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South Dakota museum awarded ownership of Presley guitar

Friday, 10 February 2017, 15:57 Last update: about 11 years ago

A federal judge ruled Monday that a South Dakota museum is the legal owner of a guitar played by Elvis Presley. The Martin D-35 guitar has been on display at the National Music Museum...

LeAnn Rimes is a sultry survivor on 'Remnants'

Friday, 10 February 2017, 15:57 Last update: about 11 years ago

Somewhere in between a debut, a multiplatinum album at 13 and coming out of an emotional spin cycle called real life 20 years later, a humbled LeAnn Rimes has grown up. The evolution is obvious,...

'Rogue One' moves 'Star Wars' forward by going back

Friday, 10 February 2017, 14:52 Last update: about 11 years ago

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there were more stories than those of the Skywalker family. That was the idea Disney was counting on when it purchased George Lucas's empire Lucasfilm for...

Lady A would like Taylor Swift to write a song for them, too

Thursday, 9 February 2017, 15:55 Last update: about 11 years ago

Taylor Swift has written hit songs for herself for years, but she recently lent her talent to others, from former boyfriend Calvin Harris to country act Little Big Town. And now Grammy-winning...

Natalie Portman explores the mysteries of Jackie Kennedy

Thursday, 9 February 2017, 14:51 Last update: about 11 years ago

Jacqueline Kennedy did not have a conventional speaking voice. It's part New York, part prep school Mid-Atlantic, and it's jarring to most modern ears. Natalie Portman remembers her first few days on...

'The Men in My life' by Patricia Bosworth

Thursday, 9 February 2017, 13:40 Last update: about 11 years ago

One-time actress Patricia Bosworth's long and sometimes fascinating memoir of life among the glitterati of 1950s New York recalls a world and a set of characters slowly fading from our collective...

Emily Estefan ably steps out of her parents' shadow

Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 15:55 Last update: about 11 years ago

She arrives with a last name beloved in the music world and dangerously treads in the same footsteps as her parents, who have 26 Grammy Awards combined. And yet Emily Estefan manages to make an...

In 'Patriots Day,' a community disarms terrorism

Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 14:50 Last update: about 11 years ago

Bombs detonated in the center of Boston are disarmed by bonds of family and community in Peter Berg's "Patriots Day," a stirring ode to civic life in the age of terrorism. "Patriots...

The CIA in Laos changed the way America wages war

Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 13:37 Last update: about 11 years ago

Even with the hindsight of history, it's mystifying that 56 years ago when John F. Kennedy was preparing to become president, the fate of the Southeast Asian backwater of Laos was considered critical...

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