The Oscars are like dividend statements from Bernie Madoff. You know they’re coming, you expect the worst, but you open the envelopes anyway, with your fingers crossed, hoping this year will be better. It never is, but despite rock-bottom ratings, and dwindling interest in too many nominees nobody ever heard of, too many categories nobody cares about and too ...

Larry Birleffi CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Larry Birleffi, a television and radio broadcaster known for more than 50 years as the "Voice of the Wyoming Cowboys," died Saturday. He was 90. He died at Davis Hospice Center in Cheyenne, son-in-law Phil Noble said. Birleffi was the announcer for Wyoming football, basketball and other sports for 37 years and wrote a sports ...

Ronald N. Kornblum, a former Los Angeles County coroner who performed autopsies on such celebrities as John Belushi, Natalie Wood and Truman Capote, has died. He was 74. Kornblum served eight years as county coroner before resigning in 1990 amid charges of poor management. He ...

Hollywood's old guard have decided to tell all before it is too late. A wave of books by actors from an older, arguably more glamorous, era are likely to strike a valedictory note and represent a final settling of scores - as well as a last chance to cash in on sexual indiscretions - and American bookshops are clearing their shelves ...