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AP - BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)_ With one right hook, an epochal friendship was destroyed and a rift opened between two of Latin America's most celebrated authors.

Fashion Wire Daily - In a fashion week characterized by bright retro mod looks, Goth deconstructions, and punky tracksuits, the Samora show on Wednesday night during the Mercedes Benz L.

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AP - Is "American Idol" for real?

AP - Vivica A. Fox was released from jail early Wednesday after she was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence, authorities said. The 42-year-old actress was pulled over about 11 p.m. Tuesday after her Cadillac SRX passed a patrol car on the Hollywood Freeway at 80 mph — 15 miles above the speed limit, California Highway Patrol Officer Leland Tang said.

AP - Cable television said it offered to match DirecTV's deal for the "Extra Innings" package of out-of-market games, but Major League Baseball claimed the proposal fell short.

AP - Calvert DeForest, the white-haired, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry "Bud" Melman on David Letterman's late night television shows, has died after a long illness. The Brooklyn-born DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a hospital on Long Island, Letterman's "Late Show" announced Wednesday.

Reuters - "Casino Royale" blasted its way to the top of the national DVD charts Wednesday, proving the new look of James Bond is as much a hit in video stores as it was on the big screen.

AP - Hours of conversations between then-President Clinton and award-winning historian Taylor Branch are being transcribed for a new book.

AP - Actor Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, died of a heart attack in the Supermax federal prison where he was serving two life sentences for the murder of a federal judge, officials said Wednesday. Charles Harrelson, 69, was found unresponsive in his cell on the morning of March 15, said Felicia Ponce, a Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman in Washington.

Reuters - The first play about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous is drawing standing ovations from followers of the venerable recovery program despite criticism that it idealizes its subject. More Info...  

AP - On-again friends Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are taking "The Simple Life" — which shows the tabloid-ready celebutantes thrown into everyday situations with real people — to camp. After last season's format allowed the then-feuding friends to have little to do with each other, this year's edition brings them together again.

Fashion Wire Daily - New York-based designer Alvin Valley brought his fashion show west on Tuesday night, and the heiresses of California came out in force to check it out.

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AP - Boxing great, ordained minister and grilling guru George Foreman just added another job to his resume: reality-TV judge. Foreman will be one of four judges on "American Inventor," when it begins its second season, FremantleMedia North America announced Tuesday.

AP - Boxing great, ordained minister and grilling guru George Foreman just added another job to his resume: reality-TV judge. Foreman will be one of four judges on "American Inventor," when it begins its second season, FremantleMedia North America announced Tuesday.

AP - Keanu Reeves was behind the wheel of a Porsche that allegedly grazed a celebrity photographer standing in the path of the sports car, investigators said Tuesday. The photographer fell to the ground and paramedics were called after Reeves' car allegedly struck the man at 7:30 p.m. Monday, said Deputy Ed Hernandez of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Reuters - The members of the Bay City Rollers, a Scottish teeny-bopper band that briefly enjoyed worldwide stardom in the 1970s, sued their former record label on Tuesday, seeking millions of dollars in unpaid royalties.

Reuters - Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein tighten the narrative focus in following up their celebrated "Gunner Palace," telling the story of a single Iraqi whose life was upended by the American military. More Info...  

Reuters - Poor Laura Keene. History remembers this innovative 19th century actress-manager only as the woman whose production of "Our American Cousin" played Ford's Theater the night President Lincoln was shot. More Info...  

AP - A Bahamian judge ordered a DNA test Tuesday on Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter to identify the girl's father, an attorney for the baby's grandmother said, the latest chapter in a bitter custody feud sparked by the pinup's death last month.

AP - MTV's "Total Request Live" is no longer totally live. It's another sign of how both the audience and cultural juice have faded for "TRL," once the most influential program on television for music superstars from the Backstreet Boys to Beyonce — even if they just dropped by to push an ice cream cart.