PALO ALTO, Calif. – 2007 could be the year that advertisers start making inroads into the realm of digital video recorders, which allow users to pause, rewind and record live broadcasts, advertising experts say.Since its introduction in 1997, San Jose’s TiVo and other digital video recorders have been a thorn in the side of advertisers […]

DEAR MR. DAD: I need some advice on my situation with a single dad and his son. I’m a teacher and met the son in after-school care, and we really hit it off. One day he told me I should meet his dad because I would like him and he would really like me. I […]

DEAR ABBY: My son and daughter-in-law have a golf cart they allow their 6-year-old daughter, “Madison,” to drive. I feel that she is too little to control the vehicle. She can barely see above the steering wheel.This is way too large and powerful a vehicle for the little girl. There is a warning on the […]

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Val Kilmer, 47; Bebe Neuwirth, 48; Barbara Carrera, 55; Anthony Hopkins, 69Happy Birthday: You always get to ring in the new and let go of the old on your birthday. Bask in the glory of being born on such a celebrated day and make your resolutions for the new year […]

CHICAGO (AP) – Michael Jordan and his wife, Juanita, filed for divorce Friday after 17 years of marriage.“Michael and Juanita Jordan mutually and amicably decided to end their 17 year marriage,” the couple said in a statement issued through their lawyers. “A judgment for dissolution of their marriage was entered today. There will be no […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Julia Roberts is expecting her third child with her husband, cinematographer Danny Moder, her spokeswoman confirmed to People magazine Friday.The baby is due this summer, Roberts’ publicist, Marcy Engelman, said in a story posted on the magazine’s Web site. News of the pregnancy first appeared in the New York Post’s Page […]

HOLLIS, N.H. (AP) – Jared Nathan, a former actor on the children’s television show “Zoom,” has died after a car crash. He was 21.Nathan, who lived in Nashua, N.H., was a third-year acting student at the Juilliard School in New York, friends said Thursday. He was home on Christmas break.“He was talented and amazing. He […]

ROME (AP) – Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti on Friday gave up the job of artistic director at the Turin Film Festival, just two days after he was called to lead the event, news reports said.In a statement carried by Italian news agency ANSA, the actor and director noted that “an atmosphere of tension” had arisen […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees is not getting her tiara back after she appeared in a slew of prurient pictures – and that’s final, pageant officials said Friday in response to speculation stirred up by pageant co-owner Donald Trump.“The Miss Universe Organization has thoroughly considered the request of Ms. Katie Rees […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Pucker up, Christina Aguilera. Ryan Seacrest hopes to plant a New Year’s kiss on you.Aguilera will be performing on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2007,” hosted by Clark and Seacrest from Times Square in New York on Sunday night. Other performers on the three-and-a-half hour ABC broadcast include Rascal Flatts […]