SAN DIEGO - The most passionate Spider-Men, Storm Troopers, Harry Potters and other pop-culture fanatics are headed south for their annual pilgrimage. Comic-Con, the country's biggest comic-book convention, begins Thursday at the San Diego Convention Center.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Larry Haines, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for his 35-year role on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow," has died. He was 89.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of July 14-20. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:
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CHICAGO - Richard Roeper, fresh off announcing that he was leaving the balcony of "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper," may have put it best.
NEW YORK - Tom Cavanagh is the kind of guy who holds doors open for strangers.
NEW YORK - A criminal court judge has upheld charges against a Long Island, New York, man accused of stalking "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels.
LOS ANGELES - The widow of producer Aaron Spelling paid a whopping $47 million for a two-story condo atop a Century City residential tower that's still under construction, her lawyer said.
NEW YORK - "Gossip Girl" will get people talking. At least, that seems likely as the CW network brings to a boil its new campaign for the sexy prep-school soap.
NEW YORK - Ted Danson is relishing his first Emmy nomination since "Cheers."
LOS ANGELES (AP) Omarosa is not sorry for sparring with Wendy Williams. "I stand by everything I said," Omarosa told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
1. "Major League Baseball All-Star Game," Fox.
NEW YORK - The last baseball all-star game at Yankee Stadium and the most-watched midsummer classic since 2002 at least through the first nine innings helped Fox to a TV ratings victory.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for July 14-20. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
NEW YORK - Bailey Hanks has yet to stage her Broadway debut, but already she's got an entourage worthy of Patti LuPone.
NEW YORK - Dayana Mendoza put a promising modeling career on hold to go for and win the Miss Universe crown.
LOS ANGELES - Over the years, TV's best-known movie review show has gone from hosts Siskel and Ebert to Ebert and Roeper to Roeper and guest critics and now it's Lyons and Mankiewicz.
LOS ANGELES - Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 84.
NEW YORK - The Jonas Brothers will perform at this year's Video Music Awards.
PHILADELPHIA - Among the most notorious on-screen gaffes ever, Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction" on CBS during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show drew a $550,000 indecency fine from the Federal Communications Commission. Now a federal appeals court has thrown it out.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Conan O'Brien will take over the "Tonight" show next June and what happens to deposed host Jay Leno after that is anybody's guess.
CHICAGO - Roger Ebert is leaving the balcony but hinting that he's not finished with television.
PHILADELPHIA - A fired TV newscaster was charged Monday with hacking into the e-mail of his glamorous younger co-anchor hundreds of times for more than two years, as leaked information about her personal life helped lead to her own downfall.
LOS ANGELES - Denise Richards went to court Monday seeking changes to a custody arrangement with ex-husband Charlie Sheen but didn't get everything she wanted.
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