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Paul McCartney promotes Meat-Free Mondays to EU parliament, celebrates role of people power
ROBERT WIELAARD - December 3, 2009
BRUSSELS (AP) Paul McCartney has taken his Meat-Free Monday campaign to the European Parliament, saying the power to halt global warming lies as much with individuals as with their governments. McCartney met in Brussels with Rajendra K. Pachauri, head of the U.N.'s global climate...
Oliver Stone: This time, greed is legal on Wall Street with banks, hedge funds key in new film
BRETT ZONGKER - December 3, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone is again taking on the financial world in a sequel to 1987's successful "Wall Street," but this time he said greed is not only good it's legal. Stone just finished filming "Wall Street 2" and dropped a few hints while talking to a...
Swift screams with joy over Grammy nods, says being recognized is 'ultimate honor'
NEKESA MUMBI MOODY - December 3, 2009
Taylor Swift has won just about every top music award there is this year, but the possibility of winning not just one, but eight Grammys, had the 19-year-old screaming for joy as the nominations were announced. "I started freaking out and jumping up and down," Swift said in a telephone...
Musicians overjoyed at 52nd annual Grammy nominations
The Associated Press - December 2, 2009
Heard at the 52nd annual Grammy nominations: ___ "This is very surreal for me. I'm not used to this. I've been gone for eight years. I've been throwing out my trash, buying my milk and living in basic obscurity." R&B crooner Maxwell backstage on his six nominations...
Grammy nominations in top categories
The Associated Press - December 2, 2009
Nominees announced Wednesday in top categories for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year: "Halo," Beyonce; "I Gotta Feeling," The Black Eyed Peas; "Use Somebody," Kings Of Leon; "Poker Face," Lady Gaga; "You Belong With Me," Taylor Swift. Album of the Year: "I...
MSNBC's Matthews apologizes for calling West Point 'enemy camp' for Obama speech
DAVID BAUDER - December 3, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) MSNBC's Chris Matthews apologized on Wednesday for saying that President Barack Obama had traveled to an "enemy camp" at West Point to address the nation on the war in Afghanistan. The pundit had made the remark Tuesday during on-air analysis of Obama's speech, noting...
CEO of Country Music Association since 2007 has resigned, no reason given in statement
By Associated Press - December 2, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The CEO of the Nashville-based Country Music Association has resigned effective immediately. The association announced the resignation of Tammy Genovese in a news release Wednesday. No reason was given for her departure. Genovese began her career...
Jack Cooke, longtime bluegrass musician with Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys, dies at 72
By Associated Press - December 2, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A longtime bluegrass bass player and singer with Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys has died. Jack Cooke was 72. According to a press release Wednesday from Morris Public Relations, Cooke died Tuesday at a hospital in his hometown of Norton, Va., after...
UN chief names pop star Stevie Wonder a UN Messenger of Peace
By Associated Press - December 3, 2009
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The U.N. chief is naming blind pop star Stevie Wonder a United Nations Messenger of Peace to focus on helping people with disabilities. U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said his designation as a U.N. peace envoy will be officially announced on Thursday by...
'The Princess and the Frog' continues Disney's trend of diversifying its heroines
MIKE CIDONI - December 2, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) For most of the last century, the Disney 'toon heroine was as white as, well... Snow White, the studio's first feature-film superstar, who marked her debut in 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." It would take some 60 years for the Disney artists to begin...
