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Just a few years ago, she was reportedly executed by a North Korean firing squad. Now, Pyongyang's top pop diva is a senior ruling party official and a surprise headliner in the run-up to the South Korean Winter Olympics. Hyon Song Wol, the photogenic leader of Kim Jong Un's hand-picked Moranbong Band, has made two excursions across the Demilitarized Zone as a negotiator and advance team leader working out the details of Kim's surprise offer for the North to participate in the Pyeongchang Games. South Korea's media have been treating her like a true K-pop celebrity. On Monday, as she...

Mariah Carey always appears on the worst dressed celebs list. She loves everything that shines – gold, crystals, and patent, and wears lots of pink and leather, which often reminds us of a prostitute’s style...

Forty-five seems like a little old for an adult to decide to grow up, but it's better than never. In an interview with ABC last week, fading pop star Madonna addressed the fact that she's been less than a role model in her career. She looks back on her provocative act over the last two decades and concedes it was meaningless. She told interviewer Cynthia McFadden: "I did spend at least a decade taking off my clothes, and being photographed; saying bad words on TV ... And I thought I was liberating mankind. But like I said, I wasn't really...

Singer Whitney Houston turns down the offer of a handshake from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

<p>Madonna is in trouble. Her American Life album drops from number 1 to about number 8 this week, selling a paltry 65,000 copies. That's down from 235,000 the first week.</p> <p>Of course, the whole record business bottomed out last week, with the top 10 albums selling fewer than 750,000 copies. Rapper 50 Cent (search) regained first place, and two albums connected to American Idol did well enough to make the top five. Additionally, Cher (search) continues to astound with her greatest hits collection.</p>

Pop diva Jennifer Lopez proudly sings how she is 'Jenny from the Block' but a new UK Television Documentary brings the story tumbling down.It reveals that she comes from a smart (posh) New York suburb, had a private education and experienced nothing of the tough urban upbringing she likes to protray to her admiring fans.In it J-Lo--who just bought a 10 million dollar island hideaway with fiancee Ben Affleck-sang about the girl who 'used to have a little and now has a lot.' Photographer Tony Duran says: 'I remember the first day I met her,. She told me, 'If you...

<p>LOS ANGELES — She's publishing a series of kiddie storybooks.</p> <p>She's working with scientists who have discovered how to neutralize radiation.</p> <p>She's plotting to make a documentary about Kabbalah, a religious philosophy based on Jewish mysticism.</p> <p>Who's that girl?</p> <p>These days, Madonna strives to be neither material nor immaterial. After straddling the heights of wealth and celebrity for two decades, the pop diva is on a quest for meaning. And in American Life, due Tuesday, that means questioning the impulses behind her own rise to riches.</p>