No Swearing in South Pasadena This Week

What the @$%#? This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone.

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Nicholson Films Make Case for Clinton

He was The Joker in Batman, but Jack Nicholson says he wasn't fooling around when he said in "A Few Good Men" that there was nothing sexier than saluting a woman.

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Kids Choice Awards Announces Nominees

A big green ogre elbowed aside Miley Cyrus — but just barely — in the race to secure the most nominations for the Nickelodeon cable network's 21st annual Kids Choice Awards.

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Spears in Hospital; Mom Says She's OK

With Britney Spears whisked out of the public spotlight Thursday and committed to a hospital psychiatric ward, it's now up to a team of professional caregivers to reverse her seemingly endless downward spiral.

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Marvel Comics Revives Capt. America

It turns out you can't keep a good man down — or even dead and buried — when he wears a red, white and blue uniform and calls himself Captain America.

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New Season Starts for Spears' TV Show

At least one Jamie Lynn Spears mystery is over.

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Tribune Co. Head Backs L.A. Times Move

Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, offered his "full support" to its publisher following a bitter budget dispute that has led to the departure of a top editor.

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Young Celebrities Prompting Early Obits

It's never been a secret that when people die after long and distinguished careers, those detailed stories about their passing that major news organizations seem to produce almost instantaneously in fact were written well in advance.

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Spider-Man's Marriage Spins Apart

Nobody could have seen this celebrity breakup coming: After more than 20 years of marriage, Spider-Man and Mary Jane are kaput.

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Actor Blake Appeals Wrongful Death Award

The jurors who found Robert Blake liable for damages in his wife's death after he was acquitted of murder were out to get him even before the civil trial began, the actor's attorney said Tuesday as he appealed the case.

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Producers Ponder Fate of Spears' Show

Just a week ago, the producers of Jamie Lynn Spears' hit TV show "Zoey 101" were wondering how fans might react to a plotline that had her character thinking of leaving her fantasy-land boarding school.

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Writers Propose Independent Negotiations

Faced with the indefinite suspension of negotiations, the union representing striking Hollywood writers told its members Saturday it would try to deal directly with Hollywood studios and production companies, bypassing the umbrella organization that has been representing them.

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Hollywood Mogul Freddie Fields Dies

Freddie Fields, the Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive who helped make stars of Mel Gibson, Richard Gere and others, has died. He was 84.

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Knievel's Victim Goes After the Money

Of all the bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman.

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Knievel's Victim Goes After the Money

Of all the bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman. Saltman won $12.75 million in damages against Knievel after the motorcycle daredevil attacked him with a baseball bat in 1977 in a rage over a book Saltman had written about the showman.

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Goldman: I'll Shadow O.J. Simpson Always

No matter how O.J. Simpson's hotel-room robbery trial plays out, he can plan on seeing Fred Goldman's lawyers in court again.

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Chuck E's Not in Love With Rerelease

It turns out there's something Chuck E's not in love with. It's his "The Other Side of Town" album.

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Paul Anka Still Chasing the Musical Muse

Paul Anka has written an inordinate amount of pop music classics, cranking out hit songs like "My Way" for Frank Sinatra, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" for Buddy Holly, saving "Lonely Boy," "Put Your Head on My Shoulder," "Puppy Love" and others for himself — not bad for a guy who arrived on the music scene in 1956 with a not-quite-as-catchy tune about a place called Blaauwildebeestefontein.

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A Righteous Brother Soldiers On

Forty-five years into the rock 'n' roll wars, Bill Medley hasn't lost that lovin' feeling, not for the music nor a musician's life on the road.

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Court Restricts Self-Described Pedophile

A self-described pedophile who says he is attracted to young girls but doesn't actually molest them was ordered Friday to stay at least 30 feet away from every person under age 18 in California.

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Passengers on Lohan Ride Hire Attorney

The men who say they were unwilling passengers on Lindsay Lohan's wild ride through Santa Monica have retained a lawyer who said he hopes to resolve the case without hauling the actress into court.

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Beckham's Charisma Will Be Tested in US

Tiger Woods has it. So does Arnold Schwarzenegger and George Clooney. Mickey Mantle certainly had it. And Magic Johnson still does. It's charisma, and you can't manufacture it, bottle it or buy it. It seems you're just born with it. David Beckham had it in his native England. But is it transferable to America? And, if it is, does he have enough of it to outshine other mega-celebrities in L.A. and lift the fortunes of an entire sport that Americans never have embraced at the professional level?

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Jungle Girl Following in Dad's Footsteps

At an age when many girls are still playing with their Barbie dolls, Bindi Irwin has moved on to something a bit more challenging.

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Paris Hilton Due to Break Her Silence

Her cloistered stay in a Los Angeles mansion will be brief.

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US Weekly Blacks Out Hilton Coverage

Paris Hilton gets out of jail on Tuesday and she won't be on the cover of US Weekly on Friday? How, short of the Apocalypse, is this possible?

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