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In twitosphere, are the funny, famous in it for tweets, or do they also follow?

Leanne Italie, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 19 Mar, 2010 0 0

Twitter is so many things to so many people: infomercial, backyard fence, brain dump. The funny, famous, famous for the wrong reasons or simply very useful have thousands of followers, but who do THEY follow? Deposed "Tonight Show" star Conan O'Brien follows only one person, LovelyButton, a seem

BBM Canada: 'House' top TV program in Canada for the week of March 8-14

THE CANADIAN PRESS 19 Mar, 2010 0 0

TORONTO - Here are the top 10 television programs in Canada, with viewer numbers, for the week of March 8-14: 1 "House" (Global, Monday) - 2,866,000 2 "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" (Global, Thursday) - 2,772,000 3 "C.S.I. New York" - (CTV, Wednesday) - 2,655,0000 4 "Amazing Race 16" -

Volunteer day will honour late Mister Rogers; kids' TV icon would have been 82

Dan Nephin, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 19 Mar, 2010 0 0

PITTSBURGH - Mister Rogers cared deeply about his neighbours and his neighbourhood, both in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and in real life. Now, friends of the late television icon want to honour him with a national day of volunteering on his birthday. Rogers died in 2003 and would have been

Mario goes to school: Designer behind Nintendo's Wii looks to create educational aids

Raphael G. Satter, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 19 Mar, 2010 0 0

LONDON - Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping his world of magic mushrooms and ravenous dinosaurs for the staid confines of the classroom? The man behind the massively popular video game franchise thinks so, saying he's working hard to turn Nintendo Co.'s brand of handheld consoles into educationa


From page to stage: Novelist Ian McEwan adapting doomed-romance novel ?Atonement? as opera

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 19 Mar, 2010 0 0

LONDON - It was a book, then an award-winning film. Now Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is to become an opera. McEwan says he is working on an adaptation with composer Michael Berkeley and poet Craig Raine, who will write the libretto. McEwan told Friday's Times newspaper he wanted it to be on a grand

Review: Kudos to code breaker for chronicling unwritten rules of baseball

Mike Householder, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 19 Mar, 2010 0 0

"The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime" (Pantheon Books, 304 pages, US$25), by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca: Major League Baseball is a complex, intricate game with a thick rule book that covers everything from balks and

Jessica Simpson's 'Price of Beauty' investigates standards of beauty

Alicia Rancilio, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 19 Mar, 2010 0 0

NEW YORK - Singer and sometimes actress Jessica Simpson has paid the price of beauty, and now she's examining people's obsession with looking good. She made headlines last year when photos of her performing suggested she might have gained weight. That sparked a national debate on TV news channel

Jaden Smith joins family action business with starring role in new 'Karate Kid'

David Germain, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 19 Mar, 2010 0 0

LAS VEGAS - Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's family is getting crowded with action heroes now that their 12-year-old son, Jaden, is beating up on bad guys. Jaden Smith stars in the title role of "The Karate Kid," a remake of the 1984 hit in which he plays an American youth in China who gets a crash

Riots erupt after South African hip-hop star granted bail in hearing on child drag-race deaths

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 19 Mar, 2010 0 0

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South African police have fired water cannons at angry youths and children protesting a court decision to grant bail to a hip-hop artist accused of killing four children in a drag race. After a tense three-day hearing in Johannesburg's Soweto township, a judge freed
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