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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's heir to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria, gave birth to a baby girl on Thursday, which could help restore the monarchy's battered popularity. "My feelings are a little bit all over the place," Prince Daniel, the 34-year-old Victoria's husband, told a news conference, holding back tears …

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Character actor Daniel von Bargen, who has appeared in dozens of movies and television shows including "Seinfeld" and "Malcolm in the Middle," was hospitalized after shooting himself in the head at his Cincinnati-area condominium, authorities said Wednesday. Von Bargen, 61, told a Cincinnati-area …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Michael Jackson's former personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray -- who was sentenced to four years in November for causing the pop singer's 2009 death -- wants to be sprung from jail while he works on his appeal. And according to Murray's attorney, there's a chance that his conviction could be …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television entrepreneur Simon Cowell says he's learned one lesson from the U.S. launch of his TV show "The X Factor". To keep his big mouth shut. That means he is not commenting on speculation that music stars such as Britney Spears, Janet Jackson and Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie might become judges …

(Reuters) - Bill Clinton had his saxophone, but President Barack Obama can sing the blues. Obama lent his voice to a White House jam featuring Mick Jagger, B.B. King, Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy on Tuesday during a celebration of blues and its influence on modern pop culture. After wowing crowds in January by singing a line …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Contrary to reports, the Academy has not yet pulled Sacha Baron Cohen's Oscar tickets over his plan to appear on the red carpet in character for his next movie -- but that could still happen. According to an executive with the Academy who did not wish to be identified, AMPAS officials have been …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Like any savvy celebrity worth his multimedia platform, Stephen Colbert has a children's book. "I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)" will be published by Grand Central Publishing on May 8. The book started as a joke during Colbert's "Colbert Report" interview with bestselling children's author Maurice …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Michael Fassbender has signed on to star in "The Counselor," with his "Prometheus" director, Ridley Scott, TheWrap has confirmed. Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and playwright whose "No Country for Old Men" was adapted to the Academy Award-winning 2007 movie, wrote the script. …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 22 (TheWrap.com) - Jai Courtney, an Australian television star, will play Jack McClane in "A Good Day to Die Hard," Fox said Wednesday. Jack McClane is the son of Bruce Willis's character, John McClane. "A Good Day to Die Hard" -- the fifth in the "Die Hard" franchise -- introduces John McClane's estranged …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review the murder conviction of legendary music producer Phil Spector, turning down an appeal by his attorney arguing his constitutional rights had been violated at his trial. The justices without any comment let stand a ruling by a California appeals court …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B singer Chris Brown has earned a measure of musical redemption and forgiveness from ex-girlfriend Rihanna by collaborating on new music together, three years after Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting the pop star. Brown, 22, and Rihanna, 24, were openly tweeting each other and promoting their collaboration …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Roland Martin, the CNN commentator who was suspended by the cable news outlet earlier this month for a pair of homophobic tweets he sent out during this year's Super Bowl, has received a thumbs-up from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for his on-air apology on Sunday. GLAAD …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Bret Michaels -- or rather, his attorney -- is accusing the Tony Awards of hitting a bum note in its latest move in the legal saga over the Poison singer's 2009 injury. The rocker's lawyer, Alex Weingarten, has lashed out at the Tonys organization and CBS, accusing the awards group of trying …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Whitney Houston has barely been dead a week, and already several of her belongings -- including a pair of earrings and a vest that she wore in the 1992 movie "The Bodyguard" -- will go on the auction block next month. The items, which celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien obtained following the …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Two-time Oscar-winner Michael Douglas is the latest presenter announced for the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. Producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer made the announcement Monday. Douglas won an Oscar for his lead performance in "Wall Street" (1987) and a Best Picture award as a producer of "One …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 19 (TheWrap.com) - ESPN has fired one employee and suspended another for using the same racist word in connection to New York Knicks' guard Jeremy Lin. In both cases, an employee used the word "chink" in reference to Lin, a Palo Alto, California, native of Chinese descent. "We again apologize, especially …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 19 (TheWrap.com) - From "The King's Speech" to "The Blind Side," Hollywood loves an incredible true story. In John Fairfax, the movie business has a doozy. The adventurer died this month, his exploits largely forgotten and overshadowed by a glut of balloon boys and "Survivor" spin-offs. That should change …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 19 (TheWrap.com) - Lindsay Lohan will be making a high-profile appearance on Saturday, March 3, and this one isn't court-ordered. "SNL! I love @NBC !!!!!!!!!!!!!," 25-year-old Lohan tweeted after NBC's "Saturday Night Live" revealed in an on-air promo and Twitter posting that she would host its March 3 …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeremy Lin, whose meteoric rise from obscurity to dazzling court general for the New York Knicks has become a global story, had a rare favor to ask of the massive media turnout for his team's 104-97 victory over the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks on Sunday. The NBA's first Taiwanese-American player, …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whitney Houston was laid to rest on Sunday in a private burial before family and close friends near her birthplace in Newark, New Jersey, more than a week after her sudden death shocked the world. The pop star, whose powerful voice fueled her rise to fame in the mid-1980s with self-titled albums that …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Singer Bobby Brown abruptly left the funeral of his ex-wife Whitney Houston on Saturday, claiming security guards asked him to move several times and prevented him from seeing his and Houston's daughter. Brown said in a statement that upon arriving to the service he was moved three times by security, …

NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Stars, family and friends mourned Whitney Houston in a spirited Baptist funeral service at her hometown church on Saturday, a week after the death of the singer whose spectacular voice made her one of the biggest pop stars of her era. Gospel and soul music greats, celebrities and family members …

NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Actor Kevin Costner gave an emotional tribute to singer Whitney Houston at her funeral on Saturday, revealing insights into the singing sensation who died suddenly last week and hit film "The Bodyguard" they made together. Costner told family, friends and greats of the music industry who packed …