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The latest magical tome by J.K. Rowling has started to fly off bookstore shelves.

A fire has erupted at the Body Shop, a landmark strip club in West Hollywood, Calif., included in the Motley Crue song "Girls, Girls, Girls."

With director Baz Luhrmann's epic "Australia" inspiring theatergoers worldwide with what the Aussie tourist board hopes is the sting of Outback wanderlust, it recalls 30 years ago when many Americans got their first cinematic gaze at that big, brown land on the far side of the Pacific.

The latest magical tome by J.K. Rowling has started to fly off bookstore shelves.

Noah Wyle has had to prepare himself for what could be the end of a popular television franchise. No, is not "ER." Although the actor is going back to appear in a few more episodes, he knows the NBC series is coming to an end.

SAN FRANCISCO - It has been 30 years since San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold such a high office, was shot to death by a former supervisor, Dan White. Sean Penn wants to make sure we don't forget Milk's work as an activist and his sacrifices to help open doors for gays.

A family of Hurricane Katrina survivors whose new house was partly built with lumber from last year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree were among tens of thousands who attended this year's lighting ceremony.

Since his debut as a chainsaw-wielding demon slayer in 1981's "Evil Dead," Bruce Campbell has enjoyed a career longevity that most B-movie icons would envy.

The holiday season is ripe for joy, peace and, regrettably, many fashion disasters.

How do we get out of this mess we're in? The U.S. doesn't manufacture very much anymore, nor is agriculture likely to re-emerge as the driving force of our economy. American popular culture is still dominant throughout the world, but many of the movie studios and remaining record companies are foreign-owned. Ditto with industries like brewing (Miller, Anheuser-Busch), pharmaceuticals and many more.

Don't cry Argentina: Madonna has postponed the first of four shows in Buenos Aires.