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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A 40-year Washington tradition has ended with the cancelation of "The Nutcracker" ballet due to a labor dispute.

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- John Mayer has switched from solo catchy pop music that earned him three Grammy Awards to playing blues with Steve Jacobs and Pino Palladino.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- TV Land, the cable channel known for rerunning classic TV shows, has a slew of original scripted programming in the works.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the rights to "Watchmen," the seminal DC Comics limited series created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The cable TV music network Fuse is getting ready for its first original animated show, it was announced Monday.

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Federal agents in Las Vegas reportedly questioned George Clooney, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in a racketeering investigation of a strip club.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. broadcasters must switch their signals from analog to digital TV by Feb. 17, 2009, under a compromise reached between House and Senate leaders.

LONDON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Actress Scarlett Johansson went to the British premiere of "Match Point" in a backup dress because the gown she planned to wear was confiscated by customs.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- It reportedly took hotel heiress Paris Hilton only two hours to drop a cool $100,000 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday told officials in his hometown of Graz, Austria, to remove his name from their sports stadium.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Britney Spears filed a $10 million lawsuit against US Weekly in Los Angeles Monday for a story claiming she made a sex tape with her husband, Kevin Federline.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The sudden death of actor John Spencer has thrown the entire season of NBC's "The West Wing" into disarray.

SEAFORD, N.J., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The Internet casino that bought baseball legend Pete Rose's bat for $103,631 says it will saw it in half to see if it really is "corked."

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Rocker Bo Bice -- tapped to fill in for ailing Ashlee Simpson at Monday night's Radio Music Awards -- has been hospitalized and will miss the show.

GREENSBORO, N.C., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The heirs of author Ernest Hemingway have filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the owner of Hemingway's Downtown in Greensboro, N.C.