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• Strong ratings for Leno's return to late-night (AP)

  AP - After a smashing return, Jay Leno appears headed to a battle with David Letterman for late-night television supremacy.

  
  

• Corey Haim had Rx bottles, nothing illegal, authorities say (AP)

  AP - Authorities said Friday they had recovered four prescription drug bottles bearing the name of actor Corey Haim but found nothing illegal while investigating his death.

  
  

• ABC's Kate Snow makes jump to NBC News (AP)

  AP - ABC News reporter and "Good Morning America" weekend host Kate Snow is jumping to NBC News.

  
  

• The Stooges gain entry into Rock Hall — finally (AP)

  AP - Iggy Pop was starting to feel like the Susan Lucci of rock 'n' roll.

  
  

• `American Idol' pares down to 12 finalists (AP)

  AP - And then there were 12 on "American Idol."

  
  

• Michael Jackson's custom-made furniture for sale (AP)

  AP - The 22 pieces of custom-made furniture Michael Jackson commissioned for his London home are going on the auction block.

  
  

• U.S. court backs ban on some cable TV program deals (Reuters)

  Reuters - A U.S. appeals court upheld on Friday a Federal Communications Commission ban that prevents cable companies like Comcast Corp from cutting exclusive deals for affiliated television programing.

• No contest plea in case over star's stolen Rolex (AP)

  AP - Prosecutors say a man has pleaded no contest to receiving a Rolex watch stolen from Orlando Bloom's house during a spate of celebrity burglaries.

  
  

• Young pianist plays key role in Chopin celebration (Reuters)

  Reuters - To celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederic Chopin, Decca Records and Deutsche Grammophon are putting 21st-century marketing to work.

• U.S. court backs ban on some cable TV program deals (Reuters)

  Reuters - A U.S. appeals court upheld on Friday a Federal Communications Commission ban that prevents cable companies like Comcast Corp from cutting exclusive deals for affiliated television programing.

• Young pianist plays key role in Chopin celebration (Reuters)

  Reuters - To celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederic Chopin, Decca Records and Deutsche Grammophon are putting 21st-century marketing to work.

• Disney to shut Zemeckis-run motion-capture studio (AP)

  AP - To further cut costs at its movie studio, The Walt Disney Co. said Friday that it will shut a San Francisco-area facility used to capture the performance of Jim Carrey for his digitally animated character, Scrooge, in "A Christmas Carol."

• Miu Miu's Regal Pop (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - It was 1960s modernism meets Louis XIV at the latest collection of Miu Miu, the final show of Paris fashion week that ended Wednesday evening, March 10.

  
  

• Author Lewis equates Wall Street bonuses with "theft" (Reuters)

  Reuters - Author Michael Lewis, known for exposing the culture of excess at Solomon Brothers with his book "Liar's Poker," says Wall Street bonuses at banks bailed out by Washington are "a very elegant form of theft."

• Fashion's latest fixation: 3D (The Newsroom)

  The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)