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"Larry King Live" draws 2.2 million for last show
 
LOS ANGELES bang. More than 2.2 million tuned in to watch King's final CNN show on Thursday night.
 
Olivia Wilde, Maria Bello bring Hollywood to Haiti
 
LOS ANGELES - After the devastating earthquake rocked Haiti earlier this year, food and medical aid poured into the island country, but in the months that followed a pair of Hollywood actresses and their friends had another idea. They wanted to build a movie theater. It may seem like a far-fetched notion, but since it opened in September, the Sun City Picture House has become a place that generates smiles on the faces of children and adults. It also has been used as a community center and school, and it helped spawned two similar buildings in different camps.
 
Nicollette Sheridan drops abuse claims in lawsuit
 
LOS ANGELES - Remember those bombshell allegations of physical and emotional abuse on the set of "Desperate Housewives" that Nicollette Sheridan lobbed at ABC and the show's creator Marc Cherry in April? Well, now the actress has agreed to drop the most explosive claims in her $20 million lawsuit against the network and Cherry.
 
Comcast-NBCU deal would create minority networks
 
WASHINGTON - Comcast Corp will offer new programing targeted at African- and Asian-Americans if it is allowed to buy a majority stake in General Electric Co's NBC Universal, the company announced this week in agreements with civil rights groups. The decision to boost diversity efforts comes as the company awaits approval from the U.S. Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission for its proposed merger, which would create a combined broadcast, cable, movie studio and theme parks business.
 
Uma Thurman stalker jailed in New York
 
NEW YORK - A man serving probation on a two-year-old conviction for stalking actress Uma Thurman and harassing her family was jailed on Friday on new charges that he resumed stalking the actress, authorities said. Jack Jordan, 39, was arrested in November at his home in Montgomery County, Maryland as he was researching the Oscar-nominated actress on Google, and he was transferred to New York on Thursday to face the fresh stalking charge.
 
James Caan is animated chili pepper in Web series
 
LOS ANGELES - Oscar nominee James Caan will voice an animated chili pepper on kids' Web series "The Annoying Orange," a rep for OpenFilm.com confirms to The Hollywood Reporter exclusively. Caan, who is the chairman of OpenFilm.com, makes his debut as the "suave and debonair" Jalepeno in an episode to air Friday afternoon.
 
Brian Austin Green and Harold Perrineau join pilot
 
LOS ANGELES - "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum Brian Austin Green and "Lost" star Harold Perrineau have signed on to star in "The Wedding Band," a pilot for cable network TBS. "Band" is an hourlong comedy that centers on a group of guys who try to escape the stress and chaos of their lives by performing in a wedding band.
 
Cable network and Steven Segal lose round in lawsuit
 
By Matthew Belloni A&E Networks and Steven Seagal have suffered a setback in the multi-million dollar idea-theft lawsuit over Seagal's hit reality show "Steven Seagal: Lawman."
 
"Tron" film ears $3.5 million in midnight showings
 
LOS ANGELES - Disney's "Tron: Legacy" grossed roughly $3.5 million in midnight runs, with Imax theaters providing a record percentage of the gross, according to early estimates. Imax locations grossed roughly $1 million. That number could shift upwards once final figures are tallied.
 
From finance to fiction in India and Pakistan
 
NEW DELHI - Finance and fiction seem like an unlikely mix, but a number of Indian and Pakistani novelists are finding their stints as finance professionals may have helped ward off writer's block. While there is no direct link between mastering the markets and writing novels, a career in finance does seem to have had its merits for former Wall Street banker Anish Trivedi.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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