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Today's Entertainment - Reuters Celebrity/Gossip News Headlines - Yahoo News: Joe McGinniss, author of 'Fatal Vision,' dies at 71 Rock group Kiss tackles tricky spectacle of indoor football Ted Turner says 'recuperating well' from surgery in Argentina Saunders wins Folio prize, sees boost for short story Dish scooped up all licenses in U.S. 'H-block' airwaves auction Dahl's 'Chocolate Factory', Sondheim revival lead for Oliviers

Joe McGinniss, author of 'Fatal Vision,' dies at 71  Monday, Mar 10, 2014 09:06 PM PDT Journalist Joe McGinniss, an author who got up close to his subjects for revealing books such as "The Selling of the President" and "Fatal Vision," died on Monday at age 71, his friend and attorney said. McGinniss died of complications from prostate cancer at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, lawyer Dennis Holahan said in an email. His 1983 book "Fatal Vision" became a classic of the true crime genre and was based on unlimited access he gained to former Green Beret Jeffrey MacDonald and his attorneys during MacDonald's 1979 murder trial in the deaths of his pregnant wife and two young daughters in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Full Story	Top
Rock group Kiss tackles tricky spectacle of indoor football  Monday, Mar 10, 2014 07:01 PM PDT By Eric Kelsey ANAHEIM, California (Reuters) - Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of the rock band Kiss put down their instruments, wiped away the face paint and unveiled their own arena football franchise on Monday, promising to pair the niche sport with the pyrotechnic theater of their concerts. Seated outside the Honda Center arena in Anaheim, California, the two sixty-somethings stayed true to their trademark self assurance and bravado in their plan to turn an indoor version of American football played on a smaller field with a heavy emphasis on high scores into a top entertainment draw in Southern California. We set our own trail," Stanley told media assembled outside the arena, which is home to hockey's Anaheim Ducks and only a few miles down the road from Walt Disney Co's Disneyland theme park. They aim to go where others have failed in a place with no shortage of entertainment and recreation alternatives. Full Story	Top
Ted Turner says 'recuperating well' from surgery in Argentina  Monday, Mar 10, 2014 03:18 PM PDT (Reuters) - Ted Turner, the founder of cable TV network CNN, said on Monday he was heading back to the United States from Argentina after "a minor surgical procedure due to appendicitis." The 75-year-old was rushed to a hospital in Argentina's Patagonia region on Friday with acute abdominal pain before flying to the capital, Buenos Aires, where he underwent surgery. "The doctors and medical staff at both hospitals in Bariloche and Buenos Aires were amazing and took really good care of me." Turner owns vast tracts of ranch land near the lakeside city of Bariloche along the Andes. After launching Turner Broadcasting System in the 1970s, Turner created CNN in 1980 as the world's first 24-hour cable news channel. Full Story	Top
Saunders wins Folio prize, sees boost for short story  Monday, Mar 10, 2014 02:33 PM PDT By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. author George Saunders, whose short stories specialize in "darkly playful" twists of fate, said after winning the inaugural Folio literary prize worth 40,000 pounds ($66,500) on Monday he hoped it would draw attention to the role of the writer in society. Saunders, 55, also saw the award as a further boost for the short story form, another of whose practitioners, the Canadian writer Alice Munro, won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. You think, 'Well, when was it gone?' But it does seem like a good time for short stories." Saunders, who started out as a geophysicist and worked in the oil fields of Sumatra before turning to writing, was selected from a shortlist of eight authors for the new prize sponsored by the Folio Society publisher of deluxe books. Full Story	Top
Dish scooped up all licenses in U.S. 'H-block' airwaves auction  Monday, Mar 10, 2014 01:56 PM PDT Dish Network Corp dominated last month's U.S. auction of so-called H Block spectrum frequencies with winning bids in all 176 markets that the Federal Communications Commission offered up. Dish gained 10 megahertz worth of spectrum in areas across numerous U.S. states and territories, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Washington. Full Story	Top
Dahl's 'Chocolate Factory', Sondheim revival lead for Oliviers  Monday, Mar 10, 2014 09:10 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", the new musical based on Roald Dahl's novel, and a revival of the Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince 1981 box-office flop "Merrily We Roll Along" received seven nominations each on Monday for the 2014 Olivier Awards. Three other U.S. imports, the smash hit "The Book of Mormon" by "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, "The Scottsboro Boys" based on the notorious Alabama trial of nine teenage blacks accused of rape, and "Once", a musical version of the eponymous film, got six each, including for best new musical. ... Full Story	Top

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