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ABC executives are finalizing a plan to reboot “The View” next fall, for the second consecutive year, with a flurry of changes that could include the departure of at least one of its regular hosts, Variety has learned. While moderator Whoopi Goldberg will remain as the face of the struggling daytime talker, the future of two of her co-hosts, Nicolle Wallace and Rosie Perez, is in doubt. One or both women could be dropped because network execs are underwhelmed with their contributions to the show’s signature Hot Topics segment, which is expected to shift focus permanently toward more lighthearted celebrity...

NEW YORK -- Ashlee Simpson is amped about her upcoming tour -- but doesn't want to talk about her embarrassing ''Saturday Night Live'' or Orange Bowl appearances. Simpson turned up Monday at the Cosmopolitan Fun Fearless Male Awards in New York. ''It's really stripped down,'' she said about her first solo tour, which comes to the Rosemont Theatre on March 6. ''There's no pyro[technics] or anything like that. The stage has a mud kind of feel, you know, black and white. The thing about my tour is it's going to be me and my bad getting out there and having...

Halftime of the Orange Bowl featured a number of musical acts. Last on stage was Ashlee Simpson, famous for her hilarious lip-synching disaster on Saturday Night Live. Well, everything went according to plan this time, but the entire Orange Bowl jeered when she was introduced, and jeered when she was done singing. If it hadn't been so funny, it might have been sad...

This time, a bodyguard for boxing promoter Don King is suing him, accusing the former heavyweight champ of punching him twice and breaking a bone in his face. Isadore "Izzy" Bolton, 44, of Boynton Beach, sued Tyson for compensatory damages of more than $US15,000 ($22,893) and expects to seek punitive damages as the suit progresses, said Bolton's attorney Bob Montgomery. The lawsuit was filed on Friday in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. According to the lawsuit, Bolton was in a car escorting Tyson and the boxer's entourage on May 3 when he realised Tyson's car was no longer following his....

YUKON TERRITORY—In an impressive display of the star's reach, a team of University of Calgary zoologists announced Monday the discovery of an Alaska-Yukon moose with a "faint but definite" awareness of the career arc of Drew Barrymore. "This moose is a magnificent specimen," said Dr. Joseph Hardenbrook, who came across the animal in the remote North Yukon while conducting field research on the migratory patterns of the species. "It is remarkable for the enormous antlers it sheds every year, its ability to subsist on twigs and aquatic plants, and its faint cognizance of Barrymore's short-lived marriage to Canadian comic Tom...

A STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCENot In Our Name     L et it not be said that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression.   The signers of this statement call on the people of the U.S. to resist the policies and overall political direction that have emerged since September 11, 2001, and which pose grave dangers to the people of the world.   We believe that peoples and nations have the right to determine their own destiny, free from military coercion by great powers. We believe...