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The 92 year old was an accomplished artist and businesswoman as well as a staunch supporter of the arts, according to her obituary, which was published in South Carolina's Post and Courier.

'Last time we talked I wasn't that familiar with your work', joked host Stephen Colbert as he began his interview with Sir Paul McCartney.

Thursday night's Colbert Report will be a rerun so that its star, Stephen Colbert, can be with his family after his mother, Lorna Colbert, died Wednesday at the age of 92. This according to Dan Dinello, via Twitter, who has worked with Stephen and whose nephew and son are on staff of the Report.

Paul McCartney is set to give a Must-See performance at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this weekend, but first the ex-Beatle decided to hijack The Colbert Report for an hour-long episode last night .

If "Man of Steel" is able to leap tall expectations in a single opening weekend, some of the credit will go to an Ann Arbor native who's a veteran of riveting superhero movies.

'True Blood' stars and real-life couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer attend the sixth season premiere of the HBO vampire series in Los Angeles and share a little something about season six.

Ben Affleck will have to clear out some space in his trophy case. He's being honored as "Guy of the Year" on "Guys Choice 2013" .

Monday night will go down in history as the night that John Oliver began an eight-week stint substituting for Jon Stewart on Comedy Central 's "The Daily Show."

Once upon a time, in the vast dial-up wasteland of the 1990s, wee Natalie was a gangly teenager whose mom dropped her off at a strip mall to visit a shop tucked into the space that is now Book Buyers.

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Sir Paul McCartney , who we also recently caught in Austin , came to Brooklyn for the first of his two shows at the new Barclays Center on Saturday night .

Paul McCartney is slated to stop by The Colbert Report , Alicia Keys reveals she had to warm up to Swizz Beatz , and Justin Bieber prepares for outer space.

"#Beautiful" has risen to #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The singer tweeted on Wednesday, "The New Era Begins..

COMEDY CENTRAL'S BEST BETS FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 9 Monday, June 10 - Thursday, June 13 "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" 11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. The guests for this week's all-new episodes of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" include actor Seth Rogan promoting his new movie "This is the End" ; Armando Ianucci, comedian and creator of HBO's "Veep" ; ... (more)

On last night's THE COLBERT REPORT on Comedy Central , Superman gets a makeover, Laurie Garrett reviews Monsanto's wheat incident, the Chicago Sun-Times scraps photojournalism, and Jonathan Alter dissects the 2012 election.

The upcoming appearance by Paul McCartney with Stephen Colbert on "The Colbert Report," which was announced Wednesday , will be the second time McCartney has appeared on with Colbert, but they're not Colbert's only connections with a Beatle.

NEW YORK, June 5, 2013 - The Nation will experience a special one-hour episode of "The Colbert Report" as Stephen Colbert welcomes Paul McCartney.

"There you have it. No fifth term. A political career over in the blink of an eye," Colbert said, playing a clip of her more than eight-minute retirement video.

Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., made his debut on "The Colbert Report" on Monday, sliding into the hot seat against the faux conservative host in the latest installment of the recurring "Better Know a District" segment.

Tonight on TDS, Maxim Pozdorovkin and Mike Lerner, documentary filmmakers, Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer ; and on TCR, Congressman John Dingell .