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• Old world elegance meets fresh, modern style
• Another Stones record — this one in Guinness
• French court tries woman for kissing painting
• Estimates eclipsed at cult artist Banksy’s sale
• 18 paintings left for two British museums
• Remembering the ‘absolutely dauntless’ Mailer
• Error costs Miss California her crown
• Rome exhibition showcases looted ancient art
• Miss France keeps title despite racy photos
• Clay Aiken to join Broadway’s ‘Spamalot’
• Artist digs trench at London’s Tate Modern
• Skin isn’t in at Fashion Week
• McCartney to exhibit late wife’s photographs
• Unseen for 110 years, Mucha prints on block
• Pageant officials investigate pepper spray prank
• Graffiti artist Banksy selling rare originals
• Choreographer Michael Kidd dies
• That stinks! Gallery exhibits human-poo blocks
• Trace Adkins’ life is now an open book
• Publisher delays book of Harry Potter fan site
• Jay-Z to take over hip-hop channel on Sirius
• Shock jock Don Imus returns to radio Dec. 3
• Harry Potter first edition nets nearly $41,000
• Hitchens, Alexie among Book Award finalists
• CBS fights ‘wardrobe malfunction’ fine
• Don Imus returns to airwaves
• Radio City’s ‘Spectacular’ a little mellow
• Readers prefer Vonnegut to Mailer, Styron
• Oprah picks Ken Follett thriller for book club
• Ron Wood contemplating second book, film
• ‘Mona Lisa’ had brows, lashes, inventor says
• Courbet’s ‘Nude Woman Reclining’ recovered
• John Grisham named in libel lawsuit
• Rowling completes first post-Potter book

• ‘U Got the Look’: Prince hits London catwalk
• Marcel Marceau buried in simple ceremony
• ‘It’s OK to be gay,’ Dear Abby says
• Prosecutors clear photo owned by Elton John
• Borat is back to amuse, and offend, with book
• Dave Chappelle breaks own stand-up record
• Magna Carta copy to fetch fortune at auction
• Magna Carta sells for $21.3 million in auction
• HarperCollins rushing Bhutto-written book
• Nannies deny Stern, Birkhead’s gay encounter
• Police recover stolen da Vinci painting
• Carreras says no Tenors without Pavarotti
• Probe: Beauty queen’s clothes were sprayed
• Siegfried and Roy may reappear on stage
• Masterpiece found in trash sells for $1 million
• Paris Hilton helps close L.A. Fashion Week
• Museum has no insurance for stolen Picasso
• Anonymous painting attributed to Caravaggio
• Don Imus better find that old fire, and fast
• Oprah pulls disputed book from Web site
• Carl Bernstein laments U.S.’s ‘idiot culture’
• Court refuses to hear Liz Taylor painting case
• Some say it’s way too soon for Imus comeback
• Publisher orders second printing of O.J. book
• Former Robert Frost home vandalized
• Chinese artist sets world record at auction
• ‘Grinch’ won’t reopen until dispute ends
• ‘Tree of Smoke’ wins National Book Award
• Warhol’s ‘Liz’ painting nets $23.7 million
• Lynne Spears’ book won’t be a celeb tell-all
• Dumbledore’s outing gives text new meaning
• Marquez’s ‘Cholera’ is Oprah’s latest book pick
• Goldmans say they're punishing O.J. with book

• Elton John confirms he owns seized photo
• Two Picasso works could fetch $65 million
• Rowling calls first book tour in 7 years a ‘treat’
• 170 drawings by Bob Dylan go on display
• Writer Norman Mailer dead at 84
• Garth Brooks gives cowboy hat to Smithsonian
• Arbus’ estate donates photographer’s archives
• The eyes have it: Bette Davis stars on stamp
• Oh sweet Jesus! Chocolate sculpture is back
• Hundreds pose nude for artist’s latest work
• Catwalk turns urban safari at Fashion Week
• Smurftastic! Belgian-created Smurfs turn 50
• Publisher delays memoir by Spears’ mom
• Norman Mailer wins Bad Sex in Fiction Award
• Stolen painting worth $1 million found in trash
• Fantastic Four go bilingual in latest comic book
• Collection of da Vinci works infiltrated by mold
• Perfect strangers in ‘07: Harry Potter, Kindle
• Faberge egg sells for record $18.5 million
• Imus’ return knocks Kuby/Sliwa off the air
• Actor sues ‘Hairspray’ producers for $1.5 mil
• Painting by Rembrandt follower sells for $4.5M
• N.Y. rules, but L.A. Fashion Week gains cred
• Fantasy novelist Robert Jordan dies at age 58
• Scorsese among Kennedy Center honorees
• Howard Stern’s favorite radio show? His own
• ‘Too sexy for Southwest ... perfect for Playboy’
• Imus to hang cowboy hat at new TV home
• ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ author Ira Levin dies
• Keillor gets restraining order against fan
• Eric Clapton chronicles rock ‘n’ roll survival
• Stern files $60 million suit over Anna Nicole bio
• ‘Million Little Pieces’ author writing a novel