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Britain to investigate snooping by tabloids
British legislators authorized a sweeping inquiry yesterday into illicit snooping on politicians and celebrities by tabloids, as one lawmaker called for media tycoon Rupert Murdoch to testify over allegations one of his newspapers illegally hacked into cellphones.

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Rupert Murdoch - Newspaper - Tabloid - Directories - Publishers
Rich Cronin; LFO singer wrote hit ‘Summer Girls’
So enamored of clever rhymes that he once gave a shout out to William Shakespeare in a pop song, Rich Cronin could toss off lyrics and raps with almost breathtaking ease.

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Rich Cronin - LFO - Summer Girls - William Shakespeare - Pop music
Wife of gospel star Marvin Sapp dies of cancer
Gospel singer Marvin Sapp is mourning the death of his wife and manager, MaLinda Sapp.

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Marvin Sapp - Music - Religion and Spirituality - Christianity - Cancer
'Weary Kind' singer Bingham wins big at Americanas
The trophies keep piling up for Ryan Bingham, this time at the Americana Awards. Bingham won the Americana Music Association's top honor, artist of the year, and also took song of the year for "The Weary Kind," the theme to the movie "Crazy Heart," during a star-studded show Thursday night at Ryman Auditorium.

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Ryan Bingham - Americana Music Association - Americana - Crazy Heart - Weary Kind
Art and soul
Until recently, British singer Jamie Lidell viewed the creative process as a slow, deliberate affair. The former electronica artist and DJ spent years honing the melodies and perfecting the production on both his 2005 vocal debut “Multiply’’ and its 2008 follow-up “Jim,’’ and the result was a pair of sparkling, hook-filled blue-eyed soul records.

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Jamie Lidell - Music - Multiply - Arts - Soul music
Room to move
“Five more and we’re sold out!’’ Midway Cafe co-owner Jay Balerna strives to make himself heard by the doorman over the din as he edges through the rapidly thickening crowd. It’s just after 10 p.m. on a recent Wednesday and, out of nowhere, people have filled nearly every square inch of the club’s 60-person capacity. Missouri-born roots guitar-slinger Deke Dickerson ...

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Missouri - Music - Shopping - Arts - Google
Trio enjoys ‘World of Sports’ shtick
The vast panoply of human sporting experience gets put under the very distorted microscope of the Reduced Shakespeare Company in “The Complete World of Sports (abridged).’’ How vast? “From the neanderthals who first hit a rock with a stick . . . to the neanderthals who participate in ultimate fighting.’’

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Reduced Shakespeare Company - Arts - United States - Recreation - Google
A pastoral drenched in feeling
Boston has enjoyed a 140-year love affair with Jean-François Millet. Contemplating a work like Millet’s “Path Through the Wheat,’’ it’s not hard to fathom why.

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Home - Cooking - Google - Fashion - IPhone
Preppie update, but what’s new?
Growing up in Princeton, N.J., in the 1980s, my friends and I turned to “The Preppy Handbook’’ for advice on fitting in. We had the Top-Siders (laces permanently knotted), the wide-wale cords (jeans were against the dress code at school), and the Lacoste shirts (collars popped, of course). I’d go on, but I became a journalist and eventually lost my ...

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Shopping - Preppy - Clothing - Casual - Lacoste
Bran Nue Dae
If you were underwhelmed by “Australia,’’ Baz Luhrmann’s arid, ardent tribute to the romantic epic, Aborigines, and the charismatic white people who employ them, you might have thought what I did: This movie needs a musical number. It’s possible that one reason it didn’t have one was that Luhrmann didn’t own the rights to the most apt songs. One of ...

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Australia - Baz Luhrmann - Arts - Movies - Filmmaking
Lebanon
Except for its opening and closing shots, the entirety of “Lebanon’’ takes place inside a tank rolling chaotically through the first days of Israel’s 1982 Lebanon War. What we see of the conflict comes to us the way it comes to the tank’s young gunner, Schmuel (Yoav Donat): Through the circular, increasingly shattered glass-eyepiece of his periscope. It’s more than ...

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Lebanon - Middle East - Israel - Google - Saudi Arabia
I'm Still Here
In “I’m Still Here,’’ the actor and movie star Joaquin Phoenix plays an actor and movie star named Joaquin Phoenix who has a nervous breakdown, quits the business, grows a beard that would qualify him for immediate membership in the Taliban, and enters into the most ill-advised rap career since Dee Dee Ramone. It’s possible that this is Phoenix’s greatest ...

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Joaquin Phoenix - Actor - Dee Dee Ramone - Casey Affleck - United States
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Striking looks at Sox fashion show
With the Sox in free fall, we’ve turned our attention to the players’ wives and girlfriends, who were at the Natick Collection yesterday for “From Fenway to the Runway,’’ their annual fund-raiser for the Red Sox Foundation. The sold-out fashion show drew a slew of Sox spouses, including two — Shonda Schilling and Ana Delcarmen — whose hubbies aren’t even ...

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Shonda Schilling - Fashion - Arts - Design - Magazines and E-zines
Spears' former bodyguard sues for sex harassment
A former bodyguard sued Britney Spears on Wednesday, claiming the singer repeatedly subjected him to "repeated unwanted sexual advances" and harassment.

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Britney Spears - Lawsuit - Sex - Music - Arts
Pratt to Montag: Sorry for my outrageous behavior
Former "The Hills" star Spencer Pratt is apologizing to his estranged wife, Heidi Montag, for acting out in their breakup.

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Spencer Pratt - Heidi Montag - The Hills - Arts - Divorce
‘C’ examines quest to communicate
The baby was born with a caul, the doctor is telling the infant’s father. “A veil around his head: a kind of web,’’ the physician explains, a few hours after the birth. “It’s meant to bring good luck — especially to sailors.’’

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Shopping - Home - Business - Google - Fashion
A mysterious assassin — minus the mystery
If it’s true that you don’t miss your water till your well runs dry, then I’m missing my water, because this well — the Nikita well — is all but dust. I groaned when I heard that the CW was coming out with yet another version of the Nikita story, after the 1990 Luc Besson movie, the 1993 American remake ...

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Nikita - Luc Besson - Maggie Q - 1990 Luc Besson - The CW Television Network
Date night at French bistro
''Bon soir! En francais?’’ Enter Jacky’s Table and you are greeted by a brigade of Gallic charmers, intent on persuading you to break out any rusty bons mots at your disposal. Should you choose to speak in the mother tongue, they will be thrilled. But this isn’t really a language lesson. It’s a way of establishing the restaurant as a ...

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French language - First language - Languages - Social Sciences - Linguistics
Interpol in flux, striving to revive
It’s a tried-and-true tactic in music, the act of self-titling an album to announce this isn’t the same artist you remember. But in Interpol’s case, its eponymous fourth release is clearly meant to remind fans, particularly ones who have strayed in recent years, of the New York band’s beloved roots.

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New York - United States - New York City - Musical ensemble - Eponym