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• Charis Wilson, photographer’s muse, dies at 95
• French photographer Willy Ronis dead at 99
• Broadway musical in works about Woodstock
• De Niro among Kennedy Center honorees
• Angela Lansbury to receive Sondheim Award
• Pee-wee Herman’s big comeback
• Painter Richard Wright wins Turner Prize
• The great Muppet comeback
• Paul Reubens revives ‘Pee-Wee Herman Show’
• Obama musical set to premiere in Germany
• Johansson earns raves in Broadway debut
• ‘American Psycho’ to become a musical
• Paris exhibit serves revisions of Old Masters
• Joke’s on Cosby as Seinfeld, Rock pay tribute
• Bill Cosby keeps it clean for humor prize
• Museum replaces nude image of Brooke Shields
• Lenny Bruce memorabilia headed to auction
• Celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies
• Jackman stops play to chide cell phone offender
• Pageant contestant accused of killing ex-actress
• Keillor: Minor stroke is reminder of mortality
• Tony-winning actor Zakes Mokae dies
• ‘Wait, Wait’ plays Carnegie Hall
• Ray Ortner wins $250,000 at ArtPrize event
• Lavish meal over for Gourmet magazine
• ‘Laramie’ sequel gives voice to Shepard’s killer
• Perry to take ‘Madea’ play on the road in 2010
• Survey: Theater, museum attendance declining
• ‘The Gates’ co-artist Jeanne-Claude dies
• Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ set for Broadway
• N.Y. Review of Books caricaturist Levine dies
• Broadway awaits arrival of tardy ‘Spider-Man’
• Unauthorized bio on Winfrey coming in April
• Visitor loses balance, damages Picasso work

• NPR’s Carl Kasell to leave ‘Morning Edition’
• Hefner delayed divorce because of teen sons
• Museum reattributes painting to Velazquez
• New Italian museum has eye toward art’s future
• $1.15M Degas painting stolen from museum
• The famous faces of Second City
• Blanchett stars in a fierce ‘Streetcar’ revival
• Abstract artist Kenneth Noland dies at age 85
• Arts industry faces slump after big growth
• Historic Pasadena Playhouse to close
• Author Crichton’s iconic Johns’ ‘Flag’ for sale
• 3 generations of Wyeths to be sold in NYC
• Sony sees record $6.4 billion loss on tax hit
• Andrew Lloyd Webber diagnosed with cancer
• AP says artist made up Obama poster story
• French artist shows all-black paintings in Paris
• Jasper Johns art on display at National Gallery
• Photo of nude Brooke Shields at 10 creates stir
• Conductor breaks back in orchestra pit fall
• ‘Girls Gone Wild’ founder settles tax case
• Bob Dylan to exhibit new paintings in Denmark
• 10 Warhol sports paintings stolen in L.A.
• D’oh! Marge Simpson on cover of Playboy
• Father of Palin’s grandson to pose for Playgirl
• Hollywood flair visits impoverished Miss. Delta
• Tim Burton — the artist — is now on display
• Stern’s threat to quit Sirius could be empty talk
• Second City still elicits laughs after 50 years
• Smithsonian exhibits celebrate Elvis Presley
• Comedian Artie Lange is hospitalized
• Air America Radio closing, filing for bankruptcy
• Getty adviser concerned statue was looted
• Stern: I was offered someone’s existing TV show

• Garrison Keillor out of hospital after stroke
• Annie Leibovitz wins extension on loan
• Garrison Keillor hospitalized after minor stroke
• Warhol’s dollar bills painting fetches millions
• Bust of Frank Zappa to grace Baltimore library
• Ansel Adams ‘Moonrise’ print sells for $360K
• J. Paul Getty Museum director resigning in L.A.
• Picasso, other works stolen from French villa
• Stolen Monet found in Poland after 10 years
• Clear Channel shows interest in Howard Stern
• Giacometti sculpture fetches record $104M
• American artist Irving Kriesberg dies at 90
• Troubled Broderick play pushes back opening
• Warhol portrait of Jackson up for auction
• Artist: Obama AP photo use not ‘premeditated’
• Fingerprint helps identify possible new da Vinci
• ‘Phantom’ returning in Lloyd Webber sequel
• In hard times, arts provide realism, escapism
• Keillor hosts first ‘Prairie Home’ since stroke
• Polanski freed as Swiss deny extradition
• Jamaican playwright Trevor Rhone dies at 69
• Abigail Breslin to play Helen Keller on B’way
• France agrees to return Egyptian art
• Jude Law stakes his claim on ‘Hamlet’
• Jackman, Craig fare better than ‘A Steady Rain’
• Esquire goes 3-D in attempt to energize print
• Stephen Colbert graces Sports Illustrated cover
• Springsteen, De Niro among Kennedy honorees
• Viola Davis to join Denzel on Broadway
• Limbaugh felt pains similar to a heart attack
• DJ plays ‘Jump’ as woman mulls suicide
• Spice Girls musical on the way
• ‘People's History’ writer Howard Zinn dies at 87