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There are a few things happening on the Star Wars front, both concerning Episode VII and not.

Paris's Theatre du Chatelet recently presented Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine 's Pulitzer Prize-winning SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, starring Julian Ovenden , and the production was filmed and broadcast by Mezzo TV.

In case there was any doubt, Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards confirmed the fact that Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber have been two of the music world's most dominating forces this past year.

If you've ever had access to a radio or television, you've heard of Paul McCartney.

WQHT /New York PD Ebro Darden has debunked the pregnancy rumors that have been swirling around Beyonce .

Ray Manzarek , founding keyboardist of The Doors , died Monday at age 74 at a medical clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, after a long battle with bile-duct cancer.

Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch , who stars in the hit FOX television show "Glee" as ruthless cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester and who made her Broadway debut last week as tyrannical orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in ANNIE, will be a guest on "The View" tomorrow, Tuesday, May 21.

Finally, an awards show at which Taylor Swift's most noteworthy facial expression was not a look of shock after winning an award.

Last night in Anaheim, The Rolling Stones continued their "50 and Counting" Tour by welcoming the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl for a performance of "Bitch" off their 1971 album, Sticky Fingers .

Source: www.cbc.ca --- Sunday, May 19, 2013Another day, another domination for Taylor Swift: She was the red hot winner at the Billboard music awards, winning eight of 11 awards, including top artist and top Billboard 200 album for Red.

Taylor Swift went home from the 2013 Billboard Music Awards with 'Artist of the Year' honors, thanking her fans for the "longest and best relationship" she has ever had.

The e-mail arrived at 3 p.m. Monday, marked urgent: "Can you fly out to Denver tonight and cover Prince 's show? You can have time with each of the girls [in his band 3rdEyeGirl] and there is a chance Prince will talk." This is how Prince rolls.

It's called "separation of powers," and there's a good reason for it. The legislative branch makes laws.

Kerry Washington may have taken television by storm, playing crisis manager Olivia Pope on ABC's Scandal , but she joked Sunday that she is still haunted by being cast as a frog in a college musical.

"Inside Llewyn Davis" was met rapturously at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was to premiere Sunday night.

Darren Julien, head of Julien's Auctions, holds a custom made prototype VOX guitar played by George Harrison and John Lennon during The Beatles 1967 Magical Mystery Tour.

Starting with "Beggars Banquet" in 1968 and finishing with "Exile on Main St." in 1972, the Rolling Stones put together what's arguably the best four-album stretch in rock 'n' roll history -- and none of those albums has "Satisfaction" on it.

Musical theatre fans began rejoicing when Deadline.com recently reported that 20th Century Fox had acquired the rights to a film remake of the musical Guys and Dolls .

Hudson didn't see it. But now that she's a mother herself - of two sons, Rider and Bingham - the 34-year-old actress says she treasures the comparison.

Maybe we'll see Wu-Tang's reunion LP A Better Tomorrow really manifest this time around.