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Playbill - Gaslight, Patrick Hamilton's popular property that was a 1940s Broadway smasheroo known as Angel Street - and even better known as the film "Gaslight" - will get a new production by Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan starting May 9. More Info...  

AP - Divorce has its price — and no celeb, it appears, knows that better than Michael Jordan.

AP - Pope Benedict XVI offers a personal meditation on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in his first book as pontiff, criticizing the "cruelty" of capitalism's exploitation of the poor but also decrying the absence of God in Marxism.

AP - Fighting in vain to keep his job, radio host Don Imus claimed that rappers routinely "defame and demean black women" and call them "worse names than I ever did."

AP - Back on the radio? Or off to retirement?

AP - The millionaire founder of the Girls Gone Wild video empire was charged Thursday with bribing a jail guard for a bottle of water and having prescription sleeping pills in his cell, authorities said.

Reuters - Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. Inc. said it agreed to sell four daily newspapers to GateHouse Media Inc. for $410 million as part of a strategic plan. More Info...  

Reuters - The dislike of Canada's biggest city, Toronto, in the rest of the country runs so deep that a filmmaker has made a documentary about it.

AP - Heather Locklear and Richie Sambora are officially divorced. The pair's split was finalized Wednesday in documents filed in Superior Court.

Reuters - He is not expected to ride his flying broomstick into bookstores for 100 more days, but already British boy wizard Harry Potter is whipping up some magic at bookstore chain Barnes & Noble.

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AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Don Imus' racist remarks got him fired by CBS on Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters.

AP - Like his friend Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut was a hero to baby boomers — though he was raised in an earlier time. The president he mourned was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, not John F. Kennedy. His war was World War II, not Vietnam.

AP - In books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound.

Playbill - New Jersey Repertory Company, continuing its commitment to new works, will offer the world premiere of Arthur Giron's murder mystery, Love and Murder, April 12-May 6 in Long Branch, NJ. More Info...  

Fashion Wire Daily - Former wild child Drew Barrymore has stepped into some pretty adult shoes. She joins the ranks of Cheryl Tiegs, Rachel Hunter, Christie Brinkley, and Tyra Banks to become the newest face of CoverGirl cosmetics.

Reuters - Singer, dancer and one-time Playboy magazine model Willa Ford will star as the late Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith in a biographical film about the billionaire's widow that starts shooting next week.

Reuters - For decades, fans have made a pilgrimage to Nick Drake's hometown in tiny Tanworth-In-Arden, England. More Info...  

AP - PBS promised Wednesday to amend Ken Burns' upcoming documentary series on World War II to include stories about Latino veterans after activists complained he ignored their contributions to the American effort.

Reuters - Syndicated radio and television host Don Imus was dumped from television by MSNBC on Wednesday as major advertisers abandoned him and activists vowed not to rest until he was off the airwaves altogether.

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AP - A stone-faced Snoop Dogg pleaded no contest to felony gun and drug charges Wednesday and avoided what could have been a yearslong prison sentence.