Paul Abdul is most likely not returning to American Idol when the show starts their auditions for the ninth season Aug. 6, her manager told the Los Angeles Times. “Very sadly, it does not appear that she’s going to be back on ‘Idol,’ ” David Sonenberg, Abdul’s manager, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The sixth “Harry Potter” movie worked its charm at North American theaters, selling an estimated $159.7 million worth of tickets during its first five days of release, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday. But while “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood ...

Sources connected to Michael Jackson’s family tell us some family members as well as lawyers for the estate are ticked off at some legal eagles who may be trying to start a legal war. Attorneys Londell McMillan and Burt Levitch do not represent Michael’s estate — they represent Katherine ...

Jon Gosselin had dinner with a mystery blonde in New York at the Upper East Side’s Accademia di Vino on Saturday night and we can’t blame you if you wondered, has Jon moved on to yet another woman? After all, first it was Deanna Hummell and then Hailey Glassman and now he turns up with an ...

LOS ANGELES — A custody hearing scheduled for Monday to determine who will be the permanent guardian of Michael Jackson’s three children was canceled on Friday, a lawyer for the deceased pop singer’s family said. “I can tell you that we have had our conference call, and the result is that Monday’s ...

BY NY TIMES Dissent on college campuses during the Vietnam War could turn nasty. When students gathered in common rooms to watch television in the early 1970s, the seditious insisted on “Star Trek” reruns; the best and brightest would demand to switch to “Cronkite.” Back then, “Cronkite” ...