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This post was originally published on this siteArtie Shaw (search), the clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of “Begin the Beguine” epitomized the Big Band era, died Thursday at his home. He was 94. Shaw had long suffered from adult onset diabetes and likely died of complications of the disease, said Larry Rose, his personal assistant […]

This post was originally published on this siteA remote barn in Livingston, Mont., serves as the worksite for a harmonious holiday quest. Ron and Michelle Gompertz, an interfaith couple, launched the greeting card company Chrismukkah.com this year for other couples like themselves whose families celebrate both Christmas (search) and Hanukkah (search). There are an estimated […]

This post was originally published on this siteActor Jerry Orbach (search), who played a world-weary cop on TV’s “Law & Order” and put Baby in the corner in “Dirty Dancing,” has died of prostate cancer at 69, a representative of the show said Wednesday. Orbach died Tuesday night in Manhattan after several weeks of treatment, […]

This post was originally published on this siteThe world’s first glimpse of Jack Whittaker (search), winner of the richest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history, was of a boisterous, happy-go-lucky guy in a big cowboy hat who loved his family, work and God and promised to share his good fortune with the church and the […]

This post was originally published on this siteAbout 10,000 casino hotel workers from more than half the city’s 12 casinos went on strike Friday, even though negotiators had reached a tentative agreement with three of the casinos. Members of Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union chanted and carried picket signs outside […]

This post was originally published on this siteSinger Ashlee Simpson’s (search) “extra help” may have been exposed when a “Saturday Night Live” audience heard her voice — singing the wrong song — while she held a microphone at her waist. Her record company blamed a computer glitch and she blamed her band for Sunday morning’s incident, which […]

This post was originally published on this siteIn a book to be published Monday, iconoclastic filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (search) reveals that he fathered a daughter outside of one of his five marriages, a secret he had kept for 45 years, his publisher said. Bergman, 86, who is widely considered one of cinema’s greatest directors, writes in the […]

This post was originally published on this siteJanet Leigh (search), the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Psycho” was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a motel room shower, has died. She was 77. The actress’ husband, Robert Brandt, and her daughters, actresses Kelly […]

This post was originally published on this siteA man who stomped another man to death in what prosecutors called an anti-Semitic attack outside a St. Louis diner was sentenced to life in prison, the maximum penalty. “This was a deliberate killing,” Circuit Judge David Mason told Kevin A. Johnson (search), 36, of St. Louis, before […]

This post was originally published on this site“Superman” actor Christopher Reeve (search), who turned personal tragedy into a public crusade and from his wheelchair became the nation’s most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research, has died. He was 52. Reeve went into cardiac arrest Saturday while at his Pound Ridge home, then fell into a […]