Actor Chuck Norris is 69. Actress Katharine Houghton is 64. Actress Shannon Tweed (Falcon Crest) is 52. Actress Sharon Stone is 51. Magician Lance Burton is 49. Actress Jasmine Guy (A Different World) is 47. Actor Jon Hamm (Mad Men) is 38. Rapper-producer Timbaland is 37. Singer Robin Thicke is 32. Singer Carrie Underwood (American Idol) is 26. Actress Emily Osment (Hannah Montana) is 17.

BURBERRY PRORSUM If anyone understands the power of the reassuringly familiar, it's Christopher Bailey, who once again gave the slightly dishevelled English rose a gently gorgeous makeover. He was thinking of Bloomsbury heroines Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, apparently, and no one interprets this loose-fitting but always elegant style more beautifully.

4 March 2009 - Melbourne, Australia - Wise old heads of the track lost their dignity and some were temporarily delirious last Saturday night all because a boy became a man to be reckoned with in a 1500m race.

Forget about the teetering seasons this week, and make a trail to the concert halls and clubs around town for a live music escape. The calendar includes: the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Richard Shindell, Framing Hanley, Gaelic Storm, God-des ' She, Shemekia Copeland, and Sound Tribe Sector 9.

Many of us grew up enchanted by fairy tale heroes and heroines like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Officials said they are moving ahead with plans to build a new plant to help production and distribution for new markets.

Patrick Stewart cemented his position as one of the country's top thespians on Sunday night after scooping his third Laurence Olivier Award.

London, Mar 7 : King of pop Michael Jackson was recently spotted at West End musical Oliver - sans his trademark lone glove.

An article in the Daily Progress suggests that UVA's special collections library plunked down nearly $48,000 for a letter from a defensive Edgar Allan Poe who blamed an incident of his drunken behavior on poet William Ross Wallace who, Poe wrote, "would insist upon the juleps."

AMR To Slash Mainline-domestic Seat Capacity By 9% For 2009

AN update to Apple's iLife suite of programs, including face recognition for photographs and GarageBand extras, adds further allure to Macs.

ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat's has said umpires Simon Taufel and Steve Davis needed to be "more rational" in their assessment of the security in Lahore

It's always a great honour for the club to get an award like this... Morecambe boss Sammy McIlroy has been named Coca-Cola League Two manager of the month for February.

Steven Spielberg has wrapped up shooting the first Tintin movie in Hollywood and will now pass it to Peter Jackson to complete the visual effects.

Alan Fraser The Review: Aggers and Co make the Test special

NEW YORK — Laurence Fishburne said he and his new show are "a natural fit." Well, it isn't exactly a new show, of course. Now in its ninth season, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" is one of TV's most durable hits and a Thursday fixture at 9 p.m.

"I've died four times in the past year," says Holliday Grainger. "I seem to play a lot of troubled kids." The 20-year-old has also played a maiden in the BBC's Merlin and a vampire-fighting student in ITV's Demons, but is reverting to her "troubled kid" image in her stage debut, as the suicidal Lydia in Athol Fugard's play Dimetos. The play, directed by Douglas Hodge, tells the story of ...

Actor Colin Hanks is stunned he landed a role on Broadway alongside movie great Jane Fonda, because he was so drugged up on flu medication during the audition, he couldn't stand up. The 31-year-old son of Hollywood star Tom Hanks has no idea how he impressed theater bosses, because he can barely remember the nightmare audition for 33 Variations . Hanks, who opens the show in Manhattan on ...

Double whammy: Banks slash savers' rates to virtually nothing, overdraft charges go skyhigh

Paris enjoyed another bona fide fashion moment Monday, March 9, courtesy of the maison of Yves Saint Laurent, with a super sophisticated mannish fall 2009 collection.

Reese Witherspoon was "humiliated" by her divorce from Ryan Phillippe. The Walk The Line actress has admitted she reached the lowest point of her life when she split from the Breach actor in 2006 after seven years of marriage.

John Rodda, a journalist of the old school, was admired for his deep knowledge of sport, balanced reporting and discretion John Rodda used to wear a most suitable choice of spectacles, half-moon, so he could alternately read, think and peer around him in a world where his knowing look conveyed more than schoolmasterly disapproval. Not many journalists husbanded their knowledge and ...

WE cannot stifle public debate because public office bearers cannot face the heat. – Legal Assistance Centre Director Norman Tjombe criticising the NBC's decision to cancel the National Chat Show

A screenplay written by Tupac Shakur while he was in prison is rumored to be in production in preparation for a 2010 release.

