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Raven-Symone's publicist says Internet reports claiming the U.S. singer-actress is pregnant or recently gave birth to a daughter are not true.

Bill Brownstein picks the Just for Laughs festival's biggest and funniest stars from the 2009 lineup.

Leo G. Carroll did it in 1966. Lisa Bonet sort of did it in 1987. What am I talking about? Double duty.

I'll never again watch "The Cosby Show" reruns the same way. On Monday, I interviewed Bill Cosby, famous for his TV role as family man Cliff Huxtable.

When most folks hit the 20-year mark during their career, they're at the midlife crisis point.

Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz reported Thursday on black females on the Michelle Obama beat, and whether their shared race and gender produces gauzier coverage.

Keshia Knight Pulliam wants you to know: She's not Rudy Huxtable anymore. The 30-year-old actress may forever be remembered for her adorable character on The Cosby Show , but the work she's churning out now is a far cry from days past.

She appeared in a hit comedy show at 3, at 5 became the youngest person ever to sign with MCA Records, was a cast member of "Hangin' With Mr.

Pentictonites are going to have lots of reason to smile this summer as top comedians storm the city, performing at a variety of venues throughout the summer.

The man who popularized patterned sweaters will be bringing his distinct comedic stylings to the Peach City at the end of July.

The Washington Post's Robin Givhan goes all gooey for Michelle Obama again at the top of the Style section on Friday, comparing the First Lady to Clair Huxtable, or as explained by the caption under their pictures: "As portrayed by Phylicia Rashad, Clair Huxtable was an accomplished yet down-to-earth figure.

When the appointed hour arrived for a brief, much-coveted phone interview with Bill Cosby, who will do two shows Saturday at Orchestra Hall, the sweater-wearing, education-loving entertainment icon and philanthropist flipped the script.

Bill Cosby's small-screen alter ego Cliff Huxtable from "The Cosby Show" is America's favorite television dad, a Harris poll indicated.

Below are BroadwayWorld.com's blogs from Thursday, June 18, 2009. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from BroadwayWorld.com's bloggers! Phylicia Rashad & Marilyn Maye by Michael Dale - June 18, 2009 While the casting of Phylicia Rashad as the manipulative, pill-addicted matriarch of Oklahoma's abundantly dysfunction Al West on ...

So far, the first lady has chosen to be a food bank volunteer with an outsize entourage and an education activist with the largest soapbox imaginable. But Michelle Obama also fills a role that is not of her choosing but that may, in fact, be the most influential: She serves as a symbol of middle-class progress, feminist achievement, affirmative-action success and individual style.

And she has done all this on the world stage . . . while being black.

Time and again, observers grasp for adjectives to describe Obama's combination of professional accomplishment and soccer-mom maternalism. It's no wonder so many eye her with awe and disbelief. Or why a minority still view her with suspicion. There have been few broad cultural precedents for what she represents.

Most people only know Bill Cosby from his comedy work and television show. They don't equate those accomplishments with the term civil rights icon.

Fatherhood in a time of layoff threats, stay-at-home dads, and lingerie stores for preteens can't be easy.

Ah, the pop culture dad. Is anyone more bumbling? Film and TV have provided us with a bevy of memorable dads, all perpetuating the stereotype of the well-meaning, but dim-witted pop.

There's nothing quite as satisfying as watching a roomful of people respond to his jokes, says Bill Cosby.

ENNIS ESMER IS standing in the dark on the stage of Earl Haig Secondary School's Cragin Hall for the first time in more than a decade.