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• Bryant scores 40 in Lakers' win over Jazz
LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant scored 40 points and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Utah Jazz 113-100 Friday night for their fifth straight win and 17th in 18 home games. Pau Gasol added 21 points, giving him 10,001 for his career, and had 11 rebounds for ...
• Charlie Rose mistakenly declares friend dead
... he included Butler, whose 1977 film “Pumping Iron” featured a then-unknown bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger. The screen even flashed a Butler tombstone, 1943-2008. The PBS show had confused him with another George Butler, a longtime jazz ...
• Jack Black discovers his country music DNA
Tanya’s very shy and doesn’t think she can sing, so I wanted Jack to hear especially how beautifully she sings ‘He’s Gone Away,’ which I really had to do some talking to get her to sing,” said Charlie Haden, the eminent modern jazz ...
• Jazz great Freddie Hubbard dead at 70
LOS ANGELES - Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose style influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a ...
• Sculptor Robert Graham dies at age 70
His 18-foot (5.5-meter) monument to jazz great Charlie Parker, depicting the musician's head above the words "Bird Lives," is in Kansas City, Missouri. In New York City's Central Park, Graham's Duke Ellington Memorial stands 30 feet (9 meters) high ...