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The displays do not come alive and, no, there are no monsters lurking. That's what two women celebrating their birthday found out when they spent the night in the Guggenheim Museum - part of an offbeat new exhibit in which visitors become one with the art.

Rita, a loyal WNBC/Channel 4 viewer, is fed up. She's tired of seeing familiar faces disappear, one by one. "It's almost like you watch the news waiting for the ax to fall on the next person," she said. "I wonder if they're going to be there next week."

A decade ago, Mike Birbiglia began dreaming a jackal was poised over his bed - a nightmare so vivid it sent him racing through his home. While asleep in a hotel room four years ago, he imagined a guided missile was targeting him.

With three days to go before the elections and polls showing him trailing, Republican presidential candidate John McCain appeared on NBC's late night comedy show "Saturday Night Live," poking good-natured fun at his campaign.

Republican Presidential candidate John McCain, appearing on "Saturday Night Live," poked fun at himself last night over his inability to afford a prime-time infomercial to match rival Barack Obama.

Nicole Kidman has always wanted to make a big Aussie blockbuster, writes Christine Sams. She didn't know it would also change her life.

He has mastered the back-slapping bravado of the most powerful man in the Western world, but Josh Brolin tells Siobhan Synnot why putting his criminal past behind him has be

WE'VE had Braveheart, Rob Roy and Highlander in a series of blockbuster films that put Scotland on the celluloid map.

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John Daly, the British-born producer of 13 Oscar-winning movies including "Platoon" and "The Last Emperor" who helped launch the careers of many A-list directors and actors, has died. He was 71.