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Carlos Santana, Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel and Shirley MacLaine receive Kennedy Center honors.
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Don't speak: The highly coveted role of Helen Sinclair in Woody Allen's musical adaptation of his 1993 movie "Bullets over Broadway" has been cast.
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The British street artist's 'Flower Girl,' stenciled on a section of wall that was later cut out, is sold to an anonymous Los Angeles buyer.
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The Cinemax series 'The Knick,' which debuts Friday, was directed by Steven Soderbergh and features Clive Owen as the antihero, a cocaine-addicted surgeon operating in seedy, late-Victorian New York.
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The SportsNet LA debacle is starting to affect Time Warner Cable's bottom line.
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The annual retail arms race is invading Thanksgiving with a vengeance. Instead of a Norman Rockwell tableau of family gathered round the turkey, a more fitting image this year might be Americans rushing out to bag bargains. On Monday, Wal-Mart, Target and Toys R Us said they would be open longer on Thanksgiving and trot out deals usually reserved for Black Friday, the traditional launch of Christmas-centric consumerism. Others, such as Macy's and Best Buy, had waited until midnight but this year will welcome shoppers much earlier. Three years ago, that sales strategy was limited to a few struggling chains. But now such Thanksgiving discounting may be the norm for retailers heading...