AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — From World War II hero to dancer and award-winning actor, Charles Durning has lived a storied life. The 85-year-old added to that resume Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to one for his idol, James Cagney.

AP - "Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger" (Simon & Schuster, 128 pages, $20), by Lee Israel: "She is a bright, talented actress," Noel Coward once wrote of Julie Andrews, "and quite attractive since she dealt with her monstrous English overbite."

AP - Everybody is a collector, the way Joe Maddalena sees it, just not everybody wants to collect paintings by Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein. Some would prefer to own a Spider-Man costume.

AP - Jack Moelmann is a retired Air Force colonel with a passion for playing the pipe organ. His love for the instrument runs so deep that he recently plunked down nearly $120,000 to fulfill a lifelong dream — to perform on the famed Wurlitzer organ at Radio City Music Hall.

AP - The Force was with — whom?

E! Online - Even cowgirls get the blues.

E! Online - Is it possible there's more to the The Hills than meaningful stares over cocktails, clubbing at L.A.'s hottest spots and staged Speidi fights?

E! Online - UPDATE: Looks like it's going to take a new year for Britney Spears to reach a new level of legal freedom.

AP - Police Chief William Bratton said Thursday the city has had fewer problems with paparazzi since Britney Spears "started wearing clothes" and other celebrities changed their partying ways.

AP - Britney Spears' father will retain control of the pop singer's finances and personal affairs through the end of the year.

Reuters - Graphic novelist Phoebe Gloeckner, whose depiction of sex and childhood traumas has courted controversy, is now contributing to a book about the largely unsolved murders and disappearances of hundreds of women near the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.

Reuters - In Pamela Anderson's new reality show "Pam: Girl on the Loose," each episode has a name, such as "The Uncensored Confessions of a Trailer Camp Tramp" and "Crazy Bitch."

Reuters - At the Cannes Film Festival in May, buyers rushed to see the latest work from three noted American filmmakers: Steven Soderbergh's "Che," James Gray's "Two Lovers" and Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York."