Reuters - Actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, the impossibly long-legged movie musical star who gained fame for her on-screen pairings with Hollywood dance greats Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died on Tuesday at age 86.

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AP - Robert De Niro’s planned $43 million hotel in downtown Manhattan features a handmade brick exterior, Carrara marble bathtubs — and a luxurious penthouse, which has raised the hackles of preservationists who say he flouted the rules with that top-floor suite.

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AP - Documents unsealed from the R. Kelly child pornography trial include claims from the prosecution’s star witness that an employee of the R&B star threatened her.

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AP - Ricki Lake is firing back at physicians groups that have singled her out for bringing attention to at-home childbirth.

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AP - George Carlin will be awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

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AP - Lil Wayne now has official numbers to back up his bragging — the rapper’s new CD has sold a spectacular 1 million copies its first week.

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AP - Cyd Charisse, the long-legged beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died Tuesday. She was 86.

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Will Smith begins the worldwide promotion of his summer blockbuster, ‘Hancock.’ First stop: Berlin. (June 17)

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AP - The judge in R. Kelly’s child pornography trial warned a newspaper reporter who failed to appear in court Tuesday that he must show up Wednesday or face contempt charges.

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