He and the now-defunct Ozy are accused of giving backers and lenders phony information that created a glowing image of a company that actually was on the rocks.
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New account rekindles allegations Donald Trump disrespected Black people on ‘The Apprentice’
Fresh allegations are surfacing about Trump’s disrespectful behavior toward Black people inside the Manhattan skyscraper that launched his show and political career.
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Pat Sajak will bid farewell to ‘Wheel of Fortune’ this week. He’s ‘surprisingly OK’ with it
Sajak announced his retirement last June, writing on X (formerly Twitter) that the current season would be his last. His last show is Friday.
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George Clooney to make his Broadway debut in a play version of movie ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’
George Clooney will make his Broadway acting debut next year in a familiar project for the Hollywood star: ‘Good Night, and Good Luck.’
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‘Judge Judy’ Sheindlin sues for defamation over National Enquirer, InTouch Weekly stories
She says they published false stories about her speaking out on the Menendez brothers murder case.
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Cumberland woman gets coveted platinum ticket in ‘American Idol’ audition
The judges, shocked by an emotional performance of ‘Ain’t No Way’ by Aretha Franklin, gave Julia Gagnon a coveted platinum ticket, handed out to only 3 competitors during auditions each season.
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They are TV’s ghosts – networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore
Few cable and satellite networks are a force anymore, the byproduct of sudden changes in how people entertain themselves.
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FX reaches back over 400 years for its next ambitious series, adapting the hit novel ‘Shogun’
Almost 50 years after the novel ‘Shogun’ became a massive hit, the James Clavell fictional saga makes its way to FX.
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Marty Engstrom, Maine’s reluctant celebrity TV weatherman, dies at 86
Known as ‘Marty on the Mountain,’ he was trained as a broadcast engineer but gave weather reports from the top of Mount Washington for WMTW for 38 years.
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Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86
The brothers constantly battled with CBS’s censors and occasionally outraged viewers as well with its daring sketches and irreverent jokes.