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Reuters - The classical music world was handed a new star on Monday as charismatic 26-year-old Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel was introduced as the next music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic More Info...  

AP - It's a familiar dance that plays out ever more frequently in our popular culture. A public figure transgresses, and we wait to dissect the apology. Was it sincere enough? Contrite enough? Specific enough? Did he feel our pain?

AP - Television actor Jason Wahler hurled racial and homophobic invectives at a police officer when he was arrested over the weekend after punching a hotel security guard and passing out drunk in a hallway, a Seattle Police Department report said.

AP - She storms out of the tilting shanty of a farmhouse in full fury. This self-described "ugly, overgrown lump of a woman" is a force of nature, an earth mother of surprising strength and heart at the center of Eugene O'Neill's classic "A Moon for the Misbegotten."

AP - "Little Pink Slips" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 384 pages, $24.95) — Sally Koslow: We can call this a roman a clef, or thinly veiled fiction, but let's cut to the chase: "Little Pink Slips" is about Rosie O'Donnell.

AP - Don Imus will appear on the Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show on Monday, five days after Imus made racially charged comments his own show about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Sharpton and MSNBC announced Sunday.

AP - For real — or at least the cinematic version of real: 3-D.

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Criticizing management has its rewards.

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AP - Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning "B.C." comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died Saturday while working at his home in Endicott. He was 76.

AP - When movies shifted from videocassettes to DVD, retailers simply cleared the tapes off the shelves to make room for discs. That's not so easy now that movies appear poised to follow music onto the Internet.

AP - A. Alfred Taubman, ignoring all of his instincts, stayed silent during the price-fixing trial that would end with a prison sentence for the former owner of Sotheby's auction house. More Info...  

AFP - Former World Cup winner Diego Maradona is due to leave hospital next week after 10 days of treatment for excessive alcohol consumption, a medical source said.

AP - Activists who believe Latinos deserve more recognition for their contributions during World War II have created an agonizing political problem for PBS and filmmaking star Ken Burns.

AP - Robert Olmstead always considered his war the Revolutionary War, when he was growing up on a farm in New England.

AP - Shooting for a new Will Ferrell sports comedy begins in Michigan later this month.

AP - Edward Mallory, who portrayed angst-ridden Dr. Bill Horton on the NBC daytime drama "Days of Our Lives" for 14 years, has died following a long illness, family members said. He was 76.

AP - Like the rest of her work, Inge Morath's photographs of Marilyn Monroe, shot in 1960, go right to the heart of her subject. Monroe may be smiling on the outside, but her vulnerability is also revealed.

Reuters - Two London-based writer/performers have sparked the recording return of Shirley Bassey, the70-year-old Welsh vocal powerhouse famed for singing the theme song to the James Bond movie "Goldfinger."

AP - YouTube offered Saturday to "educate" Thai officials who want to block individual clips from its video-sharing service, hoping to end an impasse that arose after a slideshow mocking the country's revered king appeared online.

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AP - Unimpressed by his on-air apology or corporate promises of a tighter leash, angry critics of nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus called Saturday for his dismissal over his racially charged comments about the mostly black Rutgers women's basketball team.