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LONDON - Jade Goody, a dental assistant turned reality-TV star whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a national soap opera and morality tale in Britain, has died. The 27-year-old had cancer and died in her sleep early Sunday at her home in Essex, southeast England, her publicist Max Clifford said.

LOS ANGELES - Tales of a physicist-turned-terrorist, a boy confronting his grandfather's death and a musician who performs with Coca-Cola bottles are among the winners at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation's 30th College Television Awards.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - As with "The Sopranos" and "The Shield," fans of the Sci Fi Channel series "Battlestar Galactica" eagerly awaited the show's finale, fretting over whether it would live up to their expectations.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is taking aim at the high-end gift market with a lavish new collection of TV classics from groundbreaking producer Norman Lear.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - IFC has ordered a second season of its documentary series "The IFC Media Project," which goes behind the scenes of the news.

WASHINGTON - Months after its debut, "Hillary: The Movie" faces nine of the nation's toughest critics: the Supreme Court.

NEW YORK - A mahogany casket bearing Natasha Richardson's body was taken Saturday to the country home where she married Liam Neeson in 1994, according to a published report.

AUSTIN, Texas - At South By Southwest, disastrous shows can happen easily. This year, the Swedish pop trio Peter Bjorn and John was one of the unfortunate bands led to SXSW slaughter.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - It was pretty easy to tell who had been bitten by the Twilight bug.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tribune Media Services has filed a lawsuit against Academy-award winning director and actor Warren Beatty to recover motion-picture and television rights to iconic comic-strip character Dick Tracy, according to court documents.

AUSTIN, Texas - For a night, it was South By Kanye West.

MALIBU, Calif. - British singer Natasha Bedingfield has gotten married in Malibu.

AUSTIN, Texas - At South By Southwest, disastrous shows can happen easily. This year, the Swedish pop trio Peter Bjorn and John was one of the unfortunate bands led to SXSW slaughter.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - In a room in New York's Greenwich Hotel, Dave Gahan is sitting erect in a straight-backed chair, immune to the wind outside that's blowing garbage cans down the street.

AUSTIN, Texas (Billboard) - Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang says plans for a 40th anniversary concert are "all speculative ideas" for now, but he hopes to bring them to reality this summer.

A mahogany casket bearing the body of Natasha Richardson has left the New York townhouse where stars of stage and screen from both sides of the Atlantic had gathered to pay their respects. (March 21)

Appearing on "The Tonight Show," President Barack Obama told Jay Leno he'd been practicing at the White House's bowling alley but wasn't happy with his score of 129. He said, "It was like the Special Olympics or something."

The jurors will be allowed to consider involuntary manslaughter for music producer Phil Spector. Pat Harvey reports.

Liam Neeson looked distraught as he greeted family members and friends who attended a private viewing for Natasha Richardson Friday. Matthew Broderick, Ralph Fiennes, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and more attended. (March 21)

He's a critically acclaimed electronic musician and Youtube star.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Oscar-winning filmmaker Ruby Yang knows her documentary on AIDS will probably never be widely shown in China, the country in which it was made and where she now calls home, but she's fine with that.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Universal has acquired the spec script "Rites of Men," a dramatic thriller from writer Jonathan Herman that has drawn comparisons to "Taken."

-Yesterday's Winners: Lie to Me (Fox), American Idol (Fox), Criminal Minds (CBS), CSI: NY (CBS)

DEAR ABBY: I'm a 16-year-old girl and desperate for advice. My parents' fighting has gotten out of control lately. It got so bad one evening that my mom, my sisters and I had to leave for the night.

DEAR ABBY: My daughter, "Heidi," is 17 and pregnant. She is going to an alternative high school and doing well. My daughter is proactive about her pregnancy and excited about the new baby. This will be my first grandchild, and I am excited too.

DEAR ABBY: My husband, "Mike," and I have been married for 18 years, but for the last few we have been growing apart. Mike has recently expressed a desire to quit work and sail around the world. He bought an expensive sailboat, took lessons, and is teaching our kids to sail. I tried it, but I'm afraid of the water. I have, however, been supportive of my husband's dream.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Scores of people have applied to work at a Rhode Island strip club — but the vast majority don't need to show any leg to get the job.

SAN FRANCISCO - The Clorox Company is offering a $5,000 reward and a year's supply of toilet cleaning products for tips leading to the arrest of San Francisco's notorious portable potty pyromaniac.

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey is smoothing out differences over a plan to ban bare-it-all bikini waxing.

TULSA, Okla. - A spider found in a Tulsa grocery store might not have been as deadly as initially thought.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - So President Barack Obama thinks he bowls like a competitor in the Special Olympics?

WASHINGTON - Months after its debut, "Hillary: The Movie" faces nine of the nation's toughest critics: the Supreme Court.

LONDON - Jade Goody, a dental assistant turned reality-TV star whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a national soap opera and morality tale in Britain, has died. The 27-year-old had cancer and died in her sleep early Sunday at her home in Essex, southeast England, her publicist Max Clifford said.

NEW YORK - A mahogany casket bearing Natasha Richardson's body was taken Saturday to the country home where she married Liam Neeson in 1994, according to a published report.

MALIBU, Calif. - British singer Natasha Bedingfield has gotten married in Malibu.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Well played!