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- Mexican movie stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, who starred together in Y Tu Mama Tambien, have launched their own production company focusing on documentaries.
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- The Queen's lawyers have studied a misleading BBC trailer that seemed to show her storming out of a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz and say it may be a breach of contract.
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- Merv Griffin, who first found fame as a talk show host and later parlayed his Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, has died at 82.
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Books »
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- The French publisher of the Harry Potter books has decided not to sue the overeager high school student who posted segments from his own French-language translation of the highly anticipated final novel.
- Massive book tour for Nixon biography unlikely, says Conrad Black
- Conrad Black's biography of ex-U.S. president Richard Nixon is set to be released in the United States in October, but the former media baron, who is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of fraud, says a massive book tour is out of the question.
- Canadian poet Margaret Avison dies at 89
- Canadian poet Margaret Avison, described as "one of the great religious poets" of the 20th century, has died at age 89.
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Media »
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- Two men have been arrested in Somalia in the killings of two prominent journalists, including a Somali-Canadian, Mogadishu's mayor said Sunday.
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- Merv Griffin, who first found fame as a talk show host and later parlayed his Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, has died at 82.
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Theatre »
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- Elaine Campbell, a co-creator of the longest running musical in Canadian history, Anne of Green Gables, died Friday in Charlottetown.
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