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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
(AP)
AP - Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
Judge allows `Sister Wives' suit to proceed
(AP)
AP - A federal judge has ruled there's sufficient evidence to allow a polygamous family made famous by a reality TV show to pursue a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Utah's bigamy law.
`How I Met Your Mother' enjoying best year ever
(AP)
 AP - The mysteries that surround the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" extend to co-creator Craig Thomas' office on the Fox studio lot.
Son of actor Ryan O'Neal gets 16 months in prison
(AP)
AP - A San Diego judge has sentenced the son of actor Ryan O'Neal to 16 months in prison for his involvement in a drug-fueled, head-on car crash last year that left another driver injured.
Reba McEntire pilot "Malibu Country" lands at ABC
(Reuters)
Reuters - ABC ordered two comedy pilots Wednesday, one of them from country singer/actress Reba McEntire.
FX renews "Sons of Anarchy" for two more seasons
(Reuters)
Reuters - Good news, Samcro fanatics; "Sons of Anarchy" has been renewed for two seasons, guaranteeing a fifth and sixth season for FX's hit motorcycle-gang drama.
Competition is name of the game on 'The Voice'
(AP)
 AP - The competition is fierce on season two of NBC's "The Voice," and we haven't even met the contestants.
Tony Oller lands starring role in "Vigilandia"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Tony Oller, who played Danny on the Disney Channel's "As the Bell Rings," has been offered the young male lead in Universal's upcoming sci-fi thriller "Vigilandia," TheWrap has learned.
"Idol" judges toughen up, Jackson nixes "in it to win it"
(Reuters)
Reuters - "American Idol" judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez will be harder on contestants this year, and veteran Randy Jackson said he's retiring his "in it to win it" catchphrase.
Star Wars, Ferris Bueller drive Super Bowl ad buzz
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Super Bowl is still two days away but some advertisers already are looking like winners as their yet-to-be-aired commercials score millions of hits online and rack up pre-game buzz.
Goodell says league expanding prime time games
(AP)
 AP - The NFL is increasing the number of Thursday night games so more of its teams can play in prime time.
Madonna: Super Bowl show a "dream" come true
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Pop superstar Madonna said it was a dream come true to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday and conceded she was feeling pressure at the idea of singing in front of the huge live television audience.
Cannon says he is completely healthy after illness
(AP)
AP - What do you do after recovering from a serious illness? If you're Nick Cannon, you celebrate by attending the Super Bowl.
Ellen DeGeneres/Portia de Rossi pilot picked up by ABC
(Reuters)
Reuters - ABC has picked up the Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's pilot "The Smart One."
No cause of death yet for L.A. artist Mike Kelley: coroner
(Reuters)
Reuters - Los Angeles County Coroner's examiners have completed an autopsy on the body of artist Mike Kelley but have not yet determined a cause of death pending further tests, a spokesman said on Friday.
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5 Possible Reasons Why Madonna Thinks King Edward VIII Was "Very Punk Rock"
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ARTINFO - @font-face {font-family: "Times New Roman";}@font-face {font-family: "Arial";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: SectionAlthough the U.K.monarchy doesn't exactly conjure up images of spiked hair, loud music, andstudded leather jackets, Madonna thinks one former king is "very punkrock," according to the Daily Telegraph. When asked why she put Englishpunk band the Sex Pistols's 1977 anarchist anthem "God Save the Queen"on the soundtrack of her new film, "W.E." - a biopic about Wallis Simpson, theAmerican divorcée who captured King Edward VIII's heart - thepop-star-turned-filmed-director explained to the British broadsheet: "Ithought [Edward] was quite rebellious and cutting-edge in his point of viewabout life and about how to run the empire, and using the Sex Pistols was aperfect marriage." ARTINFOlists five possible reasons why Madonna thinks the notorious abdicator and Nazisympathizer was "punk rock":
A Minute With: Street artist Mark Jenkins
(Reuters)
Reuters - American street artist Mark Jenkins's human sculptures staged in provocative poses in the middle of cities have proved so uncannily life-like they have sparked calls from passersby to the ambulance service or the police.
Capitalism, Unclothed: Art Provocateur Zefrey Throwell on Overthrowing Wall Street With His "Naked Army"
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ARTINFO - New Yorkers pride themselves on their blasé - nothing will phase a well-trained city pedestrian. But artist Zefrey Throwell's urban intervention turned even the most stoic of heads: those of Wall Street traders. Throwell's "Ocularpation: Wall Street" saw 50 performers strip down and mime different Wall Street-related professions (traders, yes, but also janitors, secretaries, and everything in between) in a critique of the financial industry, a piece inspired by the plight of the artist's mother, a 60 year old woman who lost her retirement savings in the economic crash, and was forced to come out of retirement to look for a job.
Before the Paparazzi: See Celebrity Portraits by Hollywood's Original Photographers at the National Portrait Gallery
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ARTINFO - Beforetoday's Internet-induced era of celebrity overexposure, paparazzi abundance, and tabloid proliferation, there was a time when film studioscontrolled the public's perception of their actors and actresses through the use ofin-house portrait photographers. London's National Portrait Gallery pays tributeto that period with "Glamour of the Gods: Hollywood Portraits," an exhibition of 70 vintage photographsfrom 1920 to 1960, on view until October 23.
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Gaultier fetes Winehouse, Givenchy goes futuristic
(Reuters)
Reuters - Jean Paul Gaultier delivered an ode to Amy Winehouse at his spring/summer 2012 haute couture show in Paris on Wednesday. The late pop singer's musical spirit and bad girl fashion sense were all over the runway.
Power of Europe's boardrooms captured in new book
(Reuters)
Reuters - For 15 years, New York-based Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been making her mark with global art projects, covering subjects as diverse as Haute Couture fitting rooms in Paris, the gardens of Kyoto and the boardrooms of Europe's leading corporations.
Men's underwear getting a little extra attention
(AP)
 AP - Some things are fashion, and some are necessity. Where do men's undergarments fall? Increasingly, right in the middle.
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