England fall just two wickets short of a dramatic series-levelling win on the last day of the final Test.

Two of Rice's four entries in the 120th Pacific Coast Men's Doubles Championship advanced to the round of 16 in the 120th Pacific Coast Men's Doubles Championship . The competition is being held at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club in La Jolla, California.

Tickets for a oneoff gig by Sir Paul McCartney in Las Vegas sold out seven seconds after going on sale according to promoters.

Vishal Bhat hopes to one day join the ranks of George Lucas, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg as one of the great Hollywood directors. Bhat is an eighth-grade student at Hendrick Middle School and an Allen resident.

Harry Prime Unfortunately, very little information existed regarding this Excellent Big Band Vocalist who performed from the late forties through the mid-fifties.

Jenny Scheinman, Brad Mehldau, Branford Marsalis among other A-list performers.

Television critic Mike Hughes offers these as TV's best bets through Sunday:

Coldplay and their army of music are coming to the Bay Area. After surfacing in 2000 with the breakthrough single "Yellow," Coldplay quickly became one of the biggest bands of the new millennium,...

— Sarah Michelle Gellar 's new movie "Possession" won't get a major theatrical release, instead coming out as a DVD on May 12. Celebrity birthdays Bow Wow | Rapper | 22 Juliette Binoche | Actress | 45 Keely Smith | Actress | 77 FROM NEWS SERVICES

Battered by losses and redemptions, hedge funds worldwide could slash some 20,000 jobs this year as the outlook for investment managers remains dim.

Michelle Williams is outstanding as a woman hoping to better her life in Alaska, but who breaks down in Oregon, losing her car and, more importantly, her dog. She spends the balance of the movie looking for it, and trying to maintain her tenuous grip on her life. Ostensibly a simple story, it's also a parable for our increasingly desperate times. (R - 80 minutes) P.

DiscoverSD.com, Stingaree and Fortune 421 showed San Diego the Green Side of Sting on Friday night.

U.S. train travel is more popular than it has been in a generation. But from where I sat in central Ohio, far from the nation's rail hubs, I figured it wasn't worth the hassle. I reconsidered one morning late last summer from my crisply sheeted berth on the City of New Orleans, an Amtrak train that travels between Chicago and New Orleans.

See Jessica's 'Daisy Dukes' in person or if you would do anything for the love of Ray J, you can catch his exclusive show at Belo.

The Business Forum in Kopaonik continues into its second day with the focus on the world economic crisis.

A stand-up star will be born on Sunday when BBC Radio 4 listeners get to choose which broadcaster's foray into the gagosphere is worthy of a solo slot on the satirical programme, The Now Show . After expert tuition, Evan Davis, Laurie Taylor, Peter White and Libby Purves, of this parish, were thrown to the wolves – well, the Comedy Café audience in Shoreditch, in the name of Comic Relief.

Singing Men of Ohio to perform at area church  A Bay Village church frequented by Avon and Avon Lake residents will host a celebrated Ohio University chorus group later this month. The Singing Men of Ohio will perform at Bay United [...]

"It's only a matter of time before a ball gets lost in Fellaini's hair"

The Kiwanis Club of Harbor Springs hosted its Second Annual Steve Miller Essay Contest on Wednesday, March 3 at the Pier Restaurant.

Montana senior Mandy Morales averaged 16.7 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game as the Lady Griz won the Big Sky Conference regular-season title. The six-team league tournament begins Thursday night in Missoula.

Money -- most of us have less of it than we once had, but how does this affect our happiness?

All-American Rejects and comedian Brian Regan are both bound for Erie. See below for details on those, plus dates for No Doubt, Heart, Tragically Hip, and more.

Star Trek icon William Shatner once contemplated suicide because his hearing problems were driving him mad.

The Observer has learned that the 31-year-old independent newspaper, The Brooklyn Paper , has been purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. The Brooklyn Paper 's editor (and onetime Observer profile subject) Gersh Kuntzman and its publisher Celia Weintrob confirmed the news. "We're very excited," said Mr. Kuntzman in an interview. He said that he has not yet spoken to Mr. ...

James delivered a flower, Juliet delivered an infant, and Jin delivered Jack, Kate and Hurley in "La Fleur" — a James/Sawyer/LaFleur-centric episode that was as sweet as its title and presented us with new things to ponder as the time flashes ended and the island folk settled into what we're guessing is the year … oh, who knows.

The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has suggested that Bulgaria could receive EUR 500 M from preliminary payments through European Programs to help the country through the financial crisis, Bulgarian National Radio reported late Thursday.