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• Kellie Pickler is glad to be herself on new CD
Small Town Girl,” released in 2006, was put together in a hurry to capitalize on her sudden fame from being one of the finalists on “American Idol.” Pickler was working on songs over the phone with Nashville co-writers while on an “Idol ...
• Academy sets date for Nobel lit prize
The secretive academy is not revealing any hints about its selection for the award, which many consider the highest accolade for writers. British betting firm Ladbrokes gives Italian writer Claudio Magris and Syrian poet Adonis the edge for this year ...
• Reception party ruins ‘Rachel Getting Married’
Yes, tickets and snacks are expensive, and people don’t know how to behave in public anymore, but the actors and cinematographers and writers and directors want you to see their work writ large, in a dark room, with booming speakers. Watching films ...
• Europeans scramble to save failing banks
Robert Brusca, chief economist at the New York-based Fact and Opinion Economics, said that the ECB does issue such a cut it would a be a sign "that they're really, really scared." ___ Associated Press writers Angela Doland in Paris, Patrick McGroarty ...