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AP - Heather Mills says her love don't cost a thing. "All I did was to fall in love with someone madly, and I'm constantly being vilified in the press for it," Mills tells E! Entertainment Television's "E! News" in an interview that was to air Tuesday night.

Playbill - Eric Krebs, the Tony Award-nominated New York producer, professor and champion of new work, steps into the spotlight April 3-8 for a unique (and free) 80-minute Shakespeare-inspired solo show, Considering Lear. More Info...  

AP - Whether on the "American Idol" stage, the dance floor or the basketball court, competition had television viewers hooked last week. More Info...  

Fashion Wire Daily - Gucci Group has ousted Chantal Roos, France's most celebrated beauty executive, as the head of its beauty and fragrance division and replaced her with Andrea Barbier. More Info...  

Reuters - Staff at the Los Angeles Times, shaken by months of turmoil, voiced anxiety on Monday over Chicago billionaire Sam Zell's planned buyout even as the paper ran a story about the real estate mogul's reputation as a hard-nosed "grave dancer." More Info...  

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AP - KITT, the flame-throwing, river-jumping, talking muscle car from the `80s TV show "Knight Rider," is up for sale. Restored to its debut-season glory, the modified black 1982 Pontiac Trans Am is offered at $149,995 at a Dublin auto dealership. Johnny "Vette" Verhoek of Kassabian Motors has had the car, officially called Knight Industries Two Thousand, on display for about a month.

AP - Justin Timberlake blames celebrity magazines for turning his personal life into juicy gossip fodder. "I despise what they do," the 26-year-old singer tells Details magazine in an interview in its April issue. "They create soap operas out of people's lives. ... It's a spin game, and I choose not to take part in it."

Reuters - Are you a Jew? Don't ask Jamie Kastner. The question annoys the Canadian documentary maker. He gets asked it a lot. More Info...  

AP - CNN's loss is CBS' election coverage gain: Veteran reporter and analyst Jeff Greenfield is leaving the cable news channel to work as senior political correspondent for CBS News.

Reuters - Russia has issued a new law banning the sale of DVDs, videocassettes and music CDs from its street markets and kiosks, in a further sign that the Kremlin is getting serious about combating piracy as coveted membership in the World Trade Organization moves closer.

AP - The ashes of James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original "Star Trek" TV series, have been loaded into a rocket that is set to launch in New Mexico later this month.

AP - The lawyer-turned-partner of Anna Nicole Smith dropped his bid Monday to halt the use of DNA to prove the paternity of the former Playboy playmate's infant daughter when it appeared a Bahamas court was going to reject his appeal.

Playbill - Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo has snagged the emergent new Maltby & Shire musical, A Time for Love, for an April 20-May 13 run. More Info...  

AP - Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor.

AP - Teen starlet Hilary Duff claims she's never had a problem with her weight, but feels pressure to be thin.

AP - The Final Four, with Ohio State and Florida advancing to the title game, drew overnight ratings that were up 3 percent from a year ago. More Info...  

AP - Record company EMI Group PLC said Sunday it planned to unveil "an exciting new digital offering" with computer company Apple Inc., raising expectations that The Beatles' music catalog is about to be made available through Apple's iTunes online music store.

AP - Martin Sheen was among a group of peace activists cited during an anti-nuclear protest Sunday at the Nevada Test Site, authorities said.

Reuters - Will Ferrell skated past his competitors to take the gold medal at the North American box office with his new comedy "Blades of Glory," according to estimates released on Sunday.

AP - Chris Hansen of NBC News has supplanted Mike Wallace as the TV journalist you'd least like to see emerge from behind a closed door.