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Another day, another accolade for Adele. Her album, "21," which earned the singer a boatload of Grammys, has topped the Billboard 200 chart for 21 weeks, making it the longest-running No. 1 album by a woman. The title previously belonged to Whitney Houston's "The Bodyguard" soundtrack.

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Clearly, the wine shop next to Snooki's Jersey City pad has little interest in turning a profit: The owners want nothing to do with the pint-sized boozer and even posted a sign on the door to keep her out, reported TMZ.com.

And it looks like Snooki isnt the only "Jersey Shore" member not welcome.

"Even if JWoww shows up at our front door, she will not be let in,"...

Besides the glitz and gold, this Sunday's Oscars should be a far more comforting experience for seasoned watchers.

After years of trying to jazz up the Academy Awards with flashy hosts, emcee Billy Crystal is returning for a ninth time in 2012, bringing what Oscar experts say is a level of predictability.

Front-runner films - silent romance "The Artist," civil-rights story...

"The Help" star Octavia Spencer was totally honest when asked by Parade if she's planning a gift to herself in the wake of her success. "I'm going to get my boobs lifted," she said. "I figured going into my 40s I want my boobs where they were when I was 17."

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Rex Ryan says he'll keep his predictions to himself from now on.

At last season's NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, the Jets coach guaranteed that his team - coming off two straight AFC Championship Game appearances - would win the Super Bowl. Now the famously confident Ryan says the boast was "a huge mistake" that put undue pressure on the talented Jets.

"It was something...

One cab got an unexpected passenger this week.

A Greenpoint woman gave birth to a baby in the back of a taxi Tuesday - and her husband put the video of the amazing event on You Tube.

"We've been very active in the Occupy Wall Street movement, so it's kind of fitting she was born in the streets," said Beka Economopoulos, 37, a senior strategist for a company that specializes...

TMZ.com caught up with La Toya Jackson at LAX Wednesday and asked her what she thought of Dr. Conrad Murray's request to be freed from jail early while he works on his appeal, claiming he doesn't pose a threat to society. La Toya's response: "Absolutely not ... my brother's not free."

Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death.

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For an organization that's supposed to honor the best in film each year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences often gets it wrong. We've parsed the history of undeserving Oscar winners to come up with some glaring mistakes.

-- Sandra Bullock somehow won Best Actress for her over-the-top performance in "The Blind Side." (2009)  

--'Shakespeare in Love' shockingly...

The race for 2013 mayoral election is already heating up, as former city comptroller and 2009 mayoral candidate Bill Thompson launched a campaign website Thursday and declared his candidacy.

"Over the next two years I hope to build a campaign of ideas and advance a long-overdue discussion on the challenges facing our great city," Thompson said on his site, adding that "the 2009...

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Although Bertolt Brecht revolutionized modern drama with his concept of "epic theatre" - designed to remind the audience that they are watching a play and should think critically about it instead of sympathizing with the characters - his plays are rarely revived in New York.

Five years ago, the Public Theater produced "Mother Courage and Her Children,"...