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• Phillies seeking a pennant three-peat
  The only thing the Philadelphia Phillies want from the St. Louis Cardinals is the title of last team to win three straight National League ...
• 'How to Train Your Dragon' stokes up box office with...
  Los Angeles - "How to Train Your Dragon" breathed a bit of box-office fire with a $43.3 million opening weekend and a No. 1 debut, according to ...
• Nerd lands babe without explanation in 'She's Out of...
  Remember the hoo-ha over whether Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl made a believable couple in Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up"? The makers of "She's Out ...
• 'How to Train Your Dragon' dumps talking critters...
  What a refreshing change "How to Train Your Dragon" brings to the cartoon world: the creatures are not all that cute, and they do not speak a ...
• Wings' Howard making bid for Calder Trophy
  Detroit - Goaltender Jimmy Howard has a shot to be the first Detroit Red Wings player in four-plus decades to win the Calder Trophy as the best ...
• Ridley Scotts Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe and...
  Director Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood," starring Russell Crowe in the role of the famed outlaw, and featuring Great Big Sea's Alan Doyle as Celtic ...
• CPSC: More than 1 million baby slings, including...
  More than 1 million baby slings made by Infantino are being recalled because the products have been linked to three infant deaths. The Consumer ...
• Runaway cargo train crashes into building at Oslo...
  Sixteen empty railway cars broke loose from a cargo train and crashed into an Oslo port terminal at high speed Wednesday, killing at least three ...
• 'Alice' still reigns at box office
  Los Angeles - Alice remains the queen of the box office. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" took in $34.5 million to remain the ...
• Ben Stiller reveals new depth in 'Greenberg'
  The lesson Ben Stiller's praise-hungry actor learned in "Tropic Thunder" was that "you never go full retard" when playing a simpleton in hopes of ...
• 'City Island' offers broad comedy on family life...
  Set in the Bronx during an eventful spring break and populated by sexual, dark-haired people, "City Island" could, on the surface, be confused ...
• Devoted fans love their pet rats
  LOS ANGELES - History and Hollywood cast them as vermin responsible for plagues, famine and famous movie lines like "You dirty rat!" But to a ...
• Stewart, Fanning glam it up in 'The Runaways'
  "The Runaways," chronicling the rise and fall of Joan Jett's first band, easily could have degenerated into a movie-length music video, with ...
• Building a better meatball
  Ask the experts how to build a better meatball, and the answers generally are a pretty underwhelming, "It depends." It's more than a case of ...
• Bruins get some revenge on Cooke, not much else
  After their much-anticipated retaliation against Matt Cooke, the Boston Bruins showed little passion in their game against the Pittsburgh ...
• Small plane making emergency landing on beach hits,...
  A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency ...
• Worlds shortest man, He Pingping of China, dies in...
  The world's shortest man has died in Italy, where he was to take part in a TV show, the program's production company said Tuesday. He Pingping, ...
• Ovechkin ejected, Caps still stage big rally in Chicago
  Alex Ovechkin was kicked out early and the Washington Capitals fell behind 3-0, but that's when they showed why they have the NHL's best record ...
• New coach of high school football team: 'Being...
  Washington - The new high school football coach in the U.S. capital says being a woman has nothing to do with her getting the job. Natalie ...
• 'Green Zone' a failure of intelligence
  All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul ...
• 'Brooklyn's Finest' pounds message home with...
  Irony underlies the title of "Brooklyn's Finest," a drama about cops who are anything but fine at their jobs. And director Antoine Fuqua pounds ...
• Robert Pattinson leaves 'Twilight' but still broody...
  In "Remember Me," Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from "Twilight," apparently in search of his "Five Easy Pieces" or "Rebel Without ...
• First for women; first for Oscars
  Los Angeles - The Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker" won best picture and five other prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards, its haul including best ...
• 'Cop Out' a clumsy attempt at another buddy cop flick
  Film review - "Cop Out" is a clumsy postmodern buddy cop flick that stuffs as many genre references as it can into the ceaseless patter between ...
• Split-leaf philodendron: a misnamed houseplant...
  Ask for the real philodendron to stand up and you might be surprised at one plant that does not rise: the split-leaf philodendron, sometimes ...
• Tim Burton's 'Alice' looks through a drearier...
  Film review - In Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," Alice has grown - not by "drink me" potion or "eat me" cake - into a 19-year-old girl. ...
• Comfort food without the fat
  Chicken potpie may be a classic comfort food, but it's hard to feel good about the amount of fat in most recipes. The chicken and vegetables in ...
• 1,000 people trapped on ferry stuck in Baltic Sea
  Stockholm, Sweden - Dozens of ships including a passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board were trapped Friday in heavy pack ice in the ...
• NHL Trade: Blue Jackets deal forward Torres to...
  The Columbus Blue Jackets have dealt forward Raffi Torres to the Buffalo Sabres for defenceman Nathan Paetsch and a second-round draft pick. Blue ...
• British toddlers killer back in jail after parole...
  London - A man, who as a 10-year-old boy abducted and killed a toddler in northern England in 1993, was back behind bars Wednesday for violating ...