorial will be no different.[MORE]

Tags: arts-and-entertainment, music, death, united-states