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Jack Osbourne, 17, checks into rehab: “I got caught up in my new lifestyle and got carried away with drugs and alcohol,” Osbourne told People magazine, which reported he entered Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena on April 23. “Once I realized this, I voluntarily checked myself into a detox facility …

Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and Bull Durham will reunite for a 15th anniversary celebration this Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, two weeks after the Baseball Hall of Fame canceled out: Both Sarandon and Robbins, who played groupie Annie Savoy and rookie pitcher Nuke LaLoosh respectively, will be on …

Caroll Spinney, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for 34 years, has written a book: The 156-page book (Villard, $16.95) is for adults, not children, but Spinney figures most of his readers will have grown up with Sesame Street, or have children who watch it. At 69, he says he …

Move over Peter Arnett, here comes Ashleigh Banfield on the fast track to Arab satellite TV: NBC News correspondent Ashleigh Banfield has ripped television news networks, including her own, for their “glorious” coverage of the Iraqi war and a lack of focus on international news overall. In a speech Thursday …

TechTV is just that: By creating and delivering entertaining and insightful programming about today’s and tomorrow’s technology news, events, products, and people, TechTV enables viewers to stay current and connected with all things related to technology. You can get TechTV in several ways: Cable Television: Check our state-by-state listing of …

What is the first rule of show biz? Protect your face – maybe that’s why they call him Thicke: “Growing Pains” TV dad Alan Thicke received 30 stitches and lost five teeth after he was struck by a puck while practicing for a celebrity fund-raising hockey game, his spokesman said …

Whitney Houston’s December TV interview with Diane Sawyer (“crack is whack”) led many to conclude that her relationship with reality is somewhat, um, tenuous. But following tepid sales of her latest album, she is returning to the tube to try to get something going. Per her website: April 17, 2003 …

We’ve been watching Iraq with microscopic intensity for the last month; now the Iraqis will be watching U.S. network news, as well as programming produced by Arab journalists in Washington and the Middle East, in a nightly news package funded by the U.S. government: “Iraq and the World” … will …

Dave Pell, an interesting if overly self-deprecating fellow, has switched his news links and commentary email newsletter to a web-based format, transforming himself simply by a change in technology, into a blogger, voila! His latest essay is a penetrating if somewhat meandering look at the meaning of his favorite reality …

Is it better to have “access” and report a distorted version of the news from a totalitarian country such as the former Iraq, or is it better to withdraw, call the regime on its threats, and report the truth that you DO have? The only rationales for the former course …