LONDON (AP) – Paul McCartney is collaborating with a cousin on a stage show about his early life, The Daily Telegraph has reported.Actress Kate Robbins was quoted as saying that she and McCartney were cooperating on an adaptation of the ex-Beatle’s “Liverpool Oratorio.”McCartney worked with Carl Davis to produce that work in 1991 to mark […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The sheriff’s deputy who arrested Mel Gibson for drunken driving six months ago says his superiors have harassed him ever since a report detailing the star’s anti-Semitic tirade was leaked to a celebrity news Web site.Deputy James Mee was transferred to another assignment, interrogated for several hours, and investigators seized a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Bad guy of 2006: President Bush. Good guy of 2006: President Bush.When people were asked in an AP-AOL News poll to name the villains and heroes of the year, Bush topped both lists, in a sign of these polarized times.Among entertainment celebrities, Oprah Winfrey edged out Michael J. Fox as the best […]

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s mail service is conferring with retailers and renting out hundreds of extra trucks in anticipation of the launch of the seventh – and final – installment of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.The launch date for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” has yet to be announced, but the Royal Mail has […]

NEW YORK (AP) – When a five-minute football postgame show qualifies as the most-watched prime-time program of the week, you know people have other things to do besides watch television.The networks recognized this, filling the week before Christmas with reruns and the occasional holiday show. One perennial, “Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer,” hit Nielsen Media Research’s […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Edward Norton says he broke three vertebrae during a horse riding accident on the set of his new romantic drama, “The Painted Veil.”Norton said a horse threw him off while he was galloping before filming a scene for the movie, directed by John Curran, which was shot entirely in China.“One of those […]

Everything comes to him who waits and so the Turner people who have been peering dimly into the future searching for the rays of the long promised electric lights, and who have ever and anon turned wearily to turn up the wick of the kerosene oil lamp, are at last rewarded. Workmen were wiring Dr. […]

NEW YORK (AP) – The bitter battle of words between Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell isn’t over.“Rosie’s a loser. She’s been a loser always,” the real estate mogul and host of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” said Thursday in a phone interview with The Associated Press.“Her show failed, her magazine failed. Barbara Walters gave her new life, […]

On New Year’s Eve, the backseat of a taxi is the only place you need to be for a healthy dose of sex, drugs and rock “n’ roll.Bravo will premiere three episodes of HBO’s “Taxicab Confessions” on Friday, followed by a New Year’s Eve marathon of the Emmy-winning docudrama.The long-running HBO series featured producers posing […]

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) – A spokesman for Keith Urban denied media reports Wednesday that the Australian-reared country singer had completed treatment for alcohol abuse.In response to a query by The Associated Press, his New York-based publicist, Paul Freundlich, said in an e-mail: “Keith is on a leave in Australia to be with his family during […]