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• Doctor convicted in Jackson death seeks release (AP)

  AP - The doctor convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death asked a judge Friday to release him from jail pending his appeal.

• Actress' claim to be gay by choice riles activists (AP)

  AP - Cynthia Nixon learned the hard way this week that when it comes to gay civil rights, the personal is always political. Very political.

  
  

• Friend says on 911 call Demi Moore was convulsing (AP)

  AP - Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night and was convulsing and "semi-conscious, barely," according to a caller on a frantic 911 recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials.

  
  

• David Arquette & Courteney Cox Reuniting? (omg!)

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• Rosie O’Donnell and Fiancée are Trying for a Baby (omg!)

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  On Friday’s episode of her OWN talk show, Rosie O’Donnell sat down with Dr. ...

• ABC picks up 3 comedy pilots (omg!)

  omg! - LOS ANGELES, Jan 27 (TheWrap.com) - ABC beefed up its comedy stockpile Friday with orders for three pilots. "How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life," created by Claudia Lonow ("Friends With Benefits," "Accidentally on Purpose" and, more recently, the troubled cross-dressing sitcom "Work It"), will follow the adventures of recent divorcee and single mother Polly, who moves in with her eccentric parents, Elaine and Max, who are full of life but know no boundaries. ...

• Pilot Season: ABC Picks Up Three More Comedy Pilots (omg!)

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• Golden Globes trial exposes misleading negotiating tactics (omg!)

  omg! - LOS ANGELES, Jan 27 (TheWrap.com) - Dick Clark Productions Chief Executive Officer Mark Shapiro had to admit in Los Angeles District Court late this week that he employed bluffs and half-truths to get NBC to agree to an $150 million deal to air the Golden Globes. The practice is likely standard operating procedure in Hollywood, but copping to the ploys can not have been pleasant for Shapiro. ...

• Academy makes credits exception for 'Tree of Life' (omg!)

  omg! - LOS ANGELES, Jan 27 (TheWrap.com) - The Academy has made an unusual exception for "The Tree of Life," determining that the film has four true producers and should not be limited by an AMPAS rule that limits the number of producers on a Best Picture nominee to three. Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner and Grant Hill all "functioned as genuine producers" on the Terrence Malick film, according to a ruling from the Academy's Producers Branch Executive Committee. ...

• Pilot Season: CBS Picks Up Comedies From Raising Hope, Brothers & Sisters Producers (omg!)

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  CBS has picked up comedy pilots for Friend Me, Partners and an untitled project from

• Grammy-winning composer Clare Fischer dead at 83 (AP)

  AP - Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning composer who wrote scores for television and movies and worked with legendary musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, has died. He was 83.

• Movie Scores: How the critics rated the new movies (AP)

  AP - Liam Neeson continues to impress critics with his reinvention as an action hero as he approaches 60 in this weekend's "The Grey."

  
  

• After 45 years, Paul Plishka says goodbye to Met (AP)

  AP - Paul Plishka thought back to Sept. 21, 1967, when he made his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Monk in Ponchielli's "La Gioconda" alongside Renata Tebaldi, Sherrill Milnes and Rosalind Elias.

  
  

• APNewsBreak: Jackson enters fray over Grammy cuts (AP)

  AP - The Rev. Jesse Jackson is entering the fray over The Recording Academy's cuts to its Grammy categories: He's asking to meet with the president of the organization and has raised the possibility of protests with the awards less than two weeks away.

  
  

• Grammy-winning composer Clare Fischer dead at 83 (AP)

  AP - Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning composer who wrote scores for television and movies and worked with legendary musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, has died. He was 83.

• Grammy-winning composer Clare Fischer dead at 83 (AP)

  AP - Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning composer who wrote scores for television and movies and worked with legendary musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, has died. He was 83.

• Grammy-winning composer Clare Fischer dead at 83 (AP)

  AP - Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning composer who wrote scores for television and movies and worked with legendary musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, has died. He was 83.

• Jesse Jackson adds voice to Grammy protest (Reuters)

  Reuters - Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday urged Grammy organizers to reinstate 31 ethnic and minority musical categories that have been cut from the music industry's top awards.

• British film "Shadow Dancer" lifts crowd at Sundance (Reuters)

  Reuters - A tense British thriller about a mother deeply entrenched in the IRA and forced to choose between the organization and the family she loves has earned high praise among the foreign films at this week's Sundance Film festival.

• Jesse Jackson adds voice to Grammy protest (Reuters)

  Reuters - Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday urged Grammy organizers to reinstate 31 ethnic and minority musical categories that have been cut from the music industry's top awards.