Madonna sued for supporting gays in Russia
Madonna performs during her concert in St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 9, 2012.
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Protests take place worldwide for Russian punk band
A demonstration by supporters of the jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot takes place outside the Russian Embassy on Aug. 17, 2012, in London.
/ Getty(CBS/AP) Small but raucous protests were held in dozens of cities around the world Friday in support of three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, who were convicted of hooliganism in Moscow.
A few dozen people came out in Barcelona, Spain, a couple hundred in Paris, and a handful in Washington. There were masks and undies on heads, a topless activist hacking down a cross in Ukraine, balaclavas on Soviet-era statues of soldiers in Bulgaria and everywhere signs reading "Free Pussy Riot."
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Helen Gurley Brown, iconic Cosmo editor, dead at 90
(CBS/AP) Helen Gurley Brown, the editor who made Cosmopolitan magazine into a single girl's handbook of sex and glamour, died Monday after a brief hospitalization in New York, according to the Hearst Corporation. She was 90.
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Funeral set for Usher's stepson after accident
Usher is interviewed during his New Look Foundation 2012 World Leadership conference on June 22, 2012, in Atlanta.
/ Getty(CBS/AP) ATLANTA - Family and friends are preparing to say their final goodbyes to the stepson of Grammy-winning pop star Usher, three weeks after the 11-year-old was critically injured in a boating accident on a Georgia lake.
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Jerry Seinfeld returns to stand up in NYC
Jerry Seinfeld is photographed aboard the newest ship of Disney Cruise Line, the Disney Fantasy, on March 1, 2012, in New York .
/ Kent Phillips/Disney Parks via Getty Images(CBS/AP) Jerry Seinfeld has decided to return to his roots and bring back his live stand-up comedy act in New York City.
It will be the first time he'll present a full, live-comedy performances in the city since his 1998 Broadway show, "I'm Telling You for the Last Time."
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"Modern Family" stars file suit over contracts
From left, Sarah Hyland, Nolan Gould, Ariel Winter, Sofia Vergara, Ed O'Neill, Rico Rodriguez, Julie Bowen, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ty Burrell and Eric Stonestreet of "Modern Family" pose in the press room after winning Outstanding Comedy Series during the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 18, 2011, in Los Angeles,.
/ Getty(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - "Modern Family" stars Sofia Vergara, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell have banded together and are suing to void their contracts to work on the hit comedy, arguing that the contracts are illegal under California law.
The suit, filed Tuesday, argues that their contracts with 20th Century Fox Television violate a California law prohibiting personal service contracts from extending for more than seven years.
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Broadway's "Ghost the Musical" to close on Aug. 18
Caissie Levy, left, and Richard Fleeshman are shown in a scene from "Ghost the Musical," at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
/ AP/The Hartman Group(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - "Ghost the Musical" won't be haunting Broadway for much longer.
Producers said Tuesday that the production, based on the 1990 film of the same name, will play its final performance at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Aug. 18. It will have lasted 39 previews and 136 regular performances.
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Batman star Anne Hathaway: "My heart aches"
Actress Anne Hathaway arrives for the European premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises," in London's Leicester Square on July 18, 2012.
/ MAX NASH/AFP/Getty ImagesThe brief statement from Hathaway, who plays Catwoman in the film, reads in full:
My heart aches and breaks for the lives taken and altered by this unfathomably senseless act. I am at a loss for words how to express my sorrow. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.
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Batman star: My heart goes out to victims
Christian Bale at"The Dark Knight Rises" New York Premiere on July 16, 2012 in New York City
/ Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesActor Christian Bale, who plays Batman in the movie where a shooting rampage occurred, has released a statement about the tragedy.
"Words cannot express the horror that I feel. I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them," said Bale in the statement released Saturday afternoon.
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Director Christopher Nolan
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Nolan, who also directed two other movies in the "Dark Knight" trilogy, said he would like to express "profound sorrow" on behalf of the cast and crew about "the senseless tragedy that has befallen the entire Aurora community."
"I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime," Nolan said.
"The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me."
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"Gangster Squad" trailer pulled after shooting
Sean Penn in a scene from "Gangster Squad."
/ Warner Bros.(CBS News) Warner Bros. has pulled the trailer for its upcoming film "Gangster Squad" from theaters in wake of the mass shooting in Colorado early Friday during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."
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"Dark Knight" Paris premiere canceled after shooting
From left, Christopher Nolan, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman and Joseph Gordan-Levitt attend "The Dark Knight Rises" premiere on July 16, 2012, in New York.
/ Getty(CBS/AP) PARIS - The Paris premiere of "The Dark Night Rises" has been canceled after a gunman killed 12 people early Friday morning in Colorado during a screening of the highly anticipated film.
Workers were pulling down the red carpet display in front of a movie theater on the French capital's famed Champs-Elysees after the Friday premiere was canceled. Some could be seen carrying away a large mask that had adorned the facade of the theater.
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Security stepped up at "Dark Knight" screenings
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman in "The Dark Knight Rises."
/ Warner Bros.(CBS News) Security measures are being increased at movie theaters in New York and in Europe after a gunman killed 12 people early Friday at a Colorado screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."
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Warner Bros. "deeply saddened" by "Dark Knight" shooting
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(CBS News) Warner Bros. has released a statement saying the studio is "deeply saddened" to learn a gunman opened fire during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Colorado early Friday morning, leaving 12 people dead and dozens injured, according to police.
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Bridal gown designer Wang and husband separate
Vera Wang attends the 2010 CFDA Fashion Awards on June 7, 2010.
/ Getty(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Fashion designer Vera Wang, who launched her label with wedding gowns, and her husband, Arthur Becker, are separating.
A statement from company President Mario Grauso to Women's Wear Daily earlier this week said Wang and Becker "mutually and amicably agreed to separate."
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