LOS ANGELES (AP) – The son of music legend Lou Rawls is suing the son of Motown legend Marvin Gaye, claiming he was attacked by “four large dogs” during a visit to Gaye’s Hollywood home in 2005.The complaint by Lou Rawls Jr. against Marvin Gaye III was filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – It’s a boy, again, for Will Ferrell and his wife, the actor’s publicist said Tuesday.Mattias Ferrell was born just after 2 a.m. on Dec. 30, said Matt Labov.Ferrell, 39, and Viveca Paulin were married in 2000. They have a 2-year-old son, Magnus.Ferrell earned a Golden Globe nomination last month for his […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Demi Moore was as surprised as a lot of other people when she began dating Ashton Kutcher more than three years ago.“If somebody would have said, “OK, here is the prediction: You’re going to meet a man 25 years old and he’s going to see being with you and having your […]

HENLEY-ON-KLIP, South Africa (AP) – Oprah Winfrey headed a celebrity lineup that included Tina Turner and Spike Lee at the opening Tuesday of the talk show queen’s new leadership academy for poor South African girls.The true stars, though, were Sade and Megan, whose father killed their mother and then himself; Zodwa, whose mother died of […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Ben Stiller’s playful “Night at the Museum” was the top box office draw during the New Year’s weekend with $37.8 million, a 24 percent jump over its debut the previous week.Uplifting movies dominated the Top 10 for the holiday weekend, a busy period at turnstiles.Will Smith’s “The Pursuit of Happyness” took […]

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) – “Ghost riding the whip” – a stunt in which a driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a thumping hip-hop beat – has gotten at least two people killed, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – They are known as the “flowers that can understand words” – graceful entertainers from Korea’s past who are adept at poetry, art and music, and are the peninsula’s version of Japan’s geishas.And they have become the new hot cultural property in 21st-century South Korea.A TV show based on the life […]

That the supply of deer in Maine will not meet the demand of the constantly increasing number of hunters is the opinion of the state commissioners of inland fisheries and game given in their annual report today. The most reliable figures obtainable give the number of deer killed this year as 18,000, which is a […]

Comedian Jay Mohr and “Las Vegas” actress Nikki Cox tied the knot Friday night in Los Angeles, People magazine reports.No quickie Vegas chapel feel to the nuptials: They took place at the elegant Hotel Bel-Air, after a 10-month engagement.Mohr first met Cox, 28, in 2004 when he guest-starred on her show. Mohr, 36, was a […]

In Michael Chabon’s “Wonder Boys,” the main character is Grady Tripp, the author of a hit first novel who is struggling to finish the long, meandering, and possibly pointless follow-up.Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer of New York indie-rock hotshots The Walkmen, says he has never read Chabon’s book, but he and his band have found themselves […]