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• Herbie Hancock hits 70 on a high note
• Disney and Time Warner Cable each solicit public's support in cable TV spat
• Angelina Jolie: Is she the first or last true female action star?
• And now your inevitable return, Ace of Base
• On the Media: Las Vegas papers take sides on Harry Reid-Sharron Angle race
• Television review: 'Celebrity Ghost Stories'
• POLL: The 'dancing Auschwitz' video -- hilarious or offensive?

Herbie Hancock hits 70 on a high note Posted: 18 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT The jazz pianist's yearlong celebration includes a new CD, a world tour and a Hollywood Bowl birthday party. When journalists ask Herbie Hancock which musicians he listens to, he thinks that they're expecting him to say Oscar Peterson and Chick Corea -- that is, virtuoso jazz pianists like himself.

Disney and Time Warner Cable each solicit public's support in cable TV spat Posted: 16 Jul 2010 02:12 PM PDT

Angelina Jolie: Is she the first or last true female action star? Posted: 16 Jul 2010 11:13 AM PDT The Hollywood Reporter's Jay Fernandez has a pretty intriguing, not to mention really (and I mean really) long take on the gestalt of Angelina Jolie as Hollywood's only real female action star.

And now your inevitable return, Ace of Base Posted: 16 Jul 2010 05:08 PM PDT Well, thanks kids, that '90s revival sure was fun. Well, thanks kids, that '90s revival sure was fun.

On the Media: Las Vegas papers take sides on Harry Reid-Sharron Angle race Posted: 16 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT Review-Journal is unabashedly in Angle's corner while the Sun favors Reid. The Las Vegas Review-Journal has gone to great lengths to make clear its loathing for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. The newspaper's publisher regularly writes about why the Senate majority leader is "so dumb." The editor gives moral support to Reid's election challenger, "tea party" darling Sharron Angle.

Television review: 'Celebrity Ghost Stories' Posted: 17 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT Michael Imperioli, Joan Collins, Donna D'Errico and Corey Feldman recount their encounters with the undead on the Biography Channel show. I don't believe in ghosts, but I will believe your ghost story. I won't regard it as a lie or a delusion or offer any logical explanations for what you say you saw. I don't believe in ghosts, but I do believe in stories, and a good one will make the hair on my neck stand on end however much it runs counter to how I think the world works.

POLL: The 'dancing Auschwitz' video -- hilarious or offensive? Posted: 16 Jul 2010 10:06 AM PDT An artist is receiving a barrage of criticism for a YouTube video that shows her Holocaust- survivor father and others dancing on the grounds of Auschwitz.

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