Issue: March 02, 2006 (Archive)

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Bleak picture for free TV
Amanda Palmer hardly fits the profile of an Internet outlaw, but her obsession with the ABC show Lost makes this self-described "bubbly, nutty mum" the television industry's worst nightmare.

Stones to rock China
Rock legends the Rolling Stones will play in China for the first time with a concert in Shanghai next month, the band's promoter said, three years after SARS forced them to cancel their tour.

Gunsmoke actor Weaver dies
Dennis Weaver, the lanky actor with a gentle drawl who came to fame in the 1950s playing Chester, Marshal Matt Dillon's limping deputy, on Gunsmoke, and later starred as a contemporary Western deputy who battled crime in the Big Apple in McCloud, has died. He was 81.

Fame package for the one-night celebrity
It's Friday night on the Champs Elysees and I'm signing autographs. Three hysterical fans are screaming my name and my bodyguard is trying his hardest to keep them at arm's length. A gaggle of Japanese tourists has gathered round. They are taking photographs of me on their camera phones even though they have no idea who I am.

Glamour era to step out again at Oscars
Hollywood wants to return to its heyday of sophisticated glamour - the days when a star was a star and knew how to dress like one - at this year's Academy Awards, fashion insiders say.

Texas risks losing Dallas in offscreen drama gripping oil favorite
It is a betrayal as galling as anything cooked up by JR Ewing, the arch schemer of the 1980s soap opera Dallas.

From prison to profits
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit this week as advertising increases at its flagship magazine helped reverse a year-earlier loss and sent its stock up 8 percent.

Love him tender
A musical fit for the King tries to keep Elvis' legend alive, writes Robert Sandall

Hollywood brings out the grandmother in Shirley MacLaine
She ran with the Rat Pack, made her film debut in a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock and won an Oscar. But Shirley MacLaine says one thing she never did was sleep with anyone to get a job.

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