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Television: 'AFI Lifetime Achievement Award'

Jul. 17, 2009
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) AFI Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Douglas: 9 p.m. Sunday on TV Land cable channel. The American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award show has become the "Mother Courage" of awards shows, trucking its cart full of wares from...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler