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Pedophile rocker Gary Glitter flies to Hong Kong to avoid London

BANGKOK, Thailand - British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, flew to Hong Kong Wednesday night after refusing to return to England...

Author Joan Barfoot expects to be 'cranky, demanding' in old age

TORONTO - In Joan Barfoot's playful new novel "Exit Lines," a foursome of elderly characters grapple with the complexities of aging and the issue of an individual's right to die. There are lessons ...

Officials say Memphis airport unlikely to be renamed for Isaac Hayes

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Officials of Memphis International Airport say they probably won't change the airport's name to honour the late singer Isaac Hayes. During a memorial service for Hayes on Monday, U...

Rocker and convicted pedophile Gary Glitter held at Thai airport

BANGKOK, Thailand - Glam rocker and convicted child molester Gary Glitter flew from Thailand to Hong Kong Wednesday after he refused to return to England, a police official said Col. Voravat Amornv...

Gary Glitter is flying to Hong Kong after being barred from Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - A police official says convicted child molester Gary Glitter is flying from Thailand to Hong Kong after he refused to return to England. Citing airline officials, police Col. Vo...

Actor Richard Griffiths horses around on Broadway in 'Equus'

NEW YORK - A hot day in the city has left Richard Griffiths with a powerful thirst. No sooner has he settled down at a table in a Manhattan restaurant with his wife, Heather, than he rather grandly...

HMV Canada and Bell launch exclusive retail partnership

TORONTO - Music retail giant HMV Canada is taking another step away from traditional CD sales this month and moving further into electronics with plans to carry Bell Mobility's (TSX:BCE) wireless prod...

Blockbuster Video Top 10 game rentals list per platform

TORONTO - The most popular game rentals according to Blockbuster Video Canada for the period ending Aug. 17. Playstation 3 1 Soul Calibur IV 2 Madden NFL 09 3 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns ...

Three Canadian cities to be featured on latest global Monopoly game

TORONTO - Canadian monopoly enthusiasts will have three points of interest on the latest version of the gameboard besides the international theme, new eco-friendly utilities and modernized transportat...

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Blockbuster Video: "Felon" tops rentals list; "Prison Break: Season 3" No. 1 in sales

TORONTO - The most popular DVDs according to Blockbuster Video Canada for the period ending Aug. 17. DVD RENTALS 1 Felon 2 Smart People 3 21 4 Harold and Kumar: Escape From Guantana...

Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore dies

LOS ANGELES - Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group's founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from injuries he sustained in an all-...

Vietnam releases Gary Glitter from prison

BANGKOK, Thailand - British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, has been denied entry in Thailand after failing to board a flight in ...

Canadian Idol down to Final Four

TORONTO - Canadian Idol contestants performed music of the Fab Four as the CTV program pared down to the Final Four hopefuls. Toronto's Mookie Morris was the latest competitor to be eliminated as v...

Being Bond could be scary, says Roger Moore in upcoming memoir

NEW YORK - It's not easy being Bond. Roger Moore, who starred in seven Bond films in the 1970s and 1980s, recounts his days as the dashing super-spy in his upcoming memoir, "My Word Is My Bond," an...

Judge rejects call for injunction to stop sale of Toronto theatres

TORONTO - David Mirvish's Ed Mirvish Enterprises can go ahead with the purchase of two downtown Toronto theatres, an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday. Rival theatre impresario Aubrey Dan'...

Prime-time Olympics coverage means more ratings gold for NBC

NEW YORK - NBC is enjoying a taste of what superstar swimmer Michael Phelps savoured last week: a clean sweep. But unlike Phelps in Beijing's Water Cube, NBC's prime-time Olympics coverage left all...

Joe Francis sues to rescind settlement over 'Girls Gone Wild' suit

LOS ANGELES - "Girls Gone Wild" entrepreneur Joe Francis wants a California court to rescind a settlement he claims a federal judge coerced him into signing. Francis, who created the popular video ...

Choreographer Sergio Trujillo bringing home 'gold medal'with 'Jersey Boys'

TORONTO - Toronto-raised choreographer Sergio Trujillo packed up his dancing shoes and went south nearly a decade ago for a career that saw him broke and living in his car in Los Angeles and cleaning ...

Vietnam releases Gary Glitter from prison and deports him immediately

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Authorities freed British glam rocker Gary Glitter from prison in southern Vietnam on Tuesday, sending the convicted child molester into an uncertain future after nearly th...

John Lennon's killer told parole board he's ashamed of killing Beatle

BUFFALO, N.Y. - John Lennon's killer told parole officials during his latest unsuccessful bid for release from prison that he is ashamed and sorry for gunning down the former Beatle nearly three decad...

CBC Radio Two scales down classical music as part of fall relaunch

TORONTO - CBC Radio Two is scaling down its classical music programming and serving up more contemporary artists in a bid to reach a wider audience, a move that critics say is shutting out many listen...

Patriotic U.S. country star Toby Keith praises Senator Barack Obama

LOS ANGELES - Barack Obama is getting praise from a big, patriotic country star. Toby Keith, perhaps best known to non-country music audiences for his post-Sept. 11 song "Courtesy of the Red, White...

Singer Pat Green asks for a cold one and gets knocked out cold

BROOKLYN, Mich. - Pat Green may think twice the next time before asking for a cold one. The last time he did it, the Texas-born country singer-songwriter was knocked out cold. Green performed Sa...

Beach Boys' Brian Wilson gets sunny about his new solo album

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Brian Wilson sits on a plush couch in his living room, smiling nervously. On the Beach Boys visionary's back porch, his family's 15 pooches yip and scramble over each other....

Mariah, Miley, Beyonce join voices to fight cancer with song

LOS ANGELES - What would it sound like if 15 of the hottest female singers joined voices? The answer will be revealed Sept. 2. That's when "Just Stand Up" hits the airwaves and iTunes. The song fea...

Original member of The Spinners dies in Detroit Monday of cancer

DETROIT - Pervis Jackson, the man behind the deep, rolling bass voice in a string of 1970s R&B hits by The Spinners, has died after being diagnosed with brain and liver cancer. He was 70. Jackson d...

Jack Black was here: Rainn Wilson in 'The Rocker' plays familiar tune

"The Rocker" might really have rocked if it didn't feel like a cover of a couple of superior comedies. The first and most obvious is "School of Rock." As a shlumpy, 40ish drummer who missed his sho...

Wu-Tang's GZA shows lyrical genius on his new album 'Pro Tools'

"Pro Tools" GZA (Babygrande) Don't get it twisted - the title of GZA's new CD, "Pro Tools," is a nod to his microphone dexterity, not the industry leader in digital audio. Slinging "glorious sla...

The Cheetah Girls head to India in their latest film for Disney

LOS ANGELES - They're not a singing group but they play one on TV - and very successfully, we might add. But don't even begin to get into it about whether the Cheetah Girls are friends in real life. ...

Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens talks about his first billion

"The First Billion Is the Hardest" T. Boone Pickens (Crown Business) T. Boone Pickens deals in big figures. Very big. He quotes Forbes Magazine as pegging his worth at $3 billion in 2007, when h...