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NEW YORK — Amazon has selected six comedy pilots to launch its initial slate of original shows, including projects from The Onion, Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and David Javerbaum of The Daily Show.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - After nearly 30 years of friendship and shared tastes in movies, music and comedy, Billy Crystal and Bette Midler have finally taken it to the next level: They did a film together.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Tiny hobbit Bilbo Baggins is running circles around some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" took in $36.7 million to remain No.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Bethenny Frankel and husband Jason Hoppy are separating. The 42-year-old TV personality, chef, author and entrepreneur told The Associated Press Sunday that the split brings her "great sadness.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Marcello Giordani struggled mightily, his top notes effortful and thin. It turned out the tenor's third performance of Aeneas in the Metropolitan Opera's revival of Berlioz's "Les Troyens" would be his last.

TORONTO - Strange things happen when you put veteran stage-and-screen entertainers Billy Crystal and Bette Midler together on a movie set. They wax nostalgic over old-time pop hits. They break out into song. The song ends up in the movie.

TORONTO - There's an implicit promise every long-running TV show makes to its loyal viewers: When the time comes, favourite storylines and characters will bid farewell with an exhilarating, satisfying finale.

TORONTO - He's a giant in the world of cable television, but "The Sopranos" creator David Chase says his true Hollywood ambition was always to make a feature film. He just didn't think it would take him roughly four decades to do it.