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May 17, 2012

People Rush To Buy Last Print Editions Of Britannica

Three weeks after announcing it will discontinue its print editions after 244 years, people have been scrambling to buy the last of the 32-volume 2010 edition. READ MORE

Magic! Harry Potter Studio Tour Opens Near London

Hogwarts Castle is ready to welcome the Muggle multitudes. READ MORE

Belfast Unveils Birth-To-Death Story Of Titanic

Belfast is launching an impressive new tourist attraction...the 100 million-pound ($160 million, (euro) 120 million) Titanic Belfast visitor center, which offers a taste of the excitement and opulence surrounding the doomed trans-Atlantic liner. READ MORE

Man Accused Of Stealing Thousands Of Movie Posters

Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged a San Fernando Valley man with stealing more than 3,000 movie posters worth more than $450,000, including posters for "The Hunger Games.'' READ MORE

Jerry Lee Lewis Weds For 7th time In Mississippi

Jerry Lee Lewis has wed for the seventh time in a ceremony this month in Mississippi, according to a newspaper report. READ MORE

VIDEO: Will Ferrell Announces 'Anchorman' Sequel

Will Ferrell's swashbuckling newscaster Ron Burgundy had his own breaking news to announce Wednesday night: A sequel to "Anchorman" is finally happening. READ MORE

Winehouse Family To Get Her $4.66 Million Fortune

Records show Amy Winehouse left an estate worth 2.94 million pounds ($4.66 million) after her death last year. READ MORE

Lady Antebellum To Play For Tornado-Hit Ind. Town

The country music trio Lady Antebellum will put on a benefit concert for a tornado-wrecked southern Indiana town after holding a prom event for the town's high school juniors and seniors. READ MORE

Rihanna Avoids Questions About Ashton Kutcher

Rihanna isn't being drawn into questions about her relationship with Ashton Kutcher. READ MORE

Painting Expected To Sell For $20-Million

It's being offered May 1 at Christie's. The work was rediscovered this year in the collection of the late Dr. Heinz Eichenwald, a well-known pediatrics expert from Texas. READ MORE

Martina McBride To Sing At ACM Awards

She will perform her new single, ``Marry Me,'' with Train lead singer Pat Monahan while a couple from New Jersey gets married on stage. READ MORE

Christie Brinkley Breaks Down During TV Appearance

The couple split four years ago when the divorce became final. READ MORE

Mad Men Returns To AMC

The audience had been kept waiting for 17 months after "Mad Men" aired its fourth-season finale in October 2010. READ MORE

Hunger Games Scores Big

That final figure released Monday was $2.5 million less than distributor Lionsgate estimated a day earlier. READ MORE

Cameron: Earth's Deepest Spot Desolate, Foreboding

Diving to the deepest part of the ocean, filmmaker James Cameron says the last frontier on Earth looks an awful lot like another planet: desolate and foreboding. READ MORE

Woman Charged With Break-In At Cowell's House

Police say a 29-year-old woman has been charged with breaking into the house of entertainment mogul Simon Cowell. READ MORE

Man To Enter Plea For Hacking Into Celeb Emails

A Florida man is headed to court Monday on charges he hacked into the email accounts of such celebrities as Scarlett Johansson whose nude photos eventually landed on the Internet. READ MORE

Comedian Gallagher To Retire From Performing Live

The comedian Gallagher says he's had his fill of performing live onstage and is retiring after 32 years. READ MORE

Rare Movie Posters Found In Pa. Attic Fetch $503K

A collection of rare movie theater posters found in a northeastern Pennsylvania attic has fetched a total of $503,000 at auction. READ MORE

'Hunger Games' Fills Midnight Craving With $19.7M

Fans are eating up "The Hunger Games," which has opened strongly with $19.7 million domestically from overnight shows that started after midnight. READ MORE

Ind. Judge Orders Sugarland To Testify In April

Singers Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush of the country duo Sugarland have been ordered to give depositions next month in lawsuits over August's deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse. READ MORE

Bob Barker Funds $880,000 Elephant Flight To CA

Three elephants will travel from the Toronto Zoo to a sanctuary in California aboard a private plane, thanks to longtime animal activist Bob Barker. READ MORE

Jessica Simpson Censored

A pregnant Jessica Simpson on the cover of Elle magazine was apparently too much for some customers of a Tucson Safeway who prompted management to cover it with cardboard. READ MORE

Disney Image Displayed For First Time In 40 Years

One of Walt Disney's oldest drawings is seeing the light of day after being locked away for nearly 40 years. READ MORE

Barry Manilow Agonizes Through Shows

Barry Manilow is smiling on the stage and collapsing after the show. READ MORE

UPDATE: Drowning Killed Houston

Houston drowned accidentally at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. 11, and autopsy results revealed heart disease and her recent and chronic cocaine use were contributing factors. READ MORE

White House Garden

First lady Michelle Obama will soon have a lot of helping hands for the White House garden -- little hands. READ MORE

Drugs, Heart Disease, Drowning Listed As Cause Of Whitney Houston Death

The announcement Thursday ends weeks of speculation about what killed the Grammy-winning singer on Feb. 11. READ MORE

Modern Pin-ups

Meet Kelly Ackley -- pin-up model. READ MORE

Gay-Themed Movie Overcomes Balkan Divide

Gays and soldiers usually don't mix in the conservative Balkans. Neither do former foes from the region's ethnic wars. READ MORE