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The news that bestselling author Michael Crichton, who died last year, is to rise from the grave with two new novels raises the thorny issue of completions. Two texts have been discovered on his computer - a historical thriller that is more or less complete and a science fiction novel of which one-third is finished. His publisher, HarperCollins, now plans to rush them into print, with the latter to be completed by a sympathetic writer working from the author's notes and plot outlines.Don't do it! Leave his work be: publish it as he left it, and let Crichton fans try to work out his intentions for themselves. The urge to complete - exemplified by the numerous attempts to conclude Charles Dickens' unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood - is based on a misconception: that only a finished work is of interest. The reverse is true: unfinished works are often the most interesting of all. Schubert was a great non-completer, but happily kept everything he wrote: his two-movement Unfinished

Michael J. Fox's incredible optimism was on full display at a party thrown for him by Good Housekeeping in New York City Tuesday night. The author, activist and actor graces the cover of the April issue, and ET was there for the celebration! Michael is making the rounds promoting his new book, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, which chronicles his efforts to see challenges as opportunities and maintain an optimistic attitude in the face of his Parkinson's disease. "It's not a huge part of my day-to-day existence," Michael tells ET about his malady. "It's one of the first things that I deal with when I wake up in the morning, but it's not one of the first things that I think about. I wake up curious and I wake up looking forward to the day."

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Eminem debuted the video to 'We Made You,' the first single off his forthcoming album 'Relapse' on MTV Tuesday.

Lyric Stage presents Boston premiere of Stephen Karam's dark comedy about adolescent self-discovery in the cyber-Zeitgeist

. Kim Kardashian's response to Eminem trying to spoof her in his new music video: yay attention! Cellulite, lame raps about her ass, our Kim K. doesn't care as long as you...

'The Lexus Broadway series is going to add some spice to the grandeur of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts' new Winspear Opera House in its inaugural season [beginning this fall].' The series will include two-week runs of South Pacific, August: Osage County, (Spring Awakening and Avenue Q....

Obituary: Actors coached include James Earl Jones -- Dialect coach K.C. Ligon died March 23 in New York after a long illness. She was 60.

Our Latin Flavor of the Day is Brazilian beauty Giselle Itie. What, you don’t know who Giselle Itie is? No, she’s not THAT Giselle, but she’s about to be pretty famous too when Sylvester Stallone’s new action flick “The Expendables” opens next year. You see, Giselle is playing the really hot Latin piece of ass [...]

Take a look at Captain Kirk in ways you haven't seen before.

In the new movie “How to Make Love to a Woman” Jenna Jameson plays a woman who teaches the main character how to, well, make love to a woman. Which part of the movie title don’t you understand? No idea if the movie is going to be good or not, because it’s a comedy, and [...]