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NEW YORK -- Darin Riggio has a thing for older women -- he dated his first "cougar" when he was a 19-year-old college student. She was 43. Full story »

A reality show miniseries about the Jackson family will premiere Dec. 13 on A&E, the network says. Full story »

Irish rockers U2 returned to Berlin for a free mini-concert Thursday in front of the Brandenburg Gate, playing its classic singles and a duet with Jay-Z even as the show was obscured from public view by a nearly 6--foot high metal barrier. Full story »

Months after being attacked by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, people.com reports that Rihanna is speaking out about her healing process in December issue of Glamour magazine. Full story »

Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is canceling all travel plans to focus on treatment, his manager says. he 73-year-old actor and artist is being treated through a "special program" at the University of Southern California, Sam Maydew said Thursday. Asked about Hopper's prognosis, Maydew said, "We're hoping for the best." Full story »

Network lineups are bursting at the seams with detective dramas. Full story »

"Crash" director Paul Haggis has severed his ties with the Church of Scientology, in part because of what he alleged as the organization's stance against gay marriage. Full story »

Actress Cass Morgan, who is currently starring on Broadway in "Memphis: The Musical," has made a donation to an arts group in the stage event's namesake city. Full story »

Taylor Swift says she is "absolutely walking on a cloud" over her six nominations for the American Music Awards. Full story »

Academy-Award winner Morgan Freeman says Mississippi is "starving" for the right leadership, so the actor is using his celebrity status to help his friend run for governor in 2011. Freeman has written a fundraising letter and is one of the hosts for a cocktail party in Los Angeles next week for Bill Luckett, an attorney seeking the Democratic nomination. Full story »

A flight attendant on Oprah Winfrey's private jet who was allegedly fired for having sex during a flight in June while the talk show billionaire dozed filed a federal lawsuit Friday denying the allegations. Full story »

Rick Springfield will bare his backside when he guest stars on Showtime's "Californication." Full story »

For eight impressive seasons, actor Vincent D’Onofrio has captivated and sometimes annoyed viewers as know-it-all detective Robert Goren on the NBC/USA drama “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” A spinoff of the original “Law & Order,” the series has given D’Onofrio the platform to saunter around and confront murder and robbery suspects with a wild blend of evidence, conjecture and an antagonistic invasion of personal space that can only be described as disconcerting. Full story »

The landscape is littered with actors who take up the mic. But music isn’t a side gig for Juliette Lewis. The actress has taken time off the past couple of years to rock. It came “out of a dying aching hunger that would not go away, that was ceaseless and only growing since I was 8 years old,” said Lewis. “I sort of kept it in the closet for so long, because I was being protective.”
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Taylor Swift isn't ready for her fairy tale to end, so she's doing what any other savvy 19-year-old would do -- continuing the story. The country singer says a second leg of her "Fearless" tour will kick off in Australia in February. She'll also be playing nearly 30 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Full story »