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Broadway is bracing for the Tony Awards in a year that flouted the rule book.

AP - Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading 'Girls Like Us,' the nonfiction best-seller which interweaves her life story with those of fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Carole King.

Minister and author Suzan Johnson Cook believes a positive attitude and a 'can do' spirit can take you from where you are to where you want to be. She talks with NPR's Tony Cox about her new motivational book.

NBC's newly resurrected version of American Gladiators returns for a second season tonight, just three months after the first season concluded. A two-hour episode airs at 8 p.m. ET.Last season's winners Evan Dollard and Monica Carlson claim their prizes and become new gladiators Rocket and Jet (really). There's also Phoenix, a new female gladiator, in addition to 'an all-new state-of-the-art Gladiator Arena' and seven new events, according to NBC. The show also has recruited gay competitors.In addition, like other Facebook whores, the show has created an American Gladiators Facebook application that 'will allow users to square off against gladiators, their friends and the entire Facebook community for the chance to win an official 'American Gladiators' Joust Stick -- signed by the American Gladiators along with other top prizes,' according to an NBC press release.Despite the new hires and changes, producers have tragically not fired terrible hosts Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali, althou

In sharp contrast with the notion of hollow and dusty, book-filled halls, dimly lit study tables and the gray-haired, bespectacled librarian, the Philadelphia Free Library looks forward to another year of displaying the vitality and fun that it has to offer at its 2nd annual Philadelphia book Festival.

Novelist Salman Rushdie is favourite to win the Booker of Booker prizes to add to his two existing awards.

Film News: 'Street Fighter' among other slate changes -- The chipmunks will be back in 2010. Twentieth Century Fox will release sequel 'Alvin and the Chipmunks II'' on March 19, 2010, following the breakaway success of the first pic.

(LiveDaily.com) Stevie Wonder [ tickets ], who made his long-awaited return to touring last year, is back at it again this summer with more than a dozen North American shows booked from coast to coast.... continued

Jimmy Fallon's kindergarten yearbook listed him as 'most likely to take over for David Letterman.' Letterman's going nowhere, but close enough. Fallon will succeed Conan O'Brien as the host of NBC's 'Late Night' sometime in the middle of next year.

Iron Man has held on to the number one spot in the North American box office as the summer blockbuster season endures.The comic book adaptation added $50.5 ...