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Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film "Shaft," has died, sheriff's officials in Memphis, Tennessee, reported Sunday. Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill, said Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Department. Paramedics attempted to revive him and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m., the sheriff's department said.

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Show celebrates ninth year, more controversial than ever beforeEric Theodore Cartman may be the smartest person alive. That's right, I said it. The foul-mouthed, overweight, rude 9-year-old and his three animated friends, Kenny, Kyle and Stan, have been through nine seasons of adventures on the hit Comedy Central show South Park, and their latest episodes have sparked more controversy than the show has seen before. But protesters are not looking past the gags and seeing what the episodes are really about. When the show premiered in August 1997, it sparked more controversy for the characters portrayed as juvenile children with...

Is Cartman a crook? Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the gross-out gurus behind Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary are accusing South Park masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone of ripping off a movie idea